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Rochester Letters Review University of Rochester Spring-Summer 1982 The Review welcomes tettersjrom readers and will A prime difficulty is the misplaced con Outrageous Ardor 2 jmnt as many ojthem as space /Jern,itl. Letters may be fidence that many place in animal testing. Nobel Prize-winner editedjor brevity and clarity. Such tests have long been extremely useful in detecting toxic effects that are dose related Carleton Gajdusek '43 Growing up and not species specific But they cannot be The Critic: Hero or Villain? 7 The Rochester ReVieW is outstanding reading relied upon to detect toxicity that does not A conversation with two from cover to cover. The range ofarticles and possess these attributes. This pathetic illu information is challenging and attention to sion gives rise-quite logically if you believe performcrs and a critic details (fact, proofreading, etc.) is nearly impec the premise-to the idea that simply doing The Zornow Zealots 12 cable. But did one slip by? enough animal testing will predict all human New sports ccnter opens Christopher Hodgman's excellent and In toxicity. formativc article [Winter 1982] contains the sug I understand thaI Dr. Bruce Ames of the Playing for Fun 16 gestion (page 7) that adolescent (adolescence) University of California has developed a reliable And not for profit derives f,'orn the /Jast participle of the Latin verb method for determining carcinogens by using adolesco. Umy education as a classics major still salmonella bacteria instead of live animals and Blacks at the University 18 serves mc properly, the derivation is from the that Dr. William Douglas ofTufts University A new effort undcr way present active participle (adolell·tlll, adolescentis) has perfectcd an accurate method for determin ?\nd the suffix "ence" indicates ((the act of " ing eye Irritancy USIOg- radioactive isotopes to Attention Everyone 22 Adolescence, then, literally is "the act ofgrow measure reactions in cultured human cornea Campus classifieds ing up." Another Latin verb, also spelled cells. On this side of the Atlantic Dr. Ruth adolesco, means to burn, blaze, etc. There is the Clayton of the Inst;wte ofGenetics at the Departments apocryphal story that among parents of University of Edinburgh is develuping tech· adolescents, at least, the derivation of niques for studying at the molecular level subtle Rochester in Review 24 adolescence is more appropriately from the sec changes in human cells when they encounter a Alumnotes 30 ond verb. Is this, as Kinnell says, another case test drug Dr. John Gilbert at Scotland's Heriot In Memoriam 38 of words casting a spell? Perhaps a bilingual pun Watt University is working on drug testlOg on adolesco? techniques IOvolving plant tissues and minute ROCHESTER REVIEW C.M Achilles 57, 62G,67G amounts of human tissue instead of laboratory Editor: Margaret Bond; Copy editor: Ceil Knoxville, Tennesee animals. Goldman; Staffphutographer: Chris T Allimaitesting, particularly toXicity testing, Quillen, Staffanist· Felice Reznik; Alum Progress report where an attempt is made to ascertaIn the dose nutes editor: Janet Hodes. Published The Winter issue ojthe Review earned an account that will kill fifty percent uf the test animals, is quarterlv by the University of Rochester and ojtlte remarkable recovery ojJan Zuckerman '71 from a crude It is also unreliable because other species mailed to aJi alumni, Rochester Review is pro .live-month comajollowing an automobile acciderlt. Tlte du not necessarily react in the same way as duced by the office of University communi fIJllowlTlg is Itis prO.liress report writlm Iltu lprmg humans. E.g., monkeys thrive on amounts of cations,Judith-Elien Brown, director. Edi -Editor strychnine in their diet that would catapult a torial office. 108 Administration Building, The Review article was most accurate, very full-grown human IOto another world Rochester, New York J4627, (716) sensitive, and extremely Interesting (if I do say It would be interesting to learn what the 275-2102 Office ofalumni relations, Jallles so myself). University of Rochester is doing to develop S. Armstrong, directur, Fairbank Alumni My only quarrel with it was the omission research and testing methods that will buth be Center, Rochester, New York 14627, (716) oflny address and telephone number: 75 East safer for thc humans in whose behalf the work is 275-3684. POSTMASTER: Send address End Avenue, New York, New York 10028, undertaken and also eliminate some of the abuse changes to Rochester ReView, 108 Admim (212)628-7389.1 would be most interested in ofsentient fellow animals which, as :vIeehler im stration Building, Rochester, New York hearing from my schoolmates, who 1 am sure plied, is detrimental to our society. 