local/state
December 15,1
What’s Up
Wednesday
MSC VARIETY SHOW:Applications to perform in the
1983 MSC Variety Show are available now at the secretar
ies isle in 216 MSC. Deadline for applications is Feb. 4.
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS:Juniors, seniors, and gra
duate, veterinary, and medical students may have their
pictures taken between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, at the Yearbook Associates at
1700 Puryear Dr. For more information, call 693-6756 or
845-2611. The final deadline for pictures is this Friday.
No make-ups will he allowed after this date.
PARENTS’ DAY COMMITTEE:Aggie “Parents of the
Year” applications will be available now through Friday in
216 MSC. Deadline for applications is Jan. 25, 1983.
CENTER FOR NUMERICAL ANALYSIS: I he Center
for Numerical Analysis, Department of Mathematics, will
host an international symposium on Approximation
Theory on Jan. 10 through Jan. 14, 1983 at 9:30 a.m. in
Rudder. Approximation theory is a part of applied
mathematics and includes practical and theoretical
methods for solving a variety of real-world problems,
often with the help of computers. The conference will be
attended by over 100 mathematicians from 20 countries
and approximately 100 lectures by leading experts will be
given.
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL:A Candlelight
Communion Service of Meditation will be held at 10 p.m.
at the University Lutheran Chapel, 315 N. College Main
in College Station. Will meet Thursday to sing and visit at
Sherwood at 6:30 p.m.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS NET-
WORK:An effort to resurrect this organization is being
made. Students should be interested in promoting stu
dent awareness of individual rights and should contact
John Cook at 696-3241 if interested.
Around town
Friday last day for yearbook picture
Friday is the last day to have your picture made for the 1983
Aggieland.
If you are a junior, senior, graduate, vet or medical
student and if you want to be in next year’s Aggieland, go by
Yearbook Associates sometime before 5 p.m. Friday. There
will be no makeups and no exceptions. Go to the studio soon
and avoid the long lines.
Alpha Zeta sponsors turkey sale
Alpha Zeta, the Agricultural Honor Society, is selling
smoked turkeys from now until the end of the semester.
Proceeds from the sale go to finance scholarships, spon
sor trips to Agricultural Convocation, and to fund campus
service projects. The price for a nine-pound turkey is $15.
An 11-pound turkey costs $18.
Persons interested is ordering a turkey for Christmas
should contact any Alpha Zeta member or call 846-4539 or
846-9238.
Parks department to move office
The College Station Parks and Recreation Department is
moving into a new office building located at Central Park, on
Krenek Tap Road and the Highway 6 Bypass.
The mailing address of the department will remain P.O.
Box 9960, but the telephone number will change to 693-
7273.
The move is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, and
the office will be open for regular business on Dec. 20.
’82 Aggielands being distributed
The 1982 Aggielands are available for pickup in 216 Reed
McDonald.
Bring a student ID card to pick up your yearbook. If you
did not order one and wish to purchase one, the cost is $21.
If you have an announcement or interesting item to submit
for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed
McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611.
Now you know
United Press International
NEW YORK — A pilot media
tion service designed to keep
cases out of Family Court may
also help improve parentchild
communications.
This conclusion was reached
after a six-month study of a Chil
dren’s Aid Society PINS Media
tion Service. PINS are children
who have committed acts of
non-criminal misbehavior, such
as chronic truancy, running
away or being incorrigible or
beyond parental control.
The service helps families
recognize that the problem that
initially brought them to court is
a family problem, not just the
children’s, and efforts are made
to help resolve it.
Margaret L. Shaw, director of
the project, says it offers backup
social services designed to help
families already hardpressed by
poverty, poor health, inadequ
ate housing and inferior educa
tion.
New technique helps vision
by Dawson Clark
Battalion Reporter
Two-and-a-half years ago
Daniel Townsley couldn’t dis
tinguish the “big E” on an eye
examination chart from a big.
black blur, So, to solve the prob
lem he spent about $2,500, mis
sed two weeks of work and
allowed a doctor to make several
incisions on the corneas of his
eyes.
“1 saw Dr. Doyle Leslie on an
Austin morning television show
describing a new procedure for
correcting nearsightedness,”
Townsley said. “Three months
later, I was watching the same
television show without my
glasses.”
The surgical procedure,
which is called radial kerato-
tomy, involves making about 8
radial cuts on the cornea.
