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Show THE PARK RECORD B-9 Education. www.park record.com SAT/SUN/MOMTUES, NOVEMBER 12-15, 2005 EDUCATION EDITOR: Jared Whitley 649-9014 ext.118 education @ parkrecord.com In death, cadaver donors bring learning PCEF Week Nov. 14-18 is Park City Education Foundation Week. The itinerary includes: Monday - Reading day at schools and libraries. Tuesday - Community symposium, where Washington Post and Newsweek writer Jay Matthews and former Park City Superintendent Nancy DeFord will answer questions at Ecker Hill International Middle School from 4:30-6 p.m. All are welcome to attend. Thursday - "Harry Porter and the Goblet of Fire" event at Redstone at 4:30 p.m. Movie starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $35 for children, S50 for adults. Friday - Ski Day at Park City Mountain Resort. Tickets are $20 by Nov. 17, regular rates the day of. Board meeting The Park City Board of Education is meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 2700 Kearns Blvd. at 6 p.m. Items on the agenda include the facing for the new Park City High School, recycle bins at district buildings, and the open/close status of schools for transfers next year. McPolin preschool The early childhood education program at McPolin Elementary School afternoon session has a few openings for children age'3 1/2 or older. For more information, call Judy Tukuafu at S45-5600 ext. 1447 or McPolin at 6455630. really educational." The gall bladder is a little green bag that feels like a balloon, Walzcr said. Junior Julie Polana compared a squishy, healthy artery to one full of PCHS anatomy students learn from U of U's med school's cadaver lab By JARED WHITLEY Of the Record stuff You c;in read a thousand books about anatomy, and you won't learn as much about the human body as you can in one hour at the cadaver lab. That was the goal of Tony Winterer's anatomy class at Park City High School, who visilcd the University of Utah's cadaver lab on Nov. 2 to learn from the same corpses used by health students and physicians. "There are so many people in line to see these bodies. For a high school1 to be able to gel in is really an honor, ' said Winterer. "The kids can learn a ton more about the digestive system and the knee if they actually see those real body parts and how they operate. If you sec a tendon and touch a tendon you have a much better appreciation for it." Park City is the only high school in Utah which sends students to the cadaver lab, said the U's Dr. Kurt Albertine. £d Mulick began about 10 years ago sending AP biology students to the lab, and Winterer has continued the tradition. "It's exciting to bring them down because it is a unique and unusual experience to watch them identify parts, organs, blood vessels in the human body. It's like watching someone discover something new." Albertine said. "Their faces light up. their excitement peaks, and they become increasingly curious to ask more and more questions." Students wore gloves to handle the embalmed bodies, said sophomore Justin Allman, and could examine not only healthy corpses, but see the effects of collapsed disks, arthritis, and other health problems. A cancerous lung was black, while a healthy one was pink, said junior Shane Hanson. "That would toll you something" about lung cancer, said Hansen, who noted, "It was a really awesome experience." Removed organs were available for inspection. "The brain weighs a lot more ihan I thought." Altman said. "The lungs felt Instead of being grossed out and freaked out it's just really educational." - Ashley Bush PCHS senior cholesterol, which was stiff - full from a lot of fast food meals, she commented. "It's just something you have to see," Polana said. "If you have the opportunity to do it. don't pass it up." Cadaver donation Donating organs for transplant patients is a fairly well-known cause, and "organ donor" stickers on drivers licenses are not uncommon. People giving their body to teaching hospitals like the University of Utah is fairly rare. Only about 100 people do it per year, Aibertine said. Medical and other health students, doctors, EMTs, and others need access to cadavers for study. "The only way we receive bodies is through the willful donation of individuals prior to death. We don't accept unclaimed bodies," said Albertine, who has designated his own body will be donated to science upon death. Anyone interested can call the Body Donor Program at the U's department of anatomy at (SOI) 581-6728. To honor donors, every year University Hospital holds a ceremony at the Salt Lake Cemetery on Memorial SCOTT $\NEJPARK RECORD Day. "We depend on good will among the Dr. Kurt Albertine introduces PCHS students to the U of U's cadaver lab. public to donate their bodies to us for like sponges. It didn't smell as bad as sec which muscles activate for which the purpose of education and research," they tell you." facial expressions, like flaring nostrils o r Albertine said. Students even had the chance to feel open eyes wide. And the experience with the cadaver fatty deposits in some of the cadavers. "It's not what you think it's gonna lab seems to have found at least one "It's so hard and strong." said Ashley be," Walzer said. 1 thought I was gonna donor. Bush, senior. "I feel so bad for all the be freaked out by seeing a body "It made me want to donate my body people in this country who are obese there...The people didn't even look like to science," Bush said. because it feels so hard to get rid of." people. We thought it would be scary." 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