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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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Those schools include the University
of Alabama and the Medical College
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the South in Hispanic residents, enrollment
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Hispanic in 1993, which led the Southern
region for Hispanic enrollment.
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literate citizens and as paragons
whose behavior speaks loudly to their
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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
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