Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 16, 1990 DAVID LUBLINER/Daily Winter Wonderland Bob Hooven blows snow off the parking lot of the First Congregational Church on Maynard St. BODIES Continued from page 1 may not have much muscular mate- rial, "every body has its quirks. The bigger ones smell bad," said Kenny Karp, a third year Inteflex student. The second day of class, U-M students take the skin off of the back. "I was just numbed," said third year Inteflex student Tom Chung. "The first day is definitely the worst because it's all in one piece. It's kind of disconcerting. I'd never touched a dead body, but at the same time, it didn't seem human because it had a weird color and it was all stiff," said first year medical student JoAnn Ellero. The majority of bodies come from the lower peninsula of Michi- gan and usually originate from the university's direct regional area. Wayne State, for example, gets most of its 200 cadavers from four Detroit area counties, while 12 counties provide for U-M and MSU. But school loyalty may also have something to do with where the bod- ies are donated. Each university in the state has its own anatomical donations pro- gram, which allows people to donate bodies to the medical school of their choice. "We let it (the program) be known to people who have an affin- ity or partisanship for MSU," said MSU Anatomy Dept. Chair Joseph Vorro. As many as 9,000 people sub- scribe to the program who are not yet deceased, he added. MSU receives 80-90 bodies a year, allowing for one body to every two to three students, while U-M has a body for every four students. Both medical students and Allied Health undergraduates dissect the bodies. The universities have similar processes of care for the cadavers. After the body gets to the Anatomy Dept., it is temporarily refrigerated, usually overnight, and then it is re- embalmed to preserve it for a longer time. "They last several months," Vorro said. But after initial reactions, many students come to regard the cadavers as non-entities. "You get immune to it pretty quick. It's just not human after awhile," said Karp. "It doesn't really look human. Everyone names their body. You tend to make fun of it. I don't think anyone takes it seri- ously." "You don't think about who it is," Ellero said. "After awhile, it's totally unrecognizable, mangled. You dissect everything." "I don't recall anyone getting sick," Karp added. "We named ours Matilda," said Bill Chung. The name was fitting, he said, for a 71-year-old who died of arterial sclerosis. "The people across from us called theirs Maybelline because she had red fingernails," Ellero said. Karp and his partners call their cadaver Paulina, after the famous model, since she is "a frail, little, 88-year-old woman," said Tom Chung, an Inteflex junior. But even if a Wolverine bleeds maize and blue to the end, bodies are not accepted by the university with- out question. Corpses are received with con- sideration of "aesthetics or respect," said Vorro. If a University professor dies and gives his or her body to the school, for instance, the school transfers the body to another school in order to prevent recognition. Other reasons for refusing a ca- daver include infection, severe fire or auto accident, said Burkel. There is usually no cost to the university. In most cases, the family or estate pays for the delivery of the body. One exception occurs when a willed body must be transported by a University vehicle from the Hospi- tal, said Dr. Burkel. "We always have more requests than we have bodies for, but basi- cally we have enough," Burkel said. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Unrest continues in U.S.S.R MOSCOW - Thousands of people defied a ban on protests in Dushanbe, the violence-torn capital of Tadzhikistan, to demand the resig- nation of the entire local Communist Party leadership, Soviet media said Thursday. A crowd estimated at 8,000 also demanded jobs for tens of thousands of unemployed, better housing an and end to the sale of pork, which the largely Moslem population is forbidden to eat, the official news agency Tass reported. Another demonstration outside the main government buildings at- tracted 2,000 to 5,000 people who chose a committee that recommended setting problems peacefully, Tass and other sources said. Mansur Sultanov, deputy chairman of the Tadzhik branch of Gosteira- dio, said by telephone there were no shootings or riots Thursday, but Tass said bands of armed militants roamed the streets. It said 57 soldiers were among the wounded. Exports to East growing LANSING - The crumbling of communism in Eastern Europe could lead to a significant new export market for American farmers after capital- ism takes hold there, Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter said yesterday. Yeutter said other markets, primarily in Asia, have greater short-term potential, "but in the longer pull, Eastern Europe could be an excellent market." "It will take a conversion from communism to capitalism and it's not likely to take place in a matter of months," he said. The evolutionary process will take several years, Yeutter said, but if those countries can generate economic growth comparable to western Eu- rope, they will become stronger markets. "Today, they don't have the money, they don't have the foreign ex- change. They have to generate that, so in the short run, the potential is not great, but five or ten years from now, it could be very substantial," he said. Michigan. Senate rejects minimum wage bill LANSING - The Michigan Senate voted yesterday to kill Michigan's minimum wage for small employers, although the decision likely will be reconsidered next week, the bill's manager said. By a vote of 15-13, the Republican-run chamber changed the legisla- tion by eliminating the minimum wage for businesses with less than $500,000 in annual gross receipts. The Senate delayed final action on the bill, which would increased the state minimum wage to $4.25 by April 1991, and an attempt to remove the amendment may be made next week. Senator Fred Killingham, R-Fowlerville and the bill's manager, said the change may mean fewer senators would vote for the bill. "I don't think we can pass the bill with it on," Killingham said. "We're in a pickle. We're reviewing the amendment." Juvenile court takes beaten child from abusive parents WYOMING, Mich - A juvenile court judge made a 6-year-old girl a temporary ward of the court after social workers testified her parents al- legedly beat her, deprived her of food and tied her in the cab of a long- haul truck for lengthy periods. Child protective services workers also attempted at the Kent County Juvenile Court hearing Wednesday to end parental rights for her father, Arthur Zanders of Cameron, Texas, and her stepmother, Pamela Zanders of Temple, Texas. No decision was made on that request. Tawana Zanders was taken into protective custody January fourth after employees of the Circle C Trucking Company, where the Zanders worked, reported the alleged abuse. Social workers said at the time, the child did not know her last name or answers to other basic questions. The Zanders each are charged with one count of second-degree child abuse, which carries a maximum four-year prison sentence. Caseworker Keith Kohl said the girl was doing well since she was en- rolled in kindergarten, but still received weekly counseling to help her transition to foster care. EXTRAS Say goodbye to the 80's ... NEW YORK - Put down that Perrier and lime - the '80s are over. Yeah, we know that you were bored to tears by a googolplex of decade- ending stories just two months ago. But bear with us. It's official. The '80s are history. An inkling that we have entered the 1990s came when the parting of Donald and Ivana Trump edged Nelson Mandela off the front page. Many researchers asked the news media: "Why are you so obsessed with these people whose main interest in life, it seems, is flaunting the gold-plated faucets on their yacht? Is this some sort of Trump fetish?" No. No less than William Norwich, society columnist for the Daily News, explains that the Trumps deserve wall-to-wall coverage because they were "the couple of the '80s," a title they appear to have won by ac- clamation. 0 2001: A Space Odyssey IN 70mm DOLBY STEREO Tonight 7:00 & 11:40 nPRY gt :(45O7 Tonight 9:30 M MEALS Continued from page 1 tem here at U of M," he said, "but you must consider the financial im- plications to the Food Services De- partment." "Still, I'd be interested in dis- cussing all of these suggestions," Prentkowski said. Sciarotta and Rielly said they could not understand why the Uni- CHRINA ' GARDEN Restaurant SZECHUAN, HUNAN & PEKING CUISINE || The University of Michigan SCHOOL OF MUSIC versity's unfair system has not been challenged before. "We've talked to friends at schools in other states, and they all use this point system, where you can take off one meal at a time," Rielly pointed out. 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