6 U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER Dollars And Sense APRIL 1988 16 U THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER Dollars And Sense * APRIL 1988 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY New beat finds a pkwce in her heart By Jennifer Rich The Review U. of Delaware U. of Delaware student Kim Claudfelter underwent respiratory heart surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute last fall. Thirteen hours later she unexpectedly came out with a new heart. Kim, 22, was born with her heart located on the right side ofher chest cavity. It also had a hole in it. The operation was to repair this hole and the damage to one of her heart's valves. But when the doctors closed her up and tried to take her off the bypass machine, which operates all patients' hearts during heart surgery, Kim's heart would not beat on its own. The doctors immediately put Kim's name, heart size and blood tvoe into a computer to match with Firms have designs on students Shooting for the stars ... The world's largest array of telescopes designed to detect milli- meter-length radio waves emitted during the birth and dying stages of stars will be developed by the U. of California, Berkeley, the U. of Itlinois, Cham- paign-Urbana, and the U. of Maryland, College Park. By adding three six-meter telescopes to the existing Hat Creek Berkeley grid, the consortium will achieve a five-fold speed increase in obtaining evidence of molecules and large structures in our Milky Way Galaxy and beyond. Research time will be shared by astronomers at the three schools, as well as by outside scientists. .Wallace Ravmen, The, UCSD Guardian, U. of California, San Diego Creative computer theme housing ... Next fall at North Carolina State U., a group of students will learn computer graphics, synthetic music, electronic mail, word processing and other computer 'magic.' "Computers aren't just for num- ber crunching," said Chuck Kesler, a physics junior. For the Computer Theme Housing, student organiz- ers are planning events "that everybody can under- stand, not just a computer expert," said computer science freshman Daniel Carr. Greg Reid, a sopho- more in electrical engineering, said, "(Padticipants) sill leave with a technical knowledge of computer hardware and software... People are going to ex- change information in a very natural way, learning at rates at which they are ready." *Don Munk, Technician, North Carolina State U. I 4 14 U. of Texas, Austin, students Walter Keene and Rob Von Allen redesigned a lightweight portable engine for an engineering design class. Corporations such as IBM, Lockheed and Texas Instruments sponsor students to design their ideas and then listen to students' presentations. Students choose which projects they want to work on from a list of suggestions from the corporations. CHIP Continued From Page 1 an actual religion. Founded in 1984, the religion helps followers recover from using computers, pro- viding the right balance between humanity and technology. He travels around the country giving "sermons" to the "data weary," pri- marily individuals in the computer industry. His religion is based on puns. Armstrong said that CHIP is neith- er left nor right, but "light." The church's motto is "lighten up." He said that most religions can lead to overly serious thinking. His church is there to help people understand humility and openness in today's computer age. The ultimate goal of a CHIP follower is to achieve "nerd- vana." Armstrong explains that in to- day's society we forget the real use for technology, which is to make us happy. To understand what's going on with new technology and to keep ourselves from becoming en- dangered species we must get a sense of humor and perspective ab- out computers. The Binary Bible provides this perspective, and is loaded with humor, and, of course, puns. One of Saint Silicon's prayers is "Hail Memory": "Hail memory, full of space, the Mother Board is with thee. Blessed art thou among Mic- ros, and blessed is the Fruit of thy Processor-data. Holy Memory, Mother Board of ROM, pray for us beginners, now and at the hour of sign off. Enter." Even those who are not computer-literate can find am- ple humor just by marvelling at how Armstrong managed to alter the familiar Bible. Kim Claudfelter a possible donor. In what Kim calls a miracle, a compatible heart was found in one hour. It took Kim several days to com- prehend that she had had a trans- plant. "At firstit didn'thitme, like I didn't care. "I wasn't prepared for it. A lot of people worry about what I consider silly, stupid things when they have someone else's heart in their body-the person's race or if the person was a good or bad person. That didn't bother me at all. "I think they watched me more emotionally than physically," she said. Prior to the transplant, Kim suf- fered from chest pains, excessive fatigue, two blood infections, weight loss and dehydration. While Kim can now exercise and dance, she must return monthly to Johns Hopkins for a biopsy. Rejec- tion could occur at any time in her life, but medication can minimize the risks. Cost and side effects create a downside to the medication's help- fulness. The cost of the seven diffe- rent medications, which she must take the rest of her life, is currently between $400 and $500 a month. "(This medicine) gives me tre- mors and chipmunk cheeks," Kim said. "Sometimes I experience mood swings." But, shegsaid, "Even when I'm depressed, I thank God that I had a second chance." Synthetic blood can't be typecast By Diana Pharaoh The California Aggie U. of California, Davis Although not expected for five or 10 years, synthetic blood may replace real blood in medical procedures, said U. of California, Davis biochemist Leigh Segel. "Synthetic blood can be used in emergency situations more successfully than real blood, as synthetic blood does not need to be typed," Segel said. Synthetic blood could also alleviate some of the problems caused by blood- transferred diseases and it would help supply Third World blood-bank facili- ties, she said. Synthetic blood may prove useful in donating organs. "At this point, organ transplants are limited to about four hours before the organ is useless," Segel said. Organs are kept in low-temperature storage instead of being soaked in blood, because blood does not provide an organ with enough oxygen to sustain it for any length of time, she said. Synthetic blood carries 50 times the amount of oxygen that blood does, making it possible to extend the transplant time to nine hours. "At this time, there is not a lot of fund- ing for the synthetic-blood program, which slows up research considerably," Segel said. IOnly you can stop software piracy. 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