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PAGE THREE:
Theta Nu Epsilon— Skulls and Skullduggery
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
PAGE FOUR:
Trojan Tracksters To Tangle with Top Team
©
Vol. XVI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1965
No. 94
NEGRO SATIRIST
Louis Lomax
To Be Speaker
Louis Lomax, Negro author and satirist, will speak tonight at the Campus Forum on “Urban Man in Revolution.”
His talk is the final presentation in the “Called To Be Human” discussion series. It begins at 7 p.m. in
the lower Lounge of the Uni-
Cfoss Post
Sought by Kazanjian
Phil Kazanjian became the first to announce hie candidacy for Junior Class president yesterday.
In his announcement. Kazanjian called John Betinis ‘ man of principle and inte
versity Church, 817 W. 34th
St.
Lomax is the author of “The Negro Revolt” and “When the Word is Given.” Saturday Review Award A past member of Mike Wallace’s news staif, he is currently a feature writer for “The Chicago American."
In 1960 Lomax won the Saturday Review Anisfield-Wolf Award for “The Reluc-
a tant African.”
!
j-j He now hosts a Los An-
rity" who has been involun- geles television conversation
tarily handcuffed by his own show on Saturday nights.
naivete concerning politics on prophet of Our Day
this campus ... ' “\\rhen Mr. Lomax speaks
“I believe he (Betinis) has about man in our time, and
made a sincere attempt to re- what it means to be a human
form student government, being in an urban setting, he
asserted Kazanjian. js one 0f the true prophets of
He added that the attempt our day » ReV- Chuck Doak,;
has been “aborted because presbyterian campus minis-
of John s naivete concerning ^ert commented.
student government, which is; g tQ a wh(te con.
understandable bemg a med- u >t a Woodlilnd;
■cal student on a fore.gn ij^ h |m t he de_;
campus. 1
Executive Pressure , , _ ...
Kazanjian also attributed Ia ou e®e fV*!?8!
i. Embedded Hate
Betinis failure to the wa- . . ,
Deeply embedded in the
-wheth-
Adam Herbert Joins Presidential Contest
SAM ONG—Newly named foreign codirector of the International Students House gets busy with duties of his new office. Christy Nelson, social chairman, helps.
I House Installs
New Codirector
Wants Respect For Government
AMS President Adam Herbert filed his petition for the ASSC presidency yesterday, stating, “Restore Respect” as his campaign theme.
“Respect is never a gift; it must be earned,” Her-Ibert said.
“I have respect for stu- “ dent government and can recognize its need.”
Herbert joins Junior Class President Rick Takagaki and Glen Mowrer, Trojan Democratic Club president, in the contest for student body president.
Student Challenge “My program is a set of challenges to the body,” Herbert said.
... ,, , - . . Disarmament Agency, will “Neither the admmistra- & -7’
tion, the faculty, nor the sPea-k today on Arms Con ASSC president alone can be trol
f r S
h > : ^
it**
...V *
Sam Ong, mathematics senior, was installed as the scribed the hate which brings tnew foreign codirector of the International Student
House by outgoing codirector Mutapha Hijaouy at Thursday’s executive board meeting.
Sam. whose real first name is Sweehai, was given
his American name a few years ago by people who couldn’t remember Sweehai.
“Besides, Americans sometimes confuse my name with the word ‘sweetheart’,” he
tering down of his original,
reform ideas by the Senate fab™ of c “"t . . t and his own Executive Cab- » the church be Protestant, inet and the uniformity of Catholic Jewish or Gentile^-
opposition among his political is l!lis HATE ■ • • of some-contemporaries.” | ^dy who doesn t suffer from
Kazanjian served as a y°ur theological myopia, member of the Senate and Lomax went on to say that said, the Constitutional Conven- unless religion rids itself of; Sam, tion this year. inbred hypocrisy it will be Chinese
“The Junior Class, in a ithe victim of all ironic presense. is a miniature ASSC dicament.
. . . It is my hope to use the “An organized religion knowledge gained as an ob- which came to save man has tion. server and participant in stu- now become one of the things
Fraternity To Host n L.A. Youths
Agency Chief To Discuss Arms Race
William C. Foster, director student ^Arms Control and
Prevention of the
Spread of Nuclear Weapons.”
