2 The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Aug. 5, 1997 Walton Continued from Page 1 private women's college when the Walton family moved to Bethlehem to take advantage of a job opportu nity offered to her husband. He is presently manager of manufactur ing at Precision Roll Grinders in Allentown. At the time of their move, Zachary was one year old. "I started teaching math part time at Muhlenberg College and, at the same time, became a part-time administrator at Allentown Col lege," Walton recalled. But she soon succumbed to the urging of the Rev. Daniel Gambet, Allentown College president, and the Rev. Alexander Pocetto, senior vice president, and joined the Allentown College family on a full-time basis. Not surprisingly, Walton also credits both men as mentors who have shaped the course of her life. Finals Continued from Page 1. A student could take a week off from a semester during the regular school year without too much trou ble catching up on the material, Greenberg said. However, a student would not be able to catch up as easily in the summer if he or she missed a week, she said. "A lot of students aren't pre pared for the day-to-day dedication that summer school demands," Greenberg said. Library Continued from Page 1. COG Executive Committee that each municipality design a deci sion-making process through which the library issue could be brought to closure. Daubert, along with council new library will be more than ade member Ruth Lavin, advocated quate. Skaters Continued from Page 1. "All the local government people think that none of the skater people have taken action, and it's true," Kraemer said. "I just don't think they're doing anything. They're ticketing kids It‘e laste °Oat Screams WO 231 wv. state ;LARGE RTOPPING .PIZZA With an almost disbelieving shake of the head, Walton con fessed, "I honestly don't know why I went into mathematics. Nothing in my childhood ever pointed that way. I admit I was a tomboy and loved playing sports with all the boys in the neighborhood, but I enrolled in Vassar as an English major. "I was taking some math courses and my professors were exclusive ly female. One, in particular, began urging me to switch to math. So I did." The rest is history. The encouragement Walton received from her professors at Vassar was the inspiration for her work in encouraging young women to pursue careers in math and sci ence. And although writing grant proposals to help achieve that goal admittedly falls outside her job Students can't afford to allow themselves to be distracted when they have an intensive workload, she said. "People have such different motivation for taking summer classes," Greenberg said. She said she teaches some pre freshmen who are eager to learn, and on the opposite side, there are some students who tell Greenberg they only need a C to pass the class and graduate. Scott Beattie, a graduate student putting the decision solely in the hands of library trustees. "That's our only choice, Tom," said Lavin, who presented a new study she said confirms that the 84 projected parking spaces at the but there's no place to go. Skating is just another recre ational activity they need to make room for." Price said she is confident the park will be built eventually. "I think we've been on this thing description at Allentown College, it's an avocation that is "stimulat ing and revitalizing for me." Through the years, Walton has accumulated numerous honors, including the 1994 Woman of Dis tinction award from Great Valley Girl Scout Council Walton also earned a 1991 Annu al Achievement award from the Inter-Service Club Council of Greater Johnstown, and a 1985 Out standing Woman of the Year award from the Lehigh Valley Association of Academic Women. Two other awards were responsi ble for her three-month stay in England in 1992. She was a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge Uni versity, and a Fulbright Adminis trative Fellow at La Sainte Union College of Higher Education in Southampton. who teaches a statistics course this summer, said he is not making his final any harder or easier because it is the summer. Beattie said students have more time in the summer and a lower stress level than usual. "As a teacher, I think we change how we teach a little bit every semester," Beattie said. He added the work his students have done this summer has been good. "I've been very satisfied with what they have done," he said. "We put our money there, now we're putting our mouths there," said council member Jean McMan is. "What else can we do?" Daubert said the board may want to charge ahead with the Foster Avenue site, even without support from outlying municipalities. for four years, or five maybe," she said. "It's long. We'd like to have it sooner, but we have faith enough to know that we will get this. "We have patience, we have faith," she added. Brain implants approved By LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. Howard Zirkle's hands shook so badly that he couldn't feed himself until he received a brain implant that cut off his shakes. The Food and Drug Administra tion approved the powerful "deep brain stimulator" yesterday, say ing it could help thousands of patients with Parkinson's disease or the equally debilitating disorder called "essential tremor" that Zirkle suffers. "It's made a great difference in my life," said Zirkle, 72, of Min ster, Ohio, who was almost a recluse for five years before test ing the implant. "You can't imagine going in to eat anyplace and not being able to pick anything up.... I can pick up coffee now, carry it to the patio and not spill a drop." Medtronic Corp.'s Activa implant "can significantly decrease tremors in many people with these debilitating diseases," said FDA Acting Commissioner Michael Friedman. efull * Now Hiring All Positions For The Fall Good at the State Colege Pizza Cutlet Orly I Notualidwitli aMdi¢roifer I Plea mention Ills coupon when ordering I Ogff evires August 31, 1997 110 East Beaver "It made a great difference in my life." Howard Zirkle brain implant recipient About 2 million Americans have essential tremor, a little-under stood hereditary disorder that causes violent shaking. Up to 1.5 million Americans have Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological disease that causes shaking along with rigid limbs and other worsening symptoms. The drug L-Dopa helps some Parkinson's symptoms, although its effects wane over time. Only about 40 percent of essen tial tremor patients are helped with current medicines. The shaking eventually destroys patients' ability to work or even feed themselves. Some undergo dangerous surgery to destroy a small part of their brains that causes the trem bling. But the surgery can cause permanent problems with speech,.l movement and swallowing. The Activa brain implant promis es less shaking with fewer side effects. In a $25,000 procedure, doctors-, drill through the skull and implantc, an electrode into the thalamus, a; walnut-sized region deep in the brain. The left side of the thalamus con trols movement in the right side of,' the body, and vice versa. A wire runs just under the scalp/ down to the collarbone, where a pacemaker-sized "pulse generator" is implanted. It sends electrical waves to the electrode, which emits constant, tiny electrical shocks customized to block tremors. In a study of 196 severe Parkin-i, son's and essential tremor patients, tremors decreased in almost every one and sometimes even disap-vi peared. 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