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Much of the glamor has rubbed off heart-transplant surgery since Dr. Christiaan Barnard's historic operation eight years ago this week in Cape Town. Discouraged by the generally low survival rate of patients, many of the surgeons who performed the early heart transplants have now abandoned the technique. There is one notable exception: Dr. Norman E. Shumway of Stanford University School of Medicine, the man who developed the technique used by Barnard. Shumway, 52, is allergic to publicity but recently broke a three-year silence on his transplant record. At a meeting of the American Heart Association...
...added that, while merger with Barnard would be economically preferable because Columbia would not have to build additional facilities, "one way or the other co-education at Columbia will be achieved in the next few years...
Sally Slate, director of public relations at Barnard, said yesterday, "The faculty's resolution violates the spirit of the 1973 agreement." She added that Barnard supports that agreement and hopes to continue its present relationship with Columbia...
Rosenthal, the co-author of a report recommending complete merger, said that Barnard presently "enjoys the best of both worlds by remaining independent but having all of Columbia's resources at its disposal...
...also said that charges of political pressure made by President Bruenig were "nonsense" and that the faculty was "expressing an educational goal in calling for the admission of women, not seeking to eliminate Barnard...