10—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, July 23, 1985 1 Hershey prof. remembers centers goal By NAN CRYSTAL ARENS be spent in the sight of the stacks of the chocolate up by computer," Rohrer said. Collegian Staff Writer factory." In this way the computer creates a detailed The money was transferred to the Milton picture of the soft tissue which looks much like While Penn State's artificial heart and the new Hershey Trust Fund, and was used to build the the illustrations, which appear in medical text magnetic resonance imaging facility lead the medical center. books, he said. parade of high-technology medical equipment, Since the hospital opened in 1970, it has grown Rohrer said another advantage of the magne health care professionals at the University's into one of the largest health care facilities in tic resonance technique is that bone is not visible Hershey Medical Center have not forgotten the central Pennsylvania. in the pictures because it contains very little goal of it's founder helping people. Rohrer said the 344 bed hospital had 13,000 water. G. Victor Rohrer, associate dean for patient admissions in 1984. The medical center also The medical center is also one of only three care and professor of radiology and medicine at houses a 26-bed neonatal intensive care unit, medical centers in the country with approval the mecical center, said "we try to maintain (the which treats critically ill newborns. from the Food and Drug Administration to int medical center) as a people place." The facility also houses 14 operating rooms, a plant artificial hearts,. Rohrer said. Rohrer spoke to a group of alumni Thursday as renal dialysis and kidney transplant program, a The team of surgeons headed by Dr. William part of the University Alumni Association's va- linear accelerator, which treats 50 cancer pa- Pierce, professor of surgery at the medical cation college program. tients per day, and a heart transplant program center, have not been called into action yet Heather Gilbert, associate executive director with 18 transplants to its credit, he said. because they do not believe the artificial heart of the Alumni Association, said about 100 alumni However, some of the most exciting innova- should be a permanent implant, Rohrer said. The and their families visited the University last Lions at the medical center are those blending University's heart will only be used to sustain a week as part of the vacation college. space-age technology with patient care. heart transplant patient awaiting a donor organ, Gilbert said the vacation college program Hershey's new magnetic resonance imaging he said. provides a wide variety of lectures and activities facility, currently under construction, will allow "The philosophy of Penn State and Dr. Pierce's for both adults and their Children. doctors to take pictures of the soft body tissues group is that perhaps there is something to be At the vacation college, individuals have the which X-rays can not see, Rohrer said. said about the quality of life," he said. "If you opportunity to hear distinguished faculty mem- "This is a whole new technology in medicine, are going to have to be hooked up to two hoses bers speak on a wide range of topics, and tour we've been working on it at the medical center and trundled around with a big cart behind you many of the University facilities, Gilbert said. for about two years," he said. for the rest of your days, it might not be worth "We do a complete academic and recreational The $3 million resonance imaging facility it." program for them," she added. houses a large magnet which generates a field The air-driven artificial heart designed and' Rohrer explained that the medical school was 40,000 times stronger than the earth's natural built by University scientists has several fea the first to have a Department of Humanities and magnetism, Rohrer said. tures which may make it more successful than a Department Family and Community Medicine "You don't go in there with your wrist watch other heart designs. teaching fdture doctors and nurses to stress on, or take a bottle of oxygen, because it will be First, Rohrer said the lining of the artificial "whole patient" in medical care. sucked right in there," he added. heart chamber is made of a special seamless Built on the foundations of a chocolate empire, Rohrer said every human is approxiniately 70 plastic which does not cause the blood to clot. the medical center began with a $5O million grant percent water, and water molecules act like A second feature is the automatic monitoring from the estate of chocolate baron Milton "little bar magnets." system which regulates blood flow in response to Hershey, Rohrer said. "Normally, axes of those atoms are pointing patient's needs, he said. Hershey, founder of the Hershey Chocolate willy-nilly, in a million different directions," The newest possible recruit in the medical Co., never had children of his own and was struck Rohrer said. "But if you put them in a magnetic center's hight-tech arsenal of weapons against by the number of needy children when he and his field which is 40,000 times that of the Earth, you disease may be a "lithotripter" a machine wife considered adoption. However, instead of can make them all line up like bowling pins." used to break up kidney stones, Rohrer said. adopting one child, they opened an orphanage, a Once the molecules are lined up, a radio beam The lithotripter breaks up kidney stones with