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Second artificial heart patient
Heart patient Robert Cresswell is shown last year with his wife Faith. He died
Friday morning of respiratory arrest after carrying the Penn State artificial heart
B.A. students: two
chances for grades
By CHRISTINE NICHOLAS
Collegian Staff Writer
Sophomore engineers are not the
only ones being affected by the Uni
versity's enrollment controls.
But unlike the engineers, the 550
College of Business Administration
sophomores who did not get their
majors are guaranteed business ma
jors at the end of the semester if they
raise their grades, said Barbara
Grubb, •administrative director of
undergraduate programs in the col
lege.
In the College of Engineering, stu
dents may or may not earn a slot in
their major by improving their
Spring Semester grades. The number
of additional engineers selected de
pends on the space available after
some students change majors or
leave the college, Engineering Dean
Carl Wolgemuth said.
He said he is unsure how many
additional students may be let in to
engineering majorg.
But Grubb said business students
are guaranteed their majors if they
raise their grade-point averages to
meet or exceed 2.4 the lowest
requirement for a businees major
and complete the required courses.
"I will just put them in a major,"
she said.
Meeting this commitment may
cause the College of Business Admin
istration to over-enroll, she added:
"It could be a problem, but that's a
problem we will have to live with this
year."
This semester, 2,150 students ap
plied for 1,400 planned spaces in the
college's majors, she said.
Another difference between the
business and engineering colleges is
the minimum grade-point average
students must maintain before losing
their majors.
Engineering students will lose their
majors if their grades drop below 2.0;
business acceptees may lose their
spots if their grades drop below 2.4,
Grubb said.
The one-quarter of business admin
istration sophomores who did not get
into their majors received denial
letters at the beginning of the week.
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As a result, faculty advisers and
officials from' both the Division of
Undergraduate Studies and the Col
lege of the Liberal Arts are expecting
an influx ,of disappointed business
students who want to change their
majors, but the advisers say they do
not know how many students might
be involved.
Assistant DUS Director John Wyck
off said liberal arts majors seem to be
the most popular among business
students, since students can fill their
liberal arts electives Ath business
courses.
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department to hold
meeting
One liberal arts official said the
inflow of students into liberal arts
would be "an embarrassment of rich
es" for the college.
Peter Hagen, assistant to the asso
ciate dean for undergraduate pro
grams, said "it won't be for several
months to come that we know how the
populations will be shifted throughout
the University."
Joyce Buck, coordinator of the Lib
eral Arts Advising Center, is also
feeling the effects of 550 business
students without majors: "The effect
in engineering is actually less than it
is in Business Administration . . . and
these two colleges make up almost
half of the University."
But Grubb said that compared with
previous years, the number of stu
dents not getting in as sophomores is
about the same.
"It might be up a bit from other
years, but that isn't related to enroll
ment controls. . . . With the supply
and demand problem in business and
engineering, we obviously can't ac
commodate everyone who wants to
get in," she said.
Grubb added, "it has been since
1979 in the College of Business that
not every student that works toward a
major can get it."
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Marine Corps general pleads
for support of American people
By NORMAN BLACK
AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. The commanding general of
the Marine Corps said Friday he couldn't rule out additio
nal arrests in the sex-and-spy affair involving embassy
guards, but pleaded for Americans to support his "proud
corps."
"We are a very close-knit organization. It borders on,
with us, being a religion," said Gen. P.X. Kelley, the
corps' commandant. "We belong to the American taxpay
er. We are a proud corps. And we must press on.
"We cannot allow the actions of a remote handful of
individuals .. . we cannot allow that to destroy our
morale," he said. .
Kelley, appearing at his first Pentagon news confer
ence since details of the affair began emerging, said the
investigation of Marine guards posted to Moscow initially
had been slowed by a lack of cooperation among federal
agencies.
He also said he had already ordered some changes in
selection procedures for new embassy guards, including
psychological screening.
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He defended the ability of Marine attorneys to assure
all those accused a fair trial.
Asked if he was satisfied the affair would end with the
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three espionage arrests made to date, Kelley replied:
"No, I'll never be totally satisfied ... until the investiga
tive bodies working this case come to me and say we have
run our lines on every single lead and we have no more."
The four-star general also asserted that during his
almost four years as the corps' commandant, he had
"never, and I repeat that, never ... heard one word nor
had my staff heard one word which would have caused us
to be concerned" about the security guard force.
