The Michigan Daily - Sunday, February 12, 1984 - Page 3 HAPPENINGS- Highlight SUNDAY The Jewish Law Students' Union and the National Jewish Law Students' Association are sponsoring a conference on "Jewish Commitment in the Legal Profession," today. The conference featuring ,lecturers from the University Law School, Northwestern, William and Mary, and lawyers in private practice, begins at 8:15 a.m. at the Lawyer's Club in the Law School. Films Alt. Act - Watch on the Rhine, Nat. Sci., 7 p.m.; The Children's Hour, Nat. Sci., 9 p.m. AAFC - The Ann Arbor 8mm Film Festival, Aud. A, Angell Hall, 7 & 9 p.m. Hill St - Yellow Submarine, Hill St., 7 & 8:45 p.m. Cinema Guild - Laughter in Paradise, Lorch, 7 p.m.; Hobson's Choice, Lorch,8:45 p.m. Performances Michigan Theater - "Tommy: The Rock Opera," live performance, 8 p.m. EMU Theater - "Threepenny Opera," Quirk Aud., 7 p.m. Young Peoples Theater - "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," Per- formance Network, 408 W. Washington, 2 p.m. Theater & Drama - "The Hostage," Power Center, 2 p.m. School of Music - Stearns Lee. Series, Michael Lynn, flute, "Whistles, Recorders, & Flutes," Recital Hall, 2 p.m.; Trumpet recital, Drew Farkas, Recital Hall, 6 p.m., Horn Students recital, Recital Hall, 8 p.m. Speakers Central Amer. Action/Educ. Committee - Nicaraguan women leaders Nubia Aguirre & Magda Enriquez, "Women's Role in Building Democracy," St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 7 p.m. Matthaei Bot. Gardens - Charles Cares, "Chinese Inspirations in Lan- dscape Design," Aud., 3 p.m. Miscellaneous Free University - "Tuition and the University Budget," workshop, An- c erson Rm., Michigan Union, 2 p.m. Housing Special Programs - Black History Month, The Roots of Black Music - gospel, jazz, rhythm & blues, & soul, Angela Davis Lounge, Markley Hall, 8 p.m.; Fashion Show, "Shades of Beauty," Blue Carpet Lounge, Stockwell, 6 p.m. UM Hosp., CMHC, American Red Cross - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Ed. Center, 1:30- 4:30 p.m. A special refresher class at 9 a.m. Preregistration req. Call 971- 5396. Muslim Student's Assoc. - Islamic Education in English for children and adults, Muslim House, 407 N. Ingalls, 10a.m. Acad. of Early Music; Michigan Union Cultural Arts Prg. - Bach Cantato Sing-along, Baroque pitch A-415. Kuenzel Rm., Michigan Union, 4-9 p.m. Rec. Sports - Adult/child gymnastics & tumbling activities, CCRB, 2:30 p.m. MONDAY. Highlight Nicaraguans Magda Enriquez and Nubia Aguirre will speak on "Women & popular Organization.in Nicaragua," at 8 p.m. tonight in Anderson Rms. C and D of the Michigan Union. The talk is sponsored by the Latin American Solidarity Committee. Film AAFC - Ganga Zumba, MLB 1, 8 p.m. Cinemp Guild - Om Kalthoun, Lorch, 7 p.m.; I want a Solution, Lorch, 7 p.m. Performances Guild House - Poetry readings, George Garrett & Lynn Coffin, 8 p.m. School of Music - University Symphony Orch. concerto competition win- ners, Gustav Meier, conductor, Hill Aud., 8 p.m.; piano concertos recital, Recital Hall, 8 p.m. Theater & Drama - Plays, "Dogg's Hamlet," & "Cahoot Macbeth," New Trueblood Theatre, 8 p.m. Speakers Near Eastern & No. African Studies - brown Bag, Abdelrahim Eltalib "The Comprehensive Theory of Islamic States," Lane Hall Commons Rm., noon. Macromolecular Res. Center - Thieo Hogen Esch, "Stereochemistry of Anionic Oligomerization of Vinyl Monomers: A Tool in the Elucidation of Polymer Cirostructure," 3005 Chem., 4 p.m. Faculty Women's Club - Freeman Miller, talk and slideshow on "Comets, Mich. Rm., Michigan League, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., call 663-0176. Latin American Solidarity Committee - Magda Enriquez & Nubia Aguirre, "Women & Popular Organization in Nicaragua," Anderson Rms. C & D, Mich. Union, 8 p.m.' Chemistry - Athanasios Salifogblou, "2Fe-2s Ferredoxins. Synthetic Ap- proaches," Rm. 1200, Chem. Bldg., 4 p.m. Computing Center - Leigh Daniels, "Intro to the Use of Microcomputers with MTS," 140 Bus. Ad., 3:30-5:30 p.m. Meetings Asian American Assoc. - Trotter House, 6:30 p.m. Eating Disorder Self-help Group - Human Growth Center, 2002 Hogback Rd. -13, 7:30-9:30 p.m. SACUA - E. Alcove, Rackham, 2 p.m. Senate Assembly - Rackham Ampitheatre, 3:15 p.m. See HAPPENINGS, Page 5 To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Malicious Intent Cooleys: For the poetic engineer By GRANT FITZ Arthur Miller never won one, and neither did Lawrence Kasdan. The two celebrated Hopwood winners couldn't, because the Cooley Writing Awards are for engineers - engineerswho feel it's time to write a poem rather than a computer program. "These students are writing for themselves, it gives them a breather from their work," said Engineering Humanities Prof. Robert Martin, chairman of the Cooleys awards