school and formed the Hershey School Trust of the proper frequency can cause them to an electro-shock wave, allowing them Rohreto be Fund, Rohrer said. reverse direction, he said. flushed from the body without surgr Hershey died in 1945, Rohrer said, and his will "You can flip them over and turn off your said. read: "This is to be spent for the support and beam and they flip back. On that back-flip they "You don't have any incision, you don't have education of orphans, and all of the money is to release a small amount of energy which is picked anything else," Rohrer said. • MI II N N M. 11.111.11.11.111.111111111.11111.111.1111 m inorities ta lk journalism I I 10% . Discount I X I I with Coupon • media —is make people aware of our in the newsroom. mi concerns and make more people The third speaker, Editor of The I Self-Service Copies a aware of our sensitivity," he said. Pittsburgh Press Angus McEachran, I Short & Long Run 111 Today's minority journalists should Johnson contended this type of con- agreed that earlier attemps to solve N Quick Printing N be breaking away from the minority ference was an essential support the problem of racial discrimination g Grove Printing O beat and covering city hall, the envi- structure for these minority journal- in the newsroom only produced ap- i ronment, the economy and eventually ists. He explained that the minorities peasements, rather than progress. 157 S. Garner Surct 111 moving beyond into management po- that are forging into new areas, need "We had one token (reporter), N 234-0580 I sitions, said Ben Johnson the assis- to fall back on the experiences and which we trotted around. We weren't I • I ta n t t o th e mana g i n g knowledge of others who have al- actively recruiting," he said. imessasimaremmumeimemal editors/development, of the Detroit ready experienced similar situations. McEachran said that the problem Free Priss. The second speaker of. the confer- still exists, and will continue to exist "We need to be well-rounded jour- ence approached the double problem until the minorities move into more of nalists," Johnson told a conference of of racism and sexism. the management positions. minority journalists and minority Sheila Detrick, management train- "Still, 40 percent of the newspapers journalism students from Pennsylva- ee in business news, with the Dallas in this country don't have minorities nia high schools, at the State College Morning News, and winner of the 1985 on them," he said. Sheraton yesterday. Outstanding Young Woman of Ameri- He said that although the. American The conference was the sixth an- ca Award, began by presenting a new Society of Newspaper Editors, in the nual for minority journalists, spon- form of racism to the audience that is 1960 s made a committment to get sored by the University the first also infecting America. minority representation up, they under the sponsorship of the newly "A new racism with blacks being have failed in most of their efforts to formed School of Communications. denied the right to compete," she do so. "The conference began through the said. McEachran also told the minority work of Richard Smyser, a former She explained that with the combi- journalists to use their background University professor of Journalism, nation of this new racism and dis- and not to limit themselves to the in hopes of. increasing minority rep- crimination based upon sex, the minority or any other beat. resentation in the media," said Dean media field can still be difficult to . One of the attendents of the confer- Mills, acting dean of the School of break into. ence, Virginia B. Bynoe a 1985 Communications. "I have, for the past eight years, Journalism graduate of the Universi- Mills.said the conference was es- been the token in every newsroom ty said she registered for the sential in providing information and I've been in." conference to talk with others who strategies to the minority journalists She added that only 5.8 percent of may be experiencing similar prob to help them enter the field. news reporters, photographers and lems concerning their minority sta- Johnson was the first of a three- editors are minorities, citing figures tus. speaker panel to address newsroom from February 1985. .Currently a general assignment 'problems and coping with them. Detrick said Blacks are no longer reporter with The Centre Daily "What we need to do in this society entities to appease the federal gov- Times, Bynoe said she just wants to and certainly need to do in the ernment, and have earned their place be treated as any other reporter when By DOUG POPOVICH Collegian Staff Writer Professor minority By MARIA KOKLANARIS Collegian Staff Writer • A University journalism instructor said yesterday that most minority journalism students who hope to work for large national newspapers are not aware of the experience and personal sacrifice such jobs re quire. Leola Johnson, who will begin her second year as a University instructor in the fall, said that while minori ty journalism students should think big, they should also realize that a great deal of pressure goes with finding and keeping a position on a major newspaper or broadcasting station. Johnson spoke to a group of about 100 minority journalists, students, and University faculty members as part of the sixth annual Penn State Conference for Minority Journalists at the Penn State Sheraton Inn. She said that she never really thought of working for a large corporation immediately