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

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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

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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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BORBORYGMI, the USC Medical Student Journal, was created to promote free communication and expression among medical students by stimulating discussion and the intelligent exchange of ideas. Within two years after its first issue appeared, BOR- BORYGMI has become a tradition at USC Medical School. Despised by some, praised by others, BORBORYGMI nonetheless published the writing of 51 authors in the year ' s 86 pages. It has been misquoted in Saturday Review, (June 25) written to by Look, and imitated throughout the country (witness the UCLA campus, where the SAMA chapter has begun publishing Plexus.) BORBORYGMI was again distributed to leading medical schools in the United States and Canada, USC faculty members, and interested members of the medical community, as well as to USC students. Although the art editor ' s ambitions continually threat- ened to outstrip the resulting financial support, somehow 1200 copies of several issues emerged, rather than the normal 1 000. Under Howard Charman ' s devoted leadership, the perm anent editorial staff of Tom Brod, Rich Cobden, and Bob Stebbins survived five hectic sessions of final paste-up with sufficient imagination and spirit to moke a major innovation in the year ' s final issue, presenting a symposium which explored in depth various aspects of the drug problem. BORBORYGMI continues to receive praise from throughout the country. Its spirit of integrity and serious involvement have inspired other USC efforts toward becoming one of the nation ' s leading medical centers and an innovator in the realm of student-inspired medical education. Howard Char 115