Scope - Volume 05, Number 03

              Loma Linda University
Coma Linda. Calif. 92354
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Vol. 5, No. 3 Wednesday, March 6, 1968
achieve permanent success
5- Day stop- smoking programs DeiltCll- Cllumili
begins tomorrow morning Reports by three faculty
members of Loma Linda Uni
versity on " Results of a Stop-
Smoking Program," " Smoking
and Pulmonary Function," and
" Smoking and Taste Percep
tion" were published in the Feb
ruary issue of Archives of Envi
ronmental Health.
Authors of the reports re
spectively are Donald I. Peter-son,
MD, assistant professor of
pharmacology; Lester H. Lon-ergan,
MD, associate professor
of tropical health; and Mervyn
G. Hardinge, MD, PhD, dean of
the School of Public Health.
In the first article the meth
ods and results of the 5- Day
Plan to help smokers stop the
use of tobacco were listed. Ac
cording to the report, " to
achieve a high degree of per
manent success, an intensive
initial phase, such as the 5- Day
Plan, should be expanded to in
clude more frequent and pro
longed follow- up contact over a
period of several months."
Chaplain supervisor of the Uni
versity Hospital Charles W.
Teel also helped with this re
port.
Second report
The second report disclosed
tliat " In those who- stopped
smoking, timed vital capacity
and expiratory flow rate im
proved significantly." Ex- smok
ers reported a decrease in
cough, and breathlessness after
smoking was discontinued.
As stated in the third report,
" the decrease in taste threshold
for bitter was significantly
greater among ex- smokers than
in those that continued to
smoke. The majority of ex-smokers
reported an increase in
appetite and gain in body
weight after smoking was dis
continued."
The eighth annual School of Dentistry Alumni- Student Convention begins tomor
row on the Loma Linda campus, according to Jack R. Booker, DDS, president of
the School of Dentistry Alumni Association.
Highlighting the dental convention will be the student table clinic competition to-morrow
between 10 a. m. and 12
noon and 1 and 5 p. m. The
scientific exhibits, which will
be judged by a panel of 10
leading dental authorities, are
originated and prepared by den
tal and dental hygiene students.
Other events include the key
note speech, state of the Uni
versity message by President
David J. Bieber, and numerous
scientific lectures by leading
authorities in the' field of den
tistry.
The keynote speech, " The
Role of America in World Af
fairs as of 1968," will be deliv
ered by Alonzo L. Baker, PhD,
professor of political sciences,
at 9 a. m. tomorrow.
Dr. Baker, who has traveled
extensively throughout the
world, recently returned from
his third tour of the Soviet Un
ion. He is the author of Religion
in Russia Today which was re
cently published by Southern
Publishing Association, Nash
ville, Tennessee.
Lecture topics include " Great
Expectations for the Dental As
sistant," " Adventures in Guate
mala," " Changing Concepts in
the Practice of Exodontia and
Oral Surgery," and " Loma Lin-
UNIVERSITY COUNCILLORS chairman M. Bernard Graybill, SM' 24 ( center, left), and Jerry L.
Pettis, congressman from the 33rd Congressional district ( right) present a replica of the Dale
Gentry Gymnasium geodesic dome to University president David J. Bieber. The cost of the new gym
nasium was underwritten by the councillors.
Photo by Eugene Hood
da University in Navajoland."
Class reunions will be held
Saturday night beginning at
8: 30 p. m.
Ambassador to United Nations
to speak on new communism
Anton Vratusa, who repre
sents Yugoslavia in the United
Nations, will speak on " The
New Communism" at a World
Affairs Council of Inland South
ern California tonight at the
University of Redlands.
Mr. Vratusa, who was named
ambassador to the United Na
tions last September, is a. social
scientist and the director of the
Deferments cancelled
Institute of Soical Sciences of
Yugoslavia.
During World War II, he was
a member of the Partisan
Movement, and later became
chief assistant to the head of
the Yugoslavia League of Com
munists.
