are Afrigan Bath3 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Editorials printed ih The Michigan daily express the individual opinions of the author. This must be noted in al reprints. FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1972 News Phone: 764-0552 Acupuncture on trial Digging oi the Diag Crater retaliations T HE UNIVERSITY'S threatened retaliation against the protesters who dug simulated bomb craters on the Diag two weeks ago came through yesterday with arrest warrants for four suspected crater diggers. And next Monday, if all goes well, the crater diggers will deliver their retaliation to the University and the city when hundreds of anti-war protesters parade down- town and turn themselves in to be arrested too. The original protest was deliberately set on the Diag to increase the visibility of the craters and to indict the University dramatically for its complicity with the war effort. We have here at the University and in the city lib- eral leaders, particularly President Robben Fleming, who publicly denounce the war from time to time yet still condone actions like vesterday's arrests, which fit neatly into the reoressive Nixon-Mitchell scheme for controlling the anti-war movement. NO MATTER how much anyone may sneak out against the war, speech alone cannot disengage the Uni- versity from the war effort. What could force the University to cease its war in- volvement-especially the war research which quietly continues desnite the public outcries against It-is a massive protest campaign including more actions like digging on the Diag. Those for whom these arrest warrants have been issued renresent but a tiny fraction of those who par- ticipated in the actual crater die'ing. Each of them is a well known anti-war activist, easily identifiable as a political target. It is not fair that these four susnects should bear the brunt of the University's hostility toward the demonstra- tions, which safety director Frederick Davids says in- volved nrimarily "off-emous bums." Ironic it is, then, that three of the four "bums" named in yesterday's war- rants were students. To demonstrate sridsrity with the four symbolic victims of the University's arrest camnai n as well as continued dis'ust with the war-and our University's role in that war-all local "bums," students or not, should mobilize quickly and in massive numbers. It is imperative that a laree 'roup of protesters accompany the four named in yesterday's warrants when they trek downtown Monday. JOIN TOGETHER, right now, to help end this senseless war-in the fields of Indochina and the streets of America, too. ROSE SUE BERSTEIN Co-Editor NIGHT EDITOR: CHRIS PARKS DITORIA' PAG-n EDITOR- ROSE SUE BERSTEIN ASSISTANT MIGHT EDITOR: DIANE LEVICK PHOTO rECHNIC'AN DFNNY GAINER Summer Staff By JIM NEIBACITE Jim Neubacher is a former Editorial Page Editor who writes for the Detroit Free Pr R. JOHN FOX is a m makes pain go away. job, as an anesthesiologist that so surgery can be pet com-ifortably ' and efficien Downstate Medical Cen Brooklyn. On May 15, he did that bing needles into a volunt tient. Long needles. Tx sharp needles. Acupuncture. The pain awaiy.. "There's nothing my about it." he said .last wee interview. "There are net siological reasons for it can read about lots of the and mystery that is supp accompany it, Yin and Ya all that. But acupuncture w anyone, by way of the nervous system." Acupuncture is the to Chinese technique of curi and medical ills by inserti needles into the body in t per spots, and in the prop binations. Dr. Fox is not s it works, only that it doe But it is a technique lar nored in the Western wor especially in the modern oriented culture we now Needles today are usually ed only if they carry a iqu tion of chemicals into ou that will numb our painc our consciousness. ACUPUNCTURE seems a way out of that drug for it can be used as an tic to kill pain sensation puncture analgesia - or physical ills - general acupuncture. "My operation was the one of the first in the Unit es to use acupuncture ana R said Dr. Fox, assistant professor self, m SDaily of anesthesiology at Downstate. anesthet o1w "It was a biopsy of the tonsil the Ear on.a medical student who volun- ment S an who teered. This was an operation done of anes It s -his periodically and before (the stu- and thrc , to do dent had e topical local anesthe- "Aftet rformed tic sprayed on " felt thet tly at Dr. Fox eschewed the chemicals, would ter in and instead, applied the 1 o n g , DR. F thin, sterile needets in each hand valid at by jab- and foot of the patient at points and he eer pa- known by the Chinese as the Hoku ceptanc iretiety tind Netting peints. alternet The needles were rotated for 20 "Medi e'ent minutes, then the biopsy was per- tosis at formed. The student volunteer, ness. T steritts Frederic Newman, 23, reported af- New Y k n ter the operation that he "felt usually, uro-phy- virtually no pain or discomfort." or dent . You ."I am an American, the pa- patients Youd tient was an American, we import- "Acup legend ed no Chinese or Taiwanese ad- be lega ng, tnd visors or assistants or observers," ensedp .n, an Dr. Fox noted. "We were able to it's a re 'orbs on duplicate what the Chinese have pecially reported. That is the test of medi- thesia," cal knowledge - that you report "We1 