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Page 6 The Battalion Tuesday, April :f Tuesday, Heart transplant pioneer impatient with progress The Associated Press HOUSTON — Heart surgeon Denton A. Cooley said Monday he’s growing impatient with the slow progress being made with ar tificial heart transplants, a field he pioneered with the first such oper ation 25 years ago. “I’m pleased with it (the progress),’ said Cooley, 75. ‘But I’m still rather impatient that it hasn’t been more rapid. I would like to see some of these problems solved during my professional life time, not wait until after the turn of the century.” It was April 4, 1969, when Cooley and his associates at the Texas Heart Institute implanted a totally artificial heart into the chest of Haskell Karp, a 47-year-old printing estimator from Skokie, Ill. Karp lived for three days on the device and then received a human heart transplant. He died a day lat er when infection and tissue rejec tion set in. At the time, it was predicted by Cooley’s cardiac team that 100,000 of the devices would be used by 1 980, not as bridge mechanisms, but as replacements for human hearts entirely. Twenty-five years later, better prototypes and spinoff devices have been developed, but no pa tient has been sustained by them for very long. Dr. Robert Jarvik im planted his artificial heart in Seattle dentist Barney Clark at the Univer sity of Utah on Dec. 2, 1982. The heart, driven by an air pump the size of a washing ma chine, kept Clark alive for 112 days and boosted hopes for a new era of treatment, but the technolo- y stalled by the end of the ecade. The Jarvik heart had been in tended as a permanent replace ment, but the Federal Drug Ad ministration changed its stance af ter four other patients developed complications and died. It authorized the device only as a bridge. From 1985 through 1991, the hearts were implanted in 187 pa tients awaiting transplant, and 5 6 of those patients survived a year. Six panhandle colleges join forces Schools unite to give students better services, save money The Associated Press GOODWELL, Okla. — Six col leges in the panhandles of Okla homa and Texas have joined forces to form a higher education consor tium aimed at giving students bet ter services and saving money. “You look at the map and you can easily see that the Texas Pan handle and the Oklahoma Pan handle are really isolated,” said Mark E. Workman, director of computer information at Frank Phillips College in Borger, Texas. “Why, we think of Panhandle State as a member of our group rather than closely affiliated with Oklahoma State University,’’ Workman said. “We’re right out here with them. We need to be one happy family,” says Panhandle State pres ident Ron Meek. Panhandle State University in Goodwell has joined with five Texas colleges to form the new Higher Education Consortium of Texas and Oklahoma. In addition to Frank Phillips, the Texas colleges are West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Clarendon College; Amarillo Col lege and Texas State Technical College in Amarillo. Panhandle State is part of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Me chanical College system that has the same board of regents as Ok lahoma State. The agreement for the consor tium was reached in February after administrators and faculty from the six colleges studied the need for it for about a year. The consortium members met last week. T.H.E. Consortium, as it is called, allows the six institutions to pool resources and cut down on course duplication, Workman said. He said the schools will work to minimize problems that stu dents might encounter when transferring from one institution to another or transferring from one program to another. The con sortium has an articulation and transfer committee. Four of the schools are junior colleges. Panhandle State and West Texas A&M are four-year universities. A proposed “two-plus-two’’ program would allow students to take freshman and sophomore classes at a junior college and then finish a baccalaureate de gree at Panhandle State or West Texas A&M. Panhandle State encourages transfers in the areas of business, computer sciences and industrial arts. “We need to concentrate on our specialities and eliminate turf considerations,” Meek said. He insists that the six schools were made for a cooperative spirit. “You drive around this area and you discover quickly that there s a commonality out here,” he said. “We have the same value systems, the same economic base, the same cultural ties, the same pioneer spirit. Secretar Continued from sion, is a former lobbyist(: city of Dallas and wasi member to former U.S Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas. He is the second blackj to be secretary of state. Tk was a woman, Myra McDi who was named by forme Mark White. 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