New Prosthesis Technology Found Black Student Alliance May Face
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MARCH 31, 1997 & ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Black Student Alliance may face restructuring By DAVID SCHWARZ tions also geared toward black After 21 years as the Uni students, Wilder said. versity's primary black stu BSA will also be considering dent cultural and advocacy or its role on campus not only as ganization, the Black Student a black organization, but also Alliance will conduct a self- as one of many cultural orga evaluation and possibly re nizations on campus that ad structure itself this summer to dress issues of diversity. adapt to a campus environ "We're confronted with both ment very different from the continuing to explore the role one in which it was founded. of African Americans and con "[The self-evaluation] is tributing to diversity in gener something that's been in the al on campus," Wilder said. works for some time," said Informal discussions be Trinity sophomore Tobie tween BSA members and Wilder, president-elect of the black alumni have led to their organization. "We have to look drawing distinctions between at BSA's role as an umbrella the black student body cur group, guiding the other black rently on campus and the one groups on campus." present during the first two KELLI SHERAN/THE CHRONICLE When the BSA was estab decades of the group's exis lished in 1976, it was the only tence. "Things have changed a Easter fun black student group on cam lot in 21 years," Wilder said. Employees' children Corey Clegg, Jamal Washington and Ronald Terell race on three legs pus, and has been since joined "The previous generations [of during an Easter picnic held Saturday for employees and their families. by a number of cultural, pro black students] came from pre- fessional and social organiza See BSA on page 5 • New prosthesis technology found By AD1L HAQ emy of Orthotists and Pros- after presenting a short paper For his pioneering work in thetists. at the meeting that focused prosthetics technology- At the conference—which on myoelectric prostheses. "I Michael Schuch, assistant was held from March 12 to have been working with clinical professor and director March 16—a collection of [Tompkins] to bring mi of prosthetics and orthotics at Schuch's peers noted the crochips to advance the elec the Medical Center, was ground breaking develop tronic functions of prosthetic- awarded the Howard Thran- ments that he and his partner arm patients," Schuch said. hardt Memorial Lecture and Michael Tompkins, an engi Previously, computer technol Honorarium and named First neer at Animated Prosthetics, ogy of this magnitude played Fellow at the 23rd Annual Inc., have made with upper virtually no role in prosthet Meeting and Scientific Sym limb prosthetics. ics. posium of the American Acad Schuch received the honor He added that now, instead of awkward and clumsy wood en plug-fit arms, patients can use his creation, fitted with a SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE user-friendly microcomputer, Emil Constantinescu (r.) stands with Keith Brodie in 1991. which provides a menu tai lored to the patient. "These prostheses are a spin-off from NASA technolo Romanian president gy," he said, adding that he has looked into revolutionary materials like carbon holds University ties graphite in constructing a prosthetic arm suited for the By ALEX GORDON ished throughout his lifetime modern age. "I am really Emil Constantinescu ar as a prominent and well-re pleased with the results. In rived at the University for the spected academic. The elec the past, less than half of the 1991-92 academic year as a toral victory of Constantines patients wore their prosthesis visiting geology professor cu over the Communist all the time.... Now we have from Romania and left, he incumbent Ion Iliescu last patients from three years old. says, with a firsthand experi November was nothing short This little girl opened a lol ence with "that democratic of historic. It marked the cul lipop with both her arms and spirit which characterizes mination of a democratic rev you couldn't tell [which arm American academic life." olution—one in which Con •ft Ijj^jp-, m was which.]" Five years later, the re stantinescu, 57, played a Another feature of this form-minded Constantines significant role as rector of new type of prosthesis is its cu—the recently elected pres Bucharest University—to battery control system. Ac ident of Romania—looks to free Romania from the mana cording to the paper he pre govern the Eastern European cles of a harsh Communism sented to the Academy, "Ini nation with this "democratic that had bound it for decades. DAVE BEISEL/THE CHRONICLJE spirit" that he has so cher See ROMANIA on page 4 • tial testing of these Prosthetist Michael Schuch sports a prosthetic arm of a baby. See SCHUCH on