Scope - Volume 07, Number 13

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V5T 7, No. 13 Thursday, May 7, 1970
Critical balloting nears for Dental hygiemsts will receive
faculty senate organization j ns j n Sunc] ay ceremony
airs, commitment. ' f f Faculties of the University's
college and schools will vote
next week on the organization
of a faculty senate.
According to David J. Bieber,
University president, the future
of the senate issue will depend
on faculty response to a ballot
sent out from his office. Faculty
will indicate approval or rejec
tion of a senate constitution
submitted by the faculty sen
ate study committee chaired
by Charles E. Winter, PhD,
professor of microbiology.
The proposed constitution
was approved by all but a
handful of 119 faculty meeting
Monday night on the Loma
Linda campus. Those present
acted to extend the option to
all faculty through a ballot to
be mailed to each member.
The action specified that the
simple majority of faculty must
vote and 51 percent of those
voting must favor organization
of a senate if the proposed
legislative body is to become a
reality.
President Bieber stated that
balloting will be completed by
May 18, at which time the ac
tion would be considered by the
University Trustees.
The constitution would give
the proposed 45- member senate
broad powers, according to the
president, and would also in
volve student and administra
tion participation. " We desire
and need increased faculty and
student involvement in decision
making processes of the Uni
versity," he said.
In addition to internal com
mittees required for senate or
ganization, the document rec
ommends standing committees
on academic planning, budget,
campus planning, faculty af-airs,
religious commitment,
rules, and student relations.
Dr. Winter points out. that
although students would not
become members of the senate,
they would be invited to serve
on most of the committees as
regular discussing and voting
members.
It was proposed that the pro
visional constitution would be
subject to complete restudy
after a two year period.
Senate study committee
members assisting Dr. Winter
are Wilfred J. Airey, PhD;
Jake J. Walker; Lawrence E.
Mobley, PhD; and Norval F.
Pease, PhD, from the La Sierra
campus, and Lucille L. Lewis
and F. Faye Brown from the
Loma Linda campus.
School of Dentistry
professor completes
orthodontics boards
Associate professor of ortho
dontics Alden B. Chase, DDS,
has been certified as a diplo-mate
of the American Board of
Orthodontists.
Dr. Chase, the first Loma
Linda University graduate to
be certified by the board, com
pleted the board's requirements
last March in Boston.
Part of the requirements in
clude spending five years in
exclusive orthodontic practice,
completing certain formal
training requirements, passing
a written test or writing a
thesis, and taking an oral ex
amination.
The title of Dr. Chase's thesis
is " The Mandibular Plane
verses the Mandibular Radius
in Assessing Antero Posterior
and Vertical Dysplasias."
Physicians report method for
gauging brain's . blood supply
A new, simple technique for
measuring the brain's blood
supply was reported recently
in Washington, D. C., by Loma
Linda University investigators.
Neurologists use this meas
urement to diagnose and help
patients with certain mental
and physical aberrations con
fusion, depression, difficulties in
speaking, and other failures of
neural control. If such symp
toms cannot be ascribed to a
specific injury or accident, the
problem may be caused by
hardening of the arteries sup
plying blood to the brain.
Sometimes angiography ( an
x- ray scan of the brain) will
reveal that a brain artery is
diseased; but often in such
cases the angiogram shows no
obvious damage because the
disease is in the tiniest arteries
( capillaries), so small they can
not be seen in x- rays. These
minute vessels carry blood from
the major arteries to all carts
of the brain.
To identify this disease, which
is invisible to the, x- ray camera,
but which is frequently encoun
tered by neurologists, the diag
nostician needs to know the
total cerebral circulation and
whether it is below normal. It
is for such cases that the Loma
Linda technique will be valu
able.
As George M. Austin, MD,
professor of neurosurgery, and
three associates from the
School of Medicine reported, to
make the measurement they
use an instrument usually found
in physics laboratories, the mass
spectrometer; but theirs is a
simplified and compact version
( Model M M S- 8) newly devel
oped for medical purposes and
considerably less expensive than
the physicists' model.
With this instrument, the
technique is simple, can be im
mediately repeated, requires
only local anesthesia, and takes
20 to 30 minutes to obtain a
result, they told the American
Association of Neurosurgeons
meeting in Washington, D. C.
