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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.
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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
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United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A federal
appeals court must decide
whether, the jury that convicted
two Ku Klux Klansmen of plot
ting to overthrow a tiny black
republic in the Caribbean was
prejudiced by alleged links to
white supremacy and neo-Nazi
groups.
Stephen Don Black, 28, of
Birmingham, Ala., and Joe
Daniel Hawkins, 37, of Jackson,
Miss., were found guilty last
summer of conspiring with eight
other soldiers of fortune to over
run the island of Dominica.
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
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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
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Green Beret convicted of assault
and conspiracy for shooting Col
orado State University graduate
student Faisal Zagallai, said he
and his wife, Betty, were sub
poenaed to appear before the
grand jury Wednesday.
Tafoya, who is free on a
$10,000 appeal bond, said he re
ceived a letter from the Justice
Department saying the grand
jury was studying “matters re
lated to your relationship with
Edwin P. Wilson and his associ
ates, including, but not limited
to, the Oct. 14, 1980, assault on
Faisal Zagallai in Fort Collins.”
Robert Miller, the U.S. attor
ney for Colorado, and another
federal prosecutor familiar with
the case both were unavailable
for comment Tuesday.
Wilson, along with former
CIA agent Frank Terpil, is ac
cused of arming Libyan terror
ists and recruiting former Green
Berets to train them. He was
arrested in New York June 15
after being lured away from
Libya, where he was a confidant
of Libyan strongman Moat
Khadafy. Heisbeingheldt
of $20 million bond.
Tafoya has admitted « t j 1(
for Wilson in Libya butd(
he tried to kill Zagallai, at
spoken critic of
Wilson’s orders.
Prosecutors at Tafoyas
cember 1981 trial indicatedi
believed he had been
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Tafoya claimed he belie'”"
was working for the CIA
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for Wilson that his actions'
sanctioned by the U.S.
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