page 5 • THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1997 World and National Newsfile Attack kills 10 at Cambodian party rally From wire reports Farmers underpaid: Despite ef By SETH MYDANS The apparent target ofthe attack, the against innocent people," he said. forts to improve the lot of America's N.Y. Times News Service opposition leader Sam Rainsy, escaped The country's fragile democracy has farm laborers, their wages have PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cam with only minor injuries, though he was degenerated in recent months into a cold trailed behind inflation. Farm work bodia's hard-won but increasingly tenu covered with the blood of a bodyguard war between Hun Sen and the other co- ers' wages have fallen 20 percent or ous democracy was shaken Sunday by a who he said leaped to protect him. He prime minister, Prince Norodom Ra more over the past two decades. grenade attack that killed or injured immediately blamed the attack on one of nariddh, that has occasionally burst into scores of people at an opposition political the country's two feuding co-prime min exchanges of gunfire between soldiers Trial begins: Two years after the rally in the center ofthe capital. isters, Hun Sen, who has frequently loyal to each of the two government fac Oklahoma City bombing, jury selec At least 10 people were killed and threatened violence against his oppo tions. tion begins today to pick a panel of more than half the 200 people at the nents.- The confrontation has eroded the 18 people from a pool of about 400. rally in Phnom Penh were injured by the A leading member of Hun Sen's Cam legacy ofa $2-billion international effort Former FBI deputy director Weldon rapid series of explosions. It was the bodian People's Party, Khie Kanharith, sponsored by the United Nations in Kennedy played down concerns that worst political violence since a democra denied that the party was involved. "The 1992 and 1993 to hold elections and es the government's case is weak and tic government was established here in CPP has long experience with politics tablish a democratic government in that the FBI's lab had mishandled 1993. and does not commit acts of violence Cambodia. some evidence. Books moved: The Library of Congress is thinking about shelving Palestinian police halt West Bank violence books by size. Computers will find what you need, and assembling all By SERGE SCHMEMANN tinian areas for 11 days now, while they yond which the violence could spiral out the books that are one size in one N.Y. Times News Service awaited Washington's next move. of control. place will allow shelves to be low JERUSALEM — Palestinian police The U.S. special envoy, Dennis Ross, Sunday had been viewed as especial ered and raised to use space more maintained a tight and sometimes visited the area last week and returned ly tense because it was Land Day, when effectively. rough grip on Palestinian rioters Sun to Washington to brief President Clin Israeli Arabs and Palestinians com day at flashpoints across the West ton and Secretary of State Madeleine memorate the death of six Israeli Arabs Bank, preventing the dangerous surge Albright. He is expected to prepare a during rioting over Israeli confiscation of violence that many had feared on an new plan to break the negotiating dead of Arab lands, and because Saturday annual day of protest by Arabs. lock that has accompanied the violence. had seen the first Arab casualty in the Weather On the political front, both the Pales The efforts of the Palestinian rioting. The victim, a 20-year-old stu Tuesday tinians and the Israelis continued their forces—who were reported to have fired dent, was buried Sunday. High: 65 • Sunny tough talk, and Arab officials meeting into the air to block a mareh of thou In the end, Israeli security officials Low: 47 • Winds: nonchalant in Cairo threatened to revive economic sands in Nablus and literally threw appeared relieved. "I think the majority How do you confuse an idiot? See Com and political isolation of Israel. demonstrators back in Hebron, among of the Palestinian forces, policemen, munity Calendar for the answer. But both sides seemed eager to pre other confrontation points—appeared were working with us against the vio vent any rise in the level of violence to reflect a recognition among Palestin lence in the area," Defense Minister that has flared at the borders of Pales ian leaders that there were limits be Yitzhak Mordechai said. March 31 - April 4 *&>— Monday, March 31 "Salute to Women Athletes" Gay Love Auditorium • 8 pm Tuesday, April 1 Art Exhibit Schaeffer Mall • Reception at 4 pm "Hello Sex Kitty": Denise Uyehara and hook a great catch! Reynolds Theater • 8 pm If you are fast enough to be one of the first 10,000 people to tell us where you found our new Phish Food™ Wednesday, April 2 ice cream, we'll rush you an official Phish Food,, sticker.