THE MICHIGAN DAISY Sunday, Jonuary 18, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, January 18, 1970 (omen across nation orry about 'The Pill' MAY DIE OUT Fraternity system faces crisis I i 4 i By The Associated Press Alarmed women across the na- tion have been calling up their doctors after learning of testi- mony before a Senate subcommit- tee about possible hazards of birth control pills. Many doctors questioned in an Associated Press sampling com- plained that last week's testimony had caused an unwarranted care. Others, however, said they h a d not received as many calls as an- ticipated. The wave of concern was gen- erated by two :sessions of Wis- consin Sen. Gaylord Nelson's monopoly subcommittee. E i g h t birth control specialists testified and reviewed studies linking "the pill" to a variety of disorders, in- cluding cancer of the breast, cervix and uterus. In Omaha, Neb., two gynecolo- Lit school to consider student vote (Continued from Page 1) "There should be more people at this meeting than there were at the last one," says Grobe. There. were nine people at the last meet-r ing and Grobe believes that Lasser may have inadvertently caused a "closed session." "It wasn't on purpose," says Grobe, "but it was as mistake and he (Lasser) will have to face up to it. The counter-proposal Grobe hopes to pass asks for five students on the administrative board and all-student hearing boards. "If this is not accepted," says Grobe, "I wil immediately move that the Assembly ignore all other pro- posals." Grobe also emphasizes the in- terim nature. of his proposal. "I think it should only be temporary, until all problems like student dis- cipline are handled on the Uni- versity level where they belong," he concludes. The Washtenaw County Build- ing and Construction Trades Council will have a ratification meeting on a new contract, agree- ment tomorrow at 4:30 p.m, The meeting will be held at their un- ion hall, 530 W. Michigan Ave. The head of the union nego- tiating team, Jack Wheatley, said that the Union negotiating group would unanimously recommend ratification. Some 280 University employees are members of the union. gists reported "surprisingly little reaction" and "very few calls." But a third, Dr. William C. Boel- ter, said "the phone's been ring- ing its head off because of these articles and it's unfortunate. Wom- en are scared, and it's been over- done." A leading Minneapolis gynecolo- gist said: "We're getting a lot of kickback. Women are coming in to say they are stopping the pills." Said Dr. Ernest Scher, Balti- more gynecologist: "There's been a deluge of calls about it. Women a-:e completely confused a n d scared to death about this testi- mony." "My advice to the patient is that I am not convinced that this evi- dence is complete," Scher said. "However, if thepatient has great anxiety, then on this basis alone: they ought to go to some other form of contraception." There, however, is the rub. Most gynecologists agree that the estro- gen pill is the most effective birth control device there is - both because of the way is works and because it is easy to take. Dr.. Robert I. Ayerst, a gyne- cologist in a New Orleans suburb said that when women call, "we tell them that the pill is safer than being pregnant. We tell them also that there is no relationship proved between the birth control pill and cancer." "Aspirin kills more .. patients than any other drug on the mar-' ket," he said. "And if you com- pare the birth control pill with a coil, which is inserted in the uterus, the coil is more danger- ous than the birth control pill." Dr. Ayerst explained' that the in- tra uterine device occasionally causes infections. "The mortality rate of women on the pill is 3 per 100,000. The mortality rateof pregnant women is 8 times that. The mortality rate among football players per sea- son is roughly 12 times that-35 per 100,000. . "We aren't really dealing with a dangerous drug when you consider the alternative of pregnancy." But, he said, "I think the po- tential danger of cancer result- ing from oral contraceptives h a s been blown out of proportion to the data. (Continued from Page 1) Jaffe says. "The idea of brother- hood didn't really exist." Ex-Tau Delta Phi member Doug Moran regretted joining. "It took a lot of money to see it was some- thing I just didn't want. I real- ized I did a lot of dumb things like hell - week which are sort of embarrassing to remember," Moran says now. The dearth of fraternity mem- bers has posed financial as well as institutional problems. At least BGS degree gainssupport (Continued from Page 1) only eight students have graduated under the program so far and none have applied for graduate schools. "But the degree as such will not be evidence for judging against students," says Assoc. Dean Byron Groesbeck of Rackham graduate school. "A student's background in his subject is the most important con- sideration. "I can imagine individual ad- missions committee members being against the degree for one reason r another," Groesbeck says, "but I think-it's unlikely there would be a whole department with a pre- judiced stand." A stronger working relationship between the business administra- tion school and the business com- munity is foreseen in the Business School Associates Program ap- proved Friday by the Regents. The program will enable cor- porations to pay an annual par- ticipation fee in return for such considerations as receipt of busi- ness school publications4 and re- search reports, availability of con- sultations with faculty members, and special executive seminars for member firms. Similar programs with business firms are well established at other major business schools, such as those at Harvard a n d Stanford universities. three houses-Acacia, Tau Delta Xi President Dale Jurcisin. Be- Phi and Phi Kappa Psi - have sides the changing image, he closed in the last year and a half noted, the Greek system has also while at least four others-Phi loosened rush policy and eased the Epsilon Pi, Sigma Alpha Mu, formality and rigid structure of Alpha Delta Phi and, just recently, rush. Zeta Beta Tau-have taken in' nonmember boarders. In the face of these losses, the fraternity system is working fev-I erishly to reverse the trend. Onej weapon is the Interfraternity Council rush booklet. It plays on the new fraternity image, which' "offers a liberal atmosphere stress- ing the diverse, well-rounded in- l dividual." ; "It's like a product you have to sell," says ATO's Cotner. "So far we've been doing a bad job, but now we realize our position and! are racing against the clock." "We're now on an all-out cam- paign to get pledges," adds Thetal The fraternities have taken a more aggressive attitude toward potential pledges. IFC this year provided houses with lists of freshmen who had registered for rush but not pledged. The lists were used over the winter vaca- tion by fraternity members who contacted freshmen from their home towns to see if they might still be interested in joining. But despite these efforts, some Greeks remain pessimistic. "Our house has a defeatist at- titude," says Cotner. "The campus mood seems to be so anti-frater- nity that it has created a sense of futility." 1, GRAD MIXER SUNDAY, JAN. 18 8 P.M. l a+ THE HOUSE I) 1429 HILL ST. 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