Veritas, Vol. 17, No. 07, October 4, 1976

              Tapestry “Self Portrait” by^Jeanne Erickson.
Weavers Exhibit at Lowe
Florida Officials To Study Prisoner Counseling Here
Sophisticated techniques for helping to rehabilitate offenders will be taught to 90 state and local corrections officers this year in a series of 10-day workshops on “Testing the Incarcerated Offender” conducted by the Program in Applied Social Sciences.
The workshops will be supported by an 18-month, $215,752 grant from the National Institute of Corrections and the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration of the Department of Justice.
There will be four workshops in positive reinforcement programming, two in transactional analysis, and three in facilitative counseling (learning and teaching communication skills). The first workshop is scheduled to begin Oct. 10.
The grant provides for all expenses for those taking part, including travel, tuition and per diem.
In addition, the staff will make followup visits to all participants within 90 days of their workshop attendance in order to see how the training is being applied and to give further consultation on the job.
Dr. Herbert C. Quay, director of the Applied Social Sciences program, said that participants this year;—drawn from all but the far western and northeastern states—will include corrections officers from detention centers and juvenile facilities as well as from adult centers.
Dr. V. Scott Johnson, research associate in applied social sciences, is the project director.
by Sharon Clark News Bureau
“Frontiers in Contemporary American Weaving,” an exhibition of work done on the graduate level by students and professors at colleges and universities throughout the country, is on display at the Lowe Art Museum through Sunday, Nov. 14.
Twenty-four schools offering graduate programs in weaving responded to Lowe’s invitation to submit the works of one professor and two graduate students.
Weavings range from the traditional to non-traditional, from hand-loomed to off-loom and will
include three dimensional pieces, wall hangings, tapestries, blankets, clothing and basketry in yarns and fibers of every description, sometimes interwoven with paper, feathers, wood, glass, metal, branches and other materials.
The catalog contains a 16-page color section in addition to black and white photographs and essays by Donald Wycoff, director, American Crafts Council, New York, and Ed Rossback, professor of art at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Clues to High Blood Pressure Asked of Babes
by Jack Oswald
Public Information Officer
School of Medicine
To test a theory that a tendency towards high blood pressure may be identifiable at an early age, a team of UM pediatricians will be taking blood pressure of all twins born at Jackson Memorial Hospital over the next five years.
Dr. Mary Jane Jesse, children’s heart specialist, is conducting the research under a half million dollar grant from the National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute.
“It is postulated that people may maintain the same blood pressure levels relative to their peers, all their lives and that heredity or environment, or both, may play a role in this,” explained Dr. Jesse.
Both identical and non-identical twins will be studied. If genetics is involved in blood pressure control, identical twins, who share the same genes, should have blood pressure levels more alike than non-identical twins, whose genes differ. “Such comparative studies have never been made before in newborns,” said Dr. Jesse.
Elevated blood pressure, or hypertension, constitutes a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke and congestive heart failure in adults. If forerunners of high blood pressure can be identified early, steps may be taken to control it.
Pros/Consof National Health Insurance Topic of Public Seminar
A “Seminar on National Health Insurance,” featuring presentations by U.S. and British national health care officials, will be held at UM Oct. 8.
Sponsored by the UM Institute for Health Administration and Research under the directorship of Dr. Thomas A. Natiello, the seminar convenes at 8:30 a.m. in Room 226 A of file Whitten Student Union. The program is free and open to the public.
Addressing seminar participants will be Sir George Godber, former chief medical officer, Department of Health and Social Security, British National Health Service and a recipient of the World Health Organization’s Gold Medal.
Dr. Godber will discuss different methods and costs of national health care delivery, from the open market system to the fully controlled system.
He also will discuss relationships between the health care professions and the way these relationships are changing.
Dr. Ronald Klar, M.D., principal architect of the Ford Administration’s comprehensive health insurance program, will discuss developments in this country’s national health programs.
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Blood pressure levels of newborn twins at Jackson, the medical school’s teaching hospital, will be determined immediately after birth and on the three days following. Subsequently, the children’s blood pressures will be checked at regular intervals.
Researchers at three other institutions are making similar studies on twins and family groups, looking at the role of genetic, environmental and psychological factors as they relate to the development of hypertension.
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