Park University

A private four-year university program will remain open one more year instead of closing this summer as planned, officials said Tuesday. Administrators of Park University, Blythe, said earlier this year that they would close the campus after only two years because so few students had enrolled. The first Park graduating class consisted of seven students; another seven have yet to complete the courses they need to graduate.

One dull gray morning in Manhattan in the 1930s, ThomasWolfe left his tiny 1st Avenue apartment to head downtown, sharing the elevator with a woman and her unruly German shepherd. The dog kept straining at him until her grip broke, then leaped up and planted his paws flat on the chest of the tall and disheveled 6-foot, 6-inch writer with piercing eyes, a sudden celebrity then being assailed all over New York for his notorious first novel, 1929's "Look Homeward, Angel." "Wolfe!

For as long as anyone can remember, college dreams tended to wither in the dusty heat of this small desert town near the Arizona border. Then, civic leaders hatched a bold experiment: They invited a private, liberal arts university program to come to town, putting bachelor's degrees within easy reach of locals. Now, after just two years of operation, Blythe's experiment is ending in failure. Park University-Blythe, the town's own little four-year university, will close for good in July.

A private four-year university program will remain open one more year instead of closing this summer as planned, officials said Tuesday. Administrators of Park University, Blythe, said earlier this year that they would close the campus after only two years because so few students had enrolled. The first Park graduating class consisted of seven students; another seven have yet to complete the courses they need to graduate.

Villa Park, ranked second in the county in girls' water polo, escaped with a 7-6 victory over eighth-ranked University after Kristyn Pulver scored the winning goal with six seconds remaining in a nonleague game Friday at University. Pulver scored six goals for the visiting Spartans (19-1), who led, 6-4, after three quarters before the Trojans tied it, 6-6. Hayley Sudieth scored five goals for University (11-7). In other nonleague games: No.

Buena Park High School won the Southern Section 2-A wrestling championship Saturday at Nogales High in La Puente. The Coyotes scored 114 points to beat University, second with 98 points. Alhambra was third with 91 points, followed by Laguna Hills with 89. Shahariar Pourdenash led University to its second-place finish by defeating Mike Garcia of Santa Fe, 6-1, in the heavyweight division. Heath Sims of Woodbridge beat Bill Morrell of Don Lugo, 10-2, to win the 135-pound division.

With season-opening victories against top-ranked Fountain Valley and ninth-ranked Cypress, unranked University looked like world-beaters on the rise. But with a chance to extend their surprising early-season run Tuesday against No. 5 Villa Park in the quarterfinal round of the Loara tournament, the Trojans looked, well, rather ordinary.

Soka University still doesn't have a library or a student union, but the embattled school is building something else it dearly needs: goodwill and respect. Embroiled in a legal and political fight with state parks officials over use of its scenic Calabasas campus, the once-reclusive Japanese school now welcomes the public with open arms.

Marks of punctuation, those friendly but firm little sentinels and traffic signs on the information byways of the printed page, are not something we ordinarily give much notice to. Subliminally inflecting our understanding, they seem as much a part of our language as the alphabet itself. M. B.

Is the world led by senile old men? In this book, Bert Edward Park, a neurosurgeon, focuses on evidence of neurologic impairment in several 20th-Century world-class leaders. And he does find cases of dementia attributable to maladies associated with old age. No American reader is likely to find Park's subject matter too academic. He has studied the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, intended to provide for presidential disability, and finds it inadequate.

For as long as anyone can remember, college dreams tended to wither in the dusty heat of this small desert town near the Arizona border. Then, civic leaders hatched a bold experiment: They invited a private, liberal arts university program to come to town, putting bachelor's degrees within easy reach of locals. Now, after just two years of operation, Blythe's experiment is ending in failure. Park University-Blythe, the town's own little four-year university, will close for good in July.

With season-opening victories against top-ranked Fountain Valley and ninth-ranked Cypress, unranked University looked like world-beaters on the rise. But with a chance to extend their surprising early-season run Tuesday against No. 5 Villa Park in the quarterfinal round of the Loara tournament, the Trojans looked, well, rather ordinary.

Villa Park, ranked second in the county in girls' water polo, escaped with a 7-6 victory over eighth-ranked University after Kristyn Pulver scored the winning goal with six seconds remaining in a nonleague game Friday at University. Pulver scored six goals for the visiting Spartans (19-1), who led, 6-4, after three quarters before the Trojans tied it, 6-6. Hayley Sudieth scored five goals for University (11-7). In other nonleague games: No.

If you could turn your eyes inward so as to examine the busy neurons within your skull, you would have graphic evidence of how important light is to the human organism. Nearly one-third of the billions of nerve cells in your brain do nothing but interpret the light entering your eyes to present a world rich in color, detail and meaning. That striking neurophysiological fact demonstrates how central to humanity is our highly developed vision.

Soka University still doesn't have a library or a student union, but the embattled school is building something else it dearly needs: goodwill and respect. Embroiled in a legal and political fight with state parks officials over use of its scenic Calabasas campus, the once-reclusive Japanese school now welcomes the public with open arms.

Marks of punctuation, those friendly but firm little sentinels and traffic signs on the information byways of the printed page, are not something we ordinarily give much notice to. Subliminally inflecting our understanding, they seem as much a part of our language as the alphabet itself. M. B.

If you could turn your eyes inward so as to examine the busy neurons within your skull, you would have graphic evidence of how important light is to the human organism. Nearly one-third of the billions of nerve cells in your brain do nothing but interpret the light entering your eyes to present a world rich in color, detail and meaning. That striking neurophysiological fact demonstrates how central to humanity is our highly developed vision.

One dull gray morning in Manhattan in the 1930s, ThomasWolfe left his tiny 1st Avenue apartment to head downtown, sharing the elevator with a woman and her unruly German shepherd. The dog kept straining at him until her grip broke, then leaped up and planted his paws flat on the chest of the tall and disheveled 6-foot, 6-inch writer with piercing eyes, a sudden celebrity then being assailed all over New York for his notorious first novel, 1929's "Look Homeward, Angel." "Wolfe!

Buena Park High School won the Southern Section 2-A wrestling championship Saturday at Nogales High in La Puente. The Coyotes scored 114 points to beat University, second with 98 points. Alhambra was third with 91 points, followed by Laguna Hills with 89. Shahariar Pourdenash led University to its second-place finish by defeating Mike Garcia of Santa Fe, 6-1, in the heavyweight division. Heath Sims of Woodbridge beat Bill Morrell of Don Lugo, 10-2, to win the 135-pound division.

Is the world led by senile old men? In this book, Bert Edward Park, a neurosurgeon, focuses on evidence of neurologic impairment in several 20th-Century world-class leaders. And he does find cases of dementia attributable to maladies associated with old age. No American reader is likely to find Park's subject matter too academic. He has studied the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, intended to provide for presidential disability, and finds it inadequate.