Iowa City, Iowa 52240-Wednesday, January 10, 1968 Day Concert
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•Ing New Transplant ~ Its beginning. I second semester'. COn. idule includes Glenn Var. owa in February, the SlI- Serning the UllilJcrsilu of [oll:a and tlte People of lorva Citu the Doors in Marcb May Run Afoul; Warwick for ~ Eswblbbed in 1868 )0 cents a copy Associated Press Leased Wire and Wit ephoto Iowa City, Iowa 52240-Wednesday, January 10, 1968 Day Concert. ~! Heart Too Small Student Senate NEW YORK lA'I - The world's fifth cou in o( drugs used in cancer therapy, University Judicial Policy hdman heart transplant was completed X-rays and the hormone-type drugs to Tuesday nighl on Louis Block. 57. and suppress the immune reaction. Kills Statement he was reported in "reasonably satisfac· Block retired fom the New York City tory" condtlion after a [ marathon nine· Fire Department with a disability in 1948 hour operation. after being injured in the line of duty in It was the fifth such transplant in 37 1945. On Social Protest days. with three of the human heart reci· "Louie was a rugged guy, a fatherly Challenged By Appellants pients still alive. guy. who would look out for the new By BETSY BECKER But the woman's heart given to Block men," said bis friend . Walter Pawlak of A tatement of con cience on social By GORDON YOUNG versity's justification for punishing the 31 was rejected by the Student S~nate . was "rather smaU." saiel Dr. Adrian Kan· the Bronx. also a retired fireman . protest was rejected by the Student SeD News Editor demonstrators. Nonetheless. Boyd and Chapman con trowitz, the chief surgeon. This, he said, Weston charged that the University had tended. it should have been clear to the Afler retirement. Block went inw the ate 13".1 to 12 Tuesday night . and caused some problems. electrical appliance business in the Bronx . ROY PETTY no specific rulas or precedents prior to demonstratOrs that blocking en trance to Kantrowitz had tried to transplant the A neighbol', Mrs . Rose Lo Nigra, re The senate. meeting in the Union. pass See Photo Page 3. Nov . 1 to inform the demonstrators what University buildings was clearly in vio heart of a brain-damaged 2·day-old child ed resolutions on grading and spring lation of "implied" University regulations called that he had been hospitalized "14 In seven hours of testimony and debate kind of discipline the administration could into a 2 ~ ·week·old boy on Dec. 6, but limes with a heart condition. This is vacation. Three resolutions were lent to impose upon them for blocking an en - whether such a rule was spelled out the boy died after 6'1.1 hours. committee lor study and the report of before the Committee on Student Conduct in the Code of Student Life or otherwise. the 15th." (CSC) Tuesday , both the application and trance. Kantrowitz said the operation lasted She added, referring to the heart trans the personnel commitlee, which nominat the understand in:; of the University's ju He also said that the two sections of Concerning the Oct. 31 "free access" into its ninth hour because of the diffi· plant. "it WRS compelling. There was no l'll Bruce Nieman, M, Iowa City, as new dicial policy were challenged by the 47 the Code of ~tudent Life under which the resolution , Wes on charged that it did culties presented by the small heart of the other way. " married student senator, was accepted. student antiwar demonstrators appealing students had been charged wore too vague not represent concrete University policy donor. At present, Block , a retired fire The statement on protest was introduc to be applicable to the demonstration. and was not known to most of the demon man , was being aided by a hetper heart, their probation by the Office of Student ed at the Dec. 12 meeting by Sen. Gary Affairs. 'Section one, he said. states only that stralors by the morning of Nov, 1. since a mechanical device, inserted into the new * * * Goldstein . The statement called for pro students act in "good taste" and in ac h() said iL had not been published in The heart's pressure system. The general hearing lasted until 10 30 Kasperak Remains test methods which would create a "mean p.m., but no Jecisions were reached and cordance with civil laws. He ass~rted that Daily Iowan. Heart Too Small ill!!ful dialogue" and be educational. the majority of the individual appellants the students, pretesting the war in Viet· Resolu 'ion Not Published The new heart, reportedly fro m Helen In Critical Condition Acceptance of the statement would have, have yet to be "eard by the esC. The nam, had acted in a bumanitarian manner (The resolution was not published in Krouch, 29, of Patlerson, N.J., "just isn't in e f f e c t, condemned violence and which was essentially in good