Laser video games help one arcade
Wednesday, November 30, 1983The Daily Tar Heel3
By SARAH RAPER
Staff Writer
Although other local video game
establishments report constant or declin
ing sales, one Franklin Street video ar
cade manager said business was up 5 per
cent to 10 percent from last year.
Barrel of Fun Manager Jim Petri said
the increase in his business was partly due
to the introduction of games that use a
laser videodisc to create images on the
screen that look like cartoons or movies.
"The best is yet to come," Petri said of
the laser videodisc games. He said that so
far there was little variety in the types of
laser games, available now for about two
months.
Barrel of Fun has three video games
that use the laser discs. Dragon's Lair is a
cartoon game designed by a man who
previously worked for Walt Disney
Studios, Petri said. The other two games,
Astron Belt and M.A.C.H. 3, are flying
games.
In all three games, the screen image is
produced by a single metallic disc, the
same size as a record album which plays
on a turntable with a laser-detecting
device. The disc and the microprocessor
chip used in all video games jointly coor
dinate the images, sound and player's
commands.
Petri said many players did not like the
new laser disc games because in some
games the image blacks out during the lag
between the time a player gives a com
mand and the time the machine responds.
He said manufacturers planned to
eliminate the lag by putting two laser
discs in each game.
Manufacturers had been concerned
that players would not be willing to pay
the 50-cent price, to play the laser games,
but Petri said the laser games are the most
popular at Barrell of Fun despite a price
double that of other traditional video
games.
Soaps Manager Carey McCloskey said
the laundromat-video establishment
would be getting the laser videodisc
games in January. She said her business
had remained constant in the past year. ,
"People come here to do their laundry.
Most of them don't come specifically to
play video games." -
Henderson Street Bar manager Tim
Kirkpatrick said his current video
business was half of what his business had
been last year.
He attributed the decline in business to
the new drinking age, which prohibits
18-year-olds from playing at bars.
Henderson Street and Soaps both sell
beer.
Kirkpatrick said his business also had
been hurt by home video and computer
systems.
"There's a doctor in town who used to
come in here every afternoon, but his
wife bought him an Atari set, and the last
time I saw him was on vacation in Florida
at the zoo," he said.
Columbia's crew perform experiments
The Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston Scientists on the ground
marveled at the work of scientists in orbit Tuesday as the
crewmen of Spacelab spun and jumped and stuck themselves
with needles in exhaustive tests of human adaptation to weight
lessness. The six men aboard the space shuttle Columbia, with the ex
citement of Monday's launch behind them, concentrated on
around-the-clock science Tuesday, working on some of the 73
experiments that will fill almost every moment of their nine days
orbiting 155 miles above Earth.
A mission scientist monitoring the astronauts from the science
control room at the Johnson Space Center said the experiments
were "going extremely well" and the crew was doing "a great
job."
The largest crew ever launched into space divided itself into
two shifts, the Red Team and the Blue Team, and kept work go
ing nonstop in the 23-by-14-foot science module called
Spacelab, which was carried in Columbia's cargo bay.
Red Team scientists Robert Parker, a mission specialist, and
West German Ulf Merbold, a payload specialist and the first
non-American member of a U.S. spacecraft crew, operated a
chair that spun and twisted at a dizzy rate in a study of the
body's balance mechanism.
The Blue Team scientists, mission specialist Owen Garriott
and payload specialist Byron Lichtenberg, used elastic cords as
slingshots to propel themselves to the Spacelab floor in a test of
their response to a fall in weightlessness. They also attached
electrodes to the back of their knees and endured mild electric
shocks to trigger a reflex action that was recorded on monitors.
All four scientists drew blood samples.
While the scientists worked in the Spacelab, mission com
mander John Young of the Red Team and pilot Brewster Shaw
of the Blue Team maneuvered Columbia from the spacecraft
cockpit, changing the flight angle as required by experiments.
Officials at Johnson Space Center were delighted with the
work.
"Things are going extremely well with all the investigations,"
said Rick Chappell, a scientist who monitored the Red Team. "I
spent most of the evening marveling at how well the crew was
doing. They did a great job. I would have hated to have to have
tried to do their job myself."
Karl Knott, a European Space Agency mission scientist who
monitored the Blue Team, said, "The crew performed extremely
well. It was an extremely efficient and good shift."
Spacelab is a $1 billion module designed and built by the
European Space Agency. It is packed with 73 experiments
developed by scientists from 14 nations.
Equipment worth $13,500 taken from Fetzer Gym
From staff reports
Laboratory and computer equipment
worth about $13,500 was taken from
Fetzer Gym some time over the weekend,
according to Meg Dillon, university ad
ministration manager in the physical
education department.
Ned Comar, UNC Crime Prevention
Officer, said whoever stole the eqiupment
unlocked three separate locks and caused
no damage to any of the rooms.
The equipment, which included a Bio
lab worth more than $7,000 was used by
the physical education department to
monitor blood pressure and heart rate,
Dillon said. "It was mainly for instruc
tional use for graduate students," she
said.
