European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine Black enrolment lags Allan Bakke in class in after winning reverse discrimination by Rebecca Lavally United press International the medical school at the Davis Campus of the University of where Allan Bakke attends classes on the basis of his celebrated re verse discrimination counts no Blacks among its 100 new five Blacks were offered admission to the school that fought before the supreme court to Reserve places in its entering classes for All the court in 1978 ordered Davis to accept a White Man who contended the school discriminated against him by denying his application while admitting minority students he charged were less now attending his third year of medical school in rela Tive Bakke draws Little attention from fellow students and has refused to Grant news Many believe the Case of the shy 40yearold medical student has thrown a pall Over minority admissions pro Grams throughout the despite the courts ruling that race can be a Factor in the absence of new Black students at where there Are 20 other minority students is it dramatic illustration of what has become a National the percentage of Black students in most medical schools has stabilized or fallen As the total number of students including other minorities often has at a sister us Campus in for there Are three Black students among the 96 who entered medi Cine last fall less than half As Many As in there were 190 Blacks or percent among a record aspiring doctors in californian five Public and three private medical schools in that a drop of 27 students from six years theres something going on and in not sure what it said a fourth year Black medical student at others say they do know what it is that in the Wake of schools have offered less encouragement to Black applicants or have become More selective in admit Ting the number of Blacks who applied to the nations medical schools Rose by 7 percent Between 1974 and but their acceptance rate fell by said Leon president of the National medical a new York Cit based scholarship program for he said Blacks entered the country medical schools in just two More than in 1974 when there were thousands fewer medical the association of american medical colleges reports that the ratio of Blacks among the nations medical students is Down from percent in other minorities made gains during the same the ratio of hispanics Rose from percent to per cent and asians increased from percent to 3 the ratio of american indians remained stable at it has concerned us Johnson said of Black its in our National interest to provide bet Ter health care and More effective health delivery to a shortage of Black doctors Means More members of the Black Community have less Access to health services than other he Vertis an Oakland physician who presides Over the predominantly Black National medical Assoc a said Many medical schools were sort of on the Fence anyway on affirmative action before the Bakke when Bakke entered they got off the Fence on the other he i dont know of a single school in California that has made a real determined Effort in affirmative action in getting Black students into medical noting that enrolments of other minorities have gained he said since Blacks Are More Visi it might be that some schools Felt More comfortable with non Lack Charles spokesman for the association of american medical said economic issues rather than repercussions from the Bakke decision were affect Irig applications from Black the commitment to medical education is a very Long one a minimum of seven full with no Opportunity to earn income during the train ing he think a lot of minorities Are going into Fields that dont have those re its not All downhill for Blacks in medical the number of hew Black students Rose last year at the us Campus at san and the University los an Geles Campus in 1979 reported 39 Blacks among its 609 medical an increase of 13 from four years ear but some admissions officers say on the Medicine int offering enough encouragement to disadvantaged youths despite Federal pressures to do others concede that Blacks dont seem to feel Comfort Able on their at the us Irvine Campus in notably conservative Orange Stanley Van Den Dean of the medical said Blacks probably prefer to go else Orange county Doest have a history of being a Strong support area for civil rights and that sort of january 1981 he California has More than three Blacks per 100 the ratio in Irvine entering class and wed like to get were having difficulty in getting them to accept in californian 22 million population is about 8 percent several Points below the National ratio of 12 prestigious Stanford University ratio of Black medi Cal students comes close to californian population percentage 7 percent in its entering class of but although it offered places to 23 Only six the Competition for Black medical students is said the medical schools admissions Laurence every one of the Black applicants we accepted this year had also been accepted by several other top medical were fighting Over the same very Small number of students and weve been doing nothing to increase the Pool of Black medical he were skim Ming the Cream of the extraordinarily qualified Black Allen Dean of the medical school at the University of Southern said schools May be More selective today than they were when minority recruit ment programs began a few years us in 1979 had 10 Blacks among its 549 medical there May be a nationwide tendency to have a More Standard level of acceptance of All minority and he in the Early we had applicants who had very poor undergraduate grades and did poorly on aptitude now you have a More realistic approach to what Are the admissions officers say the average scores of Minori ties on the medical College admissions test Are lower than the average scores of but they say most minority students do not have significantly greater Trou ble in medical school than their White we have students who Are minority students perhaps because of a language have difficulty and May have to repeat a year or a segment of a said but with our selective process we dont find minorities at a significant disadvantage As far As not doing but Stanford Kedes said if we didst have some trouble with some minority were using the wrong criteria to admit because our judgment in this area is very shaky and we ought to be making some one of the important reasons for affirmative action is that often the academic backgrounds of minority Stu dents Are difficult to decipher in terms of he using nontraditional criteria for youre bound to run into some academic the stars and stripes Page 13