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Wednesday. July 3.1374
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THE NORTH TEXAS DAILY—PAGE 6
Dr. Pijan Saves Accident Victim,
Influences Him To Enroll at NT
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Saving Grace
Photos hr PAT BOYNTON
Dr. Dorothy Pijan helped save the life of Robert Watley several
months ago when she and her husband came upon an auto accident
in which Watley had been severely injured. Watley wants to repay Dr.
Pijan by coming to North Texas and "making something of himself."
BY VICKI DENTON
Daily Reporter
Dr. Dorothy Pijan's interest in the
man’s life she saved several months ago
will bring him to North Texas in the fall.
The man is Robert Watley, 29-year-
old Clifton resident, whose life Dr. Pijan,
director of Union Building and campus
activities, and her husband, Herbert,
saved last Nov. 14.
She and her husband had gone to a
Norweigan smogasbord in Clifton and
were returning to Denton around 7:30
p.m. that day.
TRAVELING A small, narrow road,
they came over a hill about five miles
from Clifton and saw a bright fire and
two men walking on the road.
Watley and his brother had just been
in an auto accident in which Watley had
been thrown 15 feet from the two cars
he had been standing between.
The accident occurred when a car
going more than 90 miles per hour ran
into the rear of Watley’s car, which was
receiving a boost from his brother’s car.
He was in between the two cars and in
all probability “should have been
crushed in two,” Dr. Pijan said.
WATLEY LATER told Dr Pijan
that the “whole world looked like a dull
television screen.” He was conscious and
had decided it was his end, she said.
After Watley and his brother were
spotted by the Pijans, the couple stopped
and put Watley in the front seat with Dr.
Pijan, who made a tourniquet for Wat-
ley's severely bleeding hand.
Watley’s brother stayed behind to wait
for patrolmen while the Pijans sped the
injured man to the Clifton hospital.
Whatley was conscious enough to give
directions. The Pijans stayed overnight
to help fill out reports and inform his
relatives.
When asked about her reaction to the
incident, Dr. Pijan said, “It proves when
it’s necessary to do something you don’t
think about it, you just do it.”
One of the responses Dr. Pijan has
received from her action came from
Edith Cooper of Fort Worth. “I’m sure
it was an awful shock to you and your
husband, and so many people would
have just kept driving and never looked
back. Thank God we still have a few like
you left on earth that care,” she said.
Since the time of the accident Watley
and Dr. Pijan have talked to each other
Campus VD Count:
20 Monthly Cases
Of Mice and Men—tality
Animal Study Explores Phenomena
ByCARLEETA SHORE
Daily Reporter
Greg Bucy, Denton junior, was not
one to be stopped by a lack of university
equipment or funds when he wanted to
conduct an experiment in precognition
in animals. He made the test equipment
himself using his own money.
The question of parapsychology in
animals was raised long ago by persis-
tent accounts of animals that had travel-
ed great distances over strange territory
to find their homes or masters, he
explained.
BUCY ADDED, “Precognition seem-
ingly is knowledge of events in the
future, while telepathy is knowledge of
an event taking place in the present.”
Tests have been run at the Parapsy-
chology Laboratory at Duke University
with mice and hamsters. Homing experi-
ments with cats and mice have been car-
ried out in Germany. Others have used
bats, pigeons and even toads, according
to Bucy.
Bucy is using mice as test animals be-
cause they are small and easy to handle.
The necessary stimulus will be a mild
electric shock, he said. The experiment
will determine whether the animals can
avoid the shock by “guessing” the area
which would not be electrified.
MOST OF the equipment was built by
Bucy with help and advice from Dr.
Jack Haynes of the psychology faculty.
The equipment is composed of a ran-
dom selector, a generator of electric
pulses of adjustable voltage and dura-
tion, some recording apparatus and
safety devices.
Pretrials will start soon and the major
experiments will be carried out at the end
of the summer when a new shipment of
mice arrives, he said.
IN OTHER experiments, “above-
chance” results were sometimes obtain-
ed when even the experimenter, his mind
being an influencing factor, did not know
the “shock-free” direction the animal
should take. This excluded the case for
telepathy between man and animal and
suggested, instead, clairvoyance in the
animal, or precognition.
