The Michigan Daily-Monday, January 18, 1988- Page 5 Number of Olympic countries tops record LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - A record 161 countries were en- tered yesterday for the Summer Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee said. Sunday, Syria became the 161st. country to enter the Games, which begin Sept. 17 at Seoul, the capital of South Korea. The deadline was 6 p.m. EST yesterday, but no other countries were expected to give an official re- ply before that. "There will be no further com- muniques officially from the IOC today. The final situation will be given by President Juan Antonio Samaranch at his press conference, (today)," at Lausanne, IOC spokes- person Michelle Verdier said. The previous record attendance was 140 countries at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. The Seoul Games will be the first Summer Olympics in 12 years to pit Soviet and U.S. athletes against each other. 'U' doctors explain new artifical heart By AARON ROBINSON Doctors at the University Medical Center (UMMC) - one of the 15 medical centers in the country recently authorized to implant the. Symbion J-7 artificial heart - detailed Friday how Michigan's first test of the artificial heart will work. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates the development and use of the Symbion J-7, approved the UMMC's participation in clinical trial of the artificial heart on January 5. The J-7 artificial heart, invented by Dr. Robert Jarvik, is an air- powered device that temporarily replaces the patient's original malfunctioning heart until a donor heart can be found. More than 80 people have used the J-7 nationwide since its invention, the longest period being for over 240 days. "THE CARDIAC Research Program (at UMMC) has reached a level where this sort of expansion is possible," said Dr. Lazar Greenfield, chair of surgery at UMMC. Dr. Mark Orringer, professor of surgery and head of thoracic surgery at UMMC, and Dr. Michael Deeb, assistant professor of surgery and director of the Cardiac Transplantation-Artificial Heart- Program, will lead the 20 member team involved in the program. "It's going to be a labor-intensive and time-consuming undertaking," said Orringer. The quality of the UMMC heart transplant program and the level of staff training at the center were factors taken into consideration for approval, said UMMC Public Information Officer Toni Shears. TO FULFILL FDA requirements to receive the program, the entire team attended a comprehensive training program last May and June at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The training - including seminars, animal experimentation, and written examinations - was conducted by Symbion Inc., which manufactures the J-7 in Salt Lake City. Two groups of patients will be considered for the artificial heart implant. "One group will be listed patients waiting for a donor heart who deteriorate to the point they can't wait any longer," said Deeb. The other group, Deeb explained, are patients who experience a sudden cardiac emergency. "They are otherwise healthy and would be candidates for transplant ... if a donor heart were available." -DOCTORS at UMMC anticipate that it will be 2 or 3 months before the team performs its first artificial implant. Deeb said that 85 to 90 percent of the patients who receive a donor heart live at least one year. "But, one-third (of patients needing a donor heart) will die before receivitig an organ." Last year, according to hospital records, 14 people died at UMMC because no donor heart could be found. Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Dr. Michael Deeb, director of the University's Cardiac Transplantation- Artificial Heart Program, explains the procedure for artificial heart im- plant. Deeb is co-leader of the 20-member team responsible for artificial heart surgery at the University. Student wins fellowship from Apple Computer Designs program using colors for decision-making By STEVEN TUCH A University doctoral student may have found a way to make com- plicated decisions easier. Matthew Barritt, a doctoral student in the School of Education, won the InterUniversity Consortium for Ed- ucational Computing (ICEC)/ Apple Fellowship last month. His program, which assigns colors and sizes to each variable of a complex decision, is intended to help its users make sound choices. The program color codes each Barritt. "It utilizes their ability to interpret color." ICEC and Apple chose 28 universities to design and develop a system or application software using Apple technology, ICEC/Apple research areas like user-interface and graphics, and adopting project results for teaching and research. The idea for the program was first developed by Barritt's advisor, Prof. Frederick Goodman in 1980-1981. "It was an idea that was waiting for the technology for it," said 'It helps people to visualize a complicated situation. It doesn't make decisions for people. It displays a dif- ferent direction you can go with a decision.' -Matthew Barritt, education doctoral student. Daily Photo by ANDI SCHREIBER Hobnobbing Gov. James Blanchard, left, has a private meeting with presidential candidate Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn) in a Bloomfield Hills home Saturday afternoon. Gore is presently making visits in all major U.S. cities, seeking endorsements from prominent Democrats. In atten- dance were Lt. Gov. Martha Griffiths, former governor G. Mennen Williams and approximately 80 Michigan Democrats. ...:.."..'.........................aw r..."....."".""""ii5ui": "O: ib option; red for negative, yellow for neutral, and green for positive. In addition, the importance of each option is measured by the height and width of the bar the option is represented by. "It helps people to visualize a complicated situation," said Barritt. "It doesn't make decisions for people. It displays a different direction you can go with a decision." "In situations with a lot of variables, it allows people to get a grasp in an intuitive way," added Barritt. "We can make a much more robust tool out of it with the Macintosh than the Apple HIe." For his work, Barritt will receive $2500, and an all-expense paid trip to Apple Computer in Cupertino, Calif. in August, to present his completed program to ICEC and Apple representatives. With the extra money, Barritt says he'll "live and eat and keep on working" just like 411 other college students. Fleming, Steiner, Moody to meet soon (Continued from Page 2) than it's been conveyed or stated by Steiner." She then suggested to Fleming "bringing on someone to the LSA staff who could help (Steiner) get a better handle on the complexities of this problem." Fleming would not comment on this suggestion Friday. Vice President for Academic Af- fairs and Provost James Duderstadt said LSA faculty have expressed "overwhelming" loyalty to Steiner. Duderstadt said he has received over 200 Michigan Terminal System (MTS) messages supporting Steiner, and only two criticizing him. Two faculty coalitions, the Michigan Student Assembly, the Rackham Student Government, sev- eral Black student associations, the University NAACP, and Vice Provost for Minority Affairs Charles Moody are among those who have publicly called the statements racist. UCAR members expresse frustration with people who have ac- cused theni of "overreacting." Saic Nadasen, "It's unfortunate that peoph don't understand the seriousness o this situation." _. .,.. ..................c.... . 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There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality; we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities; we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one; we can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only"; We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No! No, We are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends. so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, "We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day down in Alabama - with its vicious racists, with its aovernor havina to the South with. With this faith we shall be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail to stand up for freedgm together, knowing that we will be free one day. And this will be the day. This, will be the day when all of God's children will be, able to sing with new meaning, "My country 'tis of. thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride' from every mountain side., let freedom ring." And if, America is to be a great nation, this must become: true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire; let freedom ting from the mighty mountains of New York; let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado; let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not onlv that. Let freedom rinagfrom But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of a,* wronaful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our