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Black enrollment sinks
to all-time low at MCG
By Frederick Benjamin Sr.
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
This fall when classes begin at
the Medical College of Georgia,
the medical school will likely
have the same number of blacks
in its first-year class as the Uni
versity of Mississippi had in 1962
—one. In the school of dentistry
the number is equally poor —
one admitted and one alternate.
The virtual blackout harkens
back to the late 1960 s when
medical education in the state’s
only public medical school was
for whites only.
Dr. James E. Carter 111, direc
tor of Minority Student Affairs
until his retirement a couple of
weeks ago, calls the situation
alarming.
“You can't tell me that of 167
applicants, you can't find more
thanone. We have the numbers,
they just are not admitting
them,” Dr. Carter said.
The dismal acceptance rate of
Alricas-Amernican students was
created by the nationwide at
tack on affirmative action and
lack of commitment from the
president’'s office al the state
supported institution, Dr
Carter said. The thrust for di
versity has been set back 30
years, he argued
“It goes back 10 Proposition
200 in California (the Bakke
decision i 1978) and recent
Nupreme Court decisions on the
onee in Texas,” Dy Canter said
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b lowding i white Nouthern
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s buastnias wnry sffirmative action
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entered the medical scheol for the
1996-97 school year. That repre
sertod “:. nearly 30-percent g:cline
over U A'z‘v'vhu.w year when 14
new students were admitted.
Dr. W.J. Walker Jr., an African-
American dentist in Augusta, re
acted strongly to the current situ
ation,
“This is utterly ridiculous. This
will affect healthcare delivery for
black people in the state for years
to come,” Dr. Walker said.
Aside from the obvious ramifi
cation of too few future black phy
sicians in the state, Dr. Walker
expressed concern for the emo
tional health of the lone dental
and medical students who will be
entening MUG in September
“How can you ask any student
1o be in that cimate”” Dr Walker
said The dimete referred o s
that of subdle snd overt racism he
wmn the institution
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school for diversity, peer-group
identification, and ethnic back
ground companionship,” ae said.
In a meeting wi resi
dent Dr. Fran 'l‘w in gum,
Dr. Walker outlined his sugges
tion for a summit meeting among
the president and healthcare pro
fessionals in the area to address
the recruitment and admissions
problem.
MCG officials, however, say their
hands are tied.
“What has appeared to happen is
the best African Americans have
chosen to go into other fields,” said
Dr. Tedesco. “The quality of our
African-American munu is
markedly different what it
waws five years ago. What that means
is that the best African-American
students are not qm‘“ to medi
cal school. The of our medi
cal applicants has gone up. That
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POLITICS
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By Frederick Benjamin Sr.
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
Not only in Augusta, but in
institutions of higher learning
all across the nation, the num
ber of underrepresented minori
ties are declining in huge num
bers. Amongthose casualtiesare
African Americans, Latinosand
Native Americans.
In virtually every state, law
suits or the threat of lawsuits
have caused public institutions
to pull back from affirmative
action initiatives — some in
place for decades — designed to
address hundreds of years of
discrimination against the
American minority population.
The most glaring example of
the repercussions soon to be
experienced in public colleges
and universities across the na
tion are being played out in the
state of California where the
1995 decision by the UC Board
of Regents to ban consideration
of race and gender in admis
sions went into effect this year.
The result is that in the UC
Berkeley's incoming law school
class only 14 black students have
been admitted. Of the 14, not
one has decided to enroll,
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