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friday Vol. 30, No. 1 / SUNY at Buffalo / 8 June 1979 distributed free to the University community / limit one copy per person 'Conditional accreditation ' Dental School fears confirmed—status drops a notch Long time fears of the UB Dental School climaxed last month when the neglected facility was hard hit with a “conditional accreditation.” The lowered standing represents a drop of one notch from the top of an accreditation scale of four. mr ', '^1 Surveyed last March by an American Dental Association (ADA) accreditation team, the school has suffered from inadequate State funding since it became part of SUNY in 1963. While the ADA criticized only the State for its non-support, UB administrators came under attack in the wake of the Dental School’s demotion for their failure to garner aid in the early stages of the problem. Many deficiencies mentioned in the report had been pointed out by an accrediting commission in 1972 but went uncorrected. The present conditional accreditation includes a two year probationary period in which to correct deficiencies or lose accreditation altogether. The report did praise the faculty, students and upper Health Sciences and University administration here. It cited the “strong leadership of the President and Vice President of Health Sciences,” as well as the “dedicated faculty” and “outstanding students.” F. Carter Pannill —Jim DIVIncenzo Health Sciences V.P. William M. Faaqani Dental School Dean has made to the UB facility. It criticized the current physical facility as “grossly inadequate,” operating at one-third to one-half of the space it requires and accommodating 87 students in an area designed for 60. The report calls for a program of systematic equipment replacement and immediate correction of inadequate lighting, space and ventilation in the pre-clinical labs. According to Dental School Dean William Feagans, the equipment being used dates back to the late 1940’S; “We have been cannibalizing oug own units to keep them operating,” he explained. The accrediting team also stressed the need for ten additional clinical faculty, the necessity of increasing faculty salaries, and the urgency for increased State support of staff and equipment costs. for that speciality plagued its continuation. The program of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, recently merged with Buffalo General hospital, received provisional approval dependent upon greater exposure of residents to major surgical cases. Feagans, claiming he was “shocked” at- the lowering of accreditation status for the pre-doctoral — standard dental — program, said the action warrants progress reports indicating school response to the committee recommendations. “Then in May of 1980 the body will make its decision,” he explained. According to accreditation guidelines, II established requirements must satisfactorily if a program is to be granted the “OK.” Conditional approval indicates a weakness in one or more areas deemed correctable in a “reasonable length of time” - within two years. Provisional approval indicates a serious weakness in one more area slated for withdraw! unless correction follows. Science; better integration of child and adult dentition; and further involvement of the Perindontal faculty in the school’s research programs. Also noted was the establishment of a required course in practice administration, a strengthening of the Department of Behavior#! Sciences within the core dental curriculum, the development of a plan to monitor the sterility of dental instruments and increased efforts from the central and dental administrations to “release” time to faculty for independent research. Critical need The report condemned the State for its lack of commitment to the ailing UB facility: “The State has an obligation, not only to make substantial financial resources available to provide good facilities and to replace outdated equipment, but also must place the renovation project of the Dental School on a ‘critical priority need’ status.” An architect was hired by SUNY last November to study the practicality of renovating Squire Hall for use by the Dental School, among others. If his report is negative, a new facility will be requested. Either way, a move is not expected before 1982. Citing “impossibje and unmanageable” facilities, the report related “disbelief and inability” to understand the minimal commitment the State ‘Shocked’ at news Of seven advanced educational programs offered to students who have acquired a dental degree but wish to specialize in a certain area, five were renewed with full approval of the ADA. The endodontics program received provisional approval, “with the intent to withdraw accreditation in December 1979,” unless a progress report including alterations is submitted by the School before October 15, The committee report charged that a loss in the number of faculty and a loss of educational autonomy Funding search —Tom Buchanan The lack of funding for staff and equipment expenses, Feagans maintained, forced the Dental School to look to other sources for income. The report notes the school’s dependence on income from UB’s Dental Clinic to finance staff positions; “A review of clinic fee schedules indicates that clinic income has now been maximized to the point where certain procedures are Robert L. Ketter UB President approaching those fees charged by private practitioners.” The internal problems of the School - as opposed to those spawned by inadequate State aid - involved the School’s curriculum committee’s need to induce greater interaction between the Dental School’s Departments of Oral Biology and Behavioral ‘Wastes’ Legislative coaxing Yet, the stir caused in recent weeks by the Dental School’s predicament has been complicated by the secrecy which has veiled reports detailing the issue. —continued on page 6— responsibility Demonstrators at rally protest government-corporate alliance by Robert Basil Managing Editor government-corporate (conspiracy to suppress information regarding waste dumping and alternative energy sources. Grass roots support for the campaign against reckless nuclear and chemical waste dumping erupted in Buffalo with a vengeance last Sunday when well over one thousand placard-carrying, flyer-distributing protestors rallied in Delaware Park. Dan Bentivogli, member of the Workers World Party and co-organizer of the rally, said the rally’s main goal was to consolidate support against pro waste-dump conglomerates. “We didn’t plan on being militant,” he said. Technogenic diseases “This (suppression) is far more serious than Watergate,” asserted Dr. Irwin Bross, Chairman of the Department of Biostatistics at the Roswell Park Memorial Research Center. According to Bross, the government and large corporations have allied themselves in order to oppose public interest groups and scientific research aimed at exposing hazards created by technology. Bross terms diseases wrought by science, “technogenic.” Much of the research he has done on technogenic diseases has been stifled, Bross asserted. repeated all over the country Sunday as protesters demonstrated against nuclear plants. The Buffalo Rally attacked chemical and nuclear dumping. This woman's sign voices the fear of many Western New Yorkers that thd West Valley storage site may be opened to accept more radioactive wastes from th I over the nation. The rally, sponsored by the Niagara Frontier Coalition and CANCER (the Coalition Against Nuclear Contamination and Economic Recklessness) invited several speakers who described a —continued on page 6— Inside: Sensationalized execution—P. 2 / Kissinger in Buffalo—P. 3 / Cruisin’with The Jumpers— P. 7 / Bulls’final innings—P. 11
