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Surgery Professor Honored

Surgery Prof. J. Shelton
Horsley III, Friday was named
the first American Cancer
Society Professor of Clinical
Oncology.

A leader in cancer
education at the University,
Dr. Horsley is currently clinical
director of the University's
Division of Cancer Studies and
has been clinical cancer
director and coordinator of the
McIntire Tumor Clinic since he
joined the faculty in 1965.

The professorships were
created in 1971 to foster
increased emphasis on clinical
teaching of cancer in medical
schools and service to cancer
patients. The positions are to
be supported by special fund
raising and commitment by
volunteers of the University.

RA Cut-Off

Lists announcing the first
cut-off for resident assistant are
posted in the Student Affairs
Office in Dabney House,
outside the College Dean's
office in Cabell Hall, and at the
post offices in Tuttle and
Emmet Houses.

Those students who passed
the first cut-off should sign up
immediately at the Student
Affairs Office. Upperclass
program interviews begin
tonight and first-year program
interviews begin tomorrow
night. Applicants are urged to
sign up early.

Chinese Culture Week

Chinese Culture Week, to be
held today through March 10,
will offer a week of events to
improve understanding
between the United States and
China.

Sponsored by the National
Committee on United
States China Relations, the
program will include a lecture
by Gerald Tannebaum, who
returned from China last year
after living there since the early
1940's.

Some of the activities to be
offered during the week
include "The Red Detachment
of Women," a Peking opera, to
be performed today at 8 p.m.
in Newcomb Hall Ballroom,
"Home Sweet Home, Home in
Taipei," a Taiwanese film to be
shown in Wilson Hall
Auditorium tomorrow at 8:30;
and Thursday, Mr. Tannebaum will
lecture on "What Mao Has
Wrought: The impact of the
Cultural 'Revolution upon the
Chinese arts" in the South
Meeting Room of Newcomb
Hall at 8 p.m.

An art exhibit of 200
traditional pieces, ranging from
tapestries to jade carvings will
be shown Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.

Margaret Mead

The first session of a
four-part interdisciplinary
analysis of the legitimacy of
behavior control will open with
"The Family," a lecture by
Margaret Mead, Curator
Emeritus of Ethnology,
American Museum of Natural
History, tonight at 8.

The symposium will focus
on the role of the family and
the school in behavior control
and modification of the child.

Discussion will continue
tomorrow afternoon from 1 to
5 in panels on "The Unruly or
Problem Child and "Dress
Conduct the State, the
the School, and the Family"