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Hyperbaric Unit Ready for Sharking Study H. PRE-DIVE CHECK-UP—Or. Peter Bennett, professor of anesthesiology and director of diving research here, examines one of the tiger sharks supplied by the Australian government for oxygen toxicity studies that will take place at Duke soon. Bennett said he regrets being unable to participate further in the study, though his injuries are healing nicely. rPbdfo by Day,//y by Trading Post FOR SALE—Sansui 500 watt amp., four AR speakers (with 15" woofer, horn and tweeter), turntable, tape player; average volume about 150 decibels; also, collection of records, including Zappa, Stones, others; will sell cheap. Call loudly. FREE—To a good home. Adorable gray baby elephants, housebroken. Please call 555-9194 anytime. FOR SALE — Complete set of instruments (stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, opthalmascope, otoscope, etc.); reasonable price. Reason for selling; transferring to Oral Roberts Medical School. Call 555-4321, or just raise your hand.' FOR SALE —1953 Chevrolet, four door, heater; 167,000 miles, like new. Call 555-6789. PERSONAL—Attila, that wizened warrior, loves the girl who rides out thunder storms in the tops of trees. FOR SALE-1966 Cadillac with fins. Power steering, power brakes, air conditioning, 452 cu. inch. Fire engine red with pk>wered drop top. 42 mpg. ^,750 or b^t offer. Great second car for wife or teenager. Call BR-549. FOR SALE—1968 silver metal-flake 'Vet. Side pipes, six four-barrel carbs., rolled and pleated, mud flaps, fuzzy dice on fuzzy rear-view mirror, raccoon tail for antenna, drag slicks, roll bar, fuel injection, dozens of red reflectors, flame and STP decals. Driven Sunday afternoons only by medical librarian. Call 555-3505 after midnight and ask for Florence. If man answers, hang up. BABY SITTER NEEDED-For 16-year-old twin boys with school adjustment problems. Vigilant, strong-willed person preferred. Meet at Washington Duke statue on East Campus at noon Saturday. Wear a pink carnation and motorcycle helmet. TERMPAPER RESEARCH SERVICE —Duke assistant professor with large family desires to help undergraduates with end-of-the- semester term paper problems. Satisfaction guaranteed. $10 per research page. Meet at Washington Duke statue on East Campus at noon Saturday. Wear a red carnation and graduation mortarboard. ^ Innercalm is published each year in which April 1 falls on a Friday by the Duke University MediCcil Center's Office of Misinformation. Credit and authorship beyond that is denied on the grounds of self-incrimirution. r, V LOOK FAST—The Evelyn Woods Reading' Institute will offer a course in speedreading for all drivers who must find their way through the campus traffic circle, the hospital's administrative director Richard Peck has announced. The course is being sponsored by the hospital administration in an effort to help dizzy employees. Supervisors are currently giving each employee a card indicating in which of the 54 instruction sessions he or she nnay participate. {Photo by Steve Roper) (Continued from page 1) us by the Australian government," he said between bites on a cucumber sandwich during an interview held recently in a local health food restaurant. "Pardon me for talking with my mouth full, but I am really excited about this and I also am really hungry," Custodian explained. "The Aussies said they were only too happy to oblige us with the sharks so long as we agreed not to send them back to Australia when we have finished with them." Putting the Bite on Volimteers Current plans are to have the feisty fish releas^ off Emerald Isle, N.C., for humanitarian reasons, once the work is complete. Seven of the sharks are great whites, the student said. There are also four tigers, two basking sharks and "a quite large hammerhead." Duke scientists are encouraging undergraduates and vacationing medical center employees to sign up as volunteers for the study, but so far the response has been disappoint ing, according to Custodian. "Believe it or not, we still have 24 openings out of two dozen available positions,^' he said. "Volunteers will be paid out of the grant at a rate of $2.^ per hour under water. Any grant funds remaining at the end of the tests will be divided up equally among the scientisjts." Sharks Known to Cause Stress Custodian said sharks were chosen for the experiments because they are known to. create stress in humans. The subjects will be provided with sculia equipment without charge for use in the wet pot which, when flooded with water under pressure, can stimulate depths up to 1,000 feet beneath the sea. Cylindrically-shaped, the wet pot measures about five feet across its base and is approximately six feet tall. The subjects will also be provided with shark billys — short clubs for fending off the fish — if they are needed, at a modest cost. Custodian said he hopes at least a few of the billies will be needed, not only because his family owns a franchise for them in the Southeast, but also bedause their effectiveness has never been proven. He added, however, that he will feel personally responsible for the safety of any volunteers. Skeptics Known to Cause Stress "In any academic community there are skeptics who will not take experiments like these seriously, and that is one of the problems with American uruversities today," he said. "Not enough blind faith. "But make no mistake, we are deadly serious, and I hope to get a publication out of it. A publication would look great on my transcript," Custodian said. "Would you hke a bite of my cucumber sandwich?" ONTOURTODAY We are happy to have a combined fourth-fifth grade class from Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School, Washington, D.C., touring the medical center today. They are accompanied by their teacher, Verona Meeder, and three Secret Service agents.
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