Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1984)
Page lOETThe Battalion/Monday, August 27, 1984 1310 Harvey Rd Post Oak Square (Behind Grandy's) GET TO KNOW US! 'THE PIZZA — PIZZA PEOPLE LOVE" $2.00 OFF ON ALL LARGE PIZZAS Monday Aug. 27-Sept. 3 Offer Good On To Go And The Weekend Does not apply please present to other specials coupon Mon.-Thurs. 11-11 Fri. & Sat. 11-Midnight Sun. 11-10 696-6482 HEWLETT PACKARD 41 CX...$259.99 41CV...$195.99 HP11C.. $62.99 HP1 2C .. $95.99 HP15C $95.99 HP16C $95.99 HP75D $879.99 HPIL Module...$99.99 HP1L Cassette or Printer $369.99 For the Student west 800-648-3311 In NV call (702) 588-5654 Dept 500, P.O. BOX 6689 Stateline. NV 89449 CAMPUS REPS NEEDED east 800-233-8950 In PA call (717) 327-9575 Dept soo, 477 E Third Street Williamsport. PA 17701 We need Sales Representatives on your campus to sell Hewlett Packard Calculators and other computer products. You'll make generous commissions selling only the finest quality name brands on the market. Call today to see if you qualify for a Campus Representative Kit. No investment is required.' Iiftiri cr tlie Spitz Thur-Sat. 10-6 PM Shiloh Place College Station 764-3187 IfieTV&rd 1S_ _ around... CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST A weekly meeting designed to help Christians learn how to experience a more abundant Christian life and learn how to communicate their faith to others effectively. MEETS Friday, 7 p.m. Rudder Tower - Room 701 “Help spread ‘Word Toothpick related accidents cause serious injuries, death United Press International CHICAGO — Toothpicks may seem harmless, but toothpick-re lated injuries send 8,000 people to hospital emergency rooms each year, with some deaths reported from swallowing the wooden slivers, a researcher sa,id Thursday. man who swallowed a toothpick which lodged in his liver, causing an abscess. Doctors were mystified and suspected Acquired Immune Defi ciency Syndrome (AIDS). any toothpicks served in foods are visible.” At least three toothpick deaths have been reported to the Consumer Products Safety Commission since 1980, Dr. Lawrence Budnick re ported in the Journal of Medicine. The Journal reports one case of a When doctors used a surgical pro cedure to drain the abscess, the toothpick was found. The patient then remembered eating stuffed cabbages held together with tooth picks a week before his symptoms began. Budnick, of the Philadelphia De partment of Public Health, said food preparers should “make certain that clearly He suggests spearing sandwiches with toothpicks “with the frills on the end. If you just use a plain tooth pick, it could just get lost in the sand wich.” He also advocates using brightly colored plastic toothpicks in hors d’oeuvres. “It’s no problem as long as people are aware that they’re there,” he said. The Consumer Products Safety Commission study estimates that 8,176 people suffer toothpick-re lated injuries severe enough to send them to emergency rooms each yeai, Budnick said. Children under|j run the greatest risk of severe injun, with the highest number ofinjum in children five to 14 years old. Budnick stressed that toothpick should not he considered highrisl items, and pointed out that looil picks have been used since B.C. “You just want parents to be await of problems in the home with evtj innocuous, relatively benign utei sils,” Budnick said. “They shouli know just to keep an extraeyeout. Goats used in research about muscle diseases United Press International ATLANTA — Scientists are studying the strange behavior of a breed of goats in central Tennessee in hopes of gaining new information about human muscle disease. The goats have an hereditary con dition known as myotonia. If they are surprised or frightened their muscles contract and freeze. They may fall over or assume a rigid, stat uesque posture. who is studying the goats. “You can pick one up and carry it around just like a piece of wood.” Atkinson and another Vanderbilt pathologist, Dr. Larry L. Swift, are searching for dues to human muscle diseases, particularly muscular dystrophy. By studying myotonic- goats, investigators have discovered some therapies that help aleviate the symptoms of some human muscular disorders. “Sometimes they look just like statues,” said Dr. James B. Atkinson, a pathologist at the Vanderbilt Uni versity Medical Center in Nashville, Vanderbilt researchers first began their studies of the goats in the 1920s when they discovered the dis order was myotonia and noted simi larities between the human and ani mal muscular conditions. Among questions scientists are still seeking answers to are how the con dition is inherited and what is effec tive in controlling or preventing the attacks, which last 10 to 40 seconds. During an attack, the goats con tinue to breathe, their hearts con tinue to beat at a steady rate and they remain conscious. “Most of what we know about hu man myotonia, from the severity of the condition to the effect of drugs and other therapies, comes from re search conducted with goats,” he said. “We hope, with continued re search, to learn more.” Computer pictures galaxies United Press International PASADENA, Calif. - The law electronic light sensing quipmeii has made the Palomar Observatoni 37-year-old telescope, a sky-watdw with an illustrious past, the mos powerful on Earth. Married working mothers have good health reports The new computer-controlled tic