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S eptember 7, 1994 • T he P ortland O bserver
OGI Hires New Provost, Department
Head, Faculty Members
Dr. Martin Becker
The Oregon G raduate Institute
ofScience& Technology announces
the hiring o fa vice president, depart
ment head and two faculty members.
D r. M a rtin B e c k e r is th e
university 's new vice president for
academic affairs and provost. He
most recently was dean o f the Col
lege o f Engineering and Voctor P.
Clarke Professor o f Engineering at
the University o f Miami.
Prior to that, Becker served for
24 years at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. He joined RP1 as an associ
ate professor and was associate dean
for research when he took the posi
tion at University o f Miami in 1990.
He began his career with G en
eral Electric’s Knolls Atomic Power
Laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y.
Becker earned his bachelor’s degree
in engineering science form New
York University and his m aster’s
and coatoral degrees in engineering
Dr. Andrew P. Black
Dr. John Launchbury
from the Massachusetts Institute o f
Technology.
Dr. Jam es H untzicker, who
served as O G I’s provost prior to
Becker’s hiring, remains as senior
vice president.
Dr. Andrew P Black has taken
the position o f professor and head o f
the Department o f Com puter Sci
ence and Engineering. Black comes
from D igital E quipm ent C o rp .’s
Cam bridge Research Laboratory in
Cambridge, Mass., where he was a
m em ber o f the research staff. He
joined Digital in December 1986.
Whi le at Digital, Black taught at
Harvard University. Other academic
experience includes five years with
the Department o f com puter Science
at the University o f W ashington.
Black earned his bachelor’s de
gree from the University o f East
Anglia in Norwich, England, and his
doctorate from the U niversity o f
Oxford. His interests includenotonly
com puter technology but also its
social impact. Specifically, he is in
terested in the use o f com puters by
people with disabilities and the power
o f the Internet as an em bryonic in
formation highway.
As d e p a rtm e n t head . B lack
succeeds
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B
K ie b u r tz , w h o s te p p e d d o w n
from th e p o sitio n a fte r m o re than
12 y e a rs, to d e v o te m o re tim e to
te a c h in g and to d ire c t O G I’s P a
c ific S o ftw a re R esearch C e n te r.
Jo in in g th e C SE d e p a rtm e n t
as a fa c u lty m e m b e r is Dr. John
L a u n c h b u ry . L a u n c h b u ry la st
w as w ith S c o tla n d ’s G la sg o w
U n iv e rsity , w h e re he le c tu re d in
the D e p a rtm e n t o f C o m p u tin g
S c ie n c e fo r th re e y e a rs.
H e e a rn e d h is b a c h e l o r ’s
(w ith f ir s t c la s s h o n o r s ) a n d
m a s te r ’s d e g re e s from th e U ni-
than for any other age group. Five
Oregon counties reported about one
in three deaths to be tobacco related:
G illia m C o u n ty , 36 p e rc e n t;
Tillam ook County, 32 percent; Coos
County, 31 percent; Lincoln County,
31 percent; and Lake County, 31
percent.
Follow ing are some highlights
from the 1992 report:
* For the first time since 1987
the state’s death rate increased - by 3
percent to 863.2 per 100,000.
* On average, an Oregonian died
every 20 minutes.
* A record 492 Oregonians com
mitted suicide; the rate (16.6 per
100,000 population) w as just 2 per
cent below the record high 1986 rate.
* In one year, homicide deaths
rose 24 percent to 168. AIDS deaths
were up 11 percent to a record high
249.
* For the third consecutive year
v e rsity o f O x fo rd , and h is d o c
to ra te in c o m p u tin g sc ie n c e from
the U n iv e rsity o f G la sg o w . He
jo in s th e C S E d e p a rtm e n t as an
a ssista n t p ro fe sso r.
The Departm ent o f Electrical
Engineering and Applied Physics has
a new faculty member. Dr. Robert
Jaffe, who will work as an academic
coordinator and instructor.
Jaffe came to OGI from San
Diego State University, where he
taught in the D epartm ent o f Electri
cal and C om puter Engineering. He
also has held faculty positions in
philosophy at Lewis & Clark Col
lege and the University o f W iscon
sin-M adison.
Jaffe earned a doctorate in elec
trical and com puter engineering from
Portland State University. He has a
bachelor’s degree from Brandeis
U niversity and a m a ste r’s from
Harvard University.
“Red Wagon
Brigade” To
Welcome
Kindergartners
A “Red Wagon Brigade” hits
the streets W ednesday, Aug. 31,
1994, from 10a m. to noon w elcom
ing some 80 new kindergartners to
Kelly Elementary School (9030 S.E.
Cooper).
Teachers travel in pairs with a
wagon full o f crayons and books,
knocking on the doors o f neighbor
hood homes where new students live.
ners.
P eople u n der 25 a c c o u n t for
an e stim a te d 8 m illio n new cases
o f ST D s each y ear, o r tw o -th ird s
o f all new STD in fe c tio n s. It is
e stim a te d th a t by age 21, one in
fiv e p e o p le have been tre a te d for
an STD .
