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Western Carolinian Volume 46 Number 12, November 6, 1980

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  • Lectures and Workshops University Forum The next Universit) Forum ssill men November 17, There ssill he no Forum on November 10. I lie Forum on the 17th will meet, as usual, at POO pm m the Ness Sciences Auditorium. Janice Baker, former stall nember to; the President's Commission on World Hunger, ssill be the featured speaker. This Forum is the opening event for the Western ( arolina Universit) Interfaith Hunger Committee's World Hunger Week. This week of activites ssill spotlight campus concern on the very real problem of world hunger. Ihe Interfaith Hunger committee is co-sponsoring Mrs. Baker's appearance. The University Forum (ASI WO) is a one hour credit general elective course tor senior, honor and selected other students. It is open, free of charge, to faculty, Staff and other interested persons. Pace To Speak Robert M. Pace, Executive Director ot the North Carolina Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation will speak at 6:30 PM. Tuesday, October 28, 1980 at the A.K. Hines University Center of Western Carolina University, Cullowhee. He ssill speak to lhc Pi Delta Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity. Pace, who also ssorks ssith the Governor's Advocacy Council lor Persons With Disabilities and the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, ssill speak on the economic and social impact of hemophilia. Ihe average annual medical cosis lor a hemophilia patient range from $10,000 to $25,000. November is Hemophilia Month in Jackson Counts. and the members of Alpha Phi Omega are conducting a county-wide fund-raising campaign. Attorney General Rufus L. Edminsten is honorary'chairman of the Hemophilia Foundation. Health Dept. Info. A Pap Smear is a test used to diagnose cancer, in which exfoliated cells of organs are obtained, smeared on a glass slide, and stained for microscopic examination. George N. Papanicolaou, born IN83. a Greek physician in the United States, developed this lest. Pap smears should be done once a year on ever) woman and on any female that is sexually active, regardless of age. This exam should be painless and talses only a tew minutes to do. You should not douche on the das ol sour exam or the das before. II you have a Vaginal infection, it should be tretcd first. Also menstrual blood can make cers ical cells impossible io analyze. A positive pap smear does not usually mean either a cancerous or even precancerous condition. A pap smear is not a dilimle diagnosis. Rather, it is an indication that some cells an- changing in nature, or base changed, and that some kind of further attention is necessars. Pap smears are classified from I in V. Class I: All clear. Class II: Inflammation, irritation, infection, or mild dysplasia. Class 111: Borderline dysplasis (non-malignant abnormal cell growth), or premalignant, or both. Class IV: Highly suspicious for malignancy or carcinoma in sites; that is. the cells base malignant properties yel are confined to one area of one les el ol tissue. Class V: Positive for malignancs. You mas obtain a pap smear from your family doctor or ai a Pap Smear Clinic, or al a Family Planning C link located al the Jackson Count) Health Department. The telephone number is" (704) 586-8994. Maddox To Speak Dr. George L. Maddox. director ol the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke Universit) Medical Center, ssill speak at Western Carolina Universits Wednesday and Thursday, Nos. 12 and 1.1. Maddox ssill give a lecture on "Successful Aging" ai p.m. Nov. 2 in the auditorium of Forsyth Building on Campus. Ihe lecture is open lo ihe public without chat Prior io ihe lecture. Maddox ssill meel ssith interested faculty members and representatives of area agencies lhal deal with aging from 1:30 until 3:30 lo discuss ihe most current research on aging and funding sources lot such research. The meeting ssill be held in ihe conference room of ihe Center lor Improving Mountain Living (CIML). located on the second floor ol Bird Building. An informal reception ssill follow from 4 until 5 p.m. in the archaeology laboratory. Room 111), of the Natural Sciences Building. Hosting the reception ssill be the sociology department. On Nov. 13, Maddox ssill meel ssith interested students from 8:30 until 10:30 a.m. in Room 104 Killian Building to talk about Duke's research on aging and career opportunities in the field of aging. Maddox. 55. has served as director of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development lor eight years. Prior to holding this position, he served as a research coordinator for the center and as a member and secretary of the Duke Council on Aging and Human Development. At present, he also is a professorol sociology at Duke. \ native ol Mississippi. Maddox graduated from Millsaps College in 1449. He earned a master's degree in sociolog) from Boston University in 1952 and a Ph.D in sociology from Michigan State University in 1956. Ihe PS. Public Health Service assarded htm a post-doctoral research fellowship at (he University of London in 1968. and his early career interest in the field of alcoholism resulted in the publication of numerous articles and books, as well as lectureships and consultancies in this field. The author of many books and articles on topics relating to aging. Maddox is a fellow of the American Sociological Association and of the Southern Sociological Society. He is the former secretary of the American Executive Committee of the International Association ol Gerontology and the former president of the Gerontological Society. He also is a founding member of the National Advisors Council on Aging for the National Institutes of Health. Maddox's visit is sponsored by WCU's Visiting Scholars Program, the Center For Improving Mountain lis ing and a number of deans and faculty members. Geo 551 WCU has become increasingly tied ssith countries of lhc Caribbean and Latin America, li is appropriate that WCU students ssill be offered an opportunity to vicariously experience the lands and peoples of Latin America through a regional geography course Geography of Latin America (551). If you can't go to Latin America of if you are indeed planning io go. this course presides an excellent background lor understanding life and land "south of the border." lhc 3 hour course will be taught by Dr. Jeff Neff. Assislanl Professor of Geography. Ihe class ssill meel al II MWF in Stillwell 239. Language facility in Spanish and Portugese is npt required! Bible Lit During Spring Semester the English Department will offer a course entitled "The Bible as Literature." Studenls ssill examine the King James Version as poetry, narrative, drama, biography, and other literary forms. Part of the course will be devoted to a study of Scripture which, along with Classical mytholoty, is the most frequent source of allusion in Western Literature. EH 496. a three-credit hour course, will he taught by Dr. Dennis J. McKevlin. 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