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Sculptor designs teaching aids
U.H. students use wooden eyes
United Press International
HOUSTON — Professors at the
University erf Houston’s College of
Optometry are using three new
wooden sculptures of eyes as teach
ing aids.
The sculptures, by artist Ron
Schumacher, are somewhat abstract,
but are based on almost two years of
research on the anatomy of eye. The
4-foot-square sculptures are on dis
play al the college this month.
Schumacher, who worked closely
with Dr. Robert Rice, an associate
professor of optometry, learned
enough about the eye to put to
gether first a workable model and
then the actual sculptures. Each of
the three depicts a different view of
the eye.
In order to engineer his creation
most effectively, he tried too match
the grain of the wood to the actual
structure of the eye tissue. This in
volved the use of 15 different types
of wood.
Schumacher persuaded 25 people
to invest $100 each to pay for the
project.
Sketches of the sculptures were
completed in February, but then the
hard work began.
He labored for three months in
his small workshop in the backyard
of his Houston home and managed
to complete one sculpture a month.
He now hopes to sell the work for
about $22,000.
Rice said he was not surprised by
the collaboration of science and art.
“Surprisingly enough, anatomy
has a lot of art in it. It is a very three-
dimensional science, and we deal
more with atlases than textbooks. If
anything, as far as teaching goes,
one of the weakest links is the lack of
graphic depiction of the eye. So it
was not unnatural for me to act as an
art adviser,” Rice said.
Although the real anatomy of the
eye formed the basis for the pieces,
Schumacher had to exercise consid
erable artistic license and make some
major modifications before he
reached the end product.
The sculptures are very different
from each other, although they
share a common theme. The last
view is the most representational of
the three.
Shuttle Discovery to blast off June 22
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —-
With engineers rushing to fix a se
ries of nagging problems with the
new shuttle Discovery, the space
agency Tuesday cleared the orbiter
for blastoff June 22.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said Discovery
is scheduled to roar into space on its
maiden flight from its oceanside
launch pad at 8:43 a.m. EDT.
If all goes well, the seven-day mis
sion will end June 29 on a lakebed
runway at Edwards Air Force Base,
Calif., at 9:53 a.m. EDT.
Veteran shuttle astronaut Henry
Hartsfield and his rookie crewmates
Michael Coats, Steven Hawley, Mike
Mullane, Charles Walker and Judy
Resnik plan to deploy a new commu
nications satellite and conduct a vari
ety of exotic experiments.
NASA officials in Washington
said the launch date will be “reas
sessed” in about a week after a thor
ough check of Discovery’s systems to
see how they came through Satur
day’s test firing of the shuttle’s big
main engines.
Discovery is the third shuttle in
NASA’s growing fleet and it origi
nally was scheduled to blast off June
19.
The three-day slip was caused by
numerous delays getting Discovery
to the launch pad and a one-day de
lay in cranking up the shuttle’s main
engines for a crucial test run.
The flight readiness firing was
conducted successfully Saturday but
a series of problems were noted
prompting a 24-hour delay until
Wednesday in loading the Syncom-4
communications satellite and other
cargo into Discovery’s payload bay.
NASA spokesman Rocky Raab
said a device that controls the pay-
load bay door latches, the vent sys
tem and latches that lock the shut
tle’s fragile mechanical arm in place
gave faulty readings that puzzled en
gineers.
Technicians also planned a care
ful look at the reinforced edges of
Discovery’s wings to make sure small
heat insulators were properly in
stalled, and began work to repair
one wingtip that was damaged dur
ing the shuttle’s processing in its
hangar.
In addition, about 12 heat-shield
ing tiles were damaged during the
engine test and will have to be re
paired or replaced.
Meanwhile, spokesmen lor the
Canadian astronaut program told a
news conference in Ottawa Tuesday
that the first U.S. space shuttle mis
sion with a Canadian on board will
blast off 3 'A weeks earlier than origi
nally scheduled.
The mission has been set for Oct.
1 rather than Oct. 24, as part of a
general rescheduling of shuttle mis
sions by NASA.
Closed-door investigation launched.
Authorities look into tallship accident
United Press International
HAMILTON, Bermuda — Ber
mudan authorities Tuesday
launched a closed-door investigation
into the freak sinking of a British
square rigger as an intense search at
sea failed to turn up any trace of 18
missing people.
A Polish schooner that rescued
eight of 27 people from the 117-
foot-tall Marques will scatter funeral
wreaths and observe a moment of si
lence al the spot where the ship
sank, officials said Tuesday.
The schooner Zawisa Czarny was
scheduled to leave Bermuda late
Tuesday for a 12-hour sail to the
area where the Marques capsized
and sank in less than a minute dur
ing a freak hurricane 78 miles north
of Bermuda.
After a brief service for the one
dead and 18 missing, the Polish ves
sel will resume the 1984 Tall Ships
Race from Bermuda to Halifax,
Nova Scotia. The Marques was par
ticipating in the race when it sank
Sunday after being hit by “an incred
ible” wind and two giant waves.
Three Canadian Forces ships and
one U.S. Coast Guard cutter criss
crossed an area of 3,240 square miles
Tuesday looking for any sign of the
missing crew members and passen
gers but came up empty.
Race officials said the search
would be called off at dusk Wednes
day.
Nine people survived the sinking
of the Marques — eight who were
rescued by the Polish vessel Zawisa
Czarny and taken to Bermuda and
one who was taken aboard a Ca
nadian frigate heading for Halifax.
The Bermuda Department of
Transportation began a closed-door
investigation in Hamilton. Among
the witnesses scheduled to be heard
were several officials of the Sail
Training Association.
The British colonial government
of Bermuda announced it will pro
vide funds to help repatriate the
eight survivors brought to Bermuda.
1’he eight spent Tuesday shopping
for new clothes.
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It was two weeks after his 68th
birthday when the venerable Sam
Houston, hero of the Texas War for
Independence, statesman and Fa
ther of the Republic was booted out
of the governor’s mansion by a hell-
bent-for-secession Legislature.
Tired, frail, and unhappy with
Texas’decision to join the Confeder
acy, Houston went home to Cedar
Point where he died two years later.
So began the tale of the state’s
withdrawal from the Union which it
had voted overwhelmingly to join
just 16 years earlier. Texas was
unique among the seceding states be
cause of its ambivalence toward se
cession. Houston was not alone in his
opposition. There had been some
who had urged him to resist the
move to remove him as governor.
But Texas was more a southern
than a western state in 1861 — most
of its settlers were immigrants from
Deep South of border states.
Texas A&M University history
professor Walter Buenger has writ
ten a book chronicling this time in
the state’s history that is both a nar
rative of secession in Texas and a
case study of the causes of secession
in a southern state.
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in Texas,” it is a study of public hys
teria, the pressure for consensus and
a failure of the political process.
On his way home after leaving
Austin, Houston was called on by
men who had fought with him to
make a speech in Brenham. He was
reluctant to speak until a mob of
southern sympathizers threatened
him with violence. Sam Houston ad
dressed the crowd with his old
friends and comrades-in-arms ring
ing the platform with drawn revolv
ers.
“Secession and the Union in Tex
as” by Walter Buenger is available
from the University of Texas Press.
The following incidents were re
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• A red Schwinn ten-speed bicy
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bike rack.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone activated one of the
fire alarm pull stations on the first
floor of Haas Hall.
• The face plate was stolen from
the door to the third floor men’s
room in the Oceanography and Me
teorology building and the com
modes were stuffed with paper tow
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