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...developed chickenpox. But no vaccinated child caught the disease. A few children getting the vaccine had pain, swelling and redness at the injection site and chickenpox-like rashes, but there were no long-lasting or serious adverse effects. The experimental vaccine was developed from a strain of varicella vi rus isolated in 1974 in Japan by Dr. Michiaki Takahashi. Researchers used a live but weakened form of the virus to trigger the body's immunological system into producing antibodies against the disease. The idea, explains Weibel, is "to induce immunity without inducing clinical disease...
Some researchers are concerned that the vaccine's altered vi rus might actually promote the development of shingles. Another great worry is cancer. Viruses are a suspected cause, and another member of the herpes family, the simplex virus, is under suspicion, says Plotkin, "though proof is far from complete." Dr. Kenneth Mclntosh, a pediatrician at the Infectious Disease Laboratory of Boston's Children's Hospital, warns that before the Merck vaccine can be put to widespread use, "more years" of research are necessary to resolve such questions. Researchers also need to know how long the immunity...
Rosovsky's refusal to detail the action taken in the Dominguez case understandably provoked strong protest from sections of campus. The Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) strongly condemned the University's response as inadequate while several graduate and undergraduate students chose to boycott a class taught by Dominguez to protest the University's handling of the case. "Because there is no public statement (on the case), the University makes taking his course a political act," one student said at the time...
...survey seemed to spark the Faculty into action at last. Despite a year-long review of harassment grievance procedures last year that ended with no proposals for change, the Faculty Council, the Faculty's executive steering committee, reopened its discussions on the issue. After hearing the views of RUS officials and several experts on harassment, the Council debated a sweeping proposal, to establish a general harassment policy to address conflicts arising on the basis of gender, race, religious, sexual orientation or other factors. The plan stressed informal channels to handle complaints, but also called for the creation of a central...
...content with the pace of change, students who only spend four years at Harvard are somewhat more impatient. Toba E. Spitzer '85, a student member of the Faculty Committee on Women's Studies, this year said it was not "an activist body" and that the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) started a student committee of women's studies this year in response...