The lecture, sponsored by the Correlating Committee for International Relations, p.m. in
held responsible for the state of the ASSC.
“Student government is a student responsibility. The responsibility must be shared will be held at 3 by every student.” 226 Founders Hall.
He charged the student body with evading this responsibility for too long.
Restore Dignity “We must take a step for-
who speaks Thai, and English, was; born in Thailand and went to Twelve East Los Angeles school in Malaysia. He plans youngsters will join the to return home after gradua- crowd at tomorrow evening’s
| Interfraternity b a s k e t b all
Foster entered government service in 1946 as Undersecretary of Commerce. Later he became deputy U.S. special representative in Europe, deward to restore dignity, re- puty administrator, admin-spect and confidence in an as- istrator of the Marshall Plan sociation that actually re- and Deputy Secretary of Deflects our own individual per- fense. sonalities and attitudes,” Her- Military Pilot
AMS PRESIDENT—Adam Herbert joins in race for ASSC presidency. His program is a challenge to the student body based on his campaign, "Restore Respect."
Radiation Makes Cancer Operable
bert continued.
“I pledge to the Associated Students that I shall be a fighting spokesman for our student body. My challenge is
He served as a military pilot in World War I and was director of the purchase division for Army Service Forces. During World War II he was
One of Founders
game as guests of four mem-
dent government by utilizing from which man must be rp^e new 0ffjceri who fol- bers of Phi Kappa Psi fra-it in the interests of . . . an saved,' he asserted. jows a Pakistani, an Indian ternity.
efficient class governmental The Campus Forum is an(j a Moroccan to the posi- The Phi Psis will be bat-structure.” Kazanjian said. sponsored by the American ^jon as codirector, was one tling Kappa Alpha for the Kazanjian urged other can- Baptist. Episcopalian. Luth- of the founders of the I IFC basketball championship didates to use his "positive eran. Methodist and Presby-! House three years ago. at the men's gymnasium at
approach.’ terian campus ministries. , “Some foreign students 7:30 tomorrow night.
j here are very independent be- The four fraternity mem-! cause their English is good bers are Phil Norton, Gardner ; and they have adapted to Reynolds, Bill Russell and
that every Trojan help me to procured by the Air Force as ‘restore respect.’ ” a special representative to the
Herbert promised increased cultural and social acitivies, with an accelerated guest speakers program.
He also pledged increased
Undersecretary of War.
Foster holds the Medal for Merit and commendations for distinguished civilian service from the War Department
International Parade To Start Festive Week
j American habits. Others,
I however, are new here and •are without these advantages. A third group doesn't even seem to be interested in mov-An international parade the culture of foreign nations, ing outside of a small clique will officially begin the week said Louis Molina and Ken of their own nationals,” he long Festival of Nations on Thomas, festival cochairmen, i said.
campus Monday. Monday's program will in-
Featuring foreign students elude folk dancing by the in their native dress, the pro- Arabian, Filipino and African cession will begin at noon and students and a hootenany progress down University from 3 to 4 p.m. in Hancock time to help Avenue to Alumni Park. Auditorium during the after- reach this wide range Foreign student organiza- noon. [other foreign students.
Offer More Time
“I would like to ask that this first ‘independent’ type offer a little more of their the I House of I
tions will carry their national Films and Bazaar I know, fhe main purpose here flags. At night Indian students is to learn, not to socialize,
Foreign Group will show documentary films but an important part of any
The foreign student groups about their country and con- experience abroad should be participating in the parade duct a discussion on the cul- getting acquainted with the are the Latin Americans, Af- ture. The films will be shown people and customs of the ricans, Koreans, Indians and at 7 p.m. in 133 Founders host country. If you turn the Arabians. Also participating Hall. coin over, this holds true for
are the Filipinos, Pan-Europ- Throughout the week dif- the American students as cans, Japanese ar.d Pakista- ferent countries will be fea- well.
nis. tured in folk dances, lectures “I welcome even the indif-
The Festival of Nations, and films. Among the high- ferent and the hostile to come which will last through lights of the week will be a to some of our functions and Thursday, was set up to hzt- dance and an international see if they have much basis ter acquaint students with bazaar and show. 1 (Continued on Page 2)
Ron Noble.
