4 Page 2.- - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 15. 1986 SCIENCE Physicists oppose 'Star Wars' By ROB EARLE More than half the nations physicists oppose Strategic Defense Initiative research, according to a recent survey. In a poll conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc., a Washington-based polling service, fifty-four percent of 549 physicists sur- veyed nationwide said SDI is a mistake, while twenty-nine percent support the program. The poll results mirror sentiments among University physicists. Last October, 25 of the 49 tenured University physicists signed a petition -pledging not to accept SDI funds or work on SDI projects. Ellen Dudley, a spokesperson for the Union of Concerned Scientists, who commissioned the poll, said physicists were selected for the poll because of the knowledge of necessary technology. But James Ionson, director of the SDI Office in Washington, said the survey asked the wrong people, and that computer scientists and engineers are more qualified to judge the technical feasibility of SDI than physicists. According to University physicist Michael San- ders, technical considerations are not the main reason for being opposed to SDI. Sanders said even if something looks technically unfeasible, many scientists will pursue a worth- while goal. He doesn't consider SDI such a goal. "It seems like a rotten idea," he said. "a lot of resources are being poured into something that will make the world more dangerous." Sanders said the University's physics depar- tment is just one of the major departments in the country to circulate anti-SDI petitions. Almost 3,000 physicists nationwide have signed pledges not to accept SDI funds. The College Press Service contributed to this story. LSAT STUDENTS " Learn How to Anticipate the Test-Maker " Understand the Leveraged Scoring of the LSAT " Sharpen your Analytical and Critical Thinking Skills " Develop Strategies for Maximizing your Exam Performance Doctors use pump to fight liver cancer E EAL Test Preparation Classes starting Wed., April 23rd 1100 S. University 996-1500 & Sat., April 26th r 00 AVO 00. 01, 4*~N .Asl'o U m* mm U * U. U U By ADAM CORT In recent years chemotherapy has proven invaluable in the war against cancer, but the prolonged drug therapy is difficult" to administer, discomforting and time consuming. As an alternative to conventional practices, University researchers are utilizing a surgically-implanted titanium pump about the size of a hockey puck. The pump is implanted in the layer of fat between the skin and muscle near the beltline and slowly pumps anti-cancer drugs directly to diseased tissues or organs, said Dr. William Ensminger, director of the Upjohn Center and the developer of the W1V FM IU LI I Software Exchange accepts Uof M P.O. numbers. Come in now before the term is over Discount Computer Software and Supplies 322 S. STATE ST. (inside the Jewelry Exchange) 663-4788 Hours: Mon.- Sat. 10:00 to 6:00 technique. The pump sends drugs through a tube to the arteries that supply the organ.with blood. Until now the pump has been used almost exclusively on patients with liver cancers, but it is beginning to be used to fight other cancers, En- sminger said. The pump enables physicians to administer cancer-fighting drugs directlyto the cancerous cells in high quantities over a long period of time, said Ensminger. Previously developed techniques, like injecting drugs into the blood- stream intraveneously or feeding the drug to artery with an x-ray guided catheter are not as effective as the pump, Ensminger said. The I-V diffuses the drug throughout the entire bloodstream, making it impossible to pinpoint the diseased area. The catheter, though capable of directing the ad- ministration of the drug, is not per- manent like the pump and cannot ad- minister it steadily over as long a period of time, said Ensminger. The pump also enables patients to go through treatment with a minimum of inconvenience. Because the pump is so close to the skin, it can be easily refilled every two weeks on an outpatient basis with a hypodermic injection. Ensminger said the device generally doesn't restrict patients. "I've had people play tennis and golf and swim," he said. The pump was originally developed. in 1972 at the University of Minnesota to deliver Heparin, a substance which prevents blood from coagulating. En- sminger began to work with the pump when he came to the University in 1979. About 1,400 hospitals now use the device nationwide. Between 5,000 and 10,000 pumps will be implanted nationwide this year, said Ensminger. So far the pump has performed well, said Ensminger.h"The response rate in terms of regression (shrinkage) of the tumor has been shown by a number of studies to be 60 to 80 percent," he said. Many of those who respond to the treatment survive three to four times- longer than they would without the treatment, he ad- ded. Correction Professor Leland Quackenbush, a dean in the engineering college, was only a visitor during the faculty meeting of LSA on Monday, April 7. The Daily incorrectly reported that Quackenbush voted during the meeting. After words Quality Books at uncommonly low prices IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Reagan urges aid for Contras WASHINGTON - President Reagan said yesterday members of Congress who use "subterfuge or