The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, November 1, 1978-Page 3 UNSAFE ACNE CURE: X-ray may lead to skin By CAROL KOLETSKY In her senior year in high school, Mary McKenny decided to do something about her acne problem. It was 1938, and x-rays were just becoming the generally accepted sun has hit them. There is 10 times, more skin cancer in North Australia and New Mexico than here - and far- mers, who are out in the sun, show a high percentage of it," Grabb said. MCKENNY, a University Law School second biopsy indicating that the can- cer was extensive, he resurfaced her nose by "grafting," using shoulder bone and neck skin to cover cuts. "I didn't know how I would react to having my face cut and scarred. You "We know x-rays have caused skin cancer because it has only been found with people who had acne treated in that manner 20 to 40 years ago, or people get skin cancer where the sun has hit them. There is 10 times more skin cancer in North Australia and New Mexico than here. Farmers, who are out in the sun show a high percentage of it." -Dr. William Grabb, University Hospital Picket or treat Members of the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) were hardly trick-or-treating yesterday as they picketed in front of the LSA Building. Carrying signs with slogans such as "Two years is too long" and "The administration can't spook us - Boo on U-M's anti-union policy" about 10 Graduate Student Assistants (GSAs) stpped passers by and gave out leaflets explaining the two-year contract dispute between GEO and the University, in which the Michigan Employment Relations Commission will decide whether GSAs are students or employees. GEO organizer' Mike Kozura, a sociology teaching assistant, said this was the second Halloween GEO picketed in front of LSA but that he hoped and didn't think GEO would have to picket next year. "We've gotten a lot of positive response from students and faculty," Kozura said. East Quad beseiged East Quad will soon be a battle scene again as the third annual "Killer Contest" gets underway this week. Killer, which is played with' rubber-tipped dart guns, is based on the age-old theory of survival of the fittest. Each participant in the game has a victim to "kill", and, in turn, is a victim himself. The object is to be the last survivor in the contest. Sources close to the story have disclosed that several of the players have stockpiled mass quantities of food and supplies in order to remain in their rooms and not be "wasted". Rumors that Mafia recruiters will follow the proceedings are totally false. Hats off to 'U Three 'U' faculty and administrators are among 100 of the "most respected emerging leaders in higher education" cited in the October issue of Change magazine. Professor Carolyne Davis, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; Professor Marvin Peters , Director of the Center for theStudy of Higher Education, a d Professor Nellie Varner, Associate Dean of Rackham School of Graduate Studies were selected among some 2,000 nominations submitted by universities, foundations, and education associations throughout the country. The survey was designed to supplement Change magazine's "Who's Who in Higher Education" published four years ago. The U-M was the only Michigan institution represented in the top 100. Take ten On November 1, 1968, Nguyen van Thieu, then-president of South Vietnam, said he could not agree to bargain with the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong. In an address to a joint session of the South Vietnam Congress - one day after President Johnson ordered a complete halt to bombing of North Vietnam - Thieu said the only real path to the end of the war would be negotiations between Saigon and Hanoi. Happenings FILMS Mediatrics-Images, 7 & 9 p.m. Natural Science Auditorium. Ann Arbor Film Co-op - Adventured of Robinson Crusoe 7 p.m.; The Criminal Life of archibaldo de la Cruz, 9 p.m. Aud. A, Angell. Cinema LI - Retour d'Afrique, 7 & 9 p.m. Modern Language Building. Cinema Guild - Lady in the Lake, 7 & 9:05, Old Arch. Aud. SPEAKERS Sparatacus Youth League Forum - "Carter's Anti-Soviet 'Human Rights' Campaign: Imperialist Crusade Against the Soviet Union", East Quad, Residential College room 122, 7:30. Peoples Action Coalition - "Political Practice; Organizing and Education", Michele Russel, author and educator. PERFORMANCES Studio Theatre Programs - "Silence" by Harold Pinter, Arena Theatre, Frieze Building, 4:10, free. Showcase Theatre - Lorca's "Blood Wedding", Trueblood Theatre, Freize Building, 8 p.m. Musical Society - Dimitri-clown-mime, Power Center, 8 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS Panhellenic Society Plant Sale - Union Ballroom, 10 a.m. - 8p.m. Student Blood Bank - Michigan Union Assembly Hall, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.