vice known as the “4Shooter" • ables Palomar astronomers to vir< objects 200 million times fainttt than can he seen with the nakedeu “It’s as it they built another210 inch telescope,” said Don Schneido an astronomer at the California It stitute of Technology, whorunstlr observatorv. United Press International The caricature of the working married mother as a sickly soul suf fering from short circuited nerves, blown fuses and burnout doesn’t fit with the facts, ma’am. Speaking of the jugglers of spouse, children, job, home and Tnaybe a dog or cat. Dr. Lois M. Verbrugge, expert on women, work and health at the University of Michigan, said: “The best health is found amohg employed married mothers, though employed married women without children are very close to them. “Employment is associated with good health,” she said. “Marriage also is a healthful sta tus, compared to nonmarriage; and even parenthood is weakly asso ciated with good health. So people with multiple roles reflect the health benefits of each role. The same is true of men. The health plus to parenthood for the women with multiple roles, however, is influenced somewhat by the ages and number of chil dren, Verbrugge said. “The worst health is among women with ‘no roles’ — unmarried women with no job or children.” Verbrugge, research associate at the U-M Institute for Social Re search, Ann Arbor, spoke at a sym posium on “Health Prospects for American Women” during the an nual meeting of the American As sociation for the Advancement of Science. The link of multiple roles — job and family responsibilities — with good health comes mainly from the positive effect of each component role, the social scientist said. “Having preschoolers or numer ous children can pose problems and stresses for working women and ul timately jeopardize their health,” she said. “The scientific evidence on this is not consistent, but it points in that direction — more health problems and curative behaviors among women with preschool-age children than older ones, and among women with three or more children rather than one or tw'o.” “The link between busy lives and good health could be true for the majority of women, namely, white middle class women, but not for less advantaged ones.” “The reasoning is that black women low income women, and low education women have jobs by necessity, gain few social and finan cial benefits from their work, and have more domestic responsibilities because of more dependents and less help from spouses. “All of this would make multiple roles tough for them, entailing more stresses and fewer satisfac tions; so the effect on health could be negative or, at best, less positive than for white middle class women.” However, married, single, parent or not, women with a paid job are notably healthier than unemployed women and women outside the la bor force, Verbrugge said. Given the fact that employment seems to be a “healthy status,” Ver brugge made a prediction. “As larger percents of women be come employed and are exposed to employment for more years of their lives, the health of American women should improve. “Although work environments and tasks do pose some risks that nonemployed women avoid, re search evidence suggests that these are more than offset by social and psychological benefits of jobs. The same is true of men.” Schneider said the 4Shooter twice as efficient as its predecessoi and can cover three times as mud sky as an earlier detector employ at Palomar. The new IShooter, developed Princeton University astronoma James Gunn, uses lour separatetek vision cameras to create piciutti captured by the telescope in ih nighttime skv over Palomar,local, on a mountain 65 miles northeatui San Diego. The light of distant stars is fra split by a pyramid-shaped mirror* the center of the new 1.5-tondelict A quarter of the image isthenca|r lured by each camera, which, turn, focuses the light onto an eke] ironic sensing component called charge-coupled device, or CCD this component that converts image into data that can be stored a computer. C S ti Her ence I brand Quc neithe the S chamf Bowl on Ne ’ A ns Reaga the l 1 seems last tit top of Bayloi to Dal 2 in tl those ferenc Aft 1980, turn I of the Head Akers teams SWC four > In top ol der. 1 Texas were rever: Gn dynas two c nance four s the 8 again Th. team back e dium Tech, featec ence 1981, Back at Caltech, scientists can us the data to create images of disc galaxies, employing the latest com] puter enhancement techniques I gen a finished picture, j Because of the limitations nighttime viewing, it sometimes ti years for an astronomer to compli a specific project. “That’s why making the device efficient is important,” said Miclia Carr, the Caltech engineer who o structed the 4Shooter. “You can do so much in a night.” 