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Edwin A. Morris Clinical Cancer Research Building
Cancer Center ranked first
(From the Durham Morning Herald.)
The Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center has finished first among the
nation's 19 comprehensive cancer centers in a review by the National Cancer
Advisory Board.
The results of the review were published in the July 14, 1978, edition of The
Cancer Letter.
TTie review scored the centers on 10 characteristics that the advisory board used
to determine if a center were comprehensive.
The areas surveyed were: purpose; interdisciplinary capability in diagnosis and
treatment; environment of excellence in basic science; organized cancer detection
control program; statistical base for evaluation of results; leadership in developing
community programs where members of the medical profession in the geographic
area take part; strong research base; participation in the National Cancer Program
through integrating efforts with other centers; administrative efficiency and sound
financial practices; clinical beds for patients.
Duke led all the centers in only one category, that of developing community
programs for physicians in the area served. However, its strong ratings in all
categories led to the overall ranking.
The Duke center scored well (low totals) in purpose, control, participation in the
National Cancer Program and in administration.
The other centers, in order of rank in the review, are Roswell Park Memorial
Institute; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; M.D. Anderson; Mayo
Comprehensive Cancer Center; Los Angeles County Comprehensive Cancer
Center; University of Alabama; Sidney Farber Cancer Center; Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center; The Johns Hopkins University Cancer Center; Ohio State
University Comprehensive Cancer Center; Illinois Cancer Counil; University of
Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center; Comprehensive Cancer Center — State of
Florida; Fox Chase Cancer Center; Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center; Colorado
Regional Cancer Center, Inc.; and Georgetown-Howard University Cancer Center.
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equality between the sexes, women
continue to be discriminated against,
Crovitz said.
In the Soviet Union, for example,
where some 85 percent of all working-age
women are in the labor force, women
perform the bulk of the low-paying,
manual labor, she said. Those who are
educated are shunted into the less
prestigious professions, by Soviet
standards, of teaching and medicine.
"TTie chaotic inefficiency of consumer
life and the lack of sufficient day care
centers, coupled with the assumption
that women exclusively should care for
home and children create unrelieved
whirlwinds of responsibility and work for
Russian women," she said.
"Women will be freed from narrowly prescribed roles, and their
potential for full humanity will be realized only when people work to
provide structured ways in which men and women equally share job
and home responsibilities."
It's time to save
Kickoff time has been set for 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday as the annual U.S. Savings
Bond Program gets under way.
John Cox from the U.S. Treasury
Department and representatives of the
university's payroll office will speak
during a coffee hour in the courtyard
cafeteria. All payroll clerks have been
invited.
Drive chairman Herbert E. Aikens
requested that "every effort be made to
have each payroll clerk or representative
to attend."
Packets of information and materials,
arranged in paypoint order, will be
available for pickup at the end of the
program, Aikens noted.
"Not surprisingly, a counter-culture
has emerged, with many women arguing
that they be allowed to forego working
and return to the home to raise young
children themselves!"
Discrimination in Kibbutzim
Crovitz said that in the early days of the
Israeli collective farms known as
Kibbutzim, there was little sexual
division of labor. Women drove tractors
and worked beside men in the fields,
while service work was more or less
shared by both sexes.
"Over time, however, the Kibbutzim
have developed a highly sex-
differentiated division of labor in which
men do well-esteemed productive and
managerial work, while women are
overwhelmingly engaged in service
activities—cooking, washing, sewing,
etc."
Like their Russian counterparts, some
women who live in Kibbutzim have
begun pressing for increased family
responsibilities. The psychologist said the
reason for their dissatisfaction lies not in
any "maternal drive," but rather in the
fact that they have been eased out of
productive work and into the less
satisfying service work.
"The Kibbutzim pioneers, despite their
egalitarian ideology, never assigned men
to infant care," she said. "They were
willing to have women work in the fields,
but unwilling to have men work at tasks
related to small children."
Sweden may be closest
Crovitz said Sweden may be closest to
achieving true equality for women in this
century.
The official government position there
is that every individual, irrespective of
sex, shall have the same practical
opportunities, not only in terms of
education and employment, but also in
principle the same responsibility for the
upbringing of children and the upkeep of
the home, she said.
Among the many reforms that Sweden
has adopted toward that end has been the
changeover from maternity benefits
insurance to parenthood benefits
insurance. A father, for example, can be
reimbursed for up to six months lost
income should he stay home to care for
his family after his wife gives birth.
"Women will be freed from narrowly
prescribed roles, and their potential for
full humanity will be realized only when
people work to provide structured ways
in which men and women equally share
job and home responsibilities," the
psychologist said.
SPEAKING OF SAVING ■ John Cox from the
U.S. Treasury Department will speak at the
kickoff coffee hour for the annual U.S. Savings
Bond Program. (Photo by John Beclon)