In brief, the patient is given
a mixture of argon and oxygen
to breathe through a face mask.
Argon is a harmless, inert gas
soon eliminated by the body.
With a tiny tube in the pa
tient's thigh artery and another
in a neck vein, connected to the
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Sixty- three School of Dentistry department of dental hygiene students will be
capped in services Sunday, May 11, according to Violet D. Bates, chairman of the de
partment of dental hygiene.
Speaker for the 10 a. m. University Chu? ch service will be R. Richard Banks, PhD,
director of counseling at the
University.
Both junior and senior stu
dents of dental hygiene will be
capped at the service, Mrs.
Bates says.
Senior students will receive
regulation dental hygiene caps
a white cap with a lavender
band. Junior students will re
ceive white caps without the
band.
In addition, the senior stu
dents will receive their school
pin signifying the completion of
their requirements from Loma
Linda University.
During the service, the stu
dents will hold a small cere
mony honoring their mothers
on Mother's Day.
Following the capping service,
a reception will be held in the
breezeway of the University
Church Fellowship Hall.
The public is invited to attend
the ceremony.
Former ambassador
lectures tonight
Former United States am
bassador to Japan Edwin O.
Reischauer, PhD, will speak to
night in Hole Memorial Audi
torium on the La Sierra
campus.
Dr. Reischauer, professor of
Japanese history at Harvard
University from 1950 to 1961,
served as the American ambas
sador to Japan as an appointee
of President John F. Kennedy.
The 8 p. m. program is free
and open to the public.
SENIOR DENTAL HYGIENE student Virginia S. Neary caps
junior Shannon F. Nash during rehearsal yesterday for Sunday's
capping service. Chairman of the department of dental hygiene
Violet D. Bates watches.
Air ambulance film
showings scheduled
for Tuesday, May 19
The first public showings of
the film featuring the air am
bulance used at Loma Linda
University Hospital during the
Christmas and New Year's
holiday weekends are scheduled
for Tuesday, May 19.
Filmed in part at Loma Linda
University, Rialto, and Lake
Arrowhead, the fast- paced mo
tion picture depicts the advan
tages of using a helicopter for
transporting injured and lost
persons to a hospital in the
shortest possible time.
" Actors" in the film include
many University and hospital
personnel.
The film will be shown in the
University Hospital lobby level
amphitheatre at 12: 15 p. m. and
12: 40 p. m., and during the two
University Employee Forums
scheduled for 2 p. m. and 3: 30
p. m. in the hospital a- level
amphitheatre.
University personnel are in
vited to attend any of the
showings.
University SCOPE wins three
awards in annual competition
Loma Linda University
SCOPE won three awards in
annual Twin Counties Press
Club competition last week.
Final artist program
slated for Saturday
Concert organist Virgil Fox
will present the final program
in the University Artist and
Lecture Series for this aca
demic year Saturday evening,
May 9, at 8: 30 in Gentry Gym
nasium.
Originally scheduled for Feb
ruary 21, the organ concert is
open to students and the pub
lic. Admission to the program
is a University Artist and Lec
ture Series season pass, a Loma
Linda campus student identifi
cation card, or $ 1.50 at the
door.
Reserved tickets are on sale
at the dean of students office
on the Loma Linda campus, the
Courtesy Center at the Loma
Linda Market, and at Harris'
Department Store in San Ber-nardino.
The University SCOPE placed
second in general excellence for
non- daily newspapers in San
Bernardino and Riverside coun
ties; second for general excel
lence in company, trade, and
internal publications; and sec
ond for best front page for non-daily
newspapers.
Third place for best news
photo among all papers in
Riverside and San Bernardino
counties went to Richard W.
Weismeyer, University SCOPE
editor, for a picture taken dur
ing the floods last year.
Judges for the competition
included DeWay Johnson, pro
fessor of journalism, San Fer
nando Valley State College, San
Fernando ( general excellence,
non- dailies); Cliff Dektar of the
McFadden, Strauss, Irwin Pub
lic Relations, Los Angeles ( gen
eral excellence, company, trade,
or internal publications); and
Peter Bratager, photo editor of
the Miami Herald, Miami Flor
ida ( best news photo).
The University SCOPE won
two awards during last year's
competition.