taste. the DI because the Faculty Council meet STANFORD, Calif. lA'I The steady beat meeting began at 1 p.m .. was adjourned large enough to maintain the circulation Sectiol'l C.lled Irrelevant ing was not open to the press. of a heart that was another's four days riots on the campus. The statement charg at 5:30 and was resumed at 7:30. and therefore has to be assisted by the l'll that such actions lead to anarchy and Dr. George N. Bedell. associate profes Section seven, dealing with students in· (Such resolutions do not have the force balloon pumP." Kantrowitz said. ago helped Mike Kasperak against mul arc not in accord with the "purposes of volved in "unauthorized group activity." of law unlll offlcially promulgated by Bow The fact of the small heart apparently tiple complications Tuesday. but his con sor of internal medicine, the esc chair the untvcrsity community." man, adjourned the hearing until 1 p. m. was pecificallv worded to apply to "panty en Dr the Board of Regents.) caused at problem for the surgeons, but dition remained critical. raids" on women's residences, he said. they decided to go ahead because the One of the resolutions passed recom Thursday 10 the Old Capitol Senate Cham Weston said the Oct. 31 re olution came "Gastro-intestinal bleeding has stopped ber. Earlier he said it might be two or and had no relevance to the demonstra too late to be effective - only ·'12 hours" blood types of the two individuals matched and liver and kidney functions have slight Oll nds that the 4-point grading system now tion. "so perfectly" that the chances of na· u,ed be changed to a 9-point system. The three days before the committee reached h<'fore tbe demonstration - and since the ly improved," a midmorning hospital bul a decision. James L. Chapman, associate dean of demonstration was "essentially spontan tural rejection was less. letin said. proposed plan would eliminate let t e r students, who prosecuted the charges lor grades for class work. The CSC functioned Tuesday both 8S an eou ," no concerted effort to warn the The body tends to reject foreign tissue The retired steelworker. 54, slept dur appellate and a trial coort. That is, the the Office of Student Affairs, sa id thai sludents of possible puni hmenl by the and infections, a condition which has ing the night after a visit by his wife, Grades would be assessed on a range students officially were appealing the Of the "free access" policy used in deter administration. posed a problem lor surgeons in previous between 0 and 4, but grades as 1.5 or 2.5 Ferne, and was E.wake and alert in the fice of Student Affairs action to the CSC, mining the students' g'Jilt had been pro "University officials themselves were a heart transplant operations. morning, doctors at Palo Alto-Stanford could be given. Supporters of the resolu but at the same time evidence and tesU mulgated several years ago. although it Both donor and recipient had AB-posi tion said that the g.point sy tern would little conlused about the policy," he said. Medical Center reported. mony were admitted in the same manner was then construed in terms of racial or "We came dangerously close to capri tive blood types, Kantrowitz said, calling cive a more accurate and fair picture of as during a 'rial. It was the first time ethnic discrimination. cious exercise of raw power (in this sit it "rare occurrence." AB-positive is a a the stu<lent's academic achievement. that the committee, which was created Jerry J. KoHros , professor and chair uation l. We have no precedent to my blood class in only 4 per cent of the pop * * * Passed by unanimous consent was a last spring, bas met. man of the Department of Zoology and knowledge. " ulation. Blaiberg Remains Fine rc olution to ask about the possibility o( Should the students be dissatisfied with president of both the Faculty Council and Earlier in the day, Philip D. Cummins, Kantrowitz said the woman donor had changing the spring vacation period this the CSC decision, they may continue their Faculty Senate, testified during the alter· CAPE TOWN !A'I - Dr. Philip Blaiberg's assistant professor of philosophy, testi been suffering from a "rapidly expanding year. The re olution also calls for a clar appeals to Pres Howard R. Bowen and noon session that he had been present condition still is excellent a week after fied that the Oct. 31 Faculty Council res· brain tumor." Sbe died about noon, soon ification 01 spring vacation polley. the Board of Regents. most of the day at the Union, and in his olution was a "rather desperate" attempt after she was transferred to Maimonides he received a new heart, Groote Schuur Justlfica'ion Attacked opinion the demonstration violated a long It Rcsotutions sent to committees deal to establish a free access policy.