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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1981)
Cadavers teach students facts of anatomy . — ■ mil 111! H l By LAUREL STRAND Of the Emerald Few anatomy students look forward to the day their lab instructor opens a coffin-sized box that contains the cadaver they'll dissect and study. Many students, like Ron Dickson, are at first apprehensive about the experience, but they later put emotional reactions behind them. "You wonder if your stomach can take it,” says Dickson, a therapeutic recreation major. "When you first open it, you think you're going to see a person lying there, but you don’t.” Dance major Wendy Smith agrees. "It’s not even like looking at a human being.” Dickson adds that a cadaver resembles a picked-over turkey more than anything. With one term of anatomy behind him, Dickson says he’s become used to the cadavers. Now only the smell — a heavy, sweetish odor from the solution sprayed on cadavers to preserve them — bothers him Smith isn’t used to the smell either, but she says she’s fortunate to learn anatomy this way. The cadavers make it easier to learn how the human body is put together and how it works, she explains. Marg Torode, a graduate teaching fellow in phy sical education who learned anatomy in Australia by studying rhesus monkeyes, shares Smith’s opinion "It really makes me appreciate the complexity of human life,” she says Currently, Torode and another graduate student are dissecting the newest cadaver, called Roxy for easy identification Until she is completely dissected, Roxy is off limits to students, though Dickson says his class has looked at her Only doctoral students are allowed to dissect a cadaver, Torode says. A cadaver stays at the University for seven or eight years and is then returned to Portland for cremation, explains physical education Prof. Peter Sigerseth. Torode says even that may be too long to keep a cadaver A couple are in such bad shape that their teaching value is limited, she says. The anatomical structures, such as muscles, nerves and arteries, become difficult to identify. They become "distorted — broken, ripped and dried up," Torode says. But with a limited budget — cadavers cost $500 — and a shortage of people willing to donate their bodies, the anatomy classes may have to work with the existing cadavers for some time. ! A Photos by Steve Dykes These buckets wait patiently for brains cut from University cadavers. On right, graduate student Gary Gordon shows a brain to student Chuck Myers. ACU-I CAMPUS TOURNAMENTS TABLE TENNIS Tues., Jan. 20 6:00 pm Gerlinger Annex $2.00 Entry Men & Women’s Singles CHESS tWed., Jan. 21 4:00 pm Thurs., Jan. 22 $2.50 Entry 4 Rds Swiss 45 Moves in 90 Min. Room 101 EMU TABLE SOCCER M (FOOSBALL) Thurs., Jan. 22 4:00 pm Open Doubles — Double Elim or Rd Robbin $4.00/Team All participants must register at Rec Desk. Winners advance to regional tournament in Tacoma Feb. 5-7. Center offers cheap travel By KATHY MISKILL 01 the Emerald University students who want to travel, but can’t afford it, need not despair — the Student Travel Center can help Funded through incidental fees, the center provides var ious services for students who intend to travel or work abroad. Although the center caters mostly to students, it also ac comodates faculty members and the general public. The center provides prospec tive travelers with discounts on airplane, train, ship and bus fares. It doesn’t sell tickets but acts as a liason with travel agencies and gives referrals for ticket purchasing, says STC director Jill Friesem. Inexpensive rates for group tours and hotel accomodations are available by applying for an International Student I D. card and a youth hostel card. The International Student I D. card carries special privileges such as reduced admission to museums, theaters, and cultural and historical sites. The youth hostel card allows a traveler to receive low-cost accomoda tions at more than 5,000 Youth Hostels world-wide. Both cards can be obtained only through the STC. The travel center also provides information about study and work programs af filiated with the Council on In ternational Educational Ex change. The CIEE sponsors and Greeks host giving week The University’s fraternities and sororities are working together this week to "do something for the campus and the community," Greek leaders say. The eighth annual "Greek Week of Giving” will begin today with a blood drive and conclude Saturday with the painting of the indoor racquetball courts, ac cording to Mark Hallquist, pre sident of the Inter-Fraternity Council. The University will pay for an estimated $300 in supplies. The Greeks will raise money during some events for a charity that has yet to be chosen, Hall quist says. They expect to raise approximately $500 through Friday’s “Bunion Derby,’’ an event in which sorority women pay a quarter for refreshments as they travel from one fraternity to another. Each of the 27 houses will pay $10 to enter a volleyball tour nament Thursday night in Ger linger Annex. Proceeds will also go to charities. Other events include an All Greek Sing at Whiteaker Com munity School Wednesday at 7 p.m. Proceeds from the 25-cent admission charge to this event will go to the Community School program. administers a variety of educa tional exchange programs in volving work, study and travel throughout the world. STC services are free, except for the costs of the International I D. and youth hostel cards. The 1981 I D. costs $6 for one year and includes travel insurance abroad. The 1981 youth hostel card, which is valid for a max imum of 15 months, costs $14 The objective of the STC is “to help the students find the inexpensive way possible (to travel) and to see the world,” says Friesem, who has traveled throughout Western Europe and describes traveling as an “educational experience." Friesem advises students to plan their vacations two to three months in advance and obtain more information about differ ent countries they intend to visit. A small travel library in the STC offers a variety of books with detailed information on coun tries. Books can be checked out for a two-week period. Located in Room 202 EMU, the center is open five days a week. Hours are 8:30 a m. to 11:15 a m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 9 a m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. Upcoming STC events in clude a bake sale on Feb. 3, a Spring Travel Faire, a travel preparation workshop, a slide show in cooperation with the University Outdoor Program and a display of travel bro chures and posters for sale in the EMU. Craft Center EMU CRAFT CENTER WORKSHOPS There are still openings in: Ceramics. Jewelry. Photography. Textiles. Children's Batik and Children's Ceramic Sculpture. Graphic. Bike Maintenance. Storytelling. Mixed Media. Darts. Origami Registration is now open to alumni & general community Register at the EMU Craft Center during regular hours Call 686-4361 for details. *v fT
