Forty activists protested Thomas K. Turnage's appearance by burning registration cards and chanting various slogans outside the Science Center where he spoke. During his address, Turnage ignored the protesters, saying that most 18-year-olds don't protest registration.

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In an attempt to increase its support of foreign medical education programs. Harvard has agreed to help one of Saudi Arabia's six universities improve its medical school, officials said last week.

Harvard experts will contribute to developing the King Faisel University's curriculum, faculty recruitment, and administration.

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The student-faculty Committee on Housing continued a policy of barring student observers and reporters from meetings at its Monday meeting last week.

Members of the committee said that the 10-member group would continue its exclusively to prompt open, informal discussion hindered by overly inquisitive members of the press and large groups of students.

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Officials at the Medical School announced that they will soon finish up a preliminary plan for their experimental seven-year program. The plan, which will take effect in September of 1984, will be an innovative approach to medical education at Harvard.

Medical officials created the program last spring to revitalize the medical curriculum so that it can handle the wide variety of new issues raised from new discoveries and technology. Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson '44, dean of the Med School said the new program will stress smallgroup problem-solving and computer instruction.

The program will annually accept 25 college sophomores for a specialized curriculum for the last two years of college, four years of medical school, and the first year of hospital training. Tosteson said this program will enable future doctors to better incorporate all new information with traditional methods.