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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 5, 1968
Stanford coeds live in fraternity house
STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) — Coeds at Stanford University have probably achieved the ultimate equality in the fight for women's rights. They've moved right into the fraternity house—bag and baggage, nylons and curlers.
The novel living arrangement is the work of Lambda Nu, a Greek letter fraternity that obtained university approval for the experiment this fall.
Despite some suspicion that
the combination of 32 college men and 23 women in the same house means certain trouble, the Lambda Nu's themselves deny it.
"Our fraternity is not like a regular Saturday night orgy house," said Diane Brower, 21, Candon, S.C., one of the coeds who moved in.
ship and it does have its benefits. . . I'm finding out things about guys I never knew before."
"A little hanky-panky goes on—very, very little," said Sally Hines, 21, Fairfax, Va. "It's mostly a brother-sister relation—
Under the present arrangement, the girls occupy one wing of the split-level fraternity and the boys live in the other. They are allowed to visit in each other's rooms and there are no rules that doors must be left open or a third person be present.
fact, we're talking about alternate boy-girl rooms for next year."
"You just invite the boy in and you talk," Miss Brower said. "In
What do the Lambda Nu men think of the arrangement?
"I think it's great," said Christopher Murlas, president of the fraternity. He believes it is the first fraternity house in the world with live-in coeds. The girls, however, are not official fraternity members.
"The girls are really great people to live with," said Steve Parker, 19, Anahola, Hawaii. "I only wish there were more of them—
that is if they would only stop running around in their robes and curlers."
Tony Siciliano, 19, Salt Lake City, may have best summed up male reaction to the co-educational living plan.
"Nobody's leaving because of it," Siciliano said. "Besides, the girls make cookies every once in awhile."
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Pneumonia not licked-still a killer
BETHESDA, Md. (UPI)—A popular cartoon of the 1950's showed an overbearing woman caring for her sick husband, a miserable thing bundled up in bed with a bad cold.
"They got a cure for pneumonia now, but you go out and catch a cold," she snorted.
Pneumonia is still around. Each year bacterial pneumonia kills between 15,000 and 25,000 persons in the United States, while up to 500,000 others are stricken. Pneumonia is more dangerous during flu outbreaks, particularly among persons over 55.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has announced a program to develop for mass use a pneumonia vaccine, one oddly enough that was proven effective 20 years ago but abandoned to make way for the so-called "miracle" drugs.
The arrival of powerful antibiotics and penicillins overshadowed an important development in the battle against pneumonia, and the medical profession as a whole made a strategic error. NIAID reported.
Dr. Edwin M. Lerner, coordinator for the NIAID pneumonia vaccine program, told a news conference that the medical
world had overreacted to the advent of the modern drugs.
"Penicillin was the cure-all in those days," he said. "It was felt that there was no need to vaccinate people-after all, we thought we could cure them."
Lerner said the medical profession was—and probably still is—unaware of the number of pneumonia deaths in the United States. He cited figures showing that pneumonia, along with influenza, is ranked fifth among the leading causes of death.
Why are people dying of pneumonia? What happened to the "miracle" drugs?
A key breakthrough came in 1962 when Dr. Robert Austrian of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine studied pneumonia cases at two New York City hospitals.
"The study showed that there was irreversible damage done early in the disease—damage that drugs could not control." said Austrian.
Many of those who died were older persons or those with other illnesses in whom pneumonia infection overwhelmed the body before antibiotics could take effect. Thus, it was decided that since all those with pneumonia could not be completely cured, pneumonia would have to be prevented.
According to the NIAID plans, some 400,000 pneumonia patients will be studied to determine which of the 12 different strains of pneumococcal bacteria are most prevalent.
Further, NIAID has awarded contracts for surveillance and production of the vaccine, which will be tested for safety and effectiveness in animals, human volunteers, and then larger population groups.
It was estimated that because of the favorable experience with the vaccine 20 years ago, it might be possible to have the new vaccine licensed and ready for general use by the middle of 1970.
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