Complaining about a double standard in public atti
tudes, he said, "It is interesting to note that in almost
every instance (of earlier spy cases), the focus has been
on the individual, not the institution. In this case, howev
er, it seems that just the opposite is true."
He also criticized Soviet statements "to degrade and
humiliate" the corps, adding: "If they can destroy the
image of the United States Marine Corps, then all of our
precious institutions will be vulnerable to their slander
ous attacks."
The affair became public last December with the arrest
of Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetree, a 25-year-old guard who
worked at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in 1985 and 1986.
Another Moscow guard, Cpl. Arnold Bracy, was arrested
in March and charged with.serving as Lonetree's accom
plice. A third Marine, Sgt. John J. Weirick, has been
arrested on suspicion of espionage.
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Monday April 20, 1987
Vol. 87, No. 172 20 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University
©1987 Collegian Inc.
By CHRISTINE KILGORE
Collegian Science Writer
Robert Cresswell, the second per
son to receive a Penn State pneumat
ic artificial heart, died of respiratory
arrest Friday morning at the Univer
sity's Hershey Medical Center.
The 49-year-old factory worker
from Huntingdon lived 397 days with
the Penn State heart beating inside
his chest. Doctors said it was over a
year of ups and downs, with periods
of both steady improvement and de
cline.
Doctor G. Victor Rohrer, assistant
dean for patient care at the medical
center, said in a prepared press
statement read Friday morning,
"shortly after awakening this morn
ing, Cresswell developed respiratory
arrest, and died quietly." '
Cresswell, who had been listed in
serious and declining condition, re
ceived the Penn State heart in an
eight-hour operation on March 17,
1986, after his body rejected a donor
heart he had received six days ear
lier.
Cresswell had been living since
December in a renovated apartment
in the Medical Center with his wife
Faith.
Hershey Spokesman John Vastyan
said Faith talked to reporters Friday
afternoon about her life at the medi
cal center.
"When she was asked whether she
would repeat this under the same
conditions, her response was without
hesitation, 'Yes'," Vastyan said.
"She said, 'Bob lived here with me for
an extra 13 months . . . He was able to
live at Hershey Medical Center be
cause of the heart.' "
Vastyan said early March of this
year, Cresswell had shown signs of
gradual decline in physical condition.
And last month, on the first anni-
dies
versary of the operation, Dr. William
S. Pierce, professor of surgery and
head of the Division of Artificial
Organs at the medical center, said
Cresswell "is really on uncharted
waters."
"No one has any idea (how long he
will live), " Pierce said last
month." The longest time we have
used the heart in a lab animal was 353
days, which is the world's record for
an artificial heart in an animal."
"He certainly doesn't have the pep
and energy he once did have," he
said. "But Mr. Cresswell and his wife
have showed every element of cour
age, hope and cooperation that one
could have ever hoped for."
Pierce also said last month that
Cresswell's declining condition was a
result of a combination of factors,
including a lack of appetite, depres
sion, a small degree of kidney failure,
and a continued infection along the
air lines used to drive his pneumatic
heart.
Vastyan said Friday, "On March 9,
it was announced that the infection
along the drive lines had worsened.
The infection was intermittently pre
sent during the time he was sustained
on the heart."
Cresswell, described at various
times during the year as a "super
fighter" and a "courageous pioneer,"
had been highly likely to reject the
foreign heart because he had an un
usually high antibody count, Vastyan
said.
"Because of the high levels of anti
bodies in his blood, doctors were
unsuccessful in their attempts to at
tain a second suitable donor heart,"
Vastyan said, adding that the Penn
State heart was used as a bridge to
sustain Cresswell until a second do
nor heart could be found.
Although Cresswell also suffered a
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Fumes leak,
shut bridge
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Nox
ious chemical fumes leaked from
a chemical plant, prompting offi
cials to close a major bridge, a
highway and a water treatment
plant for several hours yester
day.
A tank at Ashland Chemical Co.
began leaking styrene about mid
night Saturday, and the plant was
evacuated, said Mike Nucci, a
city emergency preparedness
coordinator. No injuries were re
ported.
A stretch of Interstate 95 bor
dering the southeast side of the
city, the Walt Whitman Bridge
between Philadelphia and New
Jersey, and the Southeast Water
Treatment Plant were closed
about 3 a.m., Nucci said. All were
reopened by Sunday afternoon,
but some sailors on nearby ships
that had been evacuated opted to
stay away from the area a while
longer as a precaution.
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