The Ursinus Weekly, October 3, 1968

Fourteen join faculty; Dept. heads named for Philos. & Economics • 227 freshmen begin studies; 3 foreign students included • Professors recognized for teaching excellence • Stained glass exhibit on display at Ursinus • Joint effort concert features Intruders • Editorial: Student activism - radical or responsible? • Frosh at Shalom; Dinks on till 12th • The illegalities of Ursinus law • The great society? • Editorial: Everyone\u27s problem • Freeland\u27s days numbered; Library to rise on site • Graduate school aspirants urged to prepare early • Forums replace required chapel • Studio art to highlight new fine arts course • Annual Parents Day planned for Oct. 12 • Franklin & Marshall passing stops Bears in season opener • Ursinus hockey squad hopes for eighth undefeated year • Baker counts on frosh to bolster soccer team • Undefeated Harriers aim for MAC title • Greek gleaningshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1163/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 14, 1968

Sorority pledges perpetrate riot : New dorm fiasco • Seniors chosen for Who\u27s Who • Ursinus coed killed in automobile crash • Premeders attend Phila. conference at Jefferson Med • Annual UC Career Days scheduled for December • Agency to present Mandrake concert • FSEE to be given: Govt. jobs opened • Editorial: Open parties: Let\u27s reconsider • In memoriam • Editorial pot shot • Letters to the editor • Studio art added to curricula; Experiments in media underway • In my opinion • SFARC minutes • USGA announces activities • Political commentary: Election \u2768 - bad healing wounds • Bearettes still U.S. champs: Snell and company nip Ramettes on late goals by Cash and Porter • Booters ambush mighty Garnets to break two losing streaks: Swarthmore falls to U.C. first time in 35 years • Harriers set record for consecutive wins • Bears wipe out Dickinson with highest point tally in twenty-three seasons • Flowers, Sigma Rho Lambda to meet for championship • Greek gleanings • Exchange column: The student rebel • Reception rooms now open laterhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1166/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, October 31, 1968

Evaluation favorable; Provincialism assailed • Nixon overwhelms Humphrey; Rightward trend reflected • Founders\u27 Day honors alumni; Honorary degrees conferred • Secret society members elected • Placement Office offers services to \u2769 graduates • Barbara Bruzgo crowned \u2768 Homecoming Queen • Editorial: Activities chaos • Grand Dragon at U.C.; Klan views stated • Grape conspiracy • Letters to the editor • Formation of a fourth party • Editorial: Literary dilemma • Arts forum features four faculty speakers • Opinion: Sulphuric acid + gas • Bears rip Garnet in Homecoming game after humiliating defeat at Muhlenberg • Gillespie and Gane selected as co-captains • Soccer team defeated by Mules and Delaware as Grau is injured • Inside track: And Drexel makes eighteen • Bearettes and West Chester battle here next Thursday • Magicians, Homecoming and R. J. Whatley • Flowers are still undefeated as I.T.F.L. enters fourth week; Beta Sig upsets Sig Rho, 12-7 • Del Valley\u27s QB is man to watch • Hockey team destroys opponents; Cash and Landis star, score 13 • Greek gleaningshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1165/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, December 2, 1968

Arts Forum held; 4 foreign students featured on panel • Board OKs student members on committees; Student Senate endorses SFARC resolution • Camino real scheduled for December 6th • Mandrake concert is hit; Rock group shows profit • Editorial: Our play; The larger issue • Letters to the editor • Tradition vs. change • Herberg sees anomic moral crisis; Fun morality termed other directed • SFARC minutes • Opinion: Speaker fails to prove dilemma • Freeland Hall: Don\u27t let it be forgot • Senior looks at Freeland: Can Library replace Freeland\u27s primacy? • Search into history substantiates claim of second oldest graduate that Freeland was everything • Instructor asks what do students really want? • Now is the time to unite • WRUC increases wattage to allow greater service • USGA discusses Black Alliance • Students to decide on two government proposals • Pratt art show opens at Ursinus • PNE Folk Fest held; U.C. talent featured • U.C. sponsors Career Days • Howard honored for achievements • Gurzynski\u27s men win title; Albert leads UC to championship • Soccer team edges LaSalle after losing to Haverford • Flowers win intramural crown with 6-0 victory over Sig Rho • Whatley lauds squad; predicts progress • Bears destroy Haverford; Shuman wins Maxwell Award • All Stars will visit Glassboro • Greek gleaningshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1167/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, March 6, 1969

Officers inducted; Emig emphasizes new responsibility • American dream, brotherhood highlight Festival of the Arts • USGA officers interviewed; Communication gap stressed • Placement interviews scheduled • 200 attend Lorelei; Fischer crowned king • Semi-formal ball highlights junior-senior weekend • Editorial: Potpourri - Or, Could this ever happen here? • State set to punish protestors; Laws threaten civil liberties • Letters to the editor • Remark • Lantern literary lapse termed titanic bomb • Staying out of uniform: A practical guide for the Ursinus male, part I • Whose risk? • Columnist proposes solution to UC\u27s dearth of black students • Albright draws Fifth Dimension • Racism symposium set for March 20 with Lincoln Univ. • Dorm lounges opened; Slacks rule slackened • Rice discusses status for Phi Beta Kappa • Ursinus grapplers rally to win over Drexel, 22-13 • New gym complex to include pool • Carson paces Bearettes over Gettysburg • Badminton team wins six in row • Trackmen run at Swarthmore and Delaware • Gillespie hits 37 points to lead Bears over Swarthmore in finale • Girl swimmers win over Penn and Elizabethtown • Junior varsity hoopmen finish with 11-6 record • Dickinson frat system defended • UC celebrates centennial with unique innovation • Forum features Howellhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1171/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, October 17, 1968

