Brown and White Vol. 83 no. 34

              brown and white vol 83 - no 34 bethlehem pa tuesday february 22 1972 866-0331 nixon not politicking says ir prof by jack yalowich this week president richard m nixon became the first american president to visit mainland china since the communists headed by mao tse tung took over in 1949 whv is the meeting taking placp what are the needs and the desires of each nation what are the political and economic consequences of this historic confront ation to attempt an answer to these questions we spoke with frederick r gla deck professor of international relations according to gladeck red china feels that it is very propitious at this time to meet with the u.s he states the motives behind these sentiments lie in two general areas first red china fears for its own security in the last few months pressure from the u.s s.r on the northern border has increased in addition the sino-indian pact has been a great worry to the chinese they also fear airression on the part of the japanese twice in this century an industrialized japan has invaded mainland china after president nixon announced his visit last july the security outlook for china worsened appreciably north viet nam fearing a sell-out by the red chinese to the u.s has been allying itself more closely to the u.s s.r also the restrictive tariffs set upon japan by president nixon's economic policies have not helped things the chinese fear as the economic iso lation of japan increases the islanders may look with agressionupon her gladeck sees the chinese fears as unfounded the russians no longer have the ability to blitz china the japanese do not want war according to gladeck rather they are looking upon the 800-million chinese as internal lexicon proposed for treatment of athesia dr herbert rubenstein professor of philosophy and associate director of in formation science at lehigh addressed a group of neurologists and psychologists on friday feb 11 th at the veterans ad ministration hospital in boston he spoke on his model of the internal lexicon dictionary with special reference to the recoding of words seen on paper to the way they sound before they can be read the hospital is one of the three athesia units in the united states dealing with patients who have problems speaking or understanding speech as a result of brain damage as one of the leading experts in the field of psycholynguistics dr ruben stein's research over the past five years is naturally of great interest to the staff of the hospital we know very little about how infor mation is stored in the brain or how it is retrieved when it is required for use in speech said dr rubenstein he lias been trying to establish a model to help neurologists understand this process and as an aid in diagnosing and treating a particular patient's problem some of the symptoms associated with athesia are being unable to recall the correct pronounciation of syllables and the inability to link a word to its meaning in the case of problems with pronouncia tion the patient may simply have forgotten or confused the rules dr rubenstein cited an example of a patient who had difficulty in associating familiar words with their image presented with the word skirt the patient said trousers this case presents an extremely complex pro blem which the model is intended to help solve first the causes of the athesia must be ascertained and then treatment if any may be started at present dr rubenstein is teaching only one course in psycholinguistics information science 302 psych 320 but he hopes to be able to offer a survey course at the • 200 level next year b&w artwork by john hartley dr herbert rubenstein m.s degree established in computer science field the need for an m.s in computer sciencearises from the field's growing relevance to many non-technical areas said dean robert stout of the graduate school in announcing the establishment of a m.s degree in the interdisciplinary field of computer science the new degree will be offered beginning with the 1972-73 academic year because of the interdisciplinary nature of the computer science masters degree many bureaucratic problems were avoided since the curriculum consists of courses which are presently being offered by various departments within the graduate school within the program there are four courses required for each potential candidate these include mathematical methods in computers non-numerical programming switching theory and data structures after successful completion of these courses the student can select from courses contained under the following list to fulfill the requirements for his degree software and automata theory hardware and logic design numerical analysis linguistics and computability and applications during the spring of 1971 dean stout contacted the heads of various academic departments at lehigh and inquired as to the interest in the formation of a degree in computer science on the graduate level each department contacted was known to have courses that dealt with the knowledge of a high-level computer language and its use in actual computer programs most chairmen expressed an interest in the program and agreed to send representatives toa meeting as a first step toward finalizing the graduate degree a committee was formed from these representatives to expedite the formulation of this program at the beginning of last summer the committee held its first meeting to decide upon courses and faculty to be included in the interdisciplinary field early in the fall the committee presented their suggestions to the graduate committee for its approval after being passed by the graduate committee it was submitted to the educational policy committee and then to the faculty the program will be administered under the jurisdiction of an interdepartmental faculty chaired by dean stout blood bank seeks donors by david muldberg studenfs volunteer one out of 80 americans will need a blood transfusion within the next 12 months this year the u.s blood con sumption will top 6,500,000 pints with the price of a pint ranging from 15 to 60 only 80 per cent of the blood is donated which means a full 20 per cent of the blood being transfused is being paid for with cash less than three per cent of the 100,000,000 eligible donors of blood are willing to give as a result of this blood shortage hospitals must pay donors 4 to 25 a pint some donors lie about their histories of malaria hepatitis and their use of drugs iji order to make a sale there are known cases of drug addicts who sell blood to pay for their next fix although most people have blood to share many are not blood donors because they have never needed blood or they have a fear of the needle an average person has about ten to twelve pints of blood in his body and a normal donation is about one pint medical authorities say that donating a unit of blood quickly stimulates a healthy person's bone marrow and his blood count is as normal aftor the donation as before blood donation is done under medical supervision by a medical technologist or a nurse the procedure is simple safe and takes less than an hour a blood bank is a medical facility which draws processes stores and distributes human whole blood and its derivatives if you receive blood there are two ways that it may be repaid you can replace the blood used by asking friends and economics week arthur m okun a leading econ omic forecaster will speak in grace hall thursday feb 24 at 8:30 p.m he will speak on an agenda for political economy the next decade the lecture will be open to the public at no charge okum is the second in the philip i berman lecturer in economics series at lehigh his address cul minates lehigh's third annual economics week which opened yesterday tomorrow's activity includes a panel discussion on economics and the environment in whitaker auditorium at 8 p.m see new plan page 4 see gladeck page 4