- Project Outreach Internship in Adolescence - This full time undergraduate work study program is now accepting applications for winter '79, call 764-9179 or stop by 555 Thompson for information. D. C. dancing Washingtonians are boogying in the bowels of the Federal Home Loan Bank building at a new discotheque called "The Buck Stops Here." The disco, started by enterprising entrepreneur Anthony Greco, doubles as the building's cafeteria in the day time. It also makes money for the government. If Greco achieves his goal of $3 million gross the government will make $200,000 plus rent. "There's never going to be a dull moment here," Greco claims. "This place is going to help wipe out the national debt." So far it looks like he may be right. 200 people - including several White House aides - jammed the disco recently. Now if we can just slide some of those ISR computers over to one side of the room . . . On the outside November starts out with a lot of sunshine. It should be sunny all day with temperatpre highs in the mid to upper 50s. 1 BEST QUALIFIED: 'Author/Editor of numerous hooand rartices. deal'ing' treatment for acne. So every few weeks for almost two years McKenny traveled to a reputable dermatologist in Ann Arbor for carefully timed exposures to x-rays, A SMALL SORE on the side of her nose which bled a little and refused to heal appeared ten years later. A surgeon from Toledo, Ohio, her native town, barely examined the sore and cauterized it. After another five years, a tiny sore which turned into a red spot and was accompanied by slight bleeding ap- peared on her cheek. Two doctors told McKenny it was "a broken capillary due to age - nothing to worry about." At the end of the summer of 1976, McKenny had three keritosises, or tiny bumps on the bridge of her nose. Her entire nose was red, like a sunburn that does not go away. THE CONCLUSION reached by one doctor that she indeed had "a problem" led McKenny to a surgeon who conduc- ted a biopsy for skin cancer. It was negative, but this was the first doctor who asked her if she had ever been ex- posed to x-rays. Various medications were prescribed for her skin but last year she noticed a sore larger than all the others. This time, a biopsy was positive for basal cell carcinoma, skin cancer. "Under an x-ray beam the acne decreases," said Dr. William Grabb, head of plastic surgery at the Univer- sity Hospital. "But unfortunately, they also cause permanent changes in the skin." FEDERAL GOVERNMENT hearings on the potential harm of x- rays were held last week. Because of the cancer problem, x-ray treatment for acne became outmoded twenty years ago. "We know x-rays have caused skin cancer because it has only been found with people who had acne treated in that manner 20 to 40 years ago. Or people get skin cancer where the Daily Official Bulletin WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1978 Daily Calendar: Biological Science: Rullell L. Malmberg, MSU, "Temperature-Sensitive Mutants of Tobacco Isolated from Cell Culture, MLB, lecture room 2 4 P.m. Statistics: Alistair Scott, Auckland U., "Analysis of Categorical Data from Complex Surveys," 451 Mason Hall, 4 p.m. Ind/Oper. Eng.: Stephen Pollock, "Models for Evaluating Criminal Corrections Programs," 229 W. Eng., 4 p.m. Physics/Astronomy: S. Berko, Brandeis U., "The Positron Annihilation Technique in Solid State Research," 296 Dennison, 4p.m. THE MICHIGAN DAILY volume LXXXIX, No. 48 Wednesday, November 1, 1978 is edited and managed by students ait the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage is paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters) $13 by mail, outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published through Saturday morning. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor;. $7.00 by mail outside Ann Arbor. graduate and now a housewife and mother, is also sure x-rays caused the cancer. "It appeared only on my face where I had my x-ray treatment. No one in my family ever had skin can- cer." Grabb cut McKenny's cancer out and stretched skin over the hole. After a look like a mess. If the graft takes, you gradually begin to look better, but never perfect. "I'VE LEARNED how to use cosmetics and glasses to cover scars. I have to avoid the sun, so I wear sun creams and hats. But I used to love gardening and sports." Cancer The government, Grabb, MCKenny and many others are anxious to alert patients who were treated with x-rays to small sores that do not heal, and to the possibility of cancer. "Even the doctors in the operating room with Dr. Grabb did not know it was the x-rays that did it," said McKenny. MCKENNY HAS had four surgical operations. She has check-ups every ten days to two weeks. Grabb says the can- cer does not spread beyond the area treated by, x-rays, but biopsies and surgery will be for McKenny and many others, a continuing nightmare. I IMAGESI I I I II ': IR I Ann Arbor's Cornerstone of Beauty' 1 I 11\I nCOM;PA\NY Y SPECIALISTS in " PERMS: Curly, Wavy, & I Relaxers " Precision Cuts I' COLOR I " COLOR CORRECTION I " FACIAL & NAILS I I " PRESS & CURL 1.1 This month, receive a 10% I DISCOUNT on all services I (offer good only with this coupon) I 1 311 E. 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