European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 28, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 education news freshmen studying Fine Art of being College students education in a Bubble sri voice Ciu lev Dana Watson. 10, h form r Binning bub Bles along with the real at her fourth Prado class at Johann Kali elementary in Obrn Betiru vast Germany. Teacher Thomas Gill Shili r How scientists use bubbles to study surface it Zulun and the like hoped to fid ills class Blimp it bub Bio the size of a compact car. Bui the weather was Loo dry last neck fur real i Ood Bubble blowing. B  ays new York times there was a time nol Loo Long ago when colleges largely ignored their newest Stu dents. Then freshmen were counted on As having reserves of sense ambition and Pluck that would carry them through four years of higher education intact. That was Hen. This is now. Colleges faced Voith fiercer Competition for applicants rising dropout rates and dwindling alumni Rolls have realized thai All fresh Nice arc nol created equal. Some from the first Day Forward write Lucid cups glory papers while others have a hard time just organizing the facts. There arc those who arrive with a vision of where they want to be in five years and what they plan to study in order to get there and then there arc those who say they have no idea there Are some who feel at Home on Campus and others for whom College is an ordeal of loneliness and upheaval. To Correct this Uno vonness there arc courses like University 101" and fresh men seminars proliferating at campuses across the United states. Such courses Endeavor 10 teach freshmen the fundamentals  life and study. Instruction includes purely practical academic pointers such As now to use the Library and broader concepts Lik College level critical thinking. The recent View is thai an Active and formalized approach is a belter Way to disseminate information and skills that once were found Only in pamphlets and brochures. College is a unique subculture said John w. Gardner a professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia who has co authored two textbooks used i freshman courses and who is regarded by educators is the Dean of the recent focus on freshman happiness no matter How Good the High school there Are some things Stu dents will never Tarn in High  formal courses to help freshmen adjust to College have become widespread since the mid-1970s, when higher Educa Tion Hegan worrying about declining enrolment arid nol retaining enough Stu dents As Well As about academic malaise. Administrators were propelled by the results of studies that showed students who Felt Happy and at Home on Campus were i Host most Likely to stay on through graduation. They sought to create Happy environment for their freshmen through classes that taught solutions to the problems and questions that Many freshmen share from the specific what s the Best Way to take notes in professor x s lectures to the general what am i doing Herat. The recent emphasis on student retention asserts that the freshman year is really he critical time the period in which the student s habits and customs arc formed said Allen p. Up Lela presi Dent of the Council of Independent col Leges a Washington based organization of Small Liberal am colleges. The firs year or month sets the tone. There s now More Lime and Atten Tion and tender Loving care directed to what thai year looks  of course colleges also Are motivated by dependence on the financial support that Loyal alumni provide. Freshman courses Lake different shapes depending on the school. The More prestigious colleges the ones that Seldom need to worry about retain ing  lend to emphasize he importance of broadening one s intellect. The second and third lick colleges which must compete More fiercely for students Combine thai approach wit the nuts and bolls of academic survival including hours of the Library and techniques for writing College level term papers. The colleges most concerned about whether students will slay often make such courses a requirement. Med schools flunk humanism new York not a National panel of medical professionals has warned that american medical schools arc falling out of step with society s needs and called for dramatic changes in the Way they admit train and test Stu dents. " -. The nation s 127 medical schools arc preparing doctors for Medicine of the past especially in terms of doctor patient relations the panel s report said. We need doctors who arc. More skilled in doctor patient relationships said the panel s chairman or. David Erogers. A professor at Cornell University medical College. If you come in with a massive Cor onary i m going to impose a lot of gadgets Between you and me and that May make your outcome a Loi better than 15 years ago he continued. Bui they re scary and impersonal and unless 1 make particular Effort to under stand. You and your fright and depression it docs create an Emo Konal Moat the. J4-Mcmber panel organised Bihe new York Academy of Medicine included the Deans and faculty of some of the nation s top medical schools and health officials. Including or. To Ivy Bouford president of the new York City health and hospitals corp. The panel s five month study Clini Cal education and the doctor of Tomor Row also urged hat doctors in training be required to perform some Community service such As working with aids patients in their Homes or immunizing Chil Dren in poor Urban or Rural areas. The panel suggested that such service would Alert doctors Hal physicians have responsibilities for improving the health of inc communities they serve and. Most particularly the health of those who Are poor or who Lack Access .10 medical care 1 ,. In testing prospective doctors the panel said less emphasis should be placed on written or Oral medical school examinations and More on the ability of doctors to work competently and sensitively Wilh patients. Similarly the panel said scores on the medical College admission test should be reported on a pass or fail basis Only so thai factors Tike a doctor s personality May have More Weig Hrin selection. The study was financed by the Josiah Macy or. Foundation. Or. Thomas a Micklic the foundation s president who is a former Dean of the Cornell medical school said the panel had found that medical schools m 45 40 35 30 25 20 .15 10. 5. 0 19. Chi Edical school applicants. In thousands per year. -.  -. A i a a h i r. A a i k v Sia be f i i. J e s s f my w t a a  i 1. Is i Xiv to a be if i a 1 i i a s w a k Fife .1 i at i9 is St 4 Fol i so s. F i i � a so 62 64 66 v6b 70 72 74 76 78 to 82 84 s6 87 Cago Tribune Groht Scucis. Asso Dialion of. Aone ican me Al colleges Are increasingly drawing faculty Mem Bers from hospitals so that their Sala Ries can be indirectly borne by medi care and other  programs. Bui Mickle said Hal As a result,.most medical school instructors Are More concerned Wilh their Hospital practices than with training prospective doctors. -. He said the panel also fell that Modl cat schools Are turning out too Many specialists and not enough general practitioners that tuition charges have become too expensive and that the schools Are often divorced from College pc medical education at one end and from incr ships and residency train ing Al the other. .