University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXIV
NO. Ill
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1972
Antiwar march calm
More than 12,000 people marched down Wilshire Boulevard to McArthur Park to protest the war and bombings in Southeast Asia Saturday.
Bobby Seale, Black Panther chairman. Reverend Ralph David Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Council, and Anthony Russo indicted in connection with the Pentagon Papers were among the speakers at the rally held after the march.
Photo by Tony Korody. Copyright Fourth Estate Press.
Aid office may improve
Election hearings set
Open hearings to probe the ASSC elections will be held next week in the Student Activities Center. They will be conducted by a three-faculty-member review board set up last week.
Robert Mannes, dean for student life and chairman ofthe board, explained that the hearings could not be held sooner because of the conflicting schedules of those on the board. In addition to Mannes, the baord includes Alvin McLean, chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department, and Francisco Jones, Law professor.
Students, faculty and staff who want to testify can meet with the board on May 1 from 1 to 5 p.m. or on May 5 from 2 to 5 p.m. Those who submitted written appeals are asked to appear next Monday.
In other ASSC developments, a petition proposing that a board of directors be set up to run the ASSC is still being circulated, and another group, calling for the aolition ofthe entire ASSC, will meet tomorrow at noon in Student Union 307.
A petition being criculated by student leaders, asking for the suspension of the ASSC Constitution.
would retain the $4.50 programming fee. Funds would then be administered by a programming board made up of five students, two student affairs staff members and one faculty member. This board would also be charged with rewriting the constitution by next spring, pending the establishment of a university-wide governance system.
Lee Blackman. ASSC vice-president for academic affairs, estimated that 1,500 signatures had already been obtained and said that the drive would probably continue until the end ofthis week.
The Committee to Abolish Student Government plans to circulate a petition calling for the immediate abolition of the ASSC. Chairman Stu Mollrich said. “Students should not be fooled by the dictatorial five-man board being proposed to replace the ASSC. It is just another scheme devised by the same people who have made student government what it is today, a sham and a fraud. It is time to recognize the real issue, that a student government not supported by the students has no right to exist.”
Women’s week to prompt talks, films on facets of female life
The Student Aid Committee presented some tentative recommendations yesterday for the improvement of the Student Aid Office.
The major ideas included:
•	More equity in salary for the office’s employees;
•	The addition of a trained bookkeeper and a corresponding secretary to the staff;
•	The unification of all scholarship programs on campus into two offices for undergraduate and graduate students; and
•	The combination of such functions as registration, student aid, admissions, housing, foreign students office and
information office into one building.
On the problem of additional staff members, a speaker who wished to remain anonymous said. “If the ASSC can have a bookkepper with the few accounts it has, then the Student Aid Office, with its thousands of accounts, should have one.”
Approximately 3,000 undergraduate students are presently on some sort of financial assistance, while the university processes approximately 7,000 graduate students. For this reason, the committee advocates the reorganizing of the scholarship programs on campus into two offices.
The second day of Women’s Week will be highlighted today by discussions, panels and films reflecting the role of women in America.
In conjunction with the week’s activities, the Black Women’s Conference will also present related discussions today through Thursday.
The Self-Help Clinic for Women will kick-off the day’s events. This “learn-in” discussion will be held from 9:30 to 11 a.m.. noon to 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 to4p.m. intheStudent Activities Center.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe will present “The Independent Female or A Man Has His Pride.” The presentation will be in the Student Activities Center patio at noon.
“Sex and Sexuality,” with Dr. Daine Settlage, a gynocologist at the Los Angles County-USC Medical Center, will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the SAC.
At 2 p.m., a discussion and panel will be held on “Abortion: Pro and Con,” with a 10-minute film of an abortion.
A multimeadia cinema production entitled, “Images of Women in Advertising,” will be presented in Birnkrant Dining Room at 7 p.m.
The Black Women’s Conference will begin its program with a discussion entitled, “Black Women: Opportunities and Responsibilities in the Law Profession.” It will be held at noon in Student Activities Center 204.
At 1:30, Delta Sigma Theta, a black women’s sorority, and an informal panel will discuss “Sis-terhood Today” in Student Activities Center 204.
“Minority Involvement in University Politics,” will be discussed with Gloria Myklebust, director of student services, at
2	p.m. in Student Activities Center 206.