ng-used and describe the technique, and hospital ng pain others test it on their own." trialso ng long BEFORE GIVING Frederic niques. he pro- Newman the needle, Dr. Fox stu- for the er com- died the technique thoroughly, and were re ure how experimented on himself, his wife, and app es. and his colleagues. "Now gely ig- "The history of acupuncture in legally, 'ld, and this country goes back to May also at d r u g- of last year," he says. peers.V inhabit. It was then that two MIT pro- to limit accept- fessors reported observing acu- other,. td solu- puncture treatments in the Peo- "Now i veins ple's Republic of China. offer it or alter "I had heard of acupuncture in importa Switzerland when I was a medi- main th cal student," Dr. Fox said. "I got it doesn to offer tin contact with my colleagues, and DR. I toofr attended an acupuncture confer- punctur( culture, ence in Baden Baden in the last practitit anesthe- week of October. "acupui - acu "Then I studied under a British "It's medical physician, who, in March and acupunt April, used acupuncture anesthes- I mean. is for dental operations and a mail or first, or tonsillectomy. A lot o ed Stat- With what I learned, I was able publici lgesia,"' to try similar techniques on my- til it's1 ROSE SUE BERSTEIN y wife, who is al30a siologist, the chairman , Nose and Throat Depart Surgeons, and the ' sident thesiology and ear. nos oat. r we had done 12 tests. w n we had a technique w}-tc work," he said. FOX says acupuncti.'e is nd legal medical technique predicts it Will find ac] e soon in the U.S. as ar ive to chemical anesthesia Hcine consists of the disg nd treatment of humin 4'11. hat's how it's defined it ork and most states, ant. only a licensed physicia ist can diagnose and trea puncture should therefor] lly permitted to any lic- physician and dentist. But elatively new technique. es, when used as an anes- said Dr. Fox. have a committee in the that severely controls new of drugs, and new tech- So we submitted protocols use of acupuncture which eviewed by the committee proved. , we feel we're in bounds and that acupuncture is cceptable to a panel of We were especially .atefut t out trials only to each and volunteers. soon, we will be able tc to other patients as a very nt part of medicine. The hing is either it worxS, o n't. Pain or no pain." FOX warns potential scu- p' atients tobeswareac1 oners calling themselves ncturists." important to stress that cture is a part of medicine , there's a Vancouver, B.C. 'der school of acupuncture of quacks. Be careful. Thj is well advised to wait to legalized." The King- and the Duke- are dead and back in Windsor "I reject the notion that faced with a choice between love and daty, I chose lose . . . I abdicated because I chose the path of duty." -Edward VIII. f DWARD. Duke of Windsor, died last Sunday. His death may mean little- to international politics now, but Ed- ward was once King of England, until he abdicated the throne to live a quiet life-in exile-with the woman he loved. , Edward represented a romantic sensibility that was rare in his time and is even rarer now. To be sure, the Duke spent his days of exile vacationing, hardly ever speaking out on crying public issues, and not putting to humani- tarian use the vast fortune he commanded. These are grievous faults. But, it is well to remember, too, that Edward's departure from England was not a happy one, that the land he knew and loved sent him away, maintining no in- terest in hearing his criticism. AS PRINCE of Wales, Edward spoke frequently about the plight Letters to The Daily should be mailed to the Editorial Di- rector or delivered to M ary Rafferty in the Student Pub- lications business office in the Michigan Daily building. Let- ters should be typed, double- spaced and normally should not exceed 250 words. The Editorial Directors reserve the right to edit all letters sub- mitted. of Welsh miners. It is upsetting that he discontinued these speech- es after his abdication, but it ap- pears that were he to have con- tinued as King he would have served the public interest more than most recent British monarchs have. In fact, Edward was openly dis- dainful of the royal condition. He once defined royalty as "duty without responsibility, pomp with- out power." Because of the outgrown nature of monarchy, ruling sovereigns to- day often serve only as relics of the past, standard bearers of tra- ditions that bear little connectiot to the lives of the people oet whom they supposedly reign. But Edward was - and cou< have continued to be - a sterlini exception. Here was a forwar< thinking person, imaginitive hope ful and attuned to the needs o. Britain. We owe Edward no malice ifu having been born into an anti quated system. INSTEAD, we owe him respec for his courage, and empathy fo his plight-sentenced by a lov less protocol to live a purposeles life far away from the homelant which had nurtured him. ;' A > .; '. .. nOBEANDREWS... BO B TBARKIN . .. ....... JAN BENEDETTI. ROSE SUE BERSTEIN DANIEL BORUS .. ROBERT CONROw LINDA DREEBEN DENNY GAINER. .. ANDY GOLDING MERYL GORDON HARRY HIRSCH.. SHERRY KASTLE KAREN LAAKKO. ELLIOT LEGOw ARTHUR LERNER ... DIANE LEVICK DAvID MARGOLICK. SHEILA MARTIN JIM O'BRIEN CHRIS PARKS NANCY ROSENBAU.M PAUL RUSKIN .. 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