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BRIEFLY
Professor discusses muscle research
UNIVERSITY
Freshman charged with marijuana possession.
University police arrested Jennifer Ramsdelf, a freshman pre-
journalism rm^or, on charges of misdemeanor possession of
marijuana, altering a driver's license and underage posaeaaion of
alcohol Tuesday night in Rutherford Hall, police reports read
Columnist to speak at symposium on liberalism. New
York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, a two-time Pulitzer Prize
winner, will give the keynote address at the Symposium on the
Future of Liberalism on Monday at 2:15 in the law school auditorium
Lewis will speak on The Role of the Press in a Liberal Society* and
afterward will field questions from the audience. After the question-
and answer session, interested audience members may attend a
workshop on a specific topic in the future of the liberal agenda. The
four workshops, scheduled to run from 3:45 to 5:00 p m., are The
Media and the First Amendment, The Environmental Challenge, The
Educational Agenda and The Future of Civil Rights The speech and
workshops are free and open to the public.
■ STATE
CHARLOTTE. N.C.: NCNB still intent on C&S takeover.
Congressional efforts designed to thwart NCNB Corp.’s proposed $2 3
billion takeover of Atlanta-based Citizens and Soutnern Corp. are
misguided, a spokeswoman for the Charlotte banking firm sAid
Thursday The Senate Banking Committee will conduct hearings
within 60 days on the issue of whether banks that have received
assistance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp should be
barred from launching takeovers of other banks NCNB
spokeswoman Lynn Easley said the Charlotte bank has not received a
penny from the federal government Despite being rejected twice by
CJkS's board of directors, NCNB Chairman Hugh McColl Jr. remains
intent on taking over Georgia’s largest bank.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): North trial deliberations to start.
The jury in Oliver North's Iran-Contra trial was dispatched Thursday
to decide the guilt or innocence of the former White House aide with
the judge's admonition that no one, including the president, had “the
legal authority to order anyone to violate the law * North haa said he
had authority from superiors including, he believed, President
Reagan, for many of his actions in behalf of the Nicaraguan rebels at
a time when official U S aid was banned Because of the lateness of
the hour, jurors were sent to the nearby hotel where they will be
sequestered, and ordered to begin deliberations on Friday.
■ WORLD
BRAUNAU, Austria (AP): Troops surround Hitler home.
Riot troops ringed the house where Adolf Hitler was bom and police
said they arrested eight people Thursday for marking the lOOtn
anniversary of the dictator’s birth with Nazi slogans and stiff-armed
salutes Hundreds of police swarmed this city of 17,000 people to
prevent a repeat of the 1979 clnshes between neo-Nazis and leftists
that marked Hitlers 90th birthday. No serious incidents were
reported Across the border in West Germany, foreigners closed their
stores and kept children out of schools because of fears of neo-Nazi
violence Several members of anti-Nazi vigilante groups were
nrrested for carrying weapons Security was heaviest here, at the two-
story yellow house where Hitler was bom on April 20, 1889. The
house, a former inn now used as a day-care center for handicapped
children, was sealed off with metal burners manned by dozens of
police and special not squads with dogs.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Amnesty Internationsl will
meet to hold a letter-writing
session at 8 p m Monday in
Room 141 of the Tate Student
Center The public is welcome to
attend
Lectures/Seminars
• Brazilian novelist Lva Luft will
speak on “Professional Women in
Brazil" from 12:10 to 1 p m.
today in Room 140 of the Tate
Stuaent Center The lecture is
presented by the Women’s
Studies Program, the Center for
Latin American Studies and the
Office of Instructional
Development.
• A symposium on aging will
take place from 1:30 to 3 p.m
today in the Russell Auditorium
of the main library The
symposium is part of the Psi Chi
convention.
• Vernon Burton, a professor
from the University of Illinios-
Urbona'Champoign, will speak
on The Community in Southern
History: The Reconstruction
Experience* at 3:30 p m today in
Room 326 of Baldwin Hall Tne
Humanities Centar and the
sociology department are
sponsoring the lecture
• George Collier, a Rutgers
University professor, will speak
on the economics of hunger at
3 30 p m today in the South PJ
Auditorium Tne lecture is part
of the Psi Chi convention
• Bert Bolin, director of the
International Institute of
Meteorology and a professor at
the University of Stockholm, will
speak on "Greenhouse Gases and
Climate Change What Do We
Know and What Do We Do 1 " at 4
p m today in the ecology
auditorium The lecture is part of
the Eugene Odum Ecology
Lecture Senes
By CARRIE GRAY
Contributing Writer
A British professor discussed his
expertmsnts in converting fast-
contracting skeletal muscles into
slow type cardiac muscle — which
may lead to relief for heart condi
tions — in a seminar Wednesday
afternoon
’The problem here, of course, is
that skeletal muscles cannot work
in the same way that cardiac mus
cles can,” said Geoffrey Goldspink,
a professor from the Royal Veteri
nary College at the University of
London. "We are essentially
making a skeletal muscle express a
cardiac gene.”
