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Show Kolff, SVloss Deliver Lectures Is v I, ' (Left) Dr. Willem Kolff, of the University Medical School addressed students Wednesday as part of Challenge Week. (Eight) Dr. James Moss presented a speech on the slow advances of Negroes in a nation dominated by whites. Kolff Speaks On Transplant By DARRELL LEO Chronicle Staff Writer The United States is underdeveloped underdevel-oped when it comes to kidney treatment, treat-ment, said Dr. Willem Kolff, M.D. of the University of Utah Medical School in a Challenge lecture presentation pre-sentation yesterday. Speaking on "Heart Transplant or Else Why Bury Two Good Kidneys?" Dr. Kolff, chairman of division of artificial organs, stated that man is against himself when he opposes the life-saving organ transplant developments. Transplants Abandoned Dr. Kolff using slides to illustrate his speech spoke in the Union East Ballroom. He traced the historical background of Henry Hudson, the English sailing captain and explorer explor-er who was abandoned by his mutinous mu-tinous crew. Dr. Kolff compared Hudson to the thousands of heart and kidney patients who have been abandoned by their fellow men. He said, "In America, only one and a half per cent of the kidney patients actually are treated. This is no more than 1,000." Many of the European countries, he believes, be-lieves, are doing much better when it comes to treatment of its citizens. citi-zens. Government Aid "Every American has the right to get the medical help he needs," the doctor pointed out. He said that the government had once proposed letting $22 million available for heart and kidney transplant research. re-search. But conservative people whittled away the money, distributing distrib-uting it to other research causes. About 40,000 people are in need of adequate treatment for kidney diseases, he stated, but only a few have been treated. Dr. Kolff said that one argument against the increased in-creased medication was the cost. In the U.S., it would cost $600 million mil-lion the first year and would then increase each year after, he stated. Kidney Solution Dr. Kolff believes there are two ways to solve the problem: 1) so- Dr. Moss Notes Negro Strife By FRANK ERICKSON Clironicle Staff Writer "The concept of black power has been eminent in the minds of Negroes throughout their history in America," said Dr. James Moss at the afternoon Challenge lecture yesterday. yes-terday. Dr. Moss is with the office of International In-ternational Educational Services, State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Mess said that the young Negro is faced with being in an academic ghetto as well as a slum ghetto. He is either confined to a segregated school or lives in fear of losing his chance to graduate if he speaks against administration in a white controlled school. Young blacks are now beginning to stand up for their academic rights. Turning Points Dr. Moss told of the turning points in Negro society. "There was the white acceptance of exceptional excep-tional blacks." These were Negroes Neg-roes who were raised and educated along with white children in the old South in slave days. "But the percent per-cent that ever got an education was extremely small." Dr. Moss said that the Negro has been bi-polar since he came to America. "On one hand he has had to serve white man, but on the other hand there has been resistance to white man." Dr. Moss demonstrated demon-strated this acceptance versus resistance re-sistance by quoting from two spirituals. spirit-uals. "To establish freedom of religion, Negroes had to break from the white church and form their own. The Negro church has since become be-come the stable base-fulcrum of black community action." Dr. Moss said that while the Civil War gained the Negro physical freedom, it lost him what civil freedoms free-doms he had. "It was, however, worth it." Negroes have participated partici-pated in all wars, but up until the Korean conflict they were forced to remain segregated. ciety would turn to a selection committee com-mittee that would determine who would live or die or 2) we must develop de-velop a cheaper artificial kidney. Favoring the later choice, Dr. Kolff used an example of a $300 to $400 artificial kidney which used the system of a washing machine. Legal and Moral Issue Another problem with the transplant trans-plant was the legal aspect. Although Al-though donating body organs for medical use is legal, it is these same legal aspects which often hold back a physician from extracting them. "Lawyers and physicians, who have nothing to do with kidney transplant, have become concerned about the moralistic view of cadaver cadav-er transplant," he said. "We are trying to get laws passed in separate sep-arate states to allow people to grant the right of willing organs," Dr. Kolff stated. Concluding, Dr. Kolff called for more positive action within Utah to aid patients with a more unified system of organ transplant and salvage. |