The Black Women’s Conference closes its day’s events at 3 p.m. with Pat Borjon, organizer for La Raza Unida, speaking on “La Chicana y Su Vida,” in Student Activities Center 204.
Women’s Week is sponsored by the Student YWCA, Residence Halls, Panhellenic Council, Associated Women Students. ASSC and the Women’s Consciousness Group.
Nominations wanted for student affairs VP
Martin Levine, professor of law and chairman of the search committee for a new vice-president to head the Student Affairs Division of the university, called for nominations from all interested students and faculty in an open letter to the student body.
The committee will also accept proposals for the criteria for making the recommendations.
All suggestions on nominations, criteria and applications may be . submitted to Law Center 401.
People just dying to give bodies away
By WILL*AM BLACKTON
“I, John Doe, donate my body, immediately following my death, to the University of Southern California School of Medicine, 2025 Zonal Ave., Los Angeles. Calif. 90033. My body shall be used by said university for teaching purposes, scientific research, or such purpose as the university shall in its sole discretion deem advisable.”
That's the text of a wallet-sized card carried by 4.000 members of a very exclusive club—the Willed-Body Program of the School of Medicine. (The Dental School has a similar program.)
All 4.000 have agreed to transfer the rights to their bodies (without compensation) to USC after death..The bodies will eventually be used in anatomy classes and for medical research.
In the last few years, said Dr. Paul R. Patek, chairman of the Department of Anatomy, the program has received a flood of applications. Last month, the program was closed until further notice—probably for
about one year, reported one of the departmental secretaries.
Why do so many people want to donate their bodies? “I think there are two main reasons,” said Patek. “First, there’s the high cost of burial these days. And then, more people want to do more for science.”
Dr. Patek also pointed out that the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of 1968, which has been passed by all 50 states, has made it considerably easier to donate one's body by standardizing state laws concerningthe body as property.
The files in Dr. Patek's office include the names of several faculty members and students from USC as well as many who are prominent in show business. Entire families, including children. have also registered with the program. (Parents can apply for children under 18. After that age, the children have the right to decide for themselves.)
Each applicant to the Willed-Body Program must submit information about his vital statistics and medical history,
and he must sign a will form (the wallet-sized card is a miniature version) which legally bequeaths his body to USC.
His name then goes on file with Dr. Patek’s office. After the person dies, his body is picked up by a 24-hour ambulance service (free of charge within 50 miles) and brought directly to t
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the School of Medicine campus.
When the body reaches the campus, it is immediately infused with 10 gallons of embalming fluid over a 24-hour period. Then it is put in a plastic bag and stored in the basement—up to six years, if necessary.
The family of a person who is not on the program can donate his body immediately after death if there is no evidence of cancer. No regular member of the program is ever rejected
because of cancer or any other disease.
In the cadaver market, said Dr. Patek, Southern California and Florida are lucky to have surpluses. Liberal local mores and an abundance of retirement communities insure that the supply will always exceed the demand.
But other sections of the country are not as fortunate, he said. Last year, the Department of Anatomy shipped 10 cadavers to Hawaii and 2 to Nevada.
In addition to his role as the chairman of the Department of Anatomy, Dr. Patek has also served for many years as the curator of the unclaimed dead for Southern California. This is primarily an administrative position in which Dr. Patek signs the burial permits for unclaimed remains.
In the recent past, said Dr. Patek, the number of unclaimed dead has declined markedly because of the advent of the Social Security Administration Besides paying for burial
expenses, this agency makes it easier to locate relatives of the deceased.
During the Depression, he said, there were many unclaimed bodies, especially in the large cities—Los Angeles included. Today, cadavers for medical schools are primarily obtained through willed-body programs.
The staff in the Department of Anatomy has learned to live with the dead, although some of the staff's initial feelings were ambivalent.
“Dr Patek knew that I was petrified when I first came here, and he used to kid me about it.” said Marge Reuil. a secretary. “He would walk into the office in his lab coat, just after he had been working with a body, and say. 'Oh. I’ve forgotten to wash the cadaver juice off of my hands.’ I would almost fall out of my chair.”
The staff also learns to deal with unusual requests. One lady on the program who frequently goes to the racetrack asked them
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