The Scientific Astrologer: Mohan Koparkar, Ph.D
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Leller. ARTICLES lIllie Memoirs of a conductor in the court of Haile Sellassie ............... 2 ESM Prof. Gustav Meier recalls thos~ days in Ethiopia Ellillr Mrs. Cole goes to town. ............................................ 4 An alumna leads three lives in Avon, N.V. To the editor: Scientists discuss use of new cancer detection tools. ................6 Rochester Review arrived and I am very Report on a Wilson Day symposium pleasantly surprised by it. The articles really sing. Satellite clinics: nurse practitioners help RRMP provide care. 8 I have always claimed that history gets A look in words and photos at the Rochester Regional Medical Program distorted by people remembering things that Carol Vlack: spittin' with the best. ............................... .. 16 happened at a later date, and this claim is pzzt! Zing! Score one world's record for UR surely borne out by your description of the flag rush ("Rally 'Round The Flag"). The last flag A SPECIAL REPORT ON GIVING center section rush was in 1959 or 1960, I believe. I attended them in 1957 and 1958. At age 100, the Glee Club keeps singing 17 The fact was that the flag was the sophomore It's centennial time for UR's warblers class flag nailed to the top of the pole. Family Day. ..................................................... .. 18 and the sophomores crowded around trying Alumnus Bob Farrell "can't say enough about those fine young men" to defend it. A circle, about 50 feet in diameter, was drawn in the ground around the flagpole The scientific astrologer 20 and the sophs were required to crowd in A peek into the world of Mohan Koparkar around this flag, inside the circle. They were Reunion/homecoming '75 28 packed in tight. Beyond the first circle there Photos begin here and are scattered throughout A1umnotes section was a second circle about 200 feet in diameter from the pole. The freshmen stayed outside the perimeter of this circle, creating a no man's land between the two circles. At the DEPARTMENTS firing of a gun, the freshmen rushed across the. line to charge the flag. They had a period of minutes-I think 15 or 30-to obtain the flag Letters 1 by any means possible without the use of Alumni Calendar ................................................. .. 1 sharp objects and carry it out across the line of Identity Crisis 22 the outside circle. If they succeeded, they News Digest 24 won. Alumnotes 29 I recall that in 1957 my class of 1961 did, Travel Corner inside back cover indeed, get the flag, therefore I don't recall what the penalties might have been had we failed. As your description of the rules of the flag rush are horrendous, then perhaps your Rochester Review. Winter, 1975. Editor: Ronald C. Roberts; Asst. Editor: Fran description of the penalties are wrong, too. Sargent; Copy Editor: S. Leigh Harrison; Art Director: Jeffrey T. Hermann; Staff In any case, the event involved a lot of Writers: Wendy A. Leopold, Dave Erickson; Staff Photographer: Chris T. Quillen. pushing and shoving, clawing and climbing, Published quarterly by the University of Rochester and mailed to all alumni. rotten eggs, water bombs, rotten tomatoes, Editorial office: 107 Administration Bldg., Rochester, N.Y. 14627. Second class sacks full of horse manure, and it was a pretty sloppy business. One or two people were hurt postage paid at Rochester, N.Y. 14603. in the rush· of 1957, suffering sprained ankles, broken thumb, fainting, etc. Nothing serious. Was this fun? It was spooky, scary, fun, and dangerous, and it brought the class together. Some day in the future, somebody doing research on the flag rush will read your piece in the Rochester Review, say that it is the way it must have been, and the course of history will have been changed from what actually hap pened. This correction, which might be published as a letter, will be overlooked by its inconspicuousness. Dan Rattiner '61 Bridgehampton, N.Y. To the editor: "Reactions to the death of a twin" by Dr. George Engel-fascinating piece of writing and reading. Thank you. Randall M. Tobutt '40 1IIIIIIIIi lalllllilar Rosemont, III. DECEMBER MARCH To the editor: A word of appreciation for the Fall, 1975, issue, especially the article "Beware the illu 7, in Rochester - Candlelight Buffet and 4, in Philadelphia - Alumni meeting with sion of learning," by Paul R. Gross. Dean Holiday Concert. student and faculty guests. Gross offers no comprehensive solution to the 5, in Wilmington, Del. - Alumni meeting problem of evaluation of teaching, but he does JANUARY with student and faculty guests. articulate and call to our attention many of the 5, in Erie, Pa. - UR Men's Glee Club difficulties. Congratulations to you for select 18, in New York City - Eastman School performance at Mercyhurst College as ing it and to him for writing it. concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln