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Volume XCVII, Number 20	University of Southern California	Monday, October 1, 1984
Admissions of minorities fall short in School of Medicine
By Karen Castro
Assistant Citv Editor
Admissions to the School of Medicine match national statistics on the admission of women, but fall well below the average in admission of minorities, according to a recent medical journal study and USC Medical School admissions officials.
The Sept. 28 issue of the American Medical Association Journal reported that women comprise one-third of first-year medical students, a figure that has tripled in the past 15 years.
“Our percentage of women is constant with the national average," said William Nerlich, associate dean of admissions at the School of Medicine. "USC is admitting its share of women."
Nerlich said about 30 to 33 percent of the university's medical students are women. In the 1983-84 academic year, more than 32 percent of the medical school students in the United States were female, as well as more than a quarter of the expected graduates.
The Journal also said the number of first-year minority students in national medical schools has doubled in the past decade, although the group represents only 16 percent of new the enrollees in 1983-84.
However, at the USC School of Medicine the number of minority students has decreased over the years.
"There are fewer minorities than there used to be," Nerlich said. "Our tuition has increased at the rate of $1,000 a year and minorities generally go to the school with the lowest tuition."
He said a student can go to a state medical school for three vears for less money than the cost of the USC School of Medicine for one year. UCLA School of Medicine charges between 5800 and S900 per year for tuition, while this university charges 513,320.
This year the School of Medicine accepted 13 black applicants, 20 Chicano applicants, and six other Latino applicants. Of those accepted, only five elected to altend.
While the number of minority students has decreased, the School of Medicine continues to review just as many minority applicants as in the past.
"The Medical School is seeing as many minorities as we used to and wTe are accepting as many minorities as we used to," Nerlich said. "Minorities are getting every' bit of consideration that thev used to."
The USC Medical School sent out 302 acceptance letters for 1984-85. Of the 160 students who declined, 30 were minorities. The present class of 136 first-semester students has one black student, three Chicano students, one other Latino student and one Puerto Rican student.
Family planning funds renewed
By Craig Hotti
Staff Writer
The Family Planning Clinic at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center came within two days of closing its doors before state funds were pushed through last Wednesday, a clinic official said.
Pat Jamieson, a health educator at the clinic, said the crisis
arose when Secretary of Health and Welfare David Wsoap held up the contracts that go out to all the family planning clinics, because he wanted to add a new clause which prevents state money being used for abortions.
The contracts must be signed before the clinics receive any state money.
"For some reason the people in Sacramento came up with the idea that we use state money for abortions,” Jamieson said. "None of the clinics use state money for abortions and our particular office doesn't even do abortions."
Jim Morgan, director of the Department of Health Services in Sacramento, said his department wanted to make sure none of the money was being used for abortions rather than leaving it up to the different clinics.
"The reason it took so long (to get the contracts out) was we were changing the contract's wording, which takes quite awhile to do," Morgan said.
The clinics receive the state money through the Los Angeles Regional Family Planning Council, an organization set up to administer the funds and regulate its use. The clinics receive their contracts at the beginning of each fiscal year.
Planned Parenthood, which is the largest family planning center in the area, would have had to cut back by 25 percent if the contracts had not come through, said Nattie Dockmonish, administrative assistant of public affairs for Planned Parenthood.
Gerald Bernstein, director of the clinic, said 21 of the clinic's 26 employees are paid for by the state and would have been fired had the funding not come through, which would have closed the clinic Friday.
"The Southern California area gets about 57 million from the state which goes to the family planning centers in the region," Dockmonish said.
She said 65 percent of the women who currently need this funding cannot get it because the state does not recognize them. If the money had been cut, 25 percent of the women who were being serviced would be left out in the cold, she added.
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Professor creates makeup that stays on permanently
By James Jones
Staff Writer
A university professor has developed the world's only eyeliner that cannot run, smear or fade, and also gives women a legitimate way to get a tatoo — because it is.
