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University Daily Kansan, February 2. 1981
Tanning safety questioned
By KARI ELLIOTT Staff Renorter
For those who want a Sun Belt tan but live in wheat country, artificial tanning centers are a shortcut to the beach.
Whether they are safe, however, is still an open question.
Bruce Hendric, co-owner of T.A.N. Ltd., 44d- J-Iowa St., said their Suntana SunSystem used ultraviolet-A, which is the sun's rays. He said he had no doubts about the safety of their system.
"Our system is safer than the sun since it uses only one ultraviolet ray," Hedrick said. "The skin does not burn or dry out."
BUT LEE BITTENBENDER, a Lawrence dermatologist, said that while ultraviolet-A could tan the skin, the ray also could burn it.
"It requires greater intensity or longer time under UV-A, but you can get burned." he said.
"I hate to see someone use UV-A thinking there is no risk, that they won't burn and the skin won't age or wrinkle. It's a distortion of fact."
THE T.A.N. Ltd. system uses a seven-foot "tanning bed" that has 12 lashes and an equal number in the contoured lid. When the lid is down,
there are about six inches between the base and lid.
T. A.N. Ltd., which opened last August, uses ultraviolet A-light Two Lawrence tanning centers that used ultraviolet B-light, Tannique and Tantilize, closed, due to a lack of business.
Hedrick said February was one of their peak seasons with about 20 appointments a day.
One problem with ultraviolet rays in both sunlight and tanning centers is that certain drugs increase one's sensitivity to light.
Hedrick asks potential customers whether they are taking any drugs and whether the drug is sensitive to ultraviolet light.
BIRTH CONTROL pills, diuretics and tetracycline used in treatment of acne are sensitive to ultraviolet light. According to the Food and Drug Administration, certain dyes thicken antibacterials in deodorant coatings cosmetics, and some oils in perfumes are also photosteniles.
Another problem with ultraviolet light is skin cancer.
Bittenden said that with ultraviolet-A light there was an increased risk of skin cancer. Skin cancer was the most prevalent type of cancer last year with 500,000 cases reported in the United States.
body that usually don't get it, such as the back." he said.
"The cancer is on areas of the
Also, ultraviolet light might activate a dormant disease such as herpes, according to Bentbender.
"A person may not be aware he has the disease and the ultraviolet light will agarivate it." he said.
THE FDA ALSO HAS stressed the need for eye protection to prevent eye burn and other corneal irritations.
Eye goggles are available to customers at T.A.N. Lid, and the owners recommend that customers use them.
People who are very sensitive to the sun, such as blue-eyed blondes, are put on a slower tanning program, Hedrick said.
The first session for these people is 10 minutes and each subsequent visit is lengthened by five minutes.
"Thirty minutes is the optimum time," Hedrick said. "I have stayed in an hour, but I don't recommend it.
"Some customers can see a tan in one 30-minute visit, but others take about two or three visits."
The cost of the program is $35 for 10 visits.
WITH ETHER sunlight or artificial ultraviolet light, the effects on the skin are delayed. Bittenbender said.
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Women support alternative health care
About 250,000 American women underwent unnecessary hysterectomies last year.
Bv REBECCA CHANEY
Breast cancer strikes one in every 13 women—yet survival rates have not improved since 1350.
Staff Reporter
Thirty million American women are regular users of potent tranquilizers
These figures, compiled by the National Women's Health Network, were among the evidence presented Thursday by several Lawrence women to support the need for women's alternative health care.
The women met to organize a Lawrence alternative health care program to be known as the River City Women's Health Collective.
THE LAWRENCE women plan to join the National Women's Health Network, a non-prof organization in Washington, D.C. The network sponsors research requested by members at the university and shares information with members.
"It is crucial that we get involved with the national network to keep us informed and to provide credibility for the organization," Gail Boaz, Brattleville Village juror, said.