part of its 100th anniversary celebration Theodore A. Bick '6OG, '64G Center, featuring mezzo Jan DeGaetani, tour. Schenectady, N.Y. basso Thomas Paul, and pianist Robert 6, in Cleveland - Men's Glee Club Spellman. performance at Ursuline College. To the editor: 20, in Rochester - Alumni Luncheon 7, in Pittsburgh - Men's Glee Club Congratulations on the "new-old" Roches Series at Faculty Club featuring Alice performance at Chatham College. ter Review, Fall, 1975. It's convenient to have Benston, associate professor of com 8, in Buffalo, N. Y. - Men's Glee Club the best of both "old" publications together again under one "new" roof. parative literature in the Department of performance at Amherst Central High Would it be possible to obtain a few extra Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Lin School. copies of the Fall, 1975, issue? My husband is guistics. 18, in Rochester - Dandelion Dinner principal of Sunshine School, San Francisco's 20-27, in Mexico - Alumni tour to Series featuring Rayburn Wright, pro public school for handicapped children, which Cancun, Mexico. fessor of jazz studies and contemporary presently has over 100 children from ages 3-12 22-23, in Rochester - Trustees' Council media at the Eastman School. with many varied handicaps. He would like to Standing Committees meetings. 21, in New York City - Eastman School share with his staff Wendy Leopold's fine 23, in Rochester - Board of Trustees concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln article "SEED helps Robbie grow." Meeting. Center, featuring pianist David Burge. Susanne Keaveney Maruoka '60, '65G 29-Feb. 9, at South China Sea - Alumni 22, in Rochester - Alumni Luncheon San Francisco tour to Manila, Hong Kong. Series at Faculty Club. Topic of discus sion will be the Rochester Philharmonic. To the editor: FEBRUARY 24-27, in Rochester - President's Lead Let me... take this opportunity to commend those responsible for the excellent organiza ership Council Symposium. tion of and presentations in the Energy Sym IS, in New York City - Eastman School For further information on any of the posium on Friday, Oct. 3. A major point was concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln above programs, call Alumni Office, 716 made, which I wish could be turned into Center, featuring cellist Robert Sylves 275-3684. banner headlines across the country; i.e., the ter. government is doing something about the 18, in Rochester - Alumni Luncheon energy problem; it is developing an energy Series at Faculty Club featuring Dave program. But, the fact that there is no short Ocorr, director of intercollegiate athlet range solution is what's causing trouble for the ics and professor and chairman of the politicians. Americans are typically an impa Department of Sports and Recreation. tient breed. They are used to having national problems solved quickly with crash programs and huge expenditures. It's time for the public to realize that our biggest and costliest crash programs for energy relief will still require 5 to 10 years before we, as a nation, will begin to see any change in our present plight. In the meantime it's simply got to cost more for energy of all kinds. We might as well face it. It's going to get more expensive and no amount of thrashing around with price controls is going to solve anything. Fred J. Paulus '48, '5OG Houston, Texas 1 The scientists focused on cervical can "But if every woman underwent regu Scientists discuss cer, Dr. Patten explains, "because we lar screening," Dr. Patten explains, now have available the technology and "there is insufficient manpower in certain use of new cancer knowledge to completely eliminate this parts of the world to perform the screen detection tools form ofcancer." Unlike most other forms ing tests. In this country, the specialists of cancer where cell samples are not (called cytotechnologists) are unequally readily obtainable, cervical and uterine distributed, with concentrations particu At the University's fourth annual Wil cancer are easy to detect in their earliest larly in urban centers." son Day Program Sept. 24 four experts stages and thus can be stopped before The only practical solution, Dr. Patten described recent advances in the use of they do irreparable harm. believes, is the development of instru machines in medical diagnosis and in The reason is a simple painless test mentation that would assume-andeven studying cells and their parts-a field called the Pap smear, named for Dr. improve on-the tedious task of scan called automated cytology. A report of George N. Papanicolaou, who published ning millions of cells under the micro the program organized by the College of his idea in 1943. Thanks to his discovery, scope in search of abnormal or precan Engineering and Applied Science fol cervical cancer has moved from the cerous cells. The engineering lows. number one killer of women to third on the list.