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Tuesday, October 18,1983/The Battalion/Page 3 Medical technique aids Aggie football players by Holly Powell Battalion Reporter Football teams know that in- liries are inevitable; it comes Rh the territory. The Texas l&M football team is no excep- ion. I Di. Toshio Moritani, an exer- ll :ise physiology professor at Dlti Texas A&M, is working with the He Jam to help prevent unwanted ! u njuries by using a process called oojeenomyography. Electromyography measures I ;he electrical impulses gener- l( ited from the brain that assist in he movement of muscles. e,s These impulses travel through Coirjnyofibrils, or muscle fibers, and e.c trigger muscle contractions. 0r ^Bwith the technique doctors " ind researchers like Moritani Wtjjjl determine fatigue, endur- ay,J osW : a '*L United Press International ,ec ; .BAY CITY — Heavy rains wfitonday closed portions of six oads in Matagorda and Whar- on [counties and forced the eva- uation of 35 people from one ubdivision. A tornado was sighted in Gal- stpn County near the intersec- ion of Texas 3 and Interstate 45 iut no damage was reported. ^ ^Matagorda County Sheriffs Kenneth Garcia said, “The Ibrthwest part of our county ance, and the strength of mus cles. In the program involving the football team, Moritani deter mines whether an injury has healed completely so that the player can return to the field without worrying about compli cating the injured area. “Legal complications are another reason we use elec tromyography on the football players before they go back out on the field,” Moritani said. If a student has not recovered fully from an injury and hurts himself again, the University can be sued, he said. Using electromyography in volves hooking up the patient to a set of amplifiers by either a fine wire injected into the muscle tis sue or by surface EMG elec trodes taped onto the skin. The data then is transferred to a printout machine producing a readout called an electromyo gram. For example, running backs are treated for knee injuries by testing the amount of electrical impulses in the injured muscles in the knee area and the fre quency they are released. On an injured knee, there will be a decreased frequency of EMG signals, Moritani said, be cause the muscles are fatigued. The electromyograms of both legs are then compared. When the injured knee is 90 to 95 per cent recovered the player will be allowed to play again, he said. Moritani receives funds for research through grants. He has received five funded proposals within the last year including a $294,300 grant from the Veter an’s Administration Rehabilita tive Engineering Research and Development Service. Working with the football team’s injured players is not his only area of research, however. Moritani also is investigating the relationship between electromy ographic signals and the muscles surrounding the human spine. Dr. Muro and Dr. Kijiyma, two visiting professors from Japan, are assisting Moritani with his research to discover the reasons for the vulnerability of the lower back to pain. Moritani, who received his doctorate from the University of Southern California, came to Texas A&M in 1980 as an assis tant professor of health and physical education. Photo contest open to local amateurs by Lauri Reese Battalion Reporter It’s not too late to start tak ing pictures for the MSG Camera Committee Fall Photo Contest. Anyone interested in the contest may enter prints at a table in the hallway of the Memorial Student Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. week days from Oct. 31 until Nov. 4. The contest, to be judged Nov. 5, is open to all non professional photographers in the Bryan-College Station There is no limit on the number of prints a participant may enter but prints that nave won in previous MSC Camera Committee contests are ineli gible. The prints will be judged on their overall artistic and technical quality, Graham Weston, vice chairman of the committee, said. The judging, which will E robably last for several ours, will be in 701 Rudder and open to the public. The winning photos will be dis played in the MSC Gallery. The panel of judges will in clude professional, commer cial and portrait photo graphers from around the stdte, Weston said. Black and white prints must be processed and printed by the entrant but professional processing and printing is allowed for color entries. All photos must be at least 8 inches by 10 inches and mounted on a mat at least 11 inches by 14 inches. The entry fee for the con test is $3 for the first print and $2 for each additional print. Drug dealer denied hearing for new trial hit Texas counties was hit pretty hard.” Garcia said 35 people had to be evacuated from the El Dora do subdivision on FM 1468 in the northwest part of the county because the Tres Palacios River was out of its banks. Garcia said portions of FM 2431, FM 458, FM 71, FM 111 and FM 1468 were closed tem porarily in Matagorda County by high water. “I would say we had upwards of 10 inches, but we don’t know yet for sure in that area. It (the storm system) just sat over that part of the county and the lower part of Wharton County.” In Wharton County, Chief Sheriffs Deputy Otis Hilder- brand said water rose into houses near Boling and closed a section of Texas 442 at Boling, but he said there were no eva cuations. “Down in the Boling area, they’ve got one subdivision where they had several houses High school athletes face tougher rules ■' United Press International AUSTIN — Leaders of the tganization that coordinates igh school sports voted unani- lously Monday to impose stric- Bacademic requirements on tudent-athletes in sports- razed Texas. The 20-member legislative ‘juncil of the University Inters- jholastic League approved a file change that would force a |uient to pass four of five purses in a previous semester to eligible to participate in (|ts or other UIL extracurri- iilar activities. RUIL administrators were Kidering broad reforms that gjlklde-emphasize high school thletics. iThe council’s recommenda- ons will be placed on a ballot Btwill be voted on in February iy UIL member schools, sevenfl EUnder current UIL rules a feent must have earned three thanjwlits in at least two separate ;s. curses to participate in UIL y prolcntests. The proposed new rule •e fiiip irellonf would require four credits in three separate courses. “This way, everyone will know that they’ll have to pass at least four (courses) to play foot ball,” said Jack Frost, superin tendent of Georgetown schools and a member of the council. Some members complained that requiring passing grades in at least three separate courses would prohibit sports participa tion by special education stu dents, who spend most of their school day in vocational classes. The council also adopted a rule change that would limit the number of school days a student could miss to participate in a speech or debate tournament. The rules changes, which would take effect in the 1984-85 school year, were proposed by UIL director Dr. Baily Marshall in response to criticism that sports and other extracurricular activities take too much time and money away from classroom work. The issue of high school sp< thi nsifl ; il the)? esse* ivorr'A weirt j lives' g moil knoi rigy an' 1 Hits" linate ■erP,, bet'"! p ■C: PEOPLE... OUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET. On-Campus Interviews November 1, 1983 Texas American Bank/Fort Worth will be conducting on-campus interviews with individuals interested in a stimulating and demanding career in banking. We have challenging positions to fill for motivated individuals. Applicants must be graduating seniors with business major and bachelor degree in: Finance and/or Accounting. Positions available: • Credit Analysts • Staff Auditors • Accountants Texas American Bank/Fort Worth is the flagship bank of Texas American Bancshares, Inc. 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United Press International SAN ANTONIO — U.S. Dis trict Judge William Sessions has cancelled a Friday hearing on a motion seeking a new trial for convicted drug dealer Jimmy Chagra, a spokesman said Monday. The federal court spokes man, who asked not to be identi fied, declined to say why Ses sions cancelled the hearing, but said “the reasons would become clear in the record” at a later date. The spokesman also said that Sessions could reschedule the hearing. The motion, filed last August Chagra’s August, 1979 convic- by defense attorney Oscar tion in Austin on charges of con- Goodman, seeks a new trial on tinuing criminal enterprise. | AIM HIGH orts surfaced in Texas when e Legislature’s Select Commit tee on Public Education began a wide-ranging survey of the state’s education system. The committee chairman, Dallas computer magnate H. Ross Perot, was especially critical of the attention given to sports, bands and drill teams in high schpol. 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