state / national Battalion/Pii July 28,1 Private Texas colleges should remain healthy United Press International DALLAS — Enrollment is ex pected to increase or at least re main stable at most of Texas’ private universities. Officials credit Texas’ rela tively healthy economy, increas ing population and the impro ving prestige of the state’s pri vate schools with protecting the colleges from the sagging enroll ments reported at the tradition ally more expensive private schools in other parts of the country. “People now realize that far more goes on west of the Missis sippi than they ever thought possible,” Edward C. Boehm, dean of admissions at Texas Christian University, said. “Texas is the right place at the right time.” Freshman class enrollments are expected to be stable or up at TCU, Baylor, Southern Methodist University, Rice Uni versity, Trinity University, Au stin College, Bishop College, Abilene Christian University, St. Edward’s University and St. Mary’s University. However, University of Dallas officials said they expect enroll ment to be down this year. “We know we’re not going to get as many incoming freshman as we had wanted,” said Dan Davis, director of admissions. “The state of the economy and financial aid are definitely the two major factors.” Although the school refused to lower its high academic stan dards to increase enrollment, this year’s freshman class still will be one of the largest in its history, Davis said. Electricity being used in paralysis experiments United Press International DAYTON, Ohio — In fiction, a certain Dr. Frankenstein ram med bolts of electricity int<^his patient to bring it to life. Unfor tunately, he created a monster that destroyed him. In Dayton, in real life, a cer tain Dr. Petrofsky rams bolts of electricity into his patients to bring them to life. Fortunately, he creates happy patients who thank him. “Nobody has accused me yet of being a Dr. Frankenstein,” Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky said, laughing, “but some people have the idea I’m making robots.” You can see why people might get that idea. The doctor links electric cur rent with computers to produce movement in the otherwise life less muscles of paralysis pa tients. Even though the patients are not in conventional control of their movements, they do not feel like robots. They feel more human. “My patients are very happy about the experiments,” Pet rofsky said. “Although they’re paralyzed, they’re very sur prised to discover just what their bodies can still do.” Everything Petrofsky is doing is aimed at restoring movement for certain types of paralysis pa tients — those who have been paralyzed because the path of communication between the brain and leg muscles has been broken. Petrofsky, 34, is director of Wright State University’s biome dical engineering lab, where he has been able to get paralyzed people to pedal a stationary bicy cle for more than eight minutes. He does it by taping elec trodes to the skin over six major muscle groups in the legs. He programs a computer to order successive, millisecond bursts of electrical stimulation to the appropriate muscles. Instan taneous feedback to the compu ter regulates the movements. “The movements are very, very smooth,” said Petrofsky. “Just as smooth as a normal per son pedaling a bike.” Petrofsky’s next step is to make his electrode-computer gadget portable and permit his patients to ride tricycles outside. His ultimate goal is to have paralyzed people walk, with mic roprocessors (tiny computers on chips) implanted near thejir pa ralyzed muscles. “A lot of doctors once figured people in wheelchairs would never walk again,” Petrofsky said. “But, that’s the direction we’re headed in.” As optimistic as Petrofsky is, he recognizes the limitations of his entire project. “This is not a cure for para lysis,” he says. “It’s a bypass. If and when someone comes along and creates a drug that will cure paralysis, great. Until then, I’m working on this bypass.” There are an estimated 500,000 Americans confined to wheelchairs and Petrofsky esti mates perhaps 300,000 could be helped by his techniques. Bosses have all the fun staff photo by DavidF:k',/' ey. 67, >ut to The pool was empty last Tuesday but that didn’t stop Cindy Benton from keeping cool by sticking her head under one of the faucets along the side. She’s the assistant manager so she can do things like that while the rest of the crew was cleaning Wofford Cain pool. Theyi| cleaning the pool for the Gulf Championship Swii held over the weekend. Benton is a graduate stu Health and Physical Education. Court to decide if jurors were biased in KKK case MSC Summer Dinner Theater proudly presents Neil Simon’s THE UPLE AUGUST 4-7 TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT THE MSC BOX OFFICE! GOOD SEATS STILL AVAILABLE Tickets must be purchased at least 24 hours in advance for Thurs., Fri.,& Sat. night. DATE Wednesday DINNER Non-Dinner Show Serving Time 7:00 p.m. Students & Senior Citizens $2.75 Gen. 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In a hearing Monday before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, attorney Patrick McGinity said prosecutors turned jurors against Black and Hawkins by linking them with Louisiana Klan leader David Duke. “I just felt they weren’t stick ing to the matter of what they had to prove,” McGinity said af ter the hearing. “What they in troduced did not go to the re levancy of what these men were charged with.” The lawyer charged that the mention of Duke, an unindicted co-conspirator in the so-called “Bayou of Pigs” invasion, was prejudicial, as was the introduc tion into evidence of a Nazi flag seized as the mercenaries pre pared to set sail on their 2,000- mile voyage to Dominica. they claimed to be. The two men, others charged i claimed when they the fen exc ‘on for arrested that they weretna topple the leftist governro Prime Minister MaryEnsj Charles. Federal attorneys countered that the Nazi flag proved Black and Hawkins knew they were in volved in a conspiracy — some thing both denied during the trial — and were not the patriots Black and Hawkinshavtl free on bond since thrirol tions but face three yeaniil on if their appeals fail. Mi Norris, 21, of North Port,J was acquitted of all chaff Grand jury investigates possible links between ex-CIA agent, Libyan’s death United Press International shooting of a dissident Libyan DENVER — A federal grand student in Colorado, a former jury is investigating possible Wilson associate convicted in the links between former CIA agent attack says. Edwin P. Wilson and the 1980 Eugene Tafoya, a former KFLOUPOT'SKI BOOKSTORE is your One-Stop Off-Campus Bookstore for ORIENTATION I A&M REALTY ’•itifcv; And APARTMENT PLACEMENT Serving the Aggies since 1971. We can Ifl help you find any type housing — and JMSI it’s all FREE! 693-3777 2339 S. 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