4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, April 1, 1984 Prof gets to heart of computers IN BRIEF By KATIE BLACKWELL The pale blue walls of Dr. Robert Vogel's study are lined with brightly colored prints - shades of blue, green, red, yellow, and white splashed against a stark black background. At first glance the prints look like a collection of bold modern art, but a second look reveals a definite pattern. THE SHAPE soon becomes recognizable - it is the human heart. The prints are computer images that chart the blood's progress through the heart's chambers. The colors change in time with the blood's passage. For Vogel, who heads the cardiology divison in Ann Arbor's Veterans Admin- istration Hospital, working in the five- year-old field of computer imaging re- flects a life that has always been a bit accelerated. He graduated from Bayside High School in New York City at age 15, and at 16, the self-confessed "science nerd" entered Columbia University. HE LETTERED in swimming at Columbia, and was named the Eisenhower Scholar, ranking highest scholastically among varsity athletes. His bachelor's degree in physics carried with it a Phi Beta Kappa key and Magna Cum Laude honors. Vogel doesn't say too much about going to Columbia at age 16, but he ad- mits that his academic intensity carries over .into the classroom, where he. teaches as an associate professor in the Medical School. Occasionally he gets impatient, 'especially with the brighter students because you expect more out of them," but two years ago Vogel won the car- diology department's teaching award. HE NOW spends about half of his time performing research in computer car- diac imaging and the rest on teaching and patient care. "I enjoy the research and the teaching, and you can't get that in a private practice," Vogel says. At the Medical School, Vogel instruc- ts third and fourth-year medical students in their cardiology clinicals, and also teaches some interns and residents in internal medicine. "THE THING I really like is asking and answering questions," he says. "If I were ever in a position to stop that I wouldn't be nearly as happy." But medicine wasn't always Vogel's clear choice for the future. Different decisions 20 years ago might have put him in a position of working with things rather than people. THE SUMMER after his junior year, when physics was still his main pursuit, Vogel studied the subject in Berkeley, California. After the summer, he realized that physics would distance him too much from people. "The subject itself was interesting to me, but what you were able to do as a person was less interesting," he says. So physics gave way to Yale Medical School where he graduated Magna Cum Laude at the age of 24, and Vogel began to devote himself to affairs of the heart. AT THE University of Colorado, Vogel. concentrated on nuclear car- diology, where he would inject a radioactive isotope into the blood stream and trace its path with a special camera to locate blockages. The goal of the technique is similar to. Vogel's computer imaging that reveals blockages, such as thickened arteries, on the color charts. Each color represents a new heartbeat, and helps Vogel pinpoint the location of the blockage. "We know the causes of heart disease, but we're trying to find out how they are manifested," he explained. Dr. Robert Vogel, head of the cardiology division in Ann Arbor's Veterans Adminstration Hospital, is working in the five-year-old field of computer imaging. The images chart the blood's flow through the heart's chambers using a color-coding system. Today, and in the future, "Computers are going to clearly be essential in heart diagnosis," Vogel says. The VA hospital where Vogel works services about 400 patients a year with its color-coded computer imaging, and with 1,200 patients using the system at University Hospital, Michigan is one of the leaders in the field, Vogel says. Profile is a regular Daily feature that appears on Sunday. TV news just 'entertaiment, critics say (Continued from Page 1) Association, one of six media professionals at the day-long conferen- ce. Editors pressure their critics to be news reporters as well as watchdogs of cable TV, network programs, the Federal Communications Commission, and the financial operations of major networks, said Mike Duffy, TV critic for the Detroit Free Press. "Not only do they require you to wear many hats but (on Monday you're the critic who) trashes Channel 4's program-and on Tuesday you're the reporter who has to get facts from that station's reporters)," said George Bullard, a Detroit News reporter. The critics said they know their wor- ds will not drastically change viewing habits, but said they hope to open up a few minds to quality shows. "I don't have any delusions of gran- deur," said Duffy. "I know that today's paper is going to be"lining birdcages tomorrow." The three critics took on television producers later in the day in a hot debate over the quality of television news. The critics blasted the chit-chat among news anchors and their seeming lack of journalistic training. "I CAN'T FAST forward through the goddamn happy talk to hear about the fire that (the ,anchors) announce after the next commercial," said Duffy. Television news is just another round of entertainment, Duffy.said, adding that Channel 7 anchorman Bill Bonds takes the cake among newscasters. "Bill is the best at what he does. And what he does is perform the news," he, said. THE WRITERS criticized the reporting skills of the anchorpersons as well. "There's a question as to whether I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I k-iow that today's paper is going to be lining birdcages tomorrow.' -Mike Duffy TV critic Detroit Free Press Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Honduran leaders dismissed TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The military high command yesterday an- nounced the resignations of Honduras' two top generals in a surprise shakeup within the armed forces. The high command said President Roberto Suazo Cordova, as Comman- der General of the armed forces, would assume the functions of the chief of the military. Chief of the armed forces, Gen. Gustavo Alvarex Martinex and army chief of staff, Gen. Jose Abnegado Bueso Rosa, both resigned, the high command said in separate