Fraternities hopeful as Homecoming approaches; Reigning Queen to be selected in regal runoff • Student teachers gain experience • Frosh elect officers; President sets goals • Curtain Club changes name to ProTheatre • Ryan Brothers highlights UC folk concert • Editorial: A matter of concern • On love and hate • Coke culture to stay Glenesk tells Forum • Letters • Dr. Byerly raps Greeks; Calls rushing degrading • Freshmen induction: Questionable success • Intruders in concert • Exchange column • Another view: Ursinus change • Opinion: Political commentary • Expansion necessitates dormitory renovations • SFARC minutes • Ursinus students to participate in TV program • U.C. students speak at pre-med meeting • Parents feted at gala event • Bear Gridders fall to Johns Hopkins and Lebanon Valley; Streaking Harriers extend undefeated string to fifteen • Grau predicts comeback for soccer squad • A little bit about everything or not much about anything • UC hockey team edges Penn, 2-1 as Cash scores decisive goal • Ursinus must stop Muhlenberg offense • Sig Rho and Apes are on top in I.T. fraternity division; Flowers down Day Study, 13-6 • Greek gleaningshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1164/thumbnail.jp

The Probiotics in Pregnancy Study (PiP Study): rationale and design of a double-blind randomised controlled trial to improve maternal health during pregnancy and prevent infant eczema and allergy

Quality data for breast milk samples. Description: Details of data recorded for quality control of breast milk samples. (PDF 30 kb

Building blocks for social accountability: a conceptual framework to guide medical schools

Background: This paper presents a conceptual framework developed from empirical evidence, to guide medical schools aspiring towards greater social accountability. Methods: Using a multiple case study approach, seventy-five staff, students, health sector representatives and community members, associated with four medical schools, participated in semi-structured interviews. Two schools were in Australia and two were in the Philippines. These schools were selected because they were aspiring to be socially accountable. Data was collected through on-site visits, field notes and a documentary review. Abductive analysis involved both deductive and inductive iterative theming of the data both within and across cases. Results: The conceptual framework for socially accountable medical education was built from analyzing the internal and external factors influencing the selected medical schools. These factors became the building blocks that might be necessary to assist movement to social accountability. The strongest factor was the demands of the local workforce situation leading to innovative educational programs established with or without government support. The values and professional experiences of leaders, staff and health sector representatives, influenced whether the organizational culture of a school was conducive to social accountability. The wider institutional environment and policies of their universities affected this culture and the resourcing of programs. Membership of a coalition of socially accountable medical schools created a community of learning and legitimized local practice. Communities may not have recognized their own importance but they were fundamental for socially accountable practices. The bedrock of social accountability, that is, the foundation for all building blocks, is shared values and aspirations congruent with social accountability. These values and aspirations are both a philosophical understanding for innovation and a practical application at the health systems and education levels. Conclusions: While many of these building blocks are similar to those conceptualized in social accountability theory, this conceptual framework is informed by what happens in practice - empirical evidence rather than prescriptions. Consequently it is valuable in that it puts some theoretical thinking around everyday practice in specific contexts; addressing a gap in the medical education literature. The building blocks framework includes guidelines for social accountable practice that can be applied at policy, school and individual levels

Early ultrasound surveillance of newly-created haemodialysis arteriovenous fistula

IntroductionWe assess if ultrasound surveillance of newly-created arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) can predict nonmaturation sufficiently reliably to justify randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluation of ultrasound-directed salvage intervention.MethodsConsenting adults underwent blinded fortnightly ultrasound scanning of their AVF after creation, with scan characteristics that predicted AVF nonmaturation identified by logistic regression modeling.ResultsOf 333 AVFs created, 65.8% matured by 10 weeks. Serial scanning revealed that maturation occurred rapidly, whereas consistently lower fistula flow rates and venous diameters were observed in those that did not mature. Wrist and elbow AVF nonmaturation could be optimally modeled from week 4 ultrasound parameters alone, but with only moderate positive predictive values (PPVs) (wrist, 60.6% [95% confidence interval, CI: 43.9–77.3]; elbow, 66.7% [48.9–84.4]). Moreover, 40 (70.2%) of the 57 AVFs that thrombosed by week 10 had already failed by the week 4 scan, thus limiting the potential of salvage procedures initiated by that scan’s findings to alter overall maturation rates. Modeling of the early ultrasound characteristics could also predict primary patency failure at 6 months; however, that model performed poorly at predicting assisted primary failure (those AVFs that failed despite a salvage attempt), partly because patency of at-risk AVFs was maintained by successful salvage performed without recourse to the early scan data.ConclusionEarly ultrasound surveillance may predict fistula maturation, but is likely, at best, to result in only very modest improvements in fistula patency. Power calculations suggest that an impractically large number of participants (>1700) would be required for formal RCT evaluation