World Affairs Council is a
nonpartisan, nonprofit group
Continued on page 5
SN Homecoming
All School of
alumni arc invft<- ti to the
annual h o me c o in i n g
Thursday, May 30. Special
InvttAtloiis ar< » bfinsr ex
tended t<> senior sSchool of '',
Nursing students and tbct
classes of l! U£ and 1 943.
Annual Mary Monteith lecture
scheduled for next Sunday
Draft threatens students
Sweeping changes in the
draft regulations which were
announced February 16 threat
en to expose graduate students
to wholesale drafting and raise
a threat for schools and other
industries relying on deferred
workers.
Under the new rules job de
ferments are suspended, as a
classification. Draft boards will
judge each deferment request
on its individual merits.
No new deferments for grad
uate students will be granted,
except for those enrolled in the
ology, medicine, dentistry, and
allied health specialties.
Graduate students who are
not in the above categories and
who started their work toward
a master's or doctor's degree
last autumn, will lose their de
ferment in July. Those who
are now in at least their sec
ond year of a fulltime doctor
al program will be able to con
tinue their work until awarded
their degrees.
" The new draft ruling ob
viously will propose a severe
problem for this Graduate
School as well as all other grad
uate schools," states J. Paul
Staffer, PhD, dean of the
Graduate School.
" We certainly don't want stu
dents to stop applying to the
Graduate School for admittance
next year," Dr. Stauffer says.
" It seems unlikely that all eli
gible graduate students will be
drafted."
This belief is confirmed by a
White House source who says
that approximately 500,000 stu
dents will graduate this June.
Subtracting the veterans, fath
ers, 4- F's, hardship cases, and
service volunteers, this leaves
an approximate manpower pool
of 210,000 eligible youths.
It is expected that nearly
100,000- plus of these men will
be drafted. Under the new draft
rules, the average age for most
draftees will still be 20 or 21.
Probably the only University
schools affected by the ruling
will be the Graduate School and
the proposed School of Educa
tion. Students enrolled in medi
cine and dentistry will not be
affected.
Associate registrar Herbert
A. Walls says that any grad
uate student drafted during the
next school year will receive a
tuition refund.
The president of the Ameri
can Nurses' Association will de
liver the annual Mary Monteith
Lecture next Sunday, according
to Mable P. Reynolds, president
of the School of Nursing Alum
ni Association.
Jo Elinor Elliott, director of
the nursing programs for the
Western Interstate Commission
on Higher Education, will
speak at 8 p. m. in Burden Hall.
Invitations are being extend
ed to all nurses in the Inland
Empire to join with the School
of Nursing alumni for the lec
ture.
Preceding the evening's lec
ture will be a one- day institute
featuring areas of current in
terest to nurses, whether they
are currently involved in nurs-
Nursing students
compete for prizes
Loma Linda University
School of Nursing students will
compete for cash prizes in the
alumni- sponsored institute for
nurses, " Nursing Spectrum
1968," next Sunday.
Student chairman, ShirleyJVI.
Marchus, SN' 68, revealed that
most exhibits would center on
rehabilitation nursing or ma
ternal and child health nursing,
two of the major features of
the institute.
Exhibits will be table- top in
form. Opportunity will be given
Continued on page 11
ing or on " temporary retire
ment" with home duties.
. Students from the School of
Nursing will exhibit table top
" clinics" which will be on dis
play prior to the Mary Monteith
Lecture.
. Cash prizes will be awarded
for the best exhibits as judged
by those in attendance.
Registration fee for the en
tire day is $ 3.50 and includes
the evening lecture. A $ 1 fee
will be made for the evening
lecture. Registration will begin
at 9 a. m. in Burden Hall.
Mission policies
under discussion
The work of church mission
aries overseas will be the sub
ject of a panel discussion this
Saturday in the A- level amphi
theater of University Hospital
at 3 p. m.
The panel is expected to con
sider such topics as the proper
skills needed for the overseas
worker, the length of time to be
spent in the mission field, and
ways to update and improve at
titudes and policies toward mis
sion service.
Panelists include David H.
Baasch, associate secretary of
the General Conference of Sev
enth- day Adventists; Arthur D.
Garner, SD' 61; Bruce W. Hal-stead,
SM' 48; and Andrew P.
Haynal, MD, associate profes--
sor of public health.