after college, but many of today's students are dreaming of the New York Times. "We need to have big dreams," Johnson said. "But we must remember the costs associated with those dreams." Minority journalists must learn to cope with special pressures that others do not face, Johnson said. "You have to get used to being the only black or Hispanic person in the newsroom," she said. "Then you have to make yourself stand out." As a Black journalist, Johnson is learning about those pressures first hand this summer as a faculty intern with the Wall Street Journal. She said many of the Journal's reporters have no other life besides work. "They work eight days a week and come in very early every morning. No matter how early I get in there, someone is there first," she said. She asked several editors what they are looking for in their reporters. The most common answers were a broad knowledge of liberal arts and plenty of writing experience. Editors are also looking for enterprising people, Johnson said. "They want people who go out and look for the news. People on the Journal are constantly judged on how much copy they can bring in every day." Johnson said she met many people with advanced gives pointers to journalism students academic degrees while working at the Wall Street Journal, but academics are always secondary to experience in an editor's mind. "It's great to have as much education as possible," Johnson said. "But editors want to see newspaper clippings. If you have some experience on a small paper, they feel more confident that you can take the pressure of a large paper." Johnson urged reporters to go out and hunt for stories. She said chances of success are improved when reporters try to find an interesting or news worthy angle in everything they come across. "Here's a good guideline," she said. "Look for what is unusual in the ordinary and find the ordinary in the unusual." Winslow Mason (senior-journalism), a black Univer sity student working as a University recruiter this summer, made opening comments before Johnson spoke. Mason said the University's journalism pro gram is difficult for minorities to adjust to. "First you have to get used to the culture up here, and then you have to learn to report on it," he said. " That wasn't easy for me at first." But Mason also said he was proud of the curriculum. "Students should take advantage of being here to the fullest," he said. Lynn Martin Haskin, acting Director of Academic Affairs at the University's Delaware County Campus, also expressed pride in the journalism program. But she called for a need to recruit more minorities in journalism. "A goal to increase the number of minority journalists makes good sense," Haskin said. "I'll admit that I tend to hire more women and minorities." Johnson said that even though it is often difficult for minority journalists to reach the top newspapers and broadcast stations, students should never stop trying to do so. "There's nothing wrong with idealism," she said. "I like idealism. Just remember that there's a limit. You can't expect to go charging into the Wall Street Journal, spear in hand, and start shooting down racists." The American Society for Newspaper Editors is trying to make things a little easier for the minority journalist, Johnson said. "The ASNE has come up with a numerical and timely goal," she said. "We want proportional minority representation in newsrooms by the year 2000." a • •LINEMETTE a : 1 - 1111 1 IMES II CINEMA M=MUFMEiI Mel Gibson Returns As: MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME PCI•I3 DAILY: 1:30, 3:35, 5:40, 7:45, 9:50 All Seats $2.00 Before 8:00 p.m. Michael J. 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Her delegation later filed a protest against the walkout. Later yesterday, U.S. delegate Alan L. Keyes traded accusations with Cuba, Nicaragua and the PLO over an Affieridan proposal that the conference condemn terrorism. He claimed only nations that aid terror ism would oppose the resolution. Cuba said the United States was guilty of "state terrorism" and that should be reflected in the resolution. The delegates who walked out on Doron paraded through other parts of the Kenyatta_ International Confer ence Center, shouting in unison, "Pal estine is Arab, Lebanon is Arab!" A proposed resolution describing Palestinian women in Israeli-occu pied territory as victims of oppres sion has become one of the most controversial issues at the July 15-26 conference, which marks the end of a decade the United Nations dedicated to the advancement of women. About 3,000 official delegates are. Doron said in her speech that the Israelis "vigorously protest from this rostrum, that out of all these tensions, . . . the many areas of conflict in the world, only the Arab-Israel conflict has been singled out for special de bate and resolutions at this confer ence." The delegations walking out includ ed most of the Arab nations. Remain- MEXICAN MADNESS 2 CHOICE BEEF. TACOS - • W/CHEESE, MEDIUM SOFT DRINK`AND ' • CRISPY CORN CHIPS, • . S ALL FOR ONLY ing were Egypt, the only Arab country to have signed a peace treaty with Israel, and Jordan. Doron referred to a 1979 treaty with Egypt as "one of the great achieve ments of the past decade." "We fervently hope that this peace process will continue unremittingly, and be followed by further peace agreements with all our Arab neigh bors in the near future," she said. 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