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Volume CXVI, Number 62
University of Southern California
Thursday, December 5, 1991
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& MEDICINE
Pap smears essential for female health maintenance
By Linda Sellers
Staff Writer
Pap smears are important in the detection of cervical cancer and should be an essential part of feminine hygiene, said Dr. G. Tyndall of the Student Health Center.
According to many gynecological textbooks, cervical cancer screening via pap smears should begin at age 18 or at the onset of sexual activity, whichever comes first, Tyndall said.
Pap smears were originally designed to detect cervical cancer but evolved over the years into a screening exam to detect pre-cancerous conditions as well, Tyndall said.
Mild dysplasia (abnormal cancer cell growth), is the early signal for cancer that is detected in pap smears. This may progress over a period of years, and if undetected, could lead to cervi cal cancer, he said.
The American Cancer Society suggests that pap smears need to be done only every three years, Tyndall said. This schedule is to be followed only after the patient has had three negative pap smears in a row for three consecutive years.
The exception to this rule is is for high risk patients. These patients include many, if not most, young women who have multiple sexual partners, become sexually active at an early age or have a history of sexually transmitted diseases. Smoking tobacco is also considered a high-risk behavior for cervical disease, Tyndall said.
Repeatedly, pap smears have had, even under the best conditions, a high false-negative" rate, Tyndall said. This means the pap smear fails to de-ect cervical disease in at least 30 percent of patients screened, he said.
The presence of these undetected cases has prompted attempts to improve screening for cervical disease, Tyndall said.
The most recent techniques used to detect disease are cervicography and col-wscopy. These techniques involve ligh-magnification visualization to the cervix which aid in the detection of cancer cells, he said_
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V axed by administrators
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V, the student newspaper which began publication in 1990, is losing more than $45,000 in funding from Housing Services — another victim of university budget cuts.
$45,000 annual funds revoked by Auxiliary director
By Glen Justice
City Editor
University administrators pulled the plug on V, a student-run campus newspaper circulated twice a month, when they cancelled $45,000 in annual funding and ordered the paper to halt publication this week, university officials said.
"I think it's important to have communications tools in the university environment, but they need to stand on their own merits," said Don Mask, acting head of Auxiliary Services. "But in these tough times, when we're all tightening our belts, sometimes we have to say no."
The money subsidising V since it began publishing last year was provided by the university's housing office. The paper, (See Newspaper, page 3)
Students subsidize Embassy
University housing residents foot bill
By Oscar C. Villalon
Staff Writer
University funding for Embassy Residential College, which has lost more than $7 million since 1987, was questioned this week after university administrators pulled funding from the student publication V.
Kristine Dillon, associate vice president of Student Affairs, confirmed that fees paid by students in university housing are subsidizing Embassy at an average of $165 per student each year, for a total of nearly $1 million.
Dillon was the chair of the university Housing Task Force that recommended the purchase of the downtown building four years ago and is responsible for Embassy's programming.
In comparison, students in university housing students were paying about $7 a year to subsidize V, said Sam Sheldon, president of the Student Senate.
"The 6,000 students living in university housing are paying 'X' amount of dollars to subsidize Embassy," Sheldon said at Wednesday's senate meeting. "Looking at V, it's like (V is) just the small pebbles
of bigger things going on."
"Embassy is the most recent (university acquisition) and they're still paying for its debt service," Dillon said in explaining the housing budget for Embassy.
She said the university is basically still in the process of acquiring Embassy.
"Everyone's rent is still going in the same portion to pay for (Embassy's) mortgage," Dillon said.
But Sheldon also charged that a disproportionate amount of the annual $18 activity fee paid by students living in university housing goes to subsidize Embassy.
(See Embassy, page 13)
Case History
Alleged beating has impact on department years later
By Robert Moran
Staff Writer
"Kindly accept my apologies and those of the University along with the hope that you will continue to be a productive member of the family"
— Ex-President fames Zumberge in a letter to Masoud Farajpour
Doctors have told Masoud Farajpour that soon he will need to have his right shoulder fused, locking it in one position permanently.
The prospect is not one the 39-year-old Farajpour likes to think about. What he deals with now is already unpleasant.
Farajpour has had four surgeries on his shoulder, including one to remove badly damaged cartilage and tendons. "When I wake up in the morning,
my arm doesn't even move at all," Farajpour said. Without daily doses of prescribed drugs and Tylenol, he would have to endure severe arthritic pain.
Farajpour says his shoulder injury resulted from being beaten by University Security officers in 1983.
He sued the university and won a $1 million jury award. University attorneys appealed and an appelate court sent the case back for retrial. Rather than fight the case again, the university paid Farajpour $600,000 this summer.
Since 1983, security has been the target of numerous major lawsuits. In April, the university lost a rape case involving allegations of security negligence. The jury award, modified by the judge, was $1.3 million and the (See Security, page 6)
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WEDNESDAY
• Many lawsuits still pending
THURSDAY
• A detailed account of one case against security that took 8 years to settle. Also, allegations that one officer involved has been the source of costly problems for the University._
F R I D A Y
• Former officer blasts the department. What security does to prevent lawsuits. What others think they could do. *