For a long time Bucy has been inter-
ested in experiments and phenomena,
and now he wants to test the results.
Although Bucy is not looking for a
metaphysical result, he said he will re-
port it if he finds it. He is attempting to
describe the behavior in behavorial
terminology.
“The problem of science is not a pro-
blem of technique but of interpretation
The whole field is now open to experi-
mental analysis. There are countless
ways to investigate parapsychology in
the laboratory," Bucy said.
There have been many reports of
animals apparently having another
sense. Some people feel they have re-
ceptors which are allotted to detect
changes in the electromagnetic field.
Perhaps the animals have some receptor
that picks up electrical currents, Bucy
said. It is this, too that the animal has
a “clue" as to when he will be shocked
that Bucy wishes to test, he added.
Bucy admits it may be an isolated
variable in research that affects the
results.
During a five-month period (January-
May 1974) an average of 20 cases per
month of gonorrhea were diagnosed at
the University Hospital, according to
Dr. Robert Lloyd, director of health
services.
Nationwide, one new case of gonor-
rhea is reported every 15 seconds. In
Texas there were 64,210 new cases of
gonorrhea reported in 1973, a 15 percent
increase over the past year: 85 per cent
of these were in the 15-29 age group.
There are no vaccines or “shots” to
protect against venereal diease (VD),
and no one reason for the increase,
Dr. Lloyd said. Possible causes could be
the changing attitudes toward sexual
behavior, greater sexual activity and
“the pill," he said.
The law requires that all diagnosed
cases of VD, regardless of the victim’s
age, must be reported to the State
Healty Department. However, it is no
longer necessary to have parents’ con-
sent to treat minors for VD, Dr. Lloyd
said. All students' records are kept con-
fidential.
Since gonorrhea is passed from person
to person through sexual contact, the
most effective method of control is to
break the chain of infection by insuring
that all sexual contacts are informed and
receive medical attention, and that in-
fected persons are treated Sexually
Mail Must Go Through..
But Not to Kerr in Fall
Mail delivery to Kerr Hall will be dis-
continued beginning this fall, according
to Dr. Mervyn Stelter, director of hous-
ing.
Residents will need to rent mailboxes
in the Post Office, where they will re-
ceive their mail, he said.
Reasons for discontinuing the service
include inefficient handling by staff
members causing some mail to be lost,
the poor location of the mailboxes,
which hindered the security watch of the
women's elevators in Kerr and staff
members’ time being used to distribute
the mail. Dr. Stelter added.
Kerr Hall’s proximity to the Post
Office contributed to the relocation, he
said. “Removal of the mailboxes is a
permanent change and students should
get better service at the Post Office.”
J.J. Johnson, president of the Kerr
Hall Association, said he believes the
Post Office offers greater security for
students’ mail.
Although he sympathized with resi-
dents who are used to receiving their
mail at the dorm, Johnson, Missouri
City, Tex., junior, added, "I’m glad to
see it happen."
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active persons should be checked for VD
frequently, Dr. Lloyd said.
There are many reasons why VD
continues to be a major public health
problem, according to Texas State
Health Department officials, but they all
add up to ignorance about the disease,
embarrassment and fear of “what others
might think.”
several times on the phone. She learned
from those talks that Watley, who had
attended Prairie View A&M and Bishop
College, wanted to repay Dr. Pijan by
his new determination to “make some-
thing of himself.”
Dr. Pijan said he told her that the fact
he was unable to work heavy labor was
another sign he’d better start using his
brains.
BEFORE THE accident Watley had
quit school and was working because he
“hadn’t found the value of an education,"
she said. It was through her influence
that he decided to come here, he told her
Watley, who now wears a brace, and
Dr. Pijan saw each other for the first
time since the accident when he came
here June 14. The only thing he could
remember about her was her light brown
hair.
According to Dr. Pijan he kept saying,
“I don’t want to be overdramatic, but 1
can’t help it.”
Dr. Pijan said he was very excited
about the school and felt that everyone
was helping him.
With Dr. Pijan's aid and influence,
Robert Watley has decided he “isn't here
to waste life.”
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The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 115, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 3, 1974, newspaper, July 3, 1974; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth723169/m1/5/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.