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THE BATTALION
(dnesday, March 7, 1973
College Station, Texas Page 5
Undents Try To
improve Society
By Volunteering
UP)—A new kind of student ac
tivism, involving hundreds of
thousands of young people, has
quietly taken root in many U.S.
high school and college campuses.
Students say they’re out to im
prove society and themselves, not
by protesting or confrontation,
but by volunteering their time and
talents to social service agencies
and community groups.
“Volunteering is the ‘in’ thing
to do now at school,” says Marla
White, a Boston University sopho
more who works with i*etarded
children.
Examples of the surge of stu
dent volunteerism are:
—The number of students—ele
mentary through college—involv
ed in Red Cross volunteer activi
ties has increased by 600,000 in
the last two years.
—At Furman University in
Greenville, S.C., more than half
the 2,000 students participate in
55 volunteer projects. In one, stu
dents teach college janitors and
maintenance men how to read and
write.
—At Boston University, the
number of students volunteering
for community programs has more
than doubled in the past two
years. “We’ve been flooded by
students,” says Carol Moore, di
rector of student volunteer serv
ices.
—At Franklin High School in
Livonia, Mich., 300 students put
in thousands of hours each week
on several projects, including the
presentation of anti-drug semi
nars to parents and the tutoring
of elementary school pupils. When
the program started five years
ago, only 18 students were in
volved.
In the last 10 years, the num
ber of college student volunteers
has skyrocketed from 5,000 on
about 30 campuses to about 400,-
000 at more than 80 per cent of
the nation’s colleges and univer
sities, according to figures com
piled by the federal National Stu
dent Volunteer Program NSVP.
About 600 schools have organ
ized volunteer programs. About
200 offer credit for volunteer
work, NSVP officials say. They
say the number is growing steadi
ly-
No figures are available for
high school pupils, but there
seems seems to be a similar ex
plosion of interest in volunteering,
says Jeanne Carney, NSVP direc
tor. She says more than 500 high
schools have organized volunteer
programs, with many giving cred
it.
Students say they’re volunteer
ing to help people as well as meet
their own needs for relevance,
personal involvement and career
testing.
“Young people are turning in
ward in this country. They’re de
veloping a greater interest in oth
er people. And they’re more con
cerned about the quality of life in
the United States,” says Nicholas
W. Craw, head of recruiting for
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ACTION, the government volun
teer agency.
ACTION is in charge of the
Peace Corps and VISTA pro
grams. Craw says applications
for both, declining in recent years,
are now shooting up dramatically.
Peace Corps applications, he
says, are running 37 per cent high
er than last year, and VISTA ap
plications are up 46 per cent.
Most are from persons under 25.
Several students, school ad
ministrators and government of
ficials said they thought a number
of young people who were involv
ed in social protests, particularly
those against the Vietnam war,
have turned to volunteering.
“The young people who lived
through demonstrations wanted to
do something concrete, something
they could see and feel, as oppos
ed to abstract protests,” says Bob
Cooney, an ACTION spokesman.
“They wanted to feel they could
make a difference.”
Jeff Warren, an official of the
private National Center for Vol
untary Action in Washington,
D.C., sees another stimulus for
volunteering. “Some of the other
movements of the ’60s — civil
rights, consumer, women’s lib —
showed students that individuals
could indeed change things. They
didn’t need to feel helpless.”
Blood Flow
Discussed By
Ohio Teacher
The measurement of blood flow,
another significant activity of bio
medical research engineers, was
discuussed by Dr. P. K. Bhagat,
research associate in the Depart
ment of Engineering Mechanics
and instructor, in veterinary phys
iology and pharmacology at Ohio
State University in a bioengineer
ing seminar recently.
“Considering that it has been
established that the animal sys
tem’s absorption of protein is re
lated to blood flow parameters
and that vascular diseases are re
lated to blood flow, research on
methods of measurement is high
ly pertinent,” Dr. Bhagat said.
“An unlimited scope of diagnos
tic and therapeutic procedures
will open in human medicine if
we can successfully establish the
blood requirements of various or
gans and, should an abnormality
exist, be able to quantify that im
pairment,” the biomedical engi
neer emphasized. .
The researcher traced the de
velopment of work in blood flow
measurement, showing the unde
sirable charactericstics of early
methods which depended upon en
trance into the body or the actual
invasion of the vessel.
“At Ohio State University, we
are exploring the use of ultra
sonic or high frequency sound
techniques in blood flow measure
ment,” Dr. Bhagat said.
The biomedical engineer showed
slides of various measurement
techniques and included diagrams
illustrating findings on the velo
city in the canine thoracic aorta
and the equine left coronary ar
tery.
“The design of instrumentation
used in ultrasonic measurement
of blood flow depends upon the
species it shall be used upon,”
he said.
“This type of research becomes
very unique in efforts to not only
measure the direction and speed
of blood flow but to measure the
dimension of the vessel, itself; we
have utilized ultrasonic techniques
in measuring flow velocities in
vessels ranging from one milli- y
meter to 25 millimeters in size,”
he said.
Know the seven
warning signals
that may
mean cancer.
1. Unusual bleeding or
discharge. 2. A lump or thick
ening in the breast or else
where. 3. A sore that does not
heal. 4. A change in bowel or
bladder habits. 5. Hoarseness
or cough. 6. Indigestion or
difficulty in swallowing.
7. Change in a wart or mole.
None of these is a sure sign
of cancer. But if one lasts
more than 2 weeks, see
your doctor at once.
It’s worth it in peace of
mind alone.
American cancer society