“ T e e n a g e rs and y o ung ad ults
are m ore su sc e p tib le to ST D in
fe c tio n than o ld e r p e o p le ,” said
C la rk e . “ T his is p a rtly b e c a u se
o f a n a to m y . In th is age gro u p ,
e sp e c ia lly young fe m a le s, such
fa c to rs as an im m ature im m une
sy stem in c re a se the lik e lih o o d
th a t th e y w ill get an ST D from
u n p ro te c te d se x .”
“ Also, sexually active young
people are more likely to have sex
with more than one partner, and they
are more likely to choose a birth
control method that offers no protec
tion against STDs."
Clarke explained that, accord
ing to surveys, sexually active young
people are tw ice as likely to use oral
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condom s are 98 to 99 percent effec
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In addition to HI V/AIDS, which
is usually fatal, there are three other
viral, lifelong infections: genital
h e rp e s; h um an p a p illo m a v iru s
(HPV), the cause o f genital warts;
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STDs include chlamydia and gonor
rhea, which can be cured if they are
detected and treated but often ex
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about STDs is available through the
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ASHA, 800/227-8922. People can
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from stroke.
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giving first aid until professional
m edical help arrives. E veryone
should know first aid.
By recognizing an em ergency
and taking action to help, you give
injured or ill persons the best chance
for survival. Know your local em er
gency telephone number. The rapid
arrival o f professional help increases
the victim ’s chances o f surviving a
life-threatening emergency.
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the infant death rate fell. The 1992
infant death rate was a record low
(7.1 per 1,000 live births).
* The death rate for newborn
less than 28 days old also fell to a
record low (3.8 per 1,000 live births).
This is due, in part, to the use o f a
new m edical treatment that eases
breathing for newborns with under
developed respiratory systems.
* The infant death rate was three
times high for African Americans
than non-Hispanic whites.
* Most teens attempting to kill
themselves (72 percent) used drugs
as a suicide method. However, guns
caused most (70 percent) o f the teen
suicide deaths.
* The most common reasons
teens cited for suicide attempts were:
family discord, 59 percent; an argu
ment with a boy/girlfriend, 35 per
cent; and school problems, 25 per
cent.
Increase In Gonorrhea May Have
Special Impact On Teens, ASHA Warns
A recent report that gonorrhea
cases are on the upswing has special
significance for teenagers, who have
high rates o f infection with this sexu
ally transmitted disease.
According to the U.S. Center
for Disease Control and Prevention,
the num ber o f gonorrhea cases re
ported nationwide during the second
quarter o f 1994 rose by 13.6 percent
over the first quarter. In recent years,
girls ages 15-19 have had the highest
gonorrhea rates among women, wh ile
boys in this age group have had the
second highest rates among men. “ It
appears that g o n o rrh ea m ay be
spreading at a faster rate, and this
will have an even greater impact on
teenagers than on older people,” said
Peggy Clarke, president o f the Ameri
can Social Health Association.
As high school and college stu
dents return to school this fall, ASH A
urges them to be aware o f the dan
gers o f gonorrhea and other STDs
and to make responsible choices
about their sexual practices and part-
Given the num ber o f injuries
and sudden illnesses that occur in
the United States each year, you
might well have to deal with an
emergency situation someday. C on
sid e r the follow ing:
• A bouttw om illionpeoplearehos-
pitalized each year because o f
injuries, and injuries result in
nearly 142,500 deaths each year.
• Infectious diseases used to cause
the greatest concern about the
health ofchildren, but now, unin
tentional injuries cause m ost
childhood deaths. Injuries also
cause millions o f heart-stopping
moments each year. In fact, inju
ries are the leading cause o f death
and disability in children and
young adults.
• More than six million people in
the United States have cardiovas
cular disease. Cardiovascular dis
ease causes about one million
deaths in the United States each
year. That’s nearly half o f the
deaths from all causes.
• More than 500,000 Americans
have stro k es each year, and
Dr. Robert Jaffe
Oregon’s Tobacco Deaths Continue
Almost 30 years after the Sur
geon General warned o f the perils o f
smoking, one in four deaths o f O r
egonians was linked to tobacco. In
1992, 6,353 Oregonians died o f to
bacco-related causes, according to
the newly released V olum e II o f the
1992 Oregon Vital Statistics Annual
Report. The statistical report, pro
duced by the Oregon Health Divi
sion, focuses on the 25,714 Orego
nians who died during 1992.
“Tobacco use is the m ost impor
tant cause o f premature death in the
state," said State E pidem iologist
David Fleming. O ther topics cov
ered in the report include infant death
and adolescent suicide.
Doctors linked to tobacco some
30 percent o f O regon’s male deaths
and 19 percent o f the female deaths.
Forty-one percent o f the deaths
among 55- to 64-year-olds were re
lated to tobacco, a higher proportion
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