Cadavers teach students facts of anatomy
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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.
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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.
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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.
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