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Debriefing
Thursday • February20,
► Nation
Brain injury patients
see cold road ahead
Students sign oath
of honesty in Virginia
NEW YORK (AP) — Victims of se
vere brain injuries can recover faster
and perhaps more fully if their bod
ies are chilled to 87 or 88 degrees
for a day, a recent study found.
The cooling treatment is “some
thing every hospital could do,” said
Dr. Donald Marion, director of the
brain trauma research center at the
University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center. “It’s not high-tech.”
More than 370,000 Americans a
year are hospitalized with brain in
juries. The cooling strategy, called
hypothermia, is used now in some
brain injury cases, but not widely.
The researchers studied 82 pa
tients who were in comas after traf
fic accidents, falls, assaults or oth
er incidents. All received standard
treatment, but half were also cooled
for 24 hours, starting an average of
10 hours after the injury.
Their body temperatures were low
ered by putting special cooling blan
kets above and below them. The
blankets, standard equipment at hos
pitals, had cold water circulating in
them. In some patients, cold water
was injected into the stomach
through a nose or mouth tube.
The patients were given drugs to
keep them from shivering.
STAUNTON, Va. (AP) — Students
at Mary Baldwin College won’t lie,
cheat or steal. You have their word
on it, in writing.
The honors pledge they sign as
freshmen may seem a relic of the
past at a time when polls have
found widespread cheating among
American high school and college
students.
But this small school, founded in
the Blue Ridge foothills in the 19th cen
tury, takes the subject very seriously,
trusting its 1,200 female students to
take examinations on their own time
with no professors watching.
“You can leave your books lying
around,” said Lisa Crigler, 20, a junior
from Staunton, standing on the hilly
campus that overlooks the Shenan
doah and the birthplace of Woodrow
Wilson, a champion of honor sys
tems. “You can leave anything any
where, and nobody touches it.”
The school canceled classes
Wednesday so students could
spend the day taking a close and
lively look at the honor system, an
institution that still lives on at
dozens of other campuses, includ
ing Princeton, Rice and Stanford.
Most schools with honor sys
tems are in the Southeast, with at
least a dozen within a 50-mile ra
dius of the campus.
This day in history
Today is Thursday, Feb. 20, the 51st day of 1997.
There are 314 days left in the year.
In 1790, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II died.
In 1792, President Washington signed an act cre
ating the U.S. Post Office.
In 1809, the Supreme Court ruled the power of the
federal government is greater than that of any individ
ual state.
In 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District
of Columbia.
In 1895, abolitionist Frederick Douglass died in
Washington, D.C.
In 1933, the House of Representatives completed
congressional action on an amendment to repeal Pro
hibition.
In 1938, Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign
secretary in a dispute with Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain.
► Today's birthdays
I taly Stlidy Abroad Spring
'97
IN C^ASTIGiLlON FlORENTlNO
ARTS 3SO: Art® and Civilization
SOCt 205: introduction to Sociology
SOCI230: Classical Social Theory
SCON 320: Economic Development of
Europe
LBAR 332: Global Economic issues
INFORMATIONALMEETINGS
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Thursday, February 20
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Friday, February 21
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TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL
12TH MAN/WALK-ON
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
DATE: Tuesday, February 25, 1997
TIME: 4:30 PM
WHERE: Kyle Field
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In 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers began
raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in a se
ries of attacks that became known as Big Week.
In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first
American to orbit Earth as he flew aboard the Friend
ship 7 Mercury capsule.
In 1965, the Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed on the
moon after sending back thousands of pictures of the
lunar surface.
Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 73. Movie di
rector Robert Altman is 72. Actor Sidney Poitier is 70.
Jazz-soul singer Nancy Wilson is 60. Singer-songwriter
Buffy Sainte-Marie is 56. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Phil Es
posito is 55. Actress Sandy Duncan is 51. Rock musi
cian J. Geils is 51. Actor Peter Strauss is 50.
Put Your 20 In!
Filing for Student
Body Positions,
Yell leader,
RHA, and Class
Council is
Feb. 24 - Feb. 28
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Rm 143 Koldus
Maxine Waters
United States Representative
Member of House Banking, Finance and Urk-j
Affairs Committee, and chair of the Black Cai7
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