Dillon added that precautions had been
taken before the weekend because of re
cent break-ins in the physical education
department. "Whoever stole it went
through a lot of trouble," she said.
The P.E. department will meet with
Security tomorrow to discuss further
precautions against such crimes, she said.
Campus police reported two other
thefts Monday night. A mortar mixer,
valued at $1,500, was taken from a con
struction site at the UNC School of
Medicine and $1,400 worth of tools was
taken from the construction site of the
Student Activities Center.
Katz
From page 1
-Prejudice and power compose racism,
Katz; said,rPartipipants define, prejudice
as negative preconceptions based on an
individual's group identity. Power can be
political, economic, and social, Katz said.
Anti-racism activists should thus work on
structural, as well as attitudinal, change.
"The more energy we spend talking
about how to convince people, the more
we spin our wheels," she said. "Our
system is set up to protest those in power,
not the victims."
Students must push administrators to
end racism, Katz said. "They (ad
ministrators) just play a waiting game,
hoping that this will pass."
Katz used the term "people of color"
to apply her comments to all minorities
victimized by white racism.
Activists should be more courageous
and less readily disheartened, Katz said.
"I think there are some students who are
concerned about racism but not very will
ing to take flak and stand up to the com
munity over it. There are people in the
world, many of them in this room, who
haven't done much."
Leader of campus organizations should
be especially concerned with racism, and
should be chosen partly on the basis of
commitment to cultural diversity and ser
vice to multiracialism, Katz said. Leaders
who do not take such concrete steps as
actively recruiting black applicants
should ask themselves, "Are you really
committed, or is this a bunch of
rhetoric?" she said.
Katz urged self-questioning to detect
prejudice. "If all of my friends look like
me, then probably I've been acting on
prejudices," she said.
Ethnic jokes are on a level of racism
with name-calling, Katz said. "If it's not
based on a stereotype, then tell it about
your own group."
Racism still affects hiring practices,
Katz said. She said she supported quotas
as a remedy.
Not as many whites lose jobs to blacks
because of federal equal opportunity laws
as is widely thought, she said. "It is easier
(for employers) to blame Affirmative Ac
tion than to say, 'You didn't have what it
took.' "
The continued prevalence of racism in
this country hurts U.S. diplomatic and
trade relationships, Katz said. Americans
try to impose their values in negotiations
with other countries. "All of us have
been affected by white culture. It's so in
visible that we believe it's the world," she
said.
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UNC students Barry Safrit (right) and Eric Routh (middle) stretch skyward during a recent pickup
game at the Kappa Sigma house. Both Safrit, a senior from High Point, and Routh, a sophomore
from Greensboro, are members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Endangered right whale delivers 2nd calf
The Associated Press
BOSTON The birth of a second calf to a right whale has
given scientists new hope for the future of the breed, the most
endangered of the large whales.
The population of right whales in the North Atlantic is down
to about 200, making any birth important, said Scott Kraus,
head of the New England Aquarium research group that has
monitored the whales for three years.
"It's significant and encouraging that one of the known
females has given birth to .two calves," Kraus said in an inter
view Tuesday.
Scientists estimate only four or five right whales are born in
the North Atlantic each year.
Right whales were so named, Kraus said, "because they're the
right whales to kill ... You can catch up to them in a rowboat.
They're slow, they float when dead and they yielded the most
amount of oil and baleen, which was most important for the
corset industry."
There are more right whales in the Southern Hemisphere, but
the animals spend summer so far offshore that scientists cannot
study them.
Unlike gray whales, which were close to extinction in the
North Pacific but have bounced back to a population of 16,000,
right whales off the East Coast of the United States have not
done well, Kraus said.
Part of the reason may be that the shiny black mammals are
friendly and roam near shore. "As a result, they may be the
most vulnerable to human intervention and habitat alteration,"
Kraus said.
Scientists know little about the whales, so when they spotted a
45-ton female with a calf off the Massachusetts coast this sum
mer, it meant a leap in knowledge.
They knew it was the same whale that was spotted in 1979 off
Georgia because of a lump of thickened skin on its head. The
lump was shaped like the musical symbol fermata, which in
dicates a held note, so the scientists named the whale Fermata.
Kraus was in Boston to deliver a paper Tuesday night on the
whales at the Fifth Biennial Conference on the Biology of
Marine Mammals.
The work by Kraus' team, which includes John Prescott, ex
ecutive director of the New England Aquarium and research
associate Greg Stone, was used by federal officials in deciding to
cancel plans for an oil refinery along the bay in Eastport, Maine,
that might have threatened the animals' environment.
The group, financed by the World Wildlife Fund and the Na
tional Marine Fisheries Service, works out of Lubec, Maine, the
easternmost point of the United States, and hopes to begin
following Fermata and other right whales farther south.
It was by chance that the female was spotted February 1979
off the coast of Jekyll Island, Ga., with its first calf, so recently
born that its skin was still wrinkled, Kraus said.
The female's travels helped scientists learn about the whales'
migratory patterns. Four months earlier, the female had been
seen playing in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Maine.
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