Townsley had a severe case of
myopia, which is called near-
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sightedness because of the eye’s
inability to focus on objects
which are far away.
The surgery is done at an
out-patient surgical suite. Pa
tients are admitted at 7 a.m. on
the day of surgery. About 1 Va
hours later, cocaine drops are
put in the eye for local anesthe
tic. After the anesthetic takes
effect, Leslie spends about 15
minutes making the incisions in
the cornea. Patients normally
are released by noon on the
same day.
Lisa Sailer, a counselor and
surgical assistant for Leslie, said
the surgery is done one eye at a
time, usually on the less domi
nant eye first. She said the
second eye is done about three
months after the first.
“The operation sounds very
simple, but for me it was a little
scary,” Townsley said. “You see,
I was the first person in Austin
to have it (the surgery) done by
Dr. Leslie.”
Leslie was about the tenth
American doctor to learn the ra
dial keratotomy procedure. Dr.
Svyatoflav Fyodorov of the Mos
cow Research Laboratory of Ex
perimental and Clinical Prob
lems of Eye Surgery began ex-
“I have nothing but
praise for the whole
operation. The best
feeling of all was when
they took the (glasses)
restriction off my driv
er’s license. ” — Daniel
Townsley, recipient of a
radial keratotomy.
perimental animal surgery to
test the procedure in 1973. One
year later, Fyodorov made his
first successful attempt on a
human.
In 1978, Dr. Leo Bores went
to Moscow’ to learn the techni-
ining an
que from Fyodorov. BeRgram, 1
passed the techniqueoimuhe 18 .
eral American docion. Jme physic:
ing Leslie. Kipnal
The radial keratowlerapists, S I
dltre has been criticized: tcial work'
American doctors, n some a
“I wish the operatic:Annel.
been invented, then hi j} ie center
have to make the mori®|lementa
sions: Do 1 or don't]3®, su mrne
with a basically healtht«Klf' or hand
can be corrected withi iumi nn' day
or contact lenseshanO. ^paired chi
ophthamologist said' Joanswh
meeting of the Texas jokers anc
Association in 1980. Bfopedic c
“Sooner or later, s .hjldren.
going to lose an eyeonitj Thompsor
now can we justify losiii|ij c ej patients
that could be correffiLft exceller
glasses?’! said Dr. Will vpe of servi
coe, who pioneered a pB
for cataract patients tkB
was controversial when!
was introduced.
The risks of the op
were well worth it, Id
said. |D1
“It was worth the if” JL - , •
adverse long-termeffeasB
because even if sometfcB
go wrong in the next It: ^ 5:35 p.
years, ITl have had p nst 0 ff 1C(
years of perfect vision, liB a f ema
"1 think it’s kindofnd® eturn j n j
to call the surgeryexpera^Q cai ,
at this time. He(Leslie)tz: e ( j n i oc k ef |
more than 2,000 s*Me a rd son
surgeries.” fte,-,
Leslie said that even t f he suspe'
is successful to one d(fS e p osta j
another. B caused
“Some patients' visiotp'
bad that it cannot be totif
rented, but it is always
ter the surgery," he said,
not totally free the pat
wearing corrective lens
at least lessens their p:
or allows them to £0
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their glasses some of
“We’ve done about?,M
dial keratotomy surgene i' 111 " er e y
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no long-term comp!: nnm g we:
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rectionj runs about 85pet®^ ir !f' e ’ P
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$2,600 for two eyes, butiH n 8 3 da
covered by some insuran(BJ at ket.,
panics. Boes.
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charge for each eye. Thtifip re Pori
eludes preliminary eiB n0 j Ion b
lions, thfe doctor’s surpp e ' ( 0 ! 0rec
and post surgery checbiB ' vll b a
one year. An additionaliB 001 •
charged for the surgical® / 011 ba'
and anesthesiologist.
Leslie is positive
f uture of the “radial K"lB c ?ded
ghymity. I
dure.
“I believe!
will become a common?.
dure in the future,” y° u
rewar
* that this prtvP. 10 die
“The risks are minimali', , r , ewar
suits in general are veit
and the patient is happy®: >
Townsley said he isp^|f
with the results of hiss
tions.
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Trucks,
Trailers.
“I have nothing but pul
the whole operation,”M
said. “ The best feelingof»[
when they took the/
striction off my driver's
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