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Monday, February 14, 1994 More minoril By College Press Service ATLANTA ? Black student enrollment increased sharply between 1990 and 1992 in the Southern region's medical schools, a report by the Southern Regional Education Board said. The jump in minority enrollment matches the enrollment increase for minorities from 1980 to 1989- Black medical student enrollment increased from 6.8 percent to 7.5 percent between 1990 and 1992, the report said. This two-year growth in the South also outpaced the nation. David Denton, director of the board's Health and Human Services Program, said the growth is primarily because of the number of minority college graduates applying to medical school in recent years, but other factors supported the increase, he added. "Credit also must go to schools that have made serious efforts to identify potential applicants early in their college and even high school careers and give them extra academic support and guidance," Denton said. He said schools also have flexible admission procedures to encourage enrollment by non-traditional and disadvantaged students. Despite the efforts of medical schools to recruit African-American students, 25 percent of black medical students are en rolled in the South's two predominantly black medical schools, Meharry College of Conference to By College Press Service Universities and colleges waste millions of gallons of water and fuel every year while producing thousands of tons of toxic waste and carbon dioxide, environmental protection groups charge. In fact, the average student generates about 640 pounds of garbage a year. Yet, there are many things that campuses could be doing to change their environmental policies in order to reduce waste and to encourage recycling efforts. That's the point of the Campus Earth Summit, scheduled for Feb. 1820 at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Students, faculty and administrators frofn more than 125 campuses, including 17 foreign universities, will meet to craft a blueprint for environmental reform. The summit marks the first time administrators will work with students and environmental leaders to create campus guidelines that can be replicated internationally. I Carol Browner, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be nAii'f i IIVIV I I I IK ANNIVE IB? VALEI D E H O N Fron 2gg^?n Me FRAGRANCES 717 Saluda Avenue In Five Points 252-2307 On D; t _ Lookin Part-Tin Openings fori ' ||?|??|Interviewing Wednesday, F For openings or To arrange an interviev The Student Emj 6th floor, Bj An equal opport. t [ies attend m( -yUiaiiU -Black enrollment in Southern regi schools increased from 6.8% to 7. 1990 and 1992. -25% of black medical students n; enrolled in the South's two predon medical schools, Meharry College Nashville, Tenn., and Morehouse J Medicine in Atlanta. -East Carolina University in Green ranked fourth in medical schools r 15% black student population in 1 -Medical schools that exceedl 0% enrollment in the South are the Ur Maryland, University of North Can Tennessee State University and J< University in Baltimore. Matthew Alford/The Gamecock Medicine in Nashville, Tenn., and Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., ranked fourth in medical schools nationwide in the percentage of black students enrolled, with 15 percent for the 1992-93 school year. Other Southern schools enrollment rates for blacks exceeding 10 percent are the University of Maryland, University of North Carolina, East Tennessee State University and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The report follows a 1991 study that explore enviroi JL the keynote speaker. A special onehour college edition of "Rock and the Environment," a radio show produced by the Yale Student Environmental Coalition and the Campus Green Vote, will be broadcast to more than 300 colleges the week of the summit to reach students who can't attend. "From solid waste to radioactive waste, campus policies reflect society's poor environmental practices," said Jeff Courey, chairman of the 1994 Campus Earth Summit and the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, host of the conference. "Universities must lead us into the 21st century by becoming responsible consumers and educators." Teresa Heinz, chairwoman and ? en IU1U CAttUUVt UlllCtI UI LUC 11^111/. Family Foundation, lead sponsor of the summit, said campuses must accept a leadership role in environmental reform. "Universities wield power," she said, "as major consumers of goods and services with significant environmental impacts, as educators with the mn RSARY AND VTINE SALE i Feb. 7 through Feb. 14 in and Women's Fragrances And Atnmicprc 1 U1U i llUHUilUK) -alsoamaged Box Merchandise g tor a Flard Workers ; on campus ebruary 23rd |||> i the 11pm shift /, sign up in person at: )loyment Center \ Building unity employer %\\i (5a >dical school 5% between' ationwide are linantly black |j||||^^Wj of Medicine in iville, N.C., lationwide with a m 992-1993. black liversity of | olina, East :>hns Hopkins llllil mm0 M 1 m documented the minority growth between 1980 and 1990. Several schools made v?st improvements in their minority enrollment. Those schools include the University of Alabama and the Medical College of Virginia. In Florida and Texas, the states that lead the South in Hispanic residents, enrollment of Hispanic medical students in? - - - creasea ai rates comparaDic to DiatK students. At the University of Miami, 17.7 percent of its medical school students were Hispanic in 1993, which led the Southern region for Hispanic enrollment. nmental issues opportunity to graduate ecologically literate citizens and as paragons whose behavior speaks loudly to their communities and countries." The biggest environmental culprits on campuses are solid waste, energy use, water use and poor procurement policies. Radioactive substances, toxic chemicals, medical waste, pesticides and air pollution are also pressing problems. , Only about 5 percent of the 640 pounds of waste produced by an average student is recycled. Paper makes up about 40 percent to 50 percent of the waste stream. Yet, a University of California-Los Angeles recycling program saved an estimated 1,133 trees and 200 cubic yards of landfill space in its first seven months of operation. Rutgers University in New Jersey re cycles more than $L percent ot its waste, saving more than 526,000 a year. Distributing reusable coffee mugs at Potsdam University in New York cut use of polystyrene cups by 58 percent. : DRIVE ? ISLA >^Valentin ? I A t> Oo Oi l\ O * W W ? ^ v i % \T\ .You'll Gi * '' I'" * V 806 Pavil ^ (Pink Bi *A *********** <AV Gift A from! thfA heart) ThePE Offers You Th Save Lives And E Be A Plasma Donor...Beca Life Is Everybody's Busine; Make an appointment by c? (803) 551-24' Premier Address I mecock Thursday, Feb. 10 gered arour Larceny, Coliseum. Complainant heading to B; said he left his camera with a relative. When he returned, it was miss- Wedm ing. 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