inde aiteheatitied v Pree ee Computerized anatomy makes a great teaching tool sent a picture of a heart through the printer that showed up on the com- WSC health education professor is developing a omputer program that allows students to graphically lift the body's skin and take a peek underneath. With just a click of the computer, students can slice into the small intestines and move further in at greater and greater magnification levels until at last they watch food proteins move through the intestinal wall to be carried of by basketball-sized blood cells. “There’s no limit to the number of levels you can do,” said Dr. puter screen. “The printer uses a laser to pick up the picture one line at a time,” Gundy explained. “Once it’s on the computer we can manipulate it any way we want to emphasize particular areas,” he noted. Not only that, but Gundy has one more computer trick that he said will help learning. The computer has an animation graphics program, complete with sound effects, that turns the screen into S. Craig Gundy, an associate professor of health sciences. At the request of the operator the computer will show a view of almost any part of the body—heart, ears, stomach—with specific information written around the graphics on the screen. If students want to dig deeper, they simply draw a box around the interesting part and the computer will enlarge that area and provide addi- something making akin it to an operating possible watch how human for room students to organs work. “We can put an ear on the screen and show how the parts move when sound Dr. Gundy said that a new anatomy course will test learning retention o! students who use new computer graphics as compared to those who only attend lectures. Eventually the two approaches will be combined in the classroom, and big-screen tv’s will display the computer graphics. waves come,” he said. Hearts beat on the screen, blood flows, lungs expand and eyes blink. “It's all possible,” Gundy said. The money for the project was pro- tional information in the margins. “You can get as much information at vided by funds from a $1 million endowment from the late J. Willard Mar- that level as you want, and it makes it clear what the interrelations are,” Gundy said. The system uses an Apple Mackin- riott. Gundy predicts results from the experiment will have a dramatic effect on how anatomy courses are taught. Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., has expresed interest in the system and tosh computer, and is part of a $15,000 experiment Gundy is doing to see if the computer programs aid in human anatomy. He began programming has allowed their text book graphics to be used. teaching the “From a purely scientific point of view we're doing the experiment to see com- if there students puter in June, and by winter quarter it will be ready, he said. One group of students will use the computers instead of attending lectures, while are higher who use However, looking grades among the computer: down the road we believe it will improve the teaching in the classroom,” he said. another group will learn strictly by lecture. groups and see if there is a difference in The system will also be invaluable for home study courses or for students learning,” he said. After the initial experiment, students enrolled in outreach programs “We want to compare the two dy said, and then turned the computer's printer on in reverse and “We've sort of eroticized the female body,” said Dr. Joseph J. Horvat, a psychologist who teaches classes on the psychology of sex, “and even if there is some legislation that arises from the Meese Commission people are going to find ways to get those materials.” “There is a significant portion of society involved in viewing pornography in one form or another,” he added. The issue of pornography is a highly emotional one, Horvat said. Fun- damentalists claim titillating materials lead to increased sexual violence. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to see pornography as non-harmful. Hard data seems to be in favor of the latter opinion, Horvat said. “Studies indicate that even hard core pornography does not breed sexual deviants. It’s true there are deviants in the ‘It will be a really effective way to get concise and effective information. Dr. G. Craig Gundy, an assistant professor of health sciences, has developed a computer program that probes the human body. Students can dissect the heart, The text book and all the charts and photographs can be on this little intestines, kidneys and other organs down diskette,” Gundy to microscopic levels. Right or wrong, pornography he American culture has a fascination with pornography, a WSC professor said, and, right or wrong, erotic pictures will be around for a long time. sciences throughout state, he said. will use both computers and lectures to learn, and_ professors will use the system as lecture aids. “You can put anything on it,” Gun- WSC _ health society, but we've had rapists from day one. There were no_ pornographic magazines and movies back then, but still those behaviors were prevalent,” Horvat said. The problem with empirically trying to prove the effects of pornography is that psychology as a discipline is only 100 years old. “As far as the science of psychology goes we're still crawling. We have lots of theories and ideas, but they’re just that—theories and ideas,” he said. Scientists still don’t understand how the brain ticks and what causes certain behavior. will stay and less desireable spouses,” he said. A bent toward pornography appears to be a learned experience that people in the United States, as a whole, have developed, he said. Other countries do not seem to show the fascina- tion and curiosity toward the human body evident in America. As such, this country is one of the largest consumers of sensual materials, he said. “Much hard core pornography is actually imported from Sweden, Holland and Greece. Pornography is not a big seller in those countries. It’s imported to the U.S. mainly because there is money to be made here,” Horvat said. Those countries have less stringent laws governing the filming of por- ‘It’s really an individual thing and there are an innumerable number of factors that affect each person,” Horvat said. But the educator said that constant exposure to hard core pornography, that which depicts torture, bondage, or produce their materials. Once printed, acts pornography that are degrading, affects other aspects of behavior besides the sexual. “There’s a real insensitivity in general that’s the result. These people tend to make less desireable neighbors nographic magazines and videos, making it relatively easy for promoters to has little said. trouble avoiding the few import laws that deal with the subject, he said. “The U.S. gets involved with child pornography more than any other country. | think that shows some real perversions. Those people psychologically have a multiplicity of problems,” Horvat said. The Meese commission estimated that pornography is a $6 billion a year industry, and Horvat said that figure is not unrealistic when you consider the average price of a small; hard core pornographic magazine runs from $10 to $25. ‘I have heard of some people who spent $1,000 on one video,” he said. But some psychologists say that pornography, even the harder types, acts as a kind of catharsis, giving individuals the chance to vicariously work out anxieties and frustrations. Others disagree. ‘Most normal. individuals have a low satiation factor. For most people it’s a matter of curiosity. They go to a porn movie and after 10 minutes they've had enough. But there are those who have sexual problems. They go and sit there all day and really enjoy the stuff,” Horvat said.