Is it possible to be just friends in this day and age? See page 6
What is it like being a member of the opposite sex? See page 10-11
Having courting problems? Well you're not alone. See page 14
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Volume CV, Number 28
University of Southern California
Tuesday. October 13, 1987
New bone marrow unit opens at Norris
Julia Kirkendall
Staff Writer
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NEW TREATMENT UNIT — A new bone marrow transplant unit has been opened at Norris Cancer Hospital.
A new bone marrow transplantation unit that will be practicing innovative treatment techniques has opened at the university's Kenneth Noms Jr. Cancer Hospital.
The Gail Joy Lavin Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit will provide a service known as autologous bone marrow transplant, which is offered at a few area hospitals, said Dr. Amitabha Mazumder. director of the unit.
The unit will also be involved in research involving new cancer medications and novel treatments, he said.
Bone marrow transplantation involves taking bone marrow from a healthy source and then using it to replace marrow killed during cancer treatment.
There are certain cancer treatments that are highly toxic to bone marrow and deplete the body's supply. Therefore, in order for patients to undergo these treatments, there must be a way to replace the lost marrow, Mazumder said.
There are two fundamental divisions of cancers: blood and tumor/ or solid, cancer. Marrow transplant is a main method erf treatment for blood cancer, but it is an experimental treatment for solid cancers.
The graft of marrow cannot come from a source contaminated by cancer. In patients with solid forms of cancer the disease often has
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College Library reopened after summer remodeling
Two students help quake victims
By Michael Cary
Staff Writer
By Dave Nimick
Staff Writer
College Library was reopened for regular student use last Thursday after undergoing summer-long remodeling.
Before Thursday, students were able to check out books but could not study inside the library.
Changes that were made to the facility include the installation of 15 new Macintosh computer directories, the addition of approximately 40 personal study desks giving the iibrary a total of almost 200 total study stations, an air-conditioning system and a more modem decor.
"I think it is a marvelous result to a project we've been working on for a long time," said Charles Ritcheson, university librarian, dean and vice-provost of library administration. "When the administration
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Two student members of Circle K, an unofficial university service organization, volunteered their time Sunday night to aid victims left homeless after the Oct. 1 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks
Tricia Larsen, freshman aerospace engineering major, and Doug Hodge, freshman pre-business major, worked from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Red Cross-/ Salvation Army shelter on 860 W. 9th St.
Hodge is president of Circle K, the collegiate version of Kiwanis and Key Clubs
Several emergency shelters were established for community residents who were left homeless after the quake.
The two were on hand to offer assistance and help hand out dinners.
Hodge said Sunday's volunteer work "amounted to babysitting."
Donna Gordon, coordinator ot Red Cross volunteers, said that as of Monday morning she knew of no USC students who had volunteered to help.
Gordon said volunteers are needed in the evenings and weekends to help the over 1,000 people whose homes have been declared unsafe.
June Loo, administrative aid at the Salvation Army, said the shelter at 1532 W. 11th St. houses 140-150 people per night and the shelter on 9th Street houses approximately 45 people each night
Loo said she handled the scheduling erf votun-
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Help for AIDS initiative sought
By Christopher Dorobek
Staff Writer
An organization called Prevent AIDS Now in California, or PANIC, is collecting signatures here at the university and statewide to put an initiative on the ballot in June similar to the one voters rejected jn 1986.
Ted Andromidas, volunteer head of PANIC, said there is a credibility gap between what scientists were saying a year ago and what they are saying now. "The dangers that people said couldn't happen have."
A year ago scientists said only 2 or 3 percent of those infected with the AIDS virus would die of it. The percentage has now jumped to the point where one study indicates that 90-95 percent of those who test positive with the AIDS virus will die within a two- to five-year period.
"AIDS is not a homosexual disease," Andromidas said, but it would make it much easier to control if the state knew how many people were infected.
The initiative calls for AIDS to be put on the list of contagious diseases like hepatitis, and for normal public health standards to be enacted. It is .virtually the same as Proposition 64, the AIDS Initiative which voters rejected last year, he said.
The state has not enacted a mandatory testing program because of political and monetary reasons, Andromidas said. Testing would cost the state and federal government a lot of money, which politicians, who are running on budget-cutting platforms, are not willing to accept.
Last year's Proposition 64 was sponsored by the Lyndon LaRouche organization. PANIC is working with the Lyndon LaRouche organization."We've made no bones about it," Andromidas said.
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