Playground Directors
Norton, senior in hostory, is playground director at the Franklin Avenue Elementary School, and will bring three boys from there.
Bill Russell junior in business administration, will bring his three guests from the Florence Avenue School.
Three youngsters from Cortez Street School will be the guests of Noble, a junior in finance.
Reynolds, who i - p 1 a y-ground director at the Florence Avenue School, will have three boys from there as his guests for dinner and the game. He is a senior in political science.
student activity towards the and Department of Defense, construction of a new Student Activities Center.
Continuing his government
service, in 1963 and 1964 Faculty Cooperation Foster wag Chief u s Re_
His program demands more presentative to the 18-nation cooperation and dialogue be- disarmament conference, tween the student body, faculty and administration in Honorary Degrees several important areas. * oster» a graduate of MIT,
The deadline for filing for ^as received an honorary office is Friday. Elections LL.D. irom Syracuse Univer-will be held April 28 and 29, sity and an honorary Doctor with run-offs on May 5. of Public Service degree from To increase interest in the George Washington Univer-campaign, KUSC-TV will pre-
sent a special series of pro- Foster has also been active grams entitled “ASSC Elec- the business world. He has tions ’65,” which will focus on served as president of the a different candidate each Manufacturing Chemists As-week. sociation, Inc.; executive vice-
This week’s guest will be president and senior adviser Rick Takagaki. The show will 0f Olin Mathieson Chemical be broadcast Friday at 12:30 Corp.; chairman of the board p.m. of directors of Reaction Mot-
Televisions will be set up ors, Inc.; and chairman of in front of Hancock Auditor-ithe board of United Nuclear ium and in 231 Hancock. Corp.
CELL MEMBRANE STUDY
USC Chemist Awarded
Guggenheim Fellowship
A Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship to study ceil membranes has been awarded to Dr. Karol J. Mysels, professor of chemistry.
The USC chemist was one of 313 United State’s and Canadian scientists receiving the one-year awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York.
Although Guggenheim Fellows are usually between 30 and 45 years of age, grants may be made to older men whom the foundation considers unusually qualified and who suggest a special field of research. Dr. Mysels is 51.
Starting in August, he will
spend a year using the resources of the Los Angeles area to study the biological and biochemical aspects of cell membranes. He will try to apply his knowledge of thin soap films to this field, “These are two similar things in different disciplines, and I am going to see if I can bridge the gap between two points of view in nomenclature, techniques and traditions.”
Dr. Mysrels, a native of Poland, attended the University of Paris and is a graduate of the University of Lyon and of Harvard University. He has taught at USC since 11947.
j Last year he won the American Chemical Society’s $1,000 Kendall Co. Award in colloid chemistry, a major national award. He was the youngest colloid chemist to' win the prize.
The National Science Foundation has awarded him two fellowships, a faculty fellowship granted on the basis of his teaching record and a senior postdoctoral fellowship based on research. The latter enabled him to spend a year in Strasbourg, France, at the Center for Macromole-j cular Studies and to visit numerous laboratories; throughout Europe.
Inoperable lung cancers can be operable by irradiating them with supervoltage X-rays or radioactive cobalt I for several weeks, a leading radiologist said Monday in one of the series of talks on cancer research sponsored by the School of Medicine.
Dr. Fernando G. Bloedom, professor o f radiology and head of the division of radiotherapy at the University of Maryland, described his work with aproximately 200 lung cancer patients.
Patients with inoperable cancers were treated with radiation, followed by surgery. They had about the same survival rate as patients with operable cancers. About 23 per cent in each group have survived for a year or longer.
Improvements Predicted
Further improvements in cancer therapy will come, Dr. Bloedorn predicted, through a “combination of radiation and surgery.”
The new approach is being tested at Los Angeles County General Hospital and at1 several other medical centers with support from the National Institute of Health.
“Not all types of lung cancer respond to the new technique,” Dr. Bloedorn said. The new approach differs in several respects from more
familiar methods of preoperative radiatkfti therapy for cancer.
