USC School of Medicine - Asklepiad Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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honor council The Honor Spirit is an integral part of the medical profession and a difficult subject to delineate. A personal dedication to the spirit of ethical concern is the basis of this code. At USC the Honor Spirit is a part of our educat ional structure to prepare the student in accepting this tradition. The Honor Council is formed from representatives of each doss so that a body will be present to voice the students ethical viev s and to act as a liaison with the faculty. In addition, this council accepts the responsibility of an executive and judiciary body handling violations of the Honor Code. It was the attempt of the council this year to change the attitude regarding the Honor Spirit from one of negative dictum to positive affirmation. The constitution and oath were rewritten accordingly and stress the positive aspects of this code. A class in medical ethics has been organized and will begin next semester. It is the hope of this council this class in ethics will help perpetuate this essentially unwritten code by which we practice. Clockwise: Ben Rosin, Richard Underwood, Terry Dichter, John Simpson, Richard Condon, Mike Rosen, Gene Gierson. Not pictured: Lennie Roso ff and Mel Stolz.

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Hey, you guys, we ' re discussing importont b student counci The past year has been a remarkable one for the USC Medical School and for the Class of 1966. Student activities have been productive to a degree unknown in past years or perhaps in other medical schools. It has been exciting to be associated with such a student group and challenging to be in a position of responsibility. There has been no real leader and no really planned program; rather there has been a surge of student interest in areas of curriculum, social problems, medical economics and the distribution of medical resources. All areas of political and philosophical emphasis have been represented. The fact that students have been doing something about the problems they see rather than remaining only critics of the efforts of others is the most promising thing of all. The student government has tried to provide support, advice, and some organization on which all may depend. We feel that we have succeeded in part and hope that those who follow us will continue to take the attitude that it is less the role of student government to judge than to guide and support all student groups. The student council has provided a forum in which all groups, ad hoc, de jure, or whatever, may seek support. We hove also accomplished certain things of our own initiative such as the dependents health insurance program. Looking back it has been a good year with prospects for better to come. Michael T. Kennedy ASSM President 1965-1966

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James Powell, American Yearbook Co., Tony Reolyvasquez, Michoel Slaughter, Co-editors. asklepiad squez, Michael Slaughter V. Co-editors in chief; Tony Rea Freshman Staff: John Montgomery, editor Jason Berger, staff writer Ed Wong, photography Sophomore Stoff: Michael Slaughter, editor Pot Maharg, staff writer Dove Abrams, staff writer Mel Gorelick, photography Junior Staff: Tony Reolyvasquez, editor Joel Lee, photography Senior Staff: Stu Tuvis, George Kaboci, co-editors Contributors: Herb Kramer Dennis Dundas Ed Sanchez Book Photography: Robert Starbuck Al Kettnts, Trent Johnson Art Dover, Dave Winsor, Matt Wong, Auriel Spigelmon Dove Stokesbury, Tiffin Clegg, George Kaba Yearbooks are meant simply to represent the year. The staff of the 1966 Asklepiad set out to accomplish this with certain reservations. They meant to represent the spirit of this USC medical year but to express the variable moods of universal medicine as well. The book was designed, in a sense, as a tableau of vignettes so that each page of the class and activities section would be an accurate photographic statement of the year ' s happenings but presented incompletely so as to form o vague stimulus to the reader, enabling him to construct the background according to his own experience. Special attention was given to design and format but an attempt was mode to avoid symmetry, for memory is chaotic and assymetrical and the primary purpose of this book is to create an incentive for memory. The book is meant for each of you, ten years from its printing, so that, then, you may look back and remember these days, treated with humor but not farcically and looked upon seriously but not stodgily. 114