Kennedy Sought by TDC
Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy is being sought to speak on campus with or without Richard Nixon by the Trojan Democratic Club, Larry Young, president, said yesterday.
Both Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon were invited last week to participate in a First Time Voters Convocation to be held at USC.
In addition to this, however. Young said that his group is continuing with its special, and separate, efforts to get Kennedy,
Johnson and Stevenson on campus.
The president suggested last week that the university’s Central Campus Mall be used as the location for a late-afternoon open-air meeting anytime between Sept. 20 and election day.
Both candidates are seriously considering the offer and a decision should be in the mails to the president’s office by the end of the month.
USC officials said that the invitations to a convocation would be extended to all Southern
California universities and colleges to send their First Time Voters to the meeting.
All First Time Voters will be welcomed, however, students or not. Trojan students will meet to formulate in detail questions which will be submitted in duplicate to both candidates.
Students already selected for the assignment should the candidates accept, are Bill Steiger-walt, ASSC President; Joe Saltzman, Daily Trojan Editor; and Young, TDC President.
The questions may preface ad-
dresses by both candidates should the candidates themselves elect to speak as well as answer questions.
“California young people—including more than 400.000 college and university students — symbolize the millions of First Time Voters in America,” Dr. Topping said in his invitations.
“We believe it is one of the responsibilities of a great private educational institution such as USC to bring these youngsters, the candidates and the issues face to face.” he added.
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Dean Loosli Gives Current Facts About Medica I School Enrollment
House Hears Medical Plea For U.S. Aid
“If modern medical education is to meet its minimum goals of providing sufficient physicians to care for the nation’s health needs, there must be a positive program for alleviating the financial problems of medical students.”
This was the statement re- ! garding the need for medical student financial aid submitted | on behalf of the Federal Health program Committee of the As- j sociation of American Medical Colleges to the House of Repre- j sentatives last June.
The statement cited the decline in number of applicants to medical school, the definite increase of the cost of four years of medical education, the recent developments in subsidies for graduate students in the natural and social sciences and the increasing complexity of medical science precluding an increase in time to train physicians as the facts behind medical student aid.
It recommended that financial assistance to medical students be given to obtain more well-qualified applicants to the medical profession and to eliminate personal financial need as a bar to , study medicine.
AAMC SURVEY SHOWS U.S. '60 APPLICANTS DECREASE
For the third consecutive year the number of individuals applying to U.S. medical schools has decreased.
The total number of applicants to the 1959-60 class was 6 per cent less than the total number applying in 1955-7.
The total number of applications exhibited a similar decrease, but the over-all "number of acceptances increased slightly (up 3 per cent over 1956-7), thereby accentuating: the significance of the trend.
Association of American Medical Colleges 1960
	Summary of Application Activity During the Past 13 Years			
Class	Applications	Applications Accepted Total per indiv. Applicants		
1947-48	18,829	56,279	3.0	6,512
1948-49	24.242	81,662	3.4	6,973
1949-50	24,434	88,244	3.6	7,150
1950-51	22,279	81,931	3.7	7,254
1951-52	19,920	70,678	3.5	7,663
1952-53	16,763	56,319	3.4	7,778
1953-54	14,678	48,586	3.3	7,756
1954-55	14,538	47,568	3.3	7,878
1955-56	14,937	54,161	3.6	7.969
1956-57	15,917	59,798	3.8	8,263
1957-58	15,791	60,951	3.9	8,302
1958-59	15,170	59,102	3.9	8,366
1959-60	14,951	57,890	3.9	8,510
Education Viewed on Digest
Has progressive education seen its day?
This is the question “Trojan Digest' probes as Dr. Van Cleve Morris, professor of education, is interviewed.
The show airs this Sunday, 10:30 a m. to 11 a.m., on KNX and other stations of the CBS Radio Pacific Network.
Dr. Morris, professor of education, Rutgers University, and visiting professor of education at USC, is the author of numerous
articles on educational theory. His new book, ‘ Philosophy and the American School,” will be published in the spring.
Program host Dr. William Stedman has observed that “criticism from the traditionalist has become a common public sport, but now there’s a new kind of criticism from another quarter, namely, professors in our teachers colleges and schools of education w'ho insist that John Dewey’s experimentalism has run its course.”
Dr. Morris notes, “It seems to me that the hour has come for a new individualism in education.”
“The educator must find the individual all over again,” he said. “In our conformist age of split levels, tail fins, and subur-j bia, personal responsibility for living well seems to be a lost ; art. I think education must revive it in our schools.”
“Trojan Digest” is produced j by Joseph Sands and directed by i David Vaile.
U.S. Schools Show Drop In Total Applicant Ratio As Admissions Increase
By JOE SALTZMAN Daily Trojan Editor
“There has been a gradual and steady drop in the total number of applicants foe medical schools, but the total number of individuals admitted to medical schools has steadily increased.’*
This was the* answer Dr. Clayton G. Loosli, dean of the USC School of Medicine, gave the Summer Trojan in reference to a United Press International report that the doctor shortage is likely to worsen with the drop in medical school enrollment.
Dr. Loosli said that the article was referring to the drop in medical school applications, not the number of individuals being accepted.	-
“The ratio of the number of applicants to the number of places available has decreased to the point where in 1959-60 there were less than two applicants for each available place in medical schools,” Dr. Loosli said.
Out of 14,951 applicants, 8,510 were admitted as compared to the 1950 figures when 24,434 applied and 7,150 were admitted, a 4 to 1 ratio.
The UPI report had quoted medical experts as saying that “the business of being a doctor is better today than it ever was — yet medical schools are having trouble getting enough students.”
It added that, “American medical schools are getting one-third fewer applicants for admission than they did in 1950 while the population has gone way up and the doctor shortage is assuming alarming proportions.”
Dr. Looslie agreed with UPI’s report of the national problem, but added that the USC School of Medicine has been fortunate in the number and quality of its applicants.
“Most of our applicants — about 80 per cent — come from California and we have approximately 600 from which to choose 68, the present number of the freshman class,” he said.
Dr. Loosli said that the medical school’s four criteria j for admission—school recommendations, personal inter-i views by the school’s admissions committee, college grades ( and medical school aptitude tests — consistently prove that the quality of students admitted to the USC Medical School has steadily risen during the past few years.
“The 1960 entering class tops them all,” he declared. Dr. Loosli said that the “money question” is one of the reasons there are fewer applicants to the nation’s medical schools.
“The financial status of our students is about what ¡the national study shows as average ($2,000),” he said.
Dr. Loosli’s figures are corrobated by the Association of American Medical Colleges Datagram service.
According to Datagram statistics, the average medical student pays between $1,642 and $2,911 per year for his four years at medical school.
This, the money it costs to go to school, coupled with the long road to that final degree are two vital factors in the drop of medical school applicants. Dr. Loosli reasoned. The UPI report agreed with Dr. Loosli.
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