Word: exam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beting the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the bad guys--rather than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...Undergraduate Council proposal to shorten exam period by two days will likely take effect on a trial basis next year, academics committee chair Steven n. Kalkanis '93 said yesterday...
...method, in which doctors probe the prostate gland manually, has not been very popular with patients or their doctors. In West Germany, where men over 40 can be tested for free, a recent study found that only 15% actually agreed to have it done. Physicians point out that the exams often fail to detect smaller cancers and those that originate on the front of the gland. The method is also subjective. One expert remarked that all he can tell his medical students is that the gland feels "like the soft skin at the base of the thumb" while a tumor...
...method is by no means foolproof. Catalona stresses that 21% of the men in his study with prostate cancer actually had "normal" PSA levels. Thus the test should be used only in combination with a rectal exam, he said, and even then some cancers will be missed...
Currently, the magazine's staff is small, consisting only of Rowe, Lisa Ellis '94 and Allison McKenzie '94. The group has gathered about eight articles and plans to publish the first issue of The Word during exam period. Rowe said the first issue will probably be short--approximately eight pages in length--but she hopes both the staff and magazine will grow next year as interest in it increases...