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Tuesday, February 21, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11 R.l. by Paul Dirmeyer DMNJHISCoMemoF PAVs er m ^9 Central America needs more help, mayor says hollered omproDiiw of the "I it vav to athletic Kp n I found t' Personalizing a home deters burglars United Press International I a change Kgan are I FORT WORTH — rently effective way Stfotect your home from 1 ' Hrl: An ap- to help bur glars is to “individualize” or “personalize” it, a Texas Chris- ' I’lian University assistant profes- i,;ado fV soisays. spendings Barbara Brown’s field is psy- ,elleHend«r l0gy f ld s j ie L ,ikes ^ apply Be results or her studies to slll T g( r J-actica! matters, like avoiding jrsehesJ' ^ cr j m j na | invasion of private neno " property — even her own. r nfB The landmark work in the (I P 1 ' 01 ' 1 |ield was done by Oscar New- swereg tBj^ an architect,” she said. “He studied big city housing n * a || J°j ects and found there were ezaml ; wer burglaries in low, ‘cluster’ [inningi 1 housing than in the highrises. ndlessK Jhe c | us t ers have a buffer zone ounir on 8 s l ,, between them, they d 1 residents to do allow the to do a limited amount of decorating, and are 1 sonier, :Sun ( )Unc l ec | by open spaces, anybot Newman found these factors tended to discourage potential sonlhf ! [burglars, while the lack of resi- obabl'' dem identity in the highrises all sup g ave b ur crlars a better break.” HO it, their y body else-, had the If n trip, make a shoi of Louisuf o the coal! >Ut, I ivas too efl “Newman’s recommenda tions were to limit the number of residents using the available space, to increase their surveil- lence capability and to allow them to personalize the appear ance of their apartment units.” Brown worked on her mas ter’s degree at the University of Utah and led a group of under graduate students in a study of a reasonably affluent housing area of Salt Lake City. “I wondered if the same fac tors could protect against crime in a suburban setting, where people have much more control over their surroundings,” she said. “In our first study, we looked at houses that had been bur glarized and others that had not, making comparisons from a list of variables,” she said. “We found the non-burglarized houses were more likely to have ‘symbolic barriers’ — like the owner’s name and address clearly in sight. This a message that this house is individualized and personalized. Burglars tend to stay away from that sort of house.” It was during one of these tours she had a run-in with the law. Brown and her students were visiting a strange neighborhood and a homeowner called the po lice to report “suspicious activ ity” in the area. Fortunately, she had cleared her project with the Salt Lake City police. “The group found that fences around the yard help discourage burglars and other ‘traces of presence’ like sprin klers going and lawn tools around make it look like some one is at home. Non-burglar ized homes are more likely to have a garage. The potential in truder doesn’t know if a car in it or not if the door is closed. Brown earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Vir ginia, her master’s and doctor ate from the University of Utah and has done post doctoral work at the University of Cali fornia at Irvine. After she joined Texas Chris- ollce continue investigation into prison break allegations they reaM am didn’lf United Press International JUAREZ, Mexico — Federal, state and local police Monday continued their investigation into allegations by prison I 111 ' 1 guards that jammed weapons (0nul 1 and a faulty alarm system were n in the raitteW* sponsible for 14 prisoners caking out of jail. iarh Thoi*l The esca P ees ’ including two .. Americans awaiting sentencing ‘y^ 101 on drug charges and 12 Mexi- ■ I can nationals serving time for a K ieal(e a, variety of violent crimes, have 1 were ' not been recaptured. nl< j I^Bjail Warden Tomas Terrazas ( 8 a . I said the prisoners, armed with 9 0 m y millimeter and .32 caliber pis- / tols, overpowered a guard Fri day night and escaped through ■ a side service entrance. I In an unrelated incident, Mi- Ill Scott Greer, 19, of Cali fornia escaped from a mini mum security jail in downtown uarez and crossed into El Paso il statenu where he asked for asylum, emmed fr|| Greer, who said he had been -trust sun picked up on a minor traffic of- Ralston Pjrense, broke a window in El icr of iff ioard of & nst the siP lubs Paso Saturday morning in or der to be arrested and begged El Paso officers not to return him to Juarez. The Americans who escaped from the Juarez jail, called the “Center for Social Readapta tion,” were identified as David Lee Johnson, 40, of San Diego, Calif., and Carlos Jaramillo Barcelo, 25, of Ballamon, Puerto Rico. Prison officials erroneously listed a third American, James S. Williams, 24, of Wyncote, Penn., as an escapee, but Terra zas said Williams hid from offi cers during the jailbreak and never left the jail. El Paso police arrested a man identified