More familiar methods have consisted of exposures to radiation over a period of one to five days, completed one to seven days before surgery. Their purpose is to reduce cell vitality, minimizing “seeding” or spread of cancer cells in the bloodstream during the operation.
New Approach
The new approach involves dosages strong enough to kill all cancer cells. Patients are radiated daily over a period of four to eight weeks, not only in the area where cancer can be detected, but throughout the region where doctors believe microscopic traces of cancer exist.
A waiting period follows, and surgery is performed five to eight weeks after radiation.
“In the usual inoperable cancer,” Dr. Bloedorn said, “the disease had extended to lymph nodes between the lungs or had become attached to vital structures such as the blood vessels leading to and from the heart.”
Several weeks after radiation, in most cases, the cancer had regressed or disappeared in these areas and the remaining cancer could be removed by taking out all or part of one lung.
Chemical Foundation To Give Fellowships
IN GRATITUDE—Moroccan student Ahmad Zine (left) presents a Moroccan desk set to President Norman Topping.
Zine is a graduate student in International relations. The gift is a sign of gratitude for Zine's years at USC.
Two undergraduate summer research fellowships have been made available to USC's Department of Biochemistry by the California Foundation for Biochemical Research.
The grants, worth $700 each, are available to students from USC and other institutions. The two people chosen will work at USC’s laboratories throughout the summer.
The purpose of the Fellowships is to stimulate interest in biochemical research. Dr. John Mehl, chairman of the department said.
Student Applications
They are open to students who will be finishing their freshman year, sophomores and juniors.
The two people chosen should be majors in biochem-l ical science or chemistry.
Student applications should include the academic record | and “an indication of Any,
particular interest a student may have in research,” Dr. Mehl added.
He explained that some would not necessarily have a specially developed interest. But if a student is interested in a particular area of research. he should note it on the application.
There is no stipulation on grade averages.
Select Qualified Person
The Biochemistry Department will select the person best qualified for research.
Funds for the Fellowships are made available by the California Foundation for Biochemical Research. It is a non-profit foundation supported by stock in the California Corporation for Biochemical Research.
This is a Los Angeles business which is a major source of fine chemicals for biochemical research throughout the United States.
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| Full text | PAGE THREE: Theta Nu Epsilon— Skulls and Skullduggery University of Southern California DAILY • TROJAN PAGE FOUR: Trojan Tracksters To Tangle with Top Team © Vol. XVI LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1965 No. 94 NEGRO SATIRIST Louis Lomax To Be Speaker Louis Lomax, Negro author and satirist, will speak tonight at the Campus Forum on “Urban Man in Revolution.” His talk is the final presentation in the “Called To Be Human” discussion series. It begins at 7 p.m. in the lower Lounge of the Uni- Cfoss Post Sought by Kazanjian Phil Kazanjian became the first to announce hie candidacy for Junior Class president yesterday. In his announcement. Kazanjian called John Betinis ‘ man of principle and inte versity Church, 817 W. 34th St. Lomax is the author of “The Negro Revolt” and “When the Word is Given.” Saturday Review Award A past member of Mike Wallace’s news staif, he is currently a feature writer for “The Chicago American." In 1960 Lomax won the Saturday Review Anisfield-Wolf Award for “The Reluc- a tant African.” ! j-j He now hosts a Los An- rity" who has been involun- geles television conversation tarily handcuffed by his own show on Saturday nights. naivete concerning politics on prophet of Our Day this campus ... ' “\\rhen Mr. Lomax speaks “I believe he (Betinis) has about man in our time, and made a sincere attempt to re- what it means to be a human form student government, being in an urban setting, he asserted Kazanjian. js one 0f the true prophets of He added that the attempt our day » ReV- Chuck Doak,; has been “aborted because presbyterian campus minis- of John s naivete concerning ^ert commented. student government, which is; g tQ a wh(te con. understandable bemg a med- u >t a Woodlilnd; ■cal student on a fore.gn ij^ h m t he de_; campus. 