radio broadcasts. Martinez, who had been considered the most powerful man in the country, had repeatedly said the only solution to conflicts in Central America would be a military one, apparently alluding to open warfare with neighboring Nicaragua. Bueso Rosa, the No. 2 man in the Honduran military hierarchy, would have been the officer most likely to replace Alvarez Martinez, who was elec- ted chief of the armed forces in January, 1982. AgentinarE;eives loan package WASHINGTON-A $500 million loan package to enable Argentina to meet a deadline on interest payments on its staggering $43 billion foreign debt was put together virtually at the last minute with the help of four of Argentina's Latin American neighbors, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said yester- day. "The crisis has passed and and has been met successfully," Regan told reporters in announcing the financial arrangements he said would bolster Argentina's democratic government and help prevent panic in the inter- national debt system. Regan also told a news conference the agreement was not arranged for the benefit of the 25 U.S. banks that lent Argentina money and would have suf- fered substantial shortterm losses if no rescue had been worked out. He said the fragile international debt network might have collapsed en- tirely if no agreement had been reached. Regan gave the government of Mexico credit for taking the lead in putting together the package with the help of Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, the United States and a group of international banks. French pu&lout of Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon-The last French troops of the multinational force sailed out of Lebanon yesterday, ending a 19-month peacekeeping effort by the United States, France, Italy and Britain that cost 402 lives. The administration pronounced the mandate of the multinational force over as of mid-yesterday, the state radio and television stations reported. The withdrawal of the French left the Lebanese capital free of foreign ar- mies for the first time in seven and a half years. Within hours of the French departure, fighting erupted in Beirut and the hills to the east. Militiamen fired machine guns, Jeep-mounted anti-aircraft cannons and rocket-propelled grenades at each other along the "green line,"'the no- man's land dividing Christian east Beirut from the Moslem west. The national news agency reported at least one casualty, an Armenian wounded by sniper fire in east Beirut. During its 19-month mandate, the peacekeepers lost 402 servicemen dead and at least 317 wounded by terrorist bomb attacks, shelling and sniping. The United States is leaving 300 Marines and other servicemen to guard its embassy and train the Lebanese army. Murderer executed in Texas HUNTSVILLE, Texas-Hundreds of death penalty supporters demon- strated outside a prison, some yelling "trick or treat," as Ronald Clark O'Bryan was executed yesterday for killing his 8-year-old son with poisoned Halloween candy. The state contended O'Bryan killed his son and planned to kill his daughter to collect $31,000 in insurance he held on each. He was proiounced dead at 12:48 a.m, 10 minutes after the execution begah: His bdywas take to the Harris*County.Medioal Examiner's office, where an autopsy was performed and his eyes were removed for transplan- tation, as O'Bryan had requested. O'Bryan, 39, who professed his innocence until tle end, was the 16th person to be executed since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to restore the death penalty in 1976. In a two-minute statement to 24 witnesses, O'Bryan said in a calm, firm voice that the death penalty was "wrong," but "it doesn't mean the whole system of justice is wrong. Therefore, I forgive all-and I do mean all-those who have been involved in my death." He concluded with the words: "God bless you all and may God's best blessings be always yours." Hawaiian volcano ceases action HILO, Hawaii-Kilauea volcano's one-day eruption ended abruptly yesterday after lava skirted some homes, but the more ominous eruption of giant Mauna Loa entered a seventh day with one lava flow "poised right above Hilo." Four molten lava rivers flowed down the northeast slope of Mauna Loa, and were clearly visible in downtown Hilo. Only one of the rivers was a threat to habitation. Its crushing, half-mile- wide front was 13 miles from the city Saturday, moving at a sluggish 300 feet per hour. Itwas joined by Kilauea early Friday, the first time the two volcanoes had been in simultaneous eruption since 1868. Before Kilauea stopped erupting, it forced the Hawaii County Civil Defen- se to evacuate late Friday the 56 houses in the Royal Gardens subdivision and 18 houses in nearby Kalgpana, said Civil Defense spokesman Lanny Nakano Sunday, April 1, 1984 Vol. XCIV-No. 145 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at. 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Sub- scription rates: $15.50 September through April (2 semesters); $19.50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Satur- day mornings. Subscription rates: $8 in Ann Arbor; $10 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE MICHIGAN DAILY, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. 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CBS an- chorman Dan Rather was accused of slandering a doctor during one of the program's features, but the television network won the case. "The newspaper reporters circled in on the trail," Hewitt said. "'Hot damn,' they said, 'Rather's on the stand.' If it had been a newspaper guy, they would have been screaming, 'First Amendment!"' b, f s f ti . t ._ F i' " J. Rest, light meals key to College Bowlers'strate or ny 5 Ei { I1 William Bolcom and Joan Morris School of Music faculty members Their new album: DIGITAL O S by 1 1-)EPOMF Al l ASn I whiz at sports and old movies, and Moran and Brad McNiff are generalists, Garvin said. Despite their strategy of nonchalance, the team had to win their last game against Kent State in a sudden death toss-up. The ques "There is only one city in the UiL_ States that has the same name for their major league football and baseball teams. What is the city? Newton answered quickly and correctly, "The St. Louis Cardinals." 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