backroom deals" to stop passage of military aid to the Contra rebels will set back the cause of peace and "hand down a verdict of shame on us all." Reagan, in an emotional speech to the General Contractors of America at the White House, portrayed the Marxist-led Sandinista government in Nicaragua as a repressive gang and blasted plans by the House Democratic leadership to attach the $100 million Contra aid plan to a federal spending bill. "The Sandista government is not a duly elected chosen gover- nment," Reagan said. "It's a gang that took over by force, so we think that maybe force on them will cause them, perhaps, to be willing to listen to the will of the people of Nicaragua." The House opens debate today on the aid package, which includes surface-to-air Stinger missiles, and is expected to vote tomorrow. Yale orders shanties torn down; 78 arrested in protest NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Seventy-eight demonstrators were arrested at Yale University yesterday before college employees leveled a shanty village erected to protest Yale's investments in South Africa. Afterward, more than 700 people shouted anti-apartheid slogans at a rally where protesters promised to keep up pressure on the school to divest at least $350 million in stocks. "We are not going to let them get rid of us," Jonathon Piper, a second- year law student, yelled at the rally, where shouts and applause echoed off buildings surrounding Beinecke Plaza, former site of the shantytown. "We're going to stay here until they divest." The shanties were torn down by Yale supervisory workers after the stu- dents were warned to leave the site, then arrested by campus police when they refused. Members of Local 35, the custodial union, had said last week that they would not obey university orders to dismantle the shanties. New Haven police in riot gear stood by but made no arrests. S. African medical students riot over admission of whites JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Students rioted yesterday and were thrown off the campus of South Africa's only black medical school, which has been in turmoil for weeks over the admission of two whites. Black students threw stones through windows and glass doors of the administration building at the Medical University of Southern Africa, most of whose officials and faculty are white, and overturned the car of a university employee. Rioting at the medical school involved about 500 students, said Maj. Steve Von Rooyen at police headquarters in Pretoria. Most of the 1,078 black undergraduates were taken to the Pretoria railway station by buses after the university administration issued its eviction order. Officials said,,the school's 300 post-graduate students, about evenly divided between blacks and whites, could continue their studies. Although the school was established for blacks, students of other races are allowed if there is space after all qualified black applicants are ac- cepted. 1 killed in pro-Marcos riot MANILA, Philippines-Anti-riot police, once loyal to Ferdinand Marcos fired into a stone-throwing crowd of the ex-president's supporters yester- day. One person was killed, hospital officials reported. They said some 60 people, including 18 policemen, were injured in the fighting at the City Hall in the Manila suburb of San Juan. The battle occurred several hours before pro-Marcos legislators met in a Manila office building and declared they had reopened the abolished National Assembly. In the first major confrontation between police and demonstrators op- posed to President Corazon Aquino, 60 police charged into nearly 1,000 people blockading the Sun Juan City Hall. The demonstrators were protesting the government's ouster of Joseph Estrada, a movie star and Marcos loyalist, as the mayor of San Juan. A police official claimed there was shooting from the crowd, but the of- ficial police report did not mention any guns in the hands of demonstrators Reporters saw some plainclothes officers in the police lines armed with rifles. Aquino, at a meeting with military commanders Friday, asked them to show maximum tolerance for the demonstrators, according to presiden- tial spokesman Rene Saguisag. Stalin's daughter defects again MOSCOW-Josef Stalin's daughter, who defected 19 years ago but returned in 1984 declaring that she had not been happy for a single day, said yesterday she is about to leave for the West again. A prominent British friend was quoted as saying that "having Stalin for your dad" was hard to imagine, and he doubted Svetlana Alliluyeva would find happiness anywhere. Alliluyeva said that she and her American-born daughter, Olga Peters, had permission to leave the country and she hoped to go before the end of April. She spoke from a Moscow hotel reserved for officials and impor- tant government guests. Her case is believed to be the first in which a Soviet citizen who defec- ted and then returned has been permitted to leave again. She did not say where she will go or whether she had definitely decided tol settle abroad. "I don't know yet," she said. "I know that I will be going out." CJhi ARirhigan Bailg Vol. XCVI - No. 133 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April-$18 in Ann Arbor; $35 outside the city. One term-$10 in town; $20 outside the city. 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