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Volume XCIII, Number 61	University of Southern California	Tuesday, April 19, 1983
Cancer researcher to head new center
By Susan Shaw
Staff Writer
After a nationwide search, the administration has selected Brian Henderson as director of the university's Comprehensive Cancer Center and recently completed Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute.
Henderson, 45, who joined the university's medical faculty in 1970, has been serving as interim director since Nov. 1982.
The Norris Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, which began accepting outpatients on April 4, and began receiving surgical inpatients April 10, is expected to bring the university to the forefront of cancer research. It is also the university's first venture into independent hospital care.
Costing S40 million, the nine-story building, which includes 60 beds for advanced cancer patient care, a day hospital, outpatient facilities, three floors of research laboratories and surgical facilities, represents the largest construction venture in the university's history.
The center, which is one of only 20 such centers in the United States and is one of the few to house both research and clinical facilities, accepts cancer patients who have not responded to traditional forms of therapv.
John Hisserich, deputy director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, said: "In cancer, there's a close link between the basic research that occurs in the labs and what one tries to do clinically. The people doing basic research and clinical research genuinely gain from working together. Thev gain insights into treatment and diagnosis."
Henderson, whose major research interest lies in the causes of cancer, said that the "whole idea of the center is impressive," pointing out that "we will be able to get information from the laboratory to the patient quickly."
Henderson said his goal as director is to "build the most outstanding scientific research and clinical facility possible."
The Norris Institute will house many of the 200 scientists associated with the Cancer Center.
At dedication ceremonies for the Norris Institute held Feb. 3, Vincent DeVita, director of the National Cancer Institute, said/'We're facing a biological revolution. We can now do in the laboratory what dreams were made of in 1971. The dizzying pace of science in the last decade has brought molecular biology to the bedside."
It was 12 years ago that the university began drawing plans for a facility devoted to the treatment of cancer and the search for its cure. Since then, DeVita said, 47 percent of all patients with serious cancers are curable, while in 1970 the figure was 40 percent.
The Cancer Institute, however, met with several financial setbacks before its completion, but the university received several significant donations in its final stages on construction.
Among them: an SI 1.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a personal contribution of 5500,000 from Kenneth Norris Jr., a university trustee after whom the building is named, and a $3.5 million grant from the Norris Foundation.
Though he said he was not surprised by the announcement, Henderson said he was "very pleased by the appointment" saying he anticipated a long association with the hospital.
Henderson will also serve as chairman of the university's department of preventative medicine and will direct an internationally recognized cancer epidemiology and biostatistics program.
Henderson, who is the author of 165 scientific papers, has served as a National Academy of Sciences Distiguished Scholar to China, and he continues to assist that nation in its cancer epidemiology.
He was also named last year to a four-year appointment to the Scientific Council of International Agency for Research on Cancer, headquartered at Lyons, France.
A graduate of the University of Chicago Medical School, Henderson lives in San Marino with his wife, Judith, and five children.
Commenting on the appointment, Allen Mathies, Jr., dean of the school of medicine, cited Henderson for being a "strong administrator, a dedicated investigator, and a wonderful person to work with. I anticipate a long and productive association."
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Don Stevens (left) from Victoria University in New Zealand and Trojan debate squad member Sam Nelson, discuss ethics and foreign affairs during Monday's debate in Heritage Hall.
Debate with New Zealanders really did revolve morality
By Belma Johnson
Investigations Editor
A cool-tempered debate, spiced with cleverness and anchored by commentary, entertained about 30 people in Heritage Hall Monday as a two-member debate team from New Zealand concluded an international tour by taking on a pair of university debaters.
The contest matched Noel Sainsbury and Don Stevens, law students from New Zealand's Victoria University, against Robert Bollar and Sam Nelson from the Trojan Debate Squad.
A promotional flier distributed before the debate meant to provide information on what position would be resolved or supported by the New Zealanders. Instead, the flier read: "Revolved: that morality has no place in foreign affairs."
Perhaps the mistake was appropriate because the debate revolved around the topic much of the time rather than
focusing on it.
The New Zealand style of debate, which encourages the debaters to make jokes about one another or, in this case, one another's country, may have been the cause of the debate's lack of focus.
Sainsbury set the hearty mood for the competition when he began the first speech of the debate with a definition of foreign affairs as "the illicit activities Don and I have had while on tour."
He explained the vagueness of morality by saying, "We all know' what it means and occasionally we try to be it," before concluding it is a "gooey sort of niceness."
Sainsbury, a slender man dressed in a pinstriped suit, then charmed the audience with a persuasive presentation of his team's basic position — that "morality is fine as an individual, but as a nation, it's suicide."
He said nations must, and
usually do, abandon 'moral codes in favor of a more expedient and self-preserving pol-icy.
Bollar began his cross-examination of Sainsbury' with two questions he said would be important to the outcome of the debate: With a smirk on his face that hinted at sarcasm, he asked first, "Is the ratio of sheep to people really 30-to-l in New Zeaiand?"
Then, with comic timing amid the audience's laughter, he asked his opponents, "What is that?" as he pointed to a silly stuffed animal propped on the New Zealanders' desks.
The levity of the round continued as the two sides reaffirmed and refuted each others' positions.
Nelson claimed that "good" men such as Gandhi and Jesus included morality in their foreign affairs. And Gandhi won an Academy Award, Nelson quipped. Stevens replied, (Continued on page 10)
Court prosecutes student for forging GSL signature
BRIAN HENDERSON
"We were started with a mandate that we would come down hard on fraud," McNally said. "This is a definite attempt to get a student loan when they clearly weren't qualified."
Valenzuela-Smith reportedly' submitted a GSL application to the University of San Francisco for certification. They refused to certify' it because her family' income exceeded $30,000 per year, the cutoff level for loan recipients.
Susan Murphy, director of financial aid for the University of San Francisco, said Valenzuela-Smith had been eligible in the past for a GSL, but became ineligible when a need test w'as established in October 1981.
The university's financial aid office became suspicious when, in spite of denying her the certification, it received a GSL check in her name from a Los Angeles branch of Bank of America. Office administrators asked the bank for a copv of the application to verify the discrepancy, Murphy said.
"We realized the application had not been completed by an official from this office," Murphy said. "It was not the signature of the person
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By Mark Lowe
Staff Writer
University students across the country were given a word of caution in a Los Angeles court last week as a University of San Frandsco student was arraigned on a charge of falsifying a student loan application, beginning the first prosecution against a student suspected of loan fraud.
Maria Valenzuela-Smith, a graduate student in education and a Granada Hills resident, wras accused of forging a signature to receive a Guaranteed Student Loan, after the USF financial aid office had told her she was not eligible for such a loan.
"There are other cases," said Lois McNally, public information officer for the California Student Aid Commission, which administers the GSL program. "The reason we publicized this one is because it's in the prosecution stage."
She added that the public has been demanding a crackdown on fraud in aid programs, which led the commission last August to establish a unit for tracking down student loan fraud and default on loans in the payback stage.
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