14627 were both horrified about the aCCident and Bina Atchinson Robinson '44 Ambleside, Lnited Kingdom Opinions expressed are those of the authors. cheered by my continued prog-ress. the editors, or their subjects, and do nOt I have now nearly finished the first semester of necessarily represent official positions of the my final year at Brooklyn Law Sehoul This Intellectual stuff? Cniversity of Rochester week my therapist g-raduated me to walking with I'd like to congratulate Fred Fisher '53GE, one cane (from my previous dependency on '63GE on his fine Jetter "The Hanson Ad Photos /J/J. 2-5, courtesy oj National Institutes oj two). The whole experience is nearly behind me, vocacy" in your issue of Fall 198J, and make" Health, /J/J. 7-1/. Lou Ollzer; /J/J. 13 (r.), 16, and 1 can truly say il has made me a better few comments. First. Dr Fisher says: "Hanson Rodman Reilly, p. 31, George Gmnm, p. 37, person. was not an intellectual " and I would like to Varden. Others by Office oj University Communi· Jan Zuckerman '71 differentiate between" intellectual" and J ung's catIOns. New York term l'intellectualisr)" which so suits mOSl present-day "avant-garde" composers. J feel Animal testing that any real thinker is an "intellectual," and The letter from E. R Mechler (Winter '82) that therefore Howard Hanson certainly was regarding afllmal research called to mind a one. But the composers whose music Hanson statement by Dr. Louis Lasagna of the Depart disliked, with such good reason, are acwally ment of Pharmacology and Toxicology in Ar "intellectualists," that IS, people who make a chives oj Toxicology (1979, Vol. 43, p ~8) profession ofbeing intellectual for intellectuali tyls own sake. And I could not agree more with Fisher on hotel, full breakfasts and dine-around dinners what he calls "an upstart compositional included. From Miami, $2,595 to 13,060 philosophy," which spread from Vienne.e (depending upon ship accommodations). Special alOnality and was brought across the Atlantic in fares and arrangements from Rochester, New the 1950's via Paris, with Mr. .Boulez as the car Travel York City, and Los Angeles upon request. rier. It is absolutely mysterious 10 me how or (Please note-this trip was originally listed as why this twelve-tone music, this intellectualist including Lima, Cuzco, and Machu Picchu. stuffever came to dominate what is, ala" called Corner However, total pricing became prohibitive. Ar the "serious" music SCene today, except that we rangements are being made for an optional seem to have an immense old-bay-girl network Cuzco-Machu Picchu add-on at best rates spreading it far and wide through our colleges availablc, most likely overlapping one or two and universities. days in Quito.) II is not avant garde at all, but is simply former avant garde music which composers have Travel in 1983 been tryin" to force us to like for well over fifty University ofRochester Alumni Tours arc planned Tentative programs include: years. Now I have found that it takes a long time with two primary objectives: educational enrichment and • Circumnavigation of the Baja Peninsula, to look at such things objectively in the sense of the establishment ofcloser ties among alumni and be with bay and island explorations and shore land what one should or ought 10 like and what one tween alumni and the University. Destinations arc ings. Upclose observations offinback and grey truly likes or even loves. Success as we know it in selectedfor their historic, cultural, geographu:, and whales, sea elephants, dolphins, sharks, birds, music today (excluding what is loosely called natural resources, andfor the opportunities they provide etc., plus swimming and snorkeling. Accom "popular music") means composing what for understanding other peoples: their histories, their modations, meals, shore excursions, naturalist "they" are composing, whoever "they" may be. politics, their values, and the roles they play in cUTTent guides all included. An unusual 1,400 mile ex For that is the paradox: The more thesc in world affairs. Programs are dCSlgned to provide worry pedition into virtually untouched areas on both tellectualist composers struggle to be in free basics such as transportation, transfers, accom Pacific and Sea of Cortez coasts. Los Angeles dividuals, the more they end up as individualists modations, some meals, baggage handling, and profes departure and return. Two weeks. February who produce music which is, as Gcorge SIOnal guides, and still allow for personal exploration of • Study Tour in England with Professor Rochberg once put it, "forgettable music." I individual interests. Escorts, drawn from the Umversity Russell Peck. Points ofliterary and cultural listen to a lot of this music on all sorts of pro faculty and staff, provide special services andfeatures history. Probably two weeks. Summer. Ar grams and my basic criterion is: "What docs it that add both personal and educational enrichment. rangements pending. do to Or for me as a HUMAN BEING?" And, All members ofthe University community are eligible • Wiesbaden, Budapest, Vienna, and four frankly, I find it dnes damn little except to bore to participate in these tours.