Inexperience no drawback The fall schedule of free courses offered by the Computation Center starts with an introduction which assumes no computer background. So anyone interested in learning a little about computers should not be held back by inexperience. The courses are open to all members of the Duke community. This includes students, faculty, staff, bi-weekly employees and members of non-profit organizations and institutions affiliated with Duke, such as the VA Hospital. Family members of any of the above also are eligible. Classes meet from 4-5 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday. To register or obtain more information, call 684-4146 or 684-3183. Any course will be cancelled if fewer than five people register for it. The complete schedule is as follows: hitmiucfion, Sept. 18-22, Soc/Psych 130; Biyimiiiig PL/I. Sept. 25-Oct. 13, Soc Sci 136; A(hanceil PL/I, Oct. 16-Nov. 3, Soc Sci 136; Bi’giuuing FORTRAN, Sept. 25-Oct. 13 Allen 233; Ailvnnci'd FORTRAN, Oct. 16-Nov. 3, Allen 223; SPSS, Sept. 25-Oct. 6 Allen 226; Beginning COBOL, Sept. 25- Oct. 13, Soc/Psych 133; Aih'nnci'ii COBOL, Oct. 16-Nov. 3, Soc/Psych 133. o c o A VIEW FROM THE CENTRAL CORE — The surveyor in the photo on page 1 is visible here in the center of the picture, standing on the middle square. These giant squares will form the skylight over the main lobby, and the walkway beneath them will lead to conference rooms in the main canopy, out of sight at the top of the picture. The photo was taken from the circular core which will contain the elevators in Duke Hospital North. I took a course. That's how come! Professional news Dr. Andrew Wallace, director of the Duke University Preventive Approach to Cardiology (DUPAC) program, spoke on "Fitness Training for Adults" at an international seminar at the Life Planning Center in Tokyo last weekend. DUPAC and its "Planned Vigor" running program draws participants as heavily from the community as from Duke, and Wallace used it as a model of how an academic health center can dedicate personnel and facilities to community-wide benefit (See Intercom, 8/18/78.) September M T ly J WARCH 1* »9 3° - as The Tokyo meeting has another Duke and Durham link. The chairman of the Life Planning Center Foundation, who directed the conference, is Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara whose father was a student at Trinity College near the turn of the century and returned to Japan to become a prominent Methodist minister in Tokyo. Over the years, Hinohara and Dr. William G. Anlyan, vice president for health affairs, have maintained this relationship by exchange visiting lectureships of Duke faculty in the health sciences and their Japanese counterparts. Wallace, who is chief of cardiology, will be a visiting professor at four Japanese medical schools over the next two weeks. Back in Tokyo on Sept. 14, he will address the World Congress of Cardiology on the role of computers in management decisions related to chronic illnesses. ^ ^ 'A « 2S 1$ ^7 2, j/,7 '9 ’S JO ^ V Jj' , V JO Jtf September 8-15, 1978 file Medical Center Cnienilnr list> lecturer, fionpoiiia uml other nclirilief of interest to laiiilty, itnll and 'Indents. Notices should he sent to Box 3354 no later thiin one U'eek prior to I’lihlicntion. If Inst,minute scheduling mokes it impossible to send a ivritten notice in time, please call 14S. Friday, Sept. 8 p.m. I p m Monday, Sept. 12 niH'n 11 Biochemistry Seminar. Dr. Fred Schach.it, "Molecular Genetics of Muscle in Cinnorlinhlilis Elegans," Rm 147, Nanaline H. Duke BIdg. Coffee at 12:15 in the lobby. Network for Continuing Medical Education (NCME). Program on "Influenza Vaccination, Two Points of View: Heparin Full-Dose Ther’py and Heparin Mini-Dose Therapy." View in Rm M406 at Duke and Rms D3008, C6002 and C7002 and BIdg 16 at the VA Hospital. (Previous NCME programs have been catalogued in the Medical Center Library and are available for viewing th?re.) Pathology Research Conference. Dr. Dolph O. .Adams, associate professor, "Secreted Proteases and Cytolysis of Tumor Cells By Activated Microphages," Rm M204. Wednesday, Sept. 13 ! p m. ■1 p.m ■N'CME. See Fri., Sept. 8, for program and viewing area. Special Biochemistry Seminar. Dr. O.H. Lowry, Dept, of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, "Biochemical Differences among Single Human Muscle Fibers — Normal and Abnormal," Rm 147, Nanaline H. Duke HIdg. Coffee at 3:45 in the lobby. Big doin's Therell be big doin's for Duke students in downtown Durham, beginning at noon one week from today, Sept. 15. It's the Durham First Pest, which will include a free movie (ID for admission) at the Carolina Theater, followed by an auction of such things as an autographed basketball, a date with a Duke basketball player, a chance to be a guest disc jockey on WDNC, tickets to the N. C. Symphony and dozens of others. The auction will begin at 12:30, and at noon, to get everything rolling, the Duke Pep Band and the Blue Devil will be on hand.

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