committee for the past five years. MARTIN SEES the awards as an outlet for studen- ts who might otherwise be frustrated by a narrow education. "The creative personality seeks ex- pression, whether it's through physics or writing," he said. "It gave me a chance to write about some of my experiences," said Baard Johansen, who entered at the urging of his humanities professor. Johansen, a graduate student won a prize for a short story about his life in Norway before he came to the United States. Anthony Silk, a sophomore aerospace student, used the Cooleys as a chance to escape not the technical. aspects of his education, but his humanities classes. "Personally, I have no real desire to write in class, he said. "I don't want to write about "Oedipus." MARTIN VIEWS the Cooleys as a chance for engineers to write and be recognized without facing the stiff competition from English majors in the Hopwoods. "The Hopwoods don't give engineering students as good a chance," he explained. But that doesn't mean the awards committee has to labor through page after page of twisted syntax. "Ten to 15 Cooley Award winners have also won Hopwoods," Martin said. One of those winners - John Deuago, dropped engineering to continue writing studies at UCLA, and currently writes screenplays in Hollywood, Martin said. "There's a tremendous amount of ability in that college. . . I'm very surprised on the quality," Martin said. BUT FOR most engineering students the awards remain unknown or ignored. Martin said there are only "abyout 50 students a year enter." "I really haven't heard that much about them or know what they are all about, said senior Larry Godt. "If I did, I still probably wouldn't have the time to do it this year." For those who do enter, the contest doesn't have the $2,500 awards Hopwood entrants can win, but prizes in the four categories of fiction, poetry, essay and drama can run up to $750, with most ranging from $100 to $500. The awards were established by Mortimer Cooley, dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture from 1904 to 1928, "to develop, broaden, and enrich the engineering education." Americans evacuite Beirut amidst shelling BEIRUT, Lebanon - U.S. Marines flew out the last American civilians fleeing west Beirut yesterday but the evacuation was interrupted when a shell exploded over a crowd of people waiting to leave the seafront. None of the evacuees was injured but later a 15-year-old Turkish girl was wounded as she waited for a helicopter. A TOTAL of 884 Americans were airlifted to U.S. warships off the coast of Beirut on Friday and yesterday Renewed shelling briefly delayed the evacuation. There was no word on the fate of Frank Regier, 50, an American professor at the American University of Beirut kidnapped Friday. Regier, who was born in Montgomery, W. Va., lived in west Beirut with his Lebanese wife for 25 years. The harassment of the evacuation was in marked contrast to Friday when almost 1,000 Americans, Britons and other westerners left without incident. The last of 32 helicopter loads lifted off from the seafront corniche at early evening. FRAGMENTS OF exploding shells fell near the fleeing foreigners and two crashed into the Mediterranean about 50 yards from where the Marines were processing the civilians. See AMERICANS, Page 5 Old herpes test brings new hopes for victims By RACHEL GOTTLIEB There still isn't a cure for it, but a University professor has given credibility to atest that can detect her- pes zoster accurately and early. The Tzanck smear, a detection test developed in the late 1940s has been lit- tle used because of concerns about its reliability, according to James Rasmussen, a professor of dermatology in the Medical School. "THE TEST has been underutilized because it's accuracy had never been tested," Rasmussen said. But after looking into the test, Rasmussen said it reliably diagnosed Herpes, particularly in the first stage, when sores that look like blisters develop. At this stage, Rasmussen said, doc- tors or lab technicians can simply put the pus under the microscope and determine if herpes' viruses are present in about five minutes, com- pared to the viral culture method currently usedhwhich takestfrom one to three days. The viral test, which in- volves growing a culture in a petri dish costs around $50, Rasmussen said, while the Tzanck smear test costs only $5. WHILE THE test is almost entirely accurate in the first stage, in the later stages~, when the lesions begin to dry, up, it is muchmore difficult to detect infectious material without the aid of a microscope, Rasmussen said. He said that a positive reading in the later stages would indicate the disease is present, but a negative reading may not mean the patient is free of the disease. 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