THURSDAY. AUGUST 9. 1962
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A -Succinct Report on 'Oral Contraceptives E May
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By LEN KRAUSS I Bring
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s Man's attempts to "find abet- followed her physician's regi- E-- - Madcap Actioni
E ter way" have resulted inthe men for the use of the oral con- 2 arDe Students/
traceptives has become p reg- E.
opening of a wholly new vista ~ '= No one likes to bring sad tid-,
. .Want in any of the large scale = .
E, in the field of Contraceptim: -
tests. Two pills are nowe on the a ings, but if you've checked your
= 1 E. calendar lately, you see that this
ff , the p ill. Since the . first oral ritarket; they are Enovid and = term is rapidly becoming history.'
E' contraceptive was given clear- i Norlutate and are manufac- -
= .by G. D. Searle' & Co., =the= Once again
.we must endure all
a ance by the U.S. Food and -bire d , do- I
s hi g h tensions and madcap E farad
= Drug Administration on May
, spectively. A third pill, called .-±: ings that accompany final exarni-
E nations.
= 6, 1960, more than a million Cortho-Novum, Is awaiting Food i ----
women have been taking the and Drug Administration ap- P.-. The word "finale; unfortunately
ETAtIe pink pills w i th excellent proval; the others are approved. g produces nothing but stark terror ,
= results 'although the pill has f 1 . , =in the minds of many students.
g.'• been greeted with acrimony in D Reversibilicy ' 5 The only advice I can give these ,
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?- 2 people is that more than a little
; some circles. • , , --
The e ff ectiveness of the .., '-=
p a s , =study now goes a long way
E ' his been proved in field testa. E. toward making examinations less
the maxi m um of which was =
E As Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher,' = nerve wracking.
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E obstetrician and gynecologist at
14. six wears, conducted in Puerto E Yet it is Ironic that during
New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital
!Rico, Haiti; Los Angeles, San 5 - finals some students pretend they
g and author of the book"B___irth Antonio, in New York at the' E have more time than they really
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• Control," said, "It's failure rate ;Margaret Sanger Research E.: do. The HUB stays more crowded
. . . is virtually zero. We can
!Bureau and other locations:l for more hours; Ind some people
say this, I believe, about no .
There were no cases' in which: a who haven't seen a movie 'in
I other method 'of contraception !when the use of thepill was E- - ' weeks head for the theatres
• except perhaps chaining the i discontinued, ovulation did' not E downtown. All this activity 4 is in
s husband in the woodshed." . I
.resume within a month or so. =the interest of "relaxation," they
There - was - even some evidence F.- - .-. say. People - may pull bizarre
to show that some women be- E. stunts and beexcused becausalt
-.=., . ;Came more 'fertile after using Eis finals time. '
=. week Un i vers it y - . This - 363 't he pills.
E = Perhaps this UniVersity might
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- women whose average age was : c - = be a better place if a bit of the
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E 20.2 were asked for their I r How About Cancer? = atmosphere which surrounds at
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opinions on the following ques- i : , § tempts to escape insanity during
E tions! ' i No. As a matter of fact. t h e = final examinations were injected
- ' i Puerto Rican tests showed less _5 into everyone early . in the term.
1 1. Would birth control pills, incidence of cervical cancer; g A little of the post-.term paper glee
€. in your opinion, cause an in- , this has led the American Can- = might serve student relationships
- g.crease in premarital sexual re-.ice -Society in 1961 to contri- g well throughout the entire year,
• lations if the pills were to be- Ibute $58,000 to a long-term =not just during the fading weeks
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= as come available as aspirin? 1 study to determine whether:= -
= of each term. A measure of un
= • 1 the pills might be useful- in I derstanding reaps great bounty.
2. Would you personally h " --- --- - curbing cancer. Prof Wayne
affected?
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E 3. If and when you marry, In the Fuhtre , E . ' Meyer-to Study Lubricants • 1
= would you use some form of :.
• a Wolfgang E. Meyer, professor of
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Ean artificial (pills or other de= : The All-India Institute of E mechanical engineering, will serve '
E vices) contraceptive? : Hygiene and Public Health is E on a special assignment' with the
studying a garden pea under a California Research Corporation,
E The results (in percentages) ' the direction of Dr. S. N, Sand g. Richmond, Cal., until August 31. 1
g E were: i yal. A chemical from the pea . gi He will do research in the field
. has been-reported as an effec-, a of multi-grade lubricants.
Opinion Poll
Yes No
74 Ql. 78.1 21.9
. 1 - Q 2. 15.4 84.6
g Q 3. - 67.2 , 32.8
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= The ludicrous difference be
• tween
the yes answers in Q 1:
and Q 2 was expected. It is just
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E another indication that , many;
E individuals attribute certain
1 E things to their contemporaries
= and ' colleagties ' which they ;
g themselves say they would not
E' do. It is fully realized, never- f
-=.... theless, that the `'respondents'
.€ were- given no opportunity to!
E- make actual comments on
p.. these questions and certainly
I some would have liked to qualt.:
I ify— their answers. However,'
€. "Mademoiselle" magazine, of:
C January 1961, contained an sr.'
title in which some of the corn-
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= ments, from the two-hundred'
1 women polled, were printed.,
I These comments bear out the'
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E . opinion given on Q 2. ' .