1 Executive Pressure , , _ ... Kazanjian also attributed Ia ou e®e fV*!?8! i. Embedded Hate Betinis failure to the wa- . . , Deeply embedded in the -wheth- Adam Herbert Joins Presidential Contest SAM ONG—Newly named foreign codirector of the International Students House gets busy with duties of his new office. Christy Nelson, social chairman, helps. I House Installs New Codirector Wants Respect For Government AMS President Adam Herbert filed his petition for the ASSC presidency yesterday, stating, “Restore Respect” as his campaign theme. “Respect is never a gift; it must be earned,” Her-Ibert said. “I have respect for stu- “ dent government and can recognize its need.” Herbert joins Junior Class President Rick Takagaki and Glen Mowrer, Trojan Democratic Club president, in the contest for student body president. Student Challenge “My program is a set of challenges to the body,” Herbert said. ... ,, , - . . Disarmament Agency, will “Neither the admmistra- & -7’ tion, the faculty, nor the sPea-k today on Arms Con ASSC president alone can be trol f r S h > : ^ it** ...V * Sam Ong, mathematics senior, was installed as the scribed the hate which brings tnew foreign codirector of the International Student House by outgoing codirector Mutapha Hijaouy at Thursday’s executive board meeting. Sam. whose real first name is Sweehai, was given his American name a few years ago by people who couldn’t remember Sweehai. “Besides, Americans sometimes confuse my name with the word ‘sweetheart’,” he tering down of his original, reform ideas by the Senate fab™ of c “"t . . t and his own Executive Cab- » the church be Protestant, inet and the uniformity of Catholic Jewish or Gentile^- opposition among his political is l!lis HATE ■ • • of some-contemporaries.” ^dy who doesn t suffer from Kazanjian served as a y°ur theological myopia, member of the Senate and Lomax went on to say that said, the Constitutional Conven- unless religion rids itself of; Sam, tion this year. inbred hypocrisy it will be Chinese “The Junior Class, in a ithe victim of all ironic presense. is a miniature ASSC dicament. . . . It is my hope to use the “An organized religion knowledge gained as an ob- which came to save man has tion. server and participant in stu- now become one of the things Fraternity To Host n L.A. Youths Agency Chief To Discuss Arms Race William C. Foster, director student ^Arms Control and Prevention of the Spread of Nuclear Weapons.” The lecture, sponsored by the Correlating Committee for International Relations, p.m. in held responsible for the state of the ASSC. “Student government is a student responsibility. The responsibility must be shared will be held at 3 by every student.” 226 Founders Hall. He charged the student body with evading this responsibility for too long. Restore Dignity “We must take a step for- who speaks Thai, and English, was; born in Thailand and went to Twelve East Los Angeles school in Malaysia. He plans youngsters will join the to return home after gradua- crowd at tomorrow evening’s Interfraternity b a s k e t b all Foster entered government service in 1946 as Undersecretary of Commerce. Later he became deputy U.S. special representative in Europe, deward to restore dignity, re- puty administrator, admin-spect and confidence in an as- istrator of the Marshall Plan sociation that actually re- and Deputy Secretary of Deflects our own individual per- fense. sonalities and attitudes,” Her- Military Pilot AMS PRESIDENT—Adam Herbert joins in race for ASSC presidency. His program is a challenge to the student body based on his campaign, "Restore Respect." Radiation Makes Cancer Operable bert continued. “I pledge to the Associated Students that I shall be a fighting spokesman for our student body. My challenge is He served as a military pilot in World War I and was director of the purchase division for Army Service Forces. During World War II he was One of Founders game as guests of four mem- dent government by utilizing from which man must be rp^e new 0ffjceri who fol- bers of Phi Kappa Psi fra-it in the interests of . . . an saved,' he asserted. jows a Pakistani, an Indian ternity. efficient class governmental The Campus Forum is an(j a Moroccan to the posi- The Phi Psis will be bat-structure.” Kazanjian said. sponsored by the American ^jon as codirector, was one tling Kappa Alpha for the Kazanjian urged other can- Baptist. Episcopalian. Luth- of the founders of the I IFC basketball championship didates to use his "positive eran. Methodist and Presby-! House three years ago. at the men's gymnasium at approach.’ terian campus ministries. , “Some foreign students 7:30 tomorrow night. j here are very independent be- The four fraternity mem-! cause their English is good bers are Phil Norton, Gardner ; and they have adapted to Reynolds, Bill Russell and that every Trojan help me to procured by the Air Force as ‘restore respect.’ ” a special representative to the Herbert promised increased cultural and social acitivies, with an accelerated guest speakers program. He also pledged increased Undersecretary of War. Foster holds the Medal for Merit and commendations for distinguished civilian service from the War Department International Parade To Start Festive Week j American habits. Others, I however, are new here and •are without these advantages. A third group doesn't even seem to be interested in mov-An international parade the culture of foreign nations, ing outside of a small clique will officially begin the week said Louis Molina and Ken of their own nationals,” he long Festival of Nations on Thomas, festival cochairmen, i said. campus Monday. Monday's program will in- Featuring foreign students elude folk dancing by the in their native dress, the pro- Arabian, Filipino and African cession will begin at noon and students and a hootenany progress down University from 3 to 4 p.m. in Hancock time to help Avenue to Alumni Park. Auditorium during the after- reach this wide range Foreign student organiza- noon. [other foreign students. Offer More Time “I would like to ask that this first ‘independent’ type offer a little more of their the I House of I tions will carry their national Films and Bazaar I know, fhe main purpose here flags. At night Indian students is to learn, not to socialize, Foreign Group will show documentary films but an important part of any The foreign student groups about their country and con- experience abroad should be participating in the parade duct a discussion on the cul- getting acquainted with the are the Latin Americans, Af- ture. The films will be shown people and customs of the ricans, Koreans, Indians and at 7 p.m. in 133 Founders host country. If you turn the Arabians. Also participating Hall. coin over, this holds true for are the Filipinos, Pan-Europ- Throughout the week dif- the American students as cans, Japanese ar.d Pakista- ferent countries will be fea- well. nis. tured in folk dances, lectures “I welcome even the indif- The Festival of Nations, and films. Among the high- ferent and the hostile to come which will last through lights of the week will be a to some of our functions and Thursday, was set up to hzt- dance and an international see if they have much basis ter acquaint students with bazaar and show. 1 (Continued on Page 2) Ron Noble. Playground Directors Norton, senior in hostory, is playground director at the Franklin Avenue Elementary School, and will bring three boys from there. Bill Russell junior in business administration, will bring his three guests from the Florence Avenue School. Three youngsters from Cortez Street School will be the guests of Noble, a junior in finance. Reynolds, who i - p 1 a y-ground director at the Florence Avenue School, will have three boys from there as his guests for dinner and the game. He is a senior in political science. student activity towards the and Department of Defense, construction of a new Student Activities Center. Continuing his government service, in 1963 and 1964 Faculty Cooperation Foster wag Chief u s Re_ His program demands more presentative to the 18-nation cooperation and dialogue be- disarmament conference, tween the student body, faculty and administration in Honorary Degrees several important areas. * oster» a graduate of MIT, The deadline for filing for ^as received an honorary office is Friday. Elections LL.D. irom Syracuse Univer-will be held April 28 and 29, sity and an honorary Doctor with run-offs on May 5. of Public Service degree from To increase interest in the George Washington Univer-campaign, KUSC-TV will pre- sent a special series of pro- Foster has also been active grams entitled “ASSC Elec- the business world. He has tions ’65,” which will focus on served as president of the a different candidate each Manufacturing Chemists As-week. sociation, Inc.; executive vice- This week’s guest will be president and senior adviser Rick Takagaki. The show will 0f Olin Mathieson Chemical be broadcast Friday at 12:30 Corp.; chairman of the board p.m. of directors of Reaction Mot- Televisions will be set up ors, Inc.; and chairman of in front of Hancock Auditor-ithe board of United Nuclear ium and in 231 Hancock. Corp. CELL MEMBRANE STUDY USC Chemist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship A Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship to study ceil membranes has been awarded to Dr. Karol J. Mysels, professor of chemistry. The USC chemist was one of 313 United State’s and Canadian scientists receiving the one-year awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York. Although Guggenheim Fellows are usually between 30 and 45 years of age, grants may be made to older men whom the foundation considers unusually qualified and who suggest a special field of research. Dr. Mysels is 51. Starting in August, he will spend a year using the resources of the Los Angeles area to study the biological and biochemical aspects of cell membranes. He will try to apply his knowledge of thin soap