Goldspink, who is internation
ally known for his work in muscle
biology, has been conducting exten
sive experiments in muscle growth
snd development for decades.
“One interest of ours recently
has been to use skeletal muscle as
heart aasist," he said.
Robert Armstrong, a University
physical education professor and
muscle physiologist, said the car
diac assist experiments could have
strong implications for people with
heart disorders.
‘The problem, of course, with va
rious cardiac diseases is that the
heart loses its ability to pump
blood,” he said.
Goldspink conducted experi
ments using rabbit muscles to pro
duct slow-contracting cardiac
genes in a fast-contracting skeletal
muscle In the experiments, the
rabbit's tibialis anterior — a leg
muscle — was stretched and immo
bilized in a plaster cast, while the
muscle was stimulated by electri
city.
‘All muscles are fast,
unless they are made
to go slow.’
— Geoffrey Goldspink
University of
London professor
Muscles are made up of fibers,
which in turn are made up of myo
fibrils. The myofibrils are com
posed of sarcomeres, which
contract individually to shorten
the muscle.
The rabbit's muscle was ex
pected to add sarcomeres because
of the stretch, but it was the type of
sarcomeres that appeared that sur
prised Goldspink
To our surprise, we found the
muscle put on sarcomeres, but the
sarcomeres were slow-con
tracting," he said. The stretch and
• Naturalist photographer
Sidney November will present a
lecture and slide show of his
work from 4 to 5 p m today at
the Athens Regional Library, 120
W. Dougherty St.
• The Norcroas First United
Methodist Church is hosting a
■ingles seminar titled “Sailing to
New Horizons" from 8 30 a m to
4 15 p m Saturday in the church
CORRECTION
^ letter to the editor in Thursday's edition of The Red and Black
incorrectly Identified its author. Mano Ratwatte is a graduate
student in the School of Forest Resources.
Il is the policy of The Red and Black to correct errors of fact.
Corrections normally appear on Page 2.
stimulation mads it add on a dif
farer.t type of aarcomsrs
Thia was reprogramming ot the
muacle involving repreaaiori of the
faet gene and activation of the slow
gene," he enid. “It ie the blow state
that ie the adapted elate All mue-
clei are faet, unleee they are made
to go (low *
A ikeletal muacle that haa been
conditioned to act as a slow twitch
muscle can help s disabled heart
pump adequate amounts of bit**!
The experiments currently l»eing
conducted involve pulling one of
ths latisaimu* dorsi — a muscle in
the back — through the ribc«ge
and wrapping it around the heart
A pacemaker stimulates the
muscle to contract, Armstrong
said
Goldspink said, “We think we
are into regulating muscle growth
whether ita from a meat produc
tion point of view or any other
point of view ”
All of Goldspink’s research has
been with animals, but the infor
mation he has discovered offers an
understanding of human muscle
growth and development, Arm
strong said.
Goldspink also found that the
muscles subjected to stretching
and stimulation increased in size
by 30 percent in four days.
Some of Goldspink’s earlier ex
perimenta concentrated t>n how
muscles increase in girth and
length.
Goldspink said he found that
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Announcements
• The fourth in a senes of
Saturday morning bird walks
will take place at Lake Herrick
■t 8 am Saturday. This walk
will focus on identification of
birds that freauent ths woods
and shores of Lake Herrick.
Anyone interested should meet
in the intramural field parking
lot by 8 am
• The 10th Congressional
District Republican Party
Convention will bs held
Saturday at the Elbert County
Comprehensive High School on
Jones Street in Elberton. District
officers snd delegates will bs
elected Registration begins at 9
am
• The University Rugby Club
will host tht University of South
Carolina at 1 p m Saturday at
the intramural fields A second
game will follow at 2 30 p m.
• The African Student Union is
sponsoring African Night, an
evening of African food and
entertainment, at 6 p.m.
Saturday in the Tate Student
Center. Ticket* are on sale at the
Tate Center cashiers window.
• Creative writing submissions
for s magazine about animal and
environmental rights are due
Monday to P.O. Box 5201,
Athens 30604. Poetry, art and
cartoons are acceptable. All
submissions are non-returnable
The magazine is s project of the
Student League for
Environmental and Animal
Protection.
• Student* interested in taking a
bus from Athens to see R.E.M.
perform in Savannah next
Wednesday should call 369 8645
Bus fare and concert tickets are
$3250
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The experiments
currently being
conducted Involve
pulling one of the
latlssimus dorsi — a
muscle in the back —
through the ribcage
and wrapping it around
the heart. A pacemaker
stimulates the muscle
to contract.
— Robert Armstiong,
University physical
education professor
and muscle physiologist
muscles increase in size becajwgf
an increase in the number uf myoft.
bnls inside the fibers, and not an
increase in the fibers themselves
This makes physiological sense
because the muscle is getting more
myofibrils, which are the forte pro
ducing agents, so it is able to cope
with heavier loads," he said
Muscles increase in length he
cause the sarcomeres being pn>.
duced in the myofibrils are r*inf
added to the ends of the muscles
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