E In answering Q 3, the Uni
• g versity women polled did- not
: g give significantly differing an
= swers from, respondents in
Isimilar surveys done else- ,
where. _s
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IHow the Pills Work
ten the pills are taken as
di ed, ovulation is sup
pressed and hence the normal
release of one egg a month
Idoes occur. A hormone, pro,
g duced by the body during preg. !
nancy and about the fourteenth
31= day of the menstrual cycle,
Icalled progesterone, prevents;
ovulation. The pill, which is:
made of a steroid chemical, ii 1
E a - synthetic . drug moleCularly
E similar to progesterone; it acts!
in the same manlier as the naV• 1
urally produced hormone. . 1
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' Twenty pills a month are re=
quired and a month's supplY
1 costs approximately $3.50. AI
physician. is the only personi
who, at this stage of market-1
E ing; can prescribe the pills. His'
E schedule must be followed.
exactly. In addition, one out of.
five users has a little nausea
which necessitates a physician's
adVice and, perhaps the use of
, antacid pills for a short me:
The remaining four show ex=,
E cellent results with Xio sid*i
effects. No woman, who . has
-•!1,,., , nit u,, !,,,. L tr 1,,, !!,;1.,.;“..!, id IMO
tive contraceptive when taken a
only twice a month.
Dr. Albert Tyler, professor N.
of embryology at the California
Institute of Technology in L 0.4
Angeles, is working on contra-:
ceptive vaccine. His work is
being supported by the U.S:
Public Health Service. Dr. Ty
ler is also looking into the pos
sibility of pill for men.
Dr. Carl G. Heller of the Uni
versity of Oregon Medical
;School is I also conducting re- a'
search on an oral contraceptive
!for men.
Current News
Thriambophlebitis, a blood- s"- - =
clot condition, was' mentioned -a
last week as possibly being rl
connected •with the use of Eno
vid. As a result, the Food •and
Drug AdminiStration and the "- - 2
manufacturer are investigating 3.
the 'pills. Twenty-eight, of more 14
/ than a Million women using a .
the pills, are known to have -2
' developed' th r o mbophlebitis;
six of them died. At this time,
there exists absolutely no evi
dence that -a causal relation- 14
ship exists. Dr. Celso-Ramon
Garcia, one of the developers
;of Enovid, stated,-"You add all g
the . cases in England and the it
United States and it still -4
doesn't come close to the lower 3
! limit of the natural incidence 4
of the disease." The lower
limit is one case 'per thousand Ei
! women, he said.
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Dr. Edwin J. De Costa, a
Chicago gynecologist who re
viewed Enovid results in last Z
month's Journal of the Amer.
lean Medical Association, said, Z .
"There is no indication that ff
Enovid predisposes one to rd
thrombophlebitis." . Dr. Gre
gory Pincus, director of the
Worcester Foundation for Ex
perimental Biology where Eno-
vid was' developed, stated, Z
"There has not been one sin
gle case 'of pathology, not a
contra-Indication in the one §
million patients observed on 0.
the drug."
inaterviirwers: Arlene Levin, 'Elven"? ES
Walt*. Saft4ll Iniftetry, Mardi Fltia..
liner, Marcy Panettlaneo, Paula Zhu- =
mmerman,. Plunk Gurbarg. Ann Matt, 4.1,
Linda . ColvrelL)
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Student Leaders to Hear
Walker,Bernreuter Talks
President Eric A. Walker and
Robert G. Bernreuter, special as
sistant to the president for stu-.
dent affairs, will both speak at the
Student Encampment pro g ram'
this fall, Linda Petry. chairman,,
said yesterday.
EVERYTHING is completely
planned for the Undergraduate
Student Government prog r a in,
which will be held Sept. 12-14 at:
Mont Alto campus, Mics Petry
said. Bernreuter will give the
welcoming:address, and the Presi
dent will speak at the evaluation,
meeting the last. day of 9 the en
campment, she' said.
The officers of the encampment
are Paul McPherson, business
manager; Elizabeth Horn, secre
tary; and Dean Wharton, presi
dent. The five workshop chair
men are Albert Cartwright, Four-
Term Plan chairman; Roger
ISchwartz and Mary Sue Hersey,
Judicial co-chairmen; David Was
son and Fred Good, Off-Campus
Problems; Allison Woodall. On-
Campus Problems; and Michael
I Dzvonik, USG.
The 90 student campus leaders
who will attend the session will
spend as much as 10 hours of one
day discussing plans and prob
lems in the workshops. Each
workshop will have about 14
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students participating in it. A
total of 30 faculty members will
also attend the encampment, Miss
Petry said.
The over-all purpose of the con
ference is to provide student or
ganizations with ideas for specific
programs that should be under
taken next year. Projects for USG
t are primarily the concern of_ the
iconference, Miss 'Petry said.. An
.other reason for the conference
its to promote faculty-student re
ilation.s4 in the informal meetings
lof student encampment, she
;added.
The 90 students attending the
confer nce were selected by the
encampment committee and USG
officers from applications they re
ceived. George L. Donovan, co
ordinittor of student activities,
selected interested faculty mem
bers, whose experience -at pre
vious encampment programs will
enable them to 'give helpful sug
gestions during the sessions, she
explained.
USG WANTS to enlarge its
program to include more worth
while projects, and it experts to
get ideas for some new projects
at the National Student Associa
tion Congress Aug. 19.30 at Ohio
State University in Columbus,
Ohio, Dean Wharton, USG presi
dent said yesterday.
People who care -
put the yews in service /
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