films to this field, “These are two similar things in different disciplines, and I am going to see if I can bridge the gap between two points of view in nomenclature, techniques and traditions.” Dr. Mysrels, a native of Poland, attended the University of Paris and is a graduate of the University of Lyon and of Harvard University. He has taught at USC since 11947. j Last year he won the American Chemical Society’s $1,000 Kendall Co. Award in colloid chemistry, a major national award. He was the youngest colloid chemist to' win the prize. The National Science Foundation has awarded him two fellowships, a faculty fellowship granted on the basis of his teaching record and a senior postdoctoral fellowship based on research. The latter enabled him to spend a year in Strasbourg, France, at the Center for Macromole-j cular Studies and to visit numerous laboratories; throughout Europe. Inoperable lung cancers can be operable by irradiating them with supervoltage X-rays or radioactive cobalt I for several weeks, a leading radiologist said Monday in one of the series of talks on cancer research sponsored by the School of Medicine. Dr. Fernando G. Bloedom, professor o f radiology and head of the division of radiotherapy at the University of Maryland, described his work with aproximately 200 lung cancer patients. Patients with inoperable cancers were treated with radiation, followed by surgery. They had about the same survival rate as patients with operable cancers. About 23 per cent in each group have survived for a year or longer. Improvements Predicted Further improvements in cancer therapy will come, Dr. Bloedorn predicted, through a “combination of radiation and surgery.” The new approach is being tested at Los Angeles County General Hospital and at1 several other medical centers with support from the National Institute of Health. “Not all types of lung cancer respond to the new technique,” Dr. Bloedorn said. The new approach differs in several respects from more familiar methods of preoperative radiatkfti therapy for cancer. More familiar methods have consisted of exposures to radiation over a period of one to five days, completed one to seven days before surgery. Their purpose is to reduce cell vitality, minimizing “seeding” or spread of cancer cells in the bloodstream during the operation. New Approach The new approach involves dosages strong enough to kill all cancer cells. Patients are radiated daily over a period of four to eight weeks, not only in the area where cancer can be detected, but throughout the region where doctors believe microscopic traces of cancer exist. A waiting period follows, and surgery is performed five to eight weeks after radiation. “In the usual inoperable cancer,” Dr. Bloedorn said, “the disease had extended to lymph nodes between the lungs or had become attached to vital structures such as the blood vessels leading to and from the heart.” Several weeks after radiation, in most cases, the cancer had regressed or disappeared in these areas and the remaining cancer could be removed by taking out all or part of one lung. Chemical Foundation To Give Fellowships IN GRATITUDE—Moroccan student Ahmad Zine (left) presents a Moroccan desk set to President Norman Topping. Zine is a graduate student in International relations. The gift is a sign of gratitude for Zine's years at USC. Two undergraduate summer research fellowships have been made available to USC's Department of Biochemistry by the California Foundation for Biochemical Research. The grants, worth $700 each, are available to students from USC and other institutions. The two people chosen will work at USC’s laboratories throughout the summer. The purpose of the Fellowships is to stimulate interest in biochemical research. Dr. John Mehl, chairman of the department said. Student Applications They are open to students who will be finishing their freshman year, sophomores and juniors. The two people chosen should be majors in biochem-l ical science or chemistry. Student applications should include the academic record and “an indication of Any, particular interest a student may have in research,” Dr. Mehl added. He explained that some would not necessarily have a specially developed interest. But if a student is interested in a particular area of research. he should note it on the application. There is no stipulation on grade averages. Select Qualified Person The Biochemistry Department will select the person best qualified for research. Funds for the Fellowships are made available by the California Foundation for Biochemical Research. It is a non-profit foundation supported by stock in the California Corporation for Biochemical Research. This is a Los Angeles business which is a major source of fine chemicals for biochemical research throughout the United States. |
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