Miami Hurricane, October 26, 1979

              Law School Dean Plans Spring Retirement
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By LORI BARRIST and BRIAN GART
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Dean Soia Mentschikoff will now have the time to do the things she has always wanted - write a book, travel, and go to the beach.
The law school dean's busy schedule has turned her into somewhat of a workaholic, never having the chance to relax.
"And now that I'm going to be 65,1 want the time to write a book and live it up,” Mentschikoff said.
Mentschikoff, the first woman dean of the law school, plans to retire this spring.
"Nobody believes that I’m going to retire. Everyone assumes that I’m a workaholic. But I am one of the great beachcombers of all times,” the dean said.
Mentschikoff has been dean of the UM Law School since 1974. And in that time, the faculty has doubled, the law library has been expanded, the course offerings have increased, and the quality of the student body has improved.
“Our student body is superb. They get placed all over the country, and one student has even gotten a clerkship with the Supreme Court. The law school has become one of the first rate schools in the Country,” Mentschikoff said.
And most, if not all, of the school’s success can be attributed to the dean's leadership.
A graduate of Hunter College and Columbia University Law School, the Russian-born Mentschikoff began
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her law practice working in small firms In New York City. She was the first woman partner in a New York law firm.
As associate chief reporter for the Uniform Commercial Code, Mentschikoff is credited with the coauthorship of the legal code that governs all commercial transactions in the United States.
She holds eight honorary doctorates, several aca-
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demlc awards, and many national and international offices. She has also authored numerous articles and two books.
In addition to her other accomplishments, Mentschikoff was the first woman to teach at Harvard Law School and was considered as a possible candidate for the United States Supreme Court three times.
The dean considers law a “great” profession.
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Mentschikoff said that law school changes people and personalities.
“It’s a good thing because when you're a lawyer, you're carrying responsibility for another person. You can do whatever you want with your own life, but as a lawyer, you have responsibilities for others,” the dean said
Mentschikoff said that today’s students mistakenly believe that they have a monopoly on truth and justice.
“In law school, you find that you will always be striving for that truth and justice, knowing you’re never going to get it,” Mentschikoff said.
The dean criticized the lenient academic standards at many undergraduate universities.
"One of the curses of our educational system is the cop-out of our teachers in not training students to be critical about what they’re learning. We get some students who have never even written a term paper. Others have never taken an essay exam,” Mentschikoff said.
Although Mentschikoff plans to retire in the spring, she will stay on as dean until a replacement is found.
Publisher, Students Discuss Journalism
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Cancer Patients To Use THC
. . . help ease chemotheraphy's side effect•
juana, which did not result in the usual nausea and vomiting incurred by other patients.
THC, the ingredient in marijuana which produtes the "high,” has been used in several other states to treat both chemotheraphy’s side effects and glaucoma. Its use had never been authorized before in Florida.
"Similar acts have been passed in seven other states, ” Broder said.
According to Broder, the drug will be supplied by the National Institute of Drug Abuse.
The program will begin within the next couple of months. Broder will be working with Drs. Charles Vogel and Howard Lessner. They will work with a minimum of 50 patients who require chemothera-phy but whose subsequent nausea cannot be controlled by other drugs.
Hopeful Speaks
Miami News
By TERRY FEIN
Hurricane Staff Writer
"I hold that it’s our top priority to combat inflation through full-
"I find these programs very important and valuable in terms of the exchange - getting to know one another,” Kraslow said.
Kraslow, a 1948 UM graduate, has a distinguished career in journalism beginning with his term as Hurricane managing editor in his senior year. Also during his senior year, he worked at the Miami News as a sports writer and desk man
The publisher emphasized the importance of work on a campus publication.
“Without that work on the Hurricane, I would not have gotten the opportunity at the Miami News It opened the door. Having the door opened for you is of immense importance,” Kraslow said.
From 1948-1956 Kraslow worked at the Miami Herald and in 1956 was promoted to the Herald's Washington Bureau. He began working for the Los Angeles Times' Washington Bureau in 1962 and served as Bureau Chief from 1970-1972.
To add to his list of accomplishments. from 1972-1974 Kraslow was the assistant managing editor of the Washington Star, and from 1974 until 1977 (when he became the publisher of the News), Kraslow was the Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau Chief.
“I was in Washington for 21 years with sikg Presidents and 10 Congresses. I went to China with Nixon and Ford and to Vietnam. I wrote a book on the peace negotiations (The Secret Search for Peace In Vietnam) which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize," Kraslow said.
See Kraslow Page 2
employment. Some say that’s impossible, but it’s not with the right program.” said Harold Stassen, before over 125 students on campus Monday afternoon.
Stassen is the first guest speaker of the 1979-1980 Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) Political Forum. Stassen outlined his proposals as a 1980 Republican candidate for the Presidency.
The man who always seems to be running for the highest office in the land spoke enthusiastically before a small audience.
Stassen, one of the more liberal members of the Grand Old Party, cited his long career in politics as a valuable experience in confronting today’s complex issues.
He served as a three-term governor of Minnesota from 1938-1945, as an assistant chief of staff to Admiral William Halsey during World
By JANE L. MARCUS
Naws Editor
UM’s School of Medicine won approval la-t Thursday to begin using THC, marijuana’s active ingredient, in research to study its effectiveness in chemotherapy’s side effects.
It is first time in the state of Florida that a medical facility has been authorized to use THC in cancer chemotherapy treatment.
According to Dr. Lawrence Broder, associate chief of the division of Pulmonary Oncology, the THC (tetrahydro-cannabinol), will be used to help control severe nausea and vomiting spells for patients on cancer chemotheraphy.
Broder said that the THC will be a synthetic compound, rather than the actual extract from marijuana. If the patients do not respond to the drug in capsule form, then they will be allowed to smoke marijuana
The proposal made by UM’s Comprehensive Cancer Centar to experiment with THC was approved by the state’s Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS).
“Our study is going to compare THC with other standard anti-nausea drugs,” Broder said.
The center will receive $38,000 per year for two years in an effort to compare THC’s effectiveness with other anti-nausea drugs.
The idea of using THC's components came from younger patients with cancer who were not getting sick after chemotheraphy treatments, according to Broder.
It was later determined that these patients were smoking mari-
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Miami News Publisher Da* id Kraslow
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Harold Stassen
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War II, as a drafter of the original United Nations charter, as president See Stassen Page 2
It was an awfully hot afternoon, it was so hot that the sun was unbareable, unless you were one ot the lucky persons out at the pool. However, it wasn't too hot for Frank and Smith. They spent Wednesday afternoon playin' some good ol' mellow tunes out on the patio, for students listening pleasure. Frank and Smith were sponsored by SEC - and next week stay tuned for Laurel and Hardy ...
By LORI BARRIST
N.an editor
Miami News Publisher and UM Trustee David Kraslow met with 15 UM students at a special luncheon held at the Faculty Club Tuesday.
The program was the second in a series of trustee luncheons for community leaders and selected students. In attendance were Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. William Butler, Assistant to the Vice President Rick Artman, mem-
bers of the Hurricane staff, and other UM students.
The purpose of the program was to help trustees learn about students while at the same time, enable students to meet influential members of the community.
Miami Hurricane/BRIAN GART

On the Inside
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