as David Lee Johnson Saturday afternoon, but re leased him when they discov ered he was not the Johnson who had escaped from the Jua rez jail. Lawmen on both sides of the border are continuing their search for the escapees, who have been described as danger ous. A high-ranking member of the Juarez Police Department, who asked not to be identified, said the laxness of security indi cated the jail break may have been carried out in cooperation with prison guards. Terrazas said his guards complained of jammed auto matic weapons and a faulty alarm system as the reason why the 14 men were able to walk out. The prison, whose acronym, CeReSo, is the Spanish word for cherry tree, is located on the outskirts of Juarez, south of the city in a bleak, desert area. Sunday afternoon, anti-riot police were called in when Ter razas cancelled Sunday visita tions in order to continue the investigation into the cause of the break. Visiting hours were resumed, two hours later, when the crowd was brought under control, Terrazas said. Zoologist gets $49,000 to study worm United Press International a group o provision enas und( [ jstigatidl'l Ganssaidi* s WALPOLE, Maine — A Uni- rn, adding v crsity of Maine zoologist has vidual'srigi l ece > ve <J a $49,000 federal self-incrif' iant to find a way to grow a during a fare marine worm that’s in ing great demand for research into Alzheimer’s Disease and cancer, ordered Medical schools and research foundations currently pay about $15 apiece for myxicola, a marine worm that lives in rock ievices in coastal waters. The worms are collected by scuba di- rsand sold to researchers. But diving for the worms is ious and expensive. Jibe National Institute of he Chartw 3 ^ ^ as awar<dec ^ $48,927 to oms ^ au( l Dean, professor of ma rine zoology at the University of ib to pi .aining taintained ted guai suable Maine at Orono, to study ways to raise the worms under labo ratory conditions. Dean said he will experiment with different foods and envi ronments to determine which are best for cultivating myxicoli. “The purpose of my project is to learn how to spawn them and raise the larvae to adult size,” Dean said in a telephone interview Monday. The experi ments will be done at the Ira Darling marine lab, a university research center in Walpole. Dean said he has successfully spawned several other types of worms under artificial condi tions, such as the sandworm and the bloodworm. The myxicola is unusual in that it has one large cell that controls most all of its nerve functions, Dean said. “Because of the large size of this one cell, it is very much in demand by scientists studying properties of nerves,” Dean said. “The myxicola has one cell that does all the same things as our spinal cord. It’s just one large cell from one end to the tail end of the worm,” he said. Researchers study the large cells to gather information about the contents of the nerve fiber itself, and how electrical impulses are transmitted through the nerve. matiofl -/el at MSC TRAVEL TRAVEL SPRING ‘84 March 2,3 and 4, 1984 Mardi Gras New Orleans $105 tian in 1983, Brown found suit able living quarters in a large apartment complex. She tried to make a personal application of her anti-crime knowledge United Press International WASHINGTON — Ameri cans will never again have the luxury of apathy or disinterest toward the problems of its southern neighbors, San Anto nio Mayor and Kissinger Com mission member Henry Cisne ros said Monday. “Never again will our country have the luxury of being able to view the problems of countries south of us as unimportant to our national affairs,” Cisneros told about 4,000 people attend ing graduation ceremonies at The George Washington Uni versity. Cisneros, who received an honorary doctor of laws degree and an alumni achivement award during the ceremonies, said America previously has concentrated its interests on problems of Europe and Asia. “But throughout the period, we have been relatively uninte rested in the developments to the south. We have never really understood the problems even though we share the same land mass,” he said. “The problems of Central America are acute, of interest to the.United States, urgent and complex,” he said. “They do not lend themselves to simple an swers.” Cisneros, the nation’s first Hispanic mayor of a major city during modern times, said the problems included debt, com modity prices, oligarchies, jus tice systems, international rebel lion and subversion from outside the area. “Those who say we have no role militarily in the region are as much wrong as those who say we should give them no eco nomic aid,” said Cisneros. “We must be involved both ways.” Cisneros told the approxi mately 1,900 graduates the re^ mainder of their productive lives will be involved “in one way or another” in the prob lems of Central and South America. “Never again will Americans have the luxury of being able to be apathetic or uninterested in the problems of that region of the world,” he said. 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