"We want to provide basic information that women need to know about the medical profession and about their own bodies. Because of lack of money and lack of accessibility, this is information that women are often unaware of."
Boaz and Jane Svooda, Lawrence junior, have registered the group as a student organization and are trying to attract members, but both declined to be called the collective's leaders or organizers.
"This is something that has been needed for a long time," Svovoda said.
"Our goal is to enable women to keep out of the doctor's office and the hospital, so that we can intend to enable them to deal with the symptoms when they do need medical attention."
AMONG THE PLANS for the collective, the women said, are the printing and distribution information on such topics as breast exams, toxic syndrome, herbal remedies for physical ailments and birth control.
They also plan to invite guest speakers to discuss women's health issues and demonstrate techniques for breast and belly self-examinations.
The group will keep reference files on local doctors based on feedback from patients so that women can be referred to patient and understand physicians.
Child care services would also be set
"We want to pattern the collective on the Boston Women's Health Collective and other successful collectives already formed," Svovada said. "We'll use this book 'Our Bodies, Oursels,' published by the Boston Collective."
PROCEEDS FROM THE sale of the book are used to send free information to other women's health collectives, and to raise awareness about Collective would take advantage of this.
up to allow single mothers to get involved with the collective, the women said.
"The dream is to have a center where women can come for information," Svovada said. "The reality is that we have no funds and no office at this point."
Boaz said members of the collective would approach the Student Senate during budget hearings for an office and for funding.
"If it's done right, with correct information, then I'm all for it," Helen Gilles said.
Several Lawrence women doctors contacted yesterday all approved the idea of a local women's collective to get involved with their own health care.
However, none of the doctors contacted were aware of existing collectives or how they operated.
Former students appeal libel ruling
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to rule later this month on an appeal of a law suit filed by a former KU professor against (our former students who had accused the professor of racial discrimination.
The original suit, filed in 1979 by Dante Scarpelli, former chairman of the department of pathology and oncology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, contends that Scarpelli's reputation was ruined by the former students' statements. Scarpelli won that suit and was awarded $44,000.
In 1974, the former students filed a five-page complaint against Scarpelli, who in 1976 became chairman of the pathology department at Northwestern University, of violating KU's affirmative action programs.
THE COMPLIANT stated that Scarpell committed "willful and unlawful acts of discrimination toward black medical students and incited the use of racist language and tried to systematically eliminate blacks from the medical center." The
complaint was dismissed after a University hearing.
The former students are all practicing physicians now. They are Charles Floyd, a resident in psychiatry at the University of California at Davis; Charles Lee, a senior surgery resident at the KU Med Center; Nolan Jones, who is finishing a fellowship at Tufts University; and Richard Boston; and Ernest Taylor, a faculty member of the University of Southern California.
Scarpelli originally filed a law suit against the former students in 1978. That case ended in a mistrial after his decision 11-1 in Scarpelli's faction.
THE FORMER STUDENTS appealed the lower court decision to the state Supreme Court on the grounds that the court had made procedural errors.
In oral arguments before the seventhmember Supreme Court last month, James Meyerson, assistant general counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the lower court trial judge, William Meek, did not properly instruct the jurors that Scarpelli had to prove
the former students acted maliciously in filing their complaint against him.
The NAACP undertook the students' defense because of apprehension that the decision against the doctors could have been circumcision complaints. Meyerson said.
Citing testimony in the lower court trial, he said Scarpelli and others students acted deliberately, and did not support with their right to state their opinion.
Meyerson also said the jury received a poor definition of actual malice, an integral part of libel cases involving public officials.
SCARPELLI'S LAWYERS argued that he should not have been declared a public official for the case and that they should not be forced to prove the students "maliciously defamed" Scarpelli with reckless disregard for the truth. The attorneys also argued that three of the four doctors had poor academic records and acted purposely to ruin Scarpelli's reputation.
Meyerson said Scarpelli also failed to prove that his reputation was ruined by the students' statements.
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