Alan Berg, an opthamologist and professor in the School of Medicine, has developed a technique he calls "dyeliner," where a dye is injected into the skin between a patient's eyelashes.
Berg is one of the first doctors in Los Angeles County to use the technique.
The operation costs approximately 51,000 and takes 30 minutes to perform under a local anesthetic. Berg said in the six months that he has been using the technique, approximately 40 women have undergone the surgery.
He said the process will become more popular as time goes by, eventually becoming as well-established as tatooing. Although the process is technically tatooing, Berg said dyelining uses state-of-the-art microsurgery.
But like tatooing, the dyeliner is permanent. Once the dye is injected into the patient's eyelid, it cannot be removed, he said.
The process uses a pulsating needle — very much like those used for tatoos — to send micro-injections of a dye approved by the Food and Drug Administration into the eyelid. The needle only penetrates about one millimeter into the eyelid, compared to about three millimeters in tatooing.
"A powerful microscope is used to place between 60 and 70 microdots into each eyelid," Berg said. "The result is a permanent line that is much finer and more subtle than those produced by an eyeliner pen."
Berg said the ages of the women who have undergone the surgery have ranged from 20 to over 40. He said most of them have been pleased with the results, and have said they used less makeup after the operation.
He said the process is "very safe," but added there can be adverse effects, such as minor swelling. A test injection is given to the patient before the surgery to check for any allergic reactions.
Berg considers the operation to be particularly valuable for women on the go who want to avoid the daily routine of applying eyeliner, and reapplving it throughout the day.
He said the process would also help elderly women with poor eyesight or arthritic hands, who may find a standard eveliner difficult to use.
LEE-ANNE LEONG / DAILY TROJAN
Students at 32nd Street School are providing training for potential teachers from the university’s School of Education.
Student teachers begin careers at local school
By Carol Ann Coates
Staff Writer
The class of second grade students giggled as teaching associate Ellen Harty read aloud Ira Sleeps Over in the red, yellow and blue classroom at the 32nd Street-USC Magnet School.
.-Harty, a student teacher in the School of Education, has been assigned to the 32nd Street School as part of her basic training that culminates in December with a degree and preliminary credential from the university.
Every morning this semester Harty will open her class with the pledge of allegiance and roll call. The lesson plan covered each day includes reading, spelling, handwriting, math and physical education.
Sandy Voyne, teacher of the class and a graduate of the USC teaching program, also did her student teaching at the 32nd Street School. Voyne said the program "provides tremendous exposure to the practical aspect of teaching."
"The university has given (student teachers) a tremendous background in the methods of teaching children," Voyne added.
Harty, who wishes to complete a full year in one semester, has a double assignment, and works full days at the school every day, unlike the seven other student teachers currently interning who work half-days.
The university has used the magnet school as a training ground for student teachers since 1933.
While 32nd Street School allows the School of Education to
"try out new ideas" and use it as a research center for pilot programs, Greta Pruitt, school principal, said the school is not an "experimental school."
Magnet schools are designed for students who want to attend a school that concentrates on a particular subject.
32nd Street School, selected over six years ago to be one of the city's 87 magnet schools, specializes in performing arts and "offers the traditional program in terms of academics, in addition to courses in music, dance, visual arts and drama" said Janice Spiegel, magnet coordinator at the school.
All students in the Los Angeles School District can apply to any one of the the magnets. Students are selected at random by computer. The 32nd Street-USC Magnet originated as a science-math school, but because of student and parent input, it "gravitated towards the performing arts," Spiegel said.
Because of the random selection, the 900 students at the school range from remedial to gifted and represent 179 different schools, Spiegel said.
Pruitt and Spiegel agreed that the proximity of the school to the university was a major factor in its choice as a magnet school.
Harty said Voyne treats her like a co-teacher rather than as a student, because the students in the class respond better to an assistant than to another student.
Harty praised the magnet system because it "draw's good students and staff who w-ant to be here." She said the best part of (Continued on page 3)