Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 4-29-1980 The Guardian, April 29, 1980 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1980). The Guardian, April 29, 1980. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Whales begin underwater backgammon record attempt By MATT KENNEDY Center's Ronald McDonald Guardian Stafl Writer House. They got the idea from a group It could have been mistaken for in San Francisco that played any backgammon game. Two checkers underwater for 56 hoars. opponents, each trying to out- They are planning to beat that manuever the other by luck of the record and gain recognition in the roll and the skill of their moves. Guiness Book of World Records. What made it different was that THE PLAN CALLED for 50 they-were playing 14 feet under individuals, playing in two hours water in the deep end of WSU't shifts, to play for 80 continuous swimming pool. hours. They were the Wright Whales It all started at midnight, Scuba Club, the local scuba Thursday April 24. Gathered that diving group, trying to set a night in the half-'.it pool room, record for the longest continuous members of the Whales began playing of underwater backgam- preparations for the event. mon. Ir position at the deep f>d was THEIR GOAL WAS two-foid; a walkway across the section, and one. to set a new world's record a hydrophone was set up on the f tfee Wright Stmt* WW« play oae <4 «Se !*<*«« i du; played this for playing underwater board i Whale* saccesafaD) playnd 81 cooaecotJve boon underwater for lb® Booal McDonald game, and two, to collect dona- (See 'BACKGAMMON' page T, Guardian photo by Doug Resting tions for the Children's Medical The Daily Guardian April 29, 1980 Issue 101 Volume XVI Wright State University, Dayton, Ohioy Board of Trustees approves tution increase hour and $360 per quarter for does not even come close to the bottom third in the state in year." By KEVIN THORNTON students taking 11 to 18 hours. offsetting inflation." relation to fee increases. "The problem of increased Assistant to the Editor Students taking over 18 hours will THE 6.7 percent increase AN ESTIMATED $735,000 in salaries and continuing inflation be asked the part-time rate for the according to Koch is less than additional revenues will result will be met by further budgetary The WSU Board of Trustees additional hours. that at most other state supported from the increase according to constraints and an expected in- Friday approved a 6.7 percent Also approved was an increase universities. Vice President for the Admini- crease in state subsidy, in ad- undergraduate student fee in- in the fees for graduate students. She said. "Miami University stration Dt, Jatces Kirk. Kirk >Jso dition to the student fee increase. crease for the 1980-81 academic This increase will range from 5 to has approved a 12.4 percent hike said the money will be used to year. 11.5 percent. One example is the and Ohio State. Ohio University compensate for the University's The increase will amount to $2 School of Medicine where fees and the University of Cincinnati reduced purchasing power due to KOCH CONCIUDED, "We per credit hour for part-time will increase eight percent from are also planning percentage inflation. intend to held our fees as low as students and either 520 or S2S per $690 to $745 per quarter. increases in double digits." "Using a c-mservative estimate possible for as long as we can. We quarter for full-time students Vice President for Student In his repot! to the Botrd, of nine percent" Kirk said. do not want to pass the cost of depending on tlieir exact hours. Affairs F.lenore Koch said, "The President Robert Kcgerreis said "WSU has lost over $3 million in inflation directly onto our stu- NEW FEES are $34 per credit increase adopted by the Trustees the fee increase still left WSU in purchasing power this past dent." Murray resigns Academic Vice President position as vice-president effective Jan. 1, compiled a list of 17 projects thai KegerrtiS, who has worked £?GERREIS ALSO noted Mur- By KEVT1 THORNTON Murray will continue to work on with Murray for "several years." ray's contributions in discussions Aaafcian; to the Editor 1981. The announcement was made until his resignation takts effect said. "I know him to be a capable leading to the crcatkm of the in January. hard-working individual whose office of clinical relations, in the Vice-President for Academic by President Robert Kegerreis Murray added he will carry contributions to the university design of a staffing nxxiel for Affairs John V. Murray said at the WSU Board of Trustees out hb responsibilities and assist will be missed. I have never budget control, and the imple- Friday he is resigning his position meeting. in the search for his replacement. known a more conscientious mentation of a university program "J leave the vice-presidency ^mini^rator." review piocess. MURRAY SAID he will con- with a feeling of satisfaction." he tinue at Wright State as a full Tuesday said. "1 have completed really time professor of management. every project iisat I had planned However, he =o«*d. his duties as two years ago. Now I look forward vice-president have becorar in- to finishing my position." creasingly time consuming taking weather him away from his family and from his professional pursuits. MURRAY CAME to WSU in Periods of rxin or drizzle during the day and continuing into the "By returning to teaching full 1967 as ar. associate professor of evening. Temperatures in the afternoon will riuige from the low to time. I feel both my family and management. In 1970 he was mid fifties and temperatures in the evening will be in the low myself will benefit," he said. named Chairman of the Depart- forties. Wednesday weather will be partly cloudy with In his statement to the Board ment of Management, and in temperatures in the high sixties. Friday, Man-./ said. "1 leave my 1971 he was promoted to Dean of position with mixed emotions. My the College of Business and duties as vice-president have at Administration. Thought times been both rewarding and in 1973, Murray was appointed frustrating." Associate Provost and served in The great end of life is not knowledge but action." that capacity until his appoint- Thomas Henry HusSey ment as Vice-President for Aca- Join M«m.y KEGERREIS SAID he has demic Affairs in 1974. a DAILY GUA1DLU4 Apt 29, I'M WSU Director chosen to help in NASA mission ly CAKOL A. HOWIXI. in March J983. Petrof sky said, This could create high blood formed on the shuttle missions energy. Gaanttaa Anodiu Writer although he was not sure if his pressure since isometrics can arc being developed by university That is essential when the total Dr. Jen old Petrofsky hu been experiment will be chosen for double tlje rate of blood flow in members around the country, price of each experiment comes to working hard to develop an the first flight. two minutes. Petrofsky said. sever:! million dollars. esperiment (or the medical p«rt of PETHOFSKY'S experiment Petrofsky said ijomctlic activi- A round one third are provided Recently. Petrofsky took a trip the upcoming NASA space shut- consists of measuring the strain ties are a way of life in zero by NASA and the rest are at the to the Houston Space Center to be llf missions. of isometric exercise on the heart gravity space. Without gravity, descretion of the European Space briefed on the upcoming space Petrofskv, director of the in zero gravity. an astronaut has to secure feet Agency which is designing the shuttle mission. Wright Sute bio-medical engi- Isometric cxercine is one set of and hands for leverage when space lab which will house the neering lab, was one of 40 muscles briefly tensed ir. opposi- doing simple things lite twisting medical testing facilities. HE MET with some astronauts persons chosen out of the 400 tion to another. » door handle. "Over the next 10 years there and members of the engineering applicants to develop medical •' Isometrics can be a very lethal The isometric exercise experi- will be about six medical flights," and life support teams as we'! as experiments for the shuttles. type of exercise and can be ment. Petrofsky has designed, Petrofsky said. "We're pushing provided with wiring diagrams of NASA's space shuttle flights damaging to the heart," Petrof includes attaching electrodes pencils right now. We have to the orbiter end laboratory facili- will begin in six months. Petrof sky said. from a computer !o the body find out to coordinate the experi- ties he will use in completing his sky said, and each will run for 10 NASA IS interested in measur- where the muscle to be measured ments. own experiments. days ever* two weeks. ing the exercises strain in space is located. In addition to being provided Petrofsky's experiment will be since a great deal of isometrics Withing a few seconds after an "IT WOULD be too difficult for with facilities at both the Houston performed on one of the missions are used, Petrofskv explained.