'g Fathers active in raising children United Press International Fathers are no longer just bystanders in child-raising — their new role often starts in the delivery room and sometimes winds up in full-time parenting. This Father’s Day will see a new breed of fathers taking a more active role in their children’s liyes. Some do so by choice, determined not to be as distant from their offspring as they were from their own fathers. Others have been thrown into a more active role in child-rearing by divorce or because their wives are spending more time at work outside the home. Men have come a long way in par enting from the days of the country’s founding fathers, according to Kyle Pruett, associate professor of psy chiatry at Yale Unversity. “For centuries,” Pruett said, “men were not allowed to go near their ba bies. In Puritan cultures, women were the only beings charged by God to be near infants. People believed id < there were noxious and evil things which happened between fathers and children. Fathers couldn’t go near their children until they were 6 years old and in breeches.” Dr. Michael Yogman, associate chief of the division of child devel opment at Boston’s Children’s Hos pital, said that today nearly all hospi tals allow fathers in the delivery room, compared to only 27 percent as recently as 12 years ago. For the past decade, Yogman has worked to dispel the notion that fa thers are incompetent with infants. When he started his research, “fa thers would not be involved with young babies,” Yogman said in a re cent interview. “They were bystand ers watching their wives until the baby began to talk or throw a ball.” “People have described dance type behavior — cooing, smiling, vo calizing — between mothers and in fants,” he said. “When we asked men to play with their (infants), we found the identical sensitivity to the baby’s timing and rhythms.” Yale’s Pruett has done a pilot study of families in which fathers were the primary care-givers and de termined that there are advantages to father being the dominant parent. He found infants who were pri marily taken care of by their fathers were more outgoing and displayed more persistence in problem solving than other babies. Pruett explained the differences in part by citing the fathers’ ten dency to pick up their infants in a “football position,” slinging them over the crook of their arm looking outward, rather than “nestled into their mother’s breasts.” , “(Fathers) tend to hold the babia so they are looking out at then as they do,” Purett said. Ron Levant, professor of counsd- ling psychology and director of lli( fatherhood project at Boston Uni versity, encourages fathers to stayii volved with their children I infancy. His workshops teadifaihi how to discipline, talk to and wit h their children. He said the fathers in his program “are generally good at being proviil ers, but they are dissatisfied will their roles as fathers.” “They talk with sad ness about ibt distance they felt from their own()• thers. They feel inept and marvel ‘ the ability of their wives to set lira and communicate, and they feel oil of it.” Book details upsonddownsof Harvard United Press International NEW YORK — Fran Worden Henry’s first year at Harvard Busi ness School left her so tense her teeth died, so obsessive she could not concentrate on her sister’s wedding, and so frazzled she once tried to wash her dirty laundry in the clothes dryer. Now, two years after graduation, Henry said she’s glad she struggled through it. “What my MBA’s given me is that foot in the door,” she said. “It’s like a stamp of approval. It did give me technical training and I do use that training, but more importantly, it gives me a chance to prove myself.” Henry’s recent book about her time at Harvard includes stories of male executives, from a bank loan officer in New Bedford to a British oil executive in Bankgkok, who sud denly became interested in her opin ions when they learned where she was going to school. If there is a villain in the book, it may be the school’s case method of teaching, in which business prob lems are presented through complex descriptions of a company’s product or finances. Once a class was fin ished, she wrote, the teacher never referred again to the case under consideration. “How could we learn to see prob lems in a long-range perspective when we dealt with 800 problems for 3 hours each?” she wrote. “The case method encouraged short-range thinking because it set us up to ana lyze and solve a problem without having to account for the impact of our decision.” Students waded through three 20- to 40-page cases a night, fearful they would be asked to “present” the next day and be caught unprepared. Be hind much of the terror lay a system of grading that guaranteed some students in each class would fail. “Toughing it out at Harvard,” published by McGraw-Hill, begins on the day Henry mistook a clothes dryer for a washer. “My hot, sticky clothes circled slowly in front of me, reminding me I was losing control,” she said. She suffered from vivid dreams of violence and retribution, and a sud den spate of toothaches. “Stress can kill a tooth,” her dentist consoled her. Preoccupied with business cases, Henry could not focus in on her non-Harvard friends or family. Greeting her parents after a long ab sence, she absent-mindedly asked: “Did you have a profitable trip?” About a quarter ol the 785 in dents in HenYy’s class were vvora® and the book dwells at length o* what it was like to be female inil power-oriented, competitive aliW sphere of MBS' graduate program. She worried about “the habit ^ many women had ol raising tW hands and starting out their cot merits with the phrase ‘I just want® to say.’” But in retrospect, Henry said,’ think Harvard is no different lit) 5 any other big university, real There are no women to speakof(*|; | faculty who are tenured. 1 do» think that’s going to change ind* near f uture. “It’s got lot of inertia to overco# Prom that perspective I apprec# the strides Harvard made,”shes®