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Dial-A-Lesson, Ding-Dong
University Park, Pa. Sept. ---
"If you spent less time on the
phone and more time with your
studies, you'd be a better
student" is a frequent parental
lament.
But students at The
Peqnsylvania State University
are spending moretime on the
phone and more time with their
schoolwork too --- and at the
same time.
As easily as one can "dial a
prayer" or "dial for dollars",
Penn State students can "dial a
lesson" at special "phone
booths" located throughout
campus.
An audio system devised by
Listening-Learning Services
allows students to "dial up"
taped lectures, musical
presentations, and medical
advice at one of the 150
listening stations.
Since the program was begun
in July, 1969, approximately
725,000 calls have been made by
students, according to Willard M.
Martin, director of
Listening-Learning Services.
Martin emphasizes that nearly
half of the calls weremade
within the past year.
The concept is simple. When a
student dials the number
assigned to the program he
wants to hear, a computer at the
control center sends the call to
the appropriate program
terminal. Within seconds, the
student can hear the
We All Have To Go Sometime
University Park, Pa.; Sept. ---
Who said modem containers
don't decay?
A timetable for the natural
recycling of some widely used
and frequently littered items
were drawn up by scientists at
The Pennsylvania State
University:
A common soft drink can
dropped in the woods today,
and not touched except by the
air, rain, snow, natural mulch
and sunlight will likely be
completely degraded by October
of '73- 2473, that is, A.D.
Its aluminum components,
says Dr. Edwin L. Owen, a
metallurgist who specializes in
he study of corrosion, might by
that time be broken up into
dust-like bits. The steel or tin
components will probably have
made it to dust somewhat
earlier, by 2073 A.D.
A conventional plastic
wrapper similarly exposed, says
Dr. R. F. Kammereck, a polymer
scientist, will probably be gone
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presentation on high fidelity
headsets.
For some popular courses,
time clocks are used to start the
lesson tapes at preannounced
times, some starting as often as
ten times daily.
The program offerings range
from "instant replays" of
lectures for students missing
regular class sessions to
professional counseling
concerning certain personal
problems.
Listening stations are located
in selected residence halls,
fraternity houses, libraries, and
classroom buildings. Stations are
also now available at the
Ritenour Health Center for
students absent from classes due
to illness.
Martin points out that
although the potential for such a
system is great, there is a danger
in overemphasizing technology.
"To be sure, reliable
equipment designed to serve a
wide range of academic needs is
essential, but the successful use
of any dial access system
depends ultimately on the
quality and relevance of
software used on the system,"
he says.
"Unless the tape recordings
are carefully integrated with the
program of instruction and
testing, dial access will likely
prove to be of limited
educational value."
back to nature by the Fall of
2200 or thereabouts.
A glass bottle left on the
forest floor this weekend, says
Evelyn C. Marboe, a glass
chemist, might find its ultimate
rest by the year 1,001,972. Or it
might not.
"Glass," says Professor
Marboe, "is one of the most
durable materials known. We
have glass beads from Egypt that
are 4,000 years old and, of
course, there are many examples
of glass-like rock such as
obsidian that may be as old as
the earth.
There was a consensus among
the scientists interviewed that
these figures are all highly
speculative, since decay rates
vary widely with local
conditions.
Thus, it is ecologically
sounder to strew your trash
around in a tropical rain forest;
there, the action of moisture and
heat speeds up the recycling
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FDA
Sanctions
Poison
(CPS) The next time you
have a red candy bar, a can of
cherry soda or a strawberry
popsicle, you may be eating
poison.
According to Food and Drug
Administration scientists, a dye
called Red 2, found in virtually
every artificially red-colored
food, may cause cancer and
birth defects.
Soviet scientists reported in
1970 that the dye caused birth
defects and cancer in animals.
FDA scientists obtained similar
results from a reproduction test
last summer, but FDA officials
have delayed any action at all
for almost a year.
The FDA has since introduced
some minor restrictions on the
use of Red 2, but has denied
that there is any evidence of
hazard to humans.
Although the color additives
amendment to the Food, Drug
and Cosmetic Act requires
scientific proof of safety for all
color additives in food supply,
there is no such objective
scientific evidence that Red 2 is
safe for human consumption.
According to Sidney M. Wolfe
MD, the safe dosage level would
be 15 mg/kg of body weight
daily. This level of the dye in
food would allow a 110 lb
woman to ‘ drink about 2/3rds of
a can of soda daily. A child
would exceed the safe limit if he
drank more than half a can of
dyed soda.
hundred years off the quoted
figures.
The nearest tropical rain
forest is in Central America.
At least one "man-made
product" has an ecologically
decent rate of decay. It's man
himself.
The authority here is
Shakespeare's gravedigger:
HAMLET: How long will a
man lie in the earth ere he rot?
GRAVDGR: Why, if he be
not rotten before he dies, a
man'll last you nine or ten year .
. . A tanner'll last you ten year.
HAMLET: Why he longer
than another?
GRAVDGR: Why his hide is
tanned with the tools of his
trade and will keep out water a
long while . . .
So, it would appear that the
safest thing, ecologically
speaking, to leave on the forest
floor this weekend is---yourself.
Or on the other hand, why
leave anything?
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New Yorkers Fag Against War
(CPS) An open-ended fast
against the Vietnam war, which
began August 6, Hiroshima Day,
has resulted in a two-day series
of actions in Washington, D.C.
and New York City.
September 13, participants in
the fast marched from Lafayette
Park to the national office of the
Committee to Re-Elect the
President in Washington, D.C.,
holding empty rice bowls as a
symbol of the hungry and
war-tom Vietnamese people, and
held a vigil in front of
the headquarters.
September 15, the fasters held
a "service of war resistance" on
the steps of St. Patrick's
Cathedral, New York City,
having been denied use of the
church by Cardinal Cooke. The
service consisted of songs read
from the Bible, litanies and
speeches about war resistance.
The fast is in protest against
"any continuation of the war by
any method or for any reason."
The fasters are demanding an
end to United States bombing
and shelling in Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia; a firm date for
complete withdrawal of all
American military personnel
from Indochina; and an end to
all military and fmancial aid to
the Thieu government.
They are fasting in an appeal
to the American people to
respond to the crisis in
Indochina and to participate in
any actions that would reflect
their protest. They claim that
their fast is not a "gesture of
despair" but an act of "hope and
faith in the basic decency of the
American people."
According to Ted Glick, one
of the fasters and a defendant in
the Harrisburg 8 trial, it is very
important that American
students renew and continue
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their activities against the war.
"Now more than ever students
have a responsibility in this
critical time of war to do all
they can, to use their vote, to
conduct demonstrations and
sit-ins at Nixon headquarters,
and to educate other people so
that they know the reality of
war in Indochina."
The fast was begun by 14
people in New York City,
including David Dellinger;
Fathers Tom Lumpkin and Paul
Mayer, two Roman Catholic
priests; Anne Walsh, a campus
minister; two women under
indictment for the destruction
of draft files in Camden, New
Jersey; and several draft and war
resisters.
Seven of the fasters have
broken the water only fast and
are only taking liquids, and the
remaining seven plan to continue
fasting or to go on liquid diets at
least until the November
elections.
Eleven inmates from the
Danbury, Connecticut federal
prison also started a fast in
conjunction with the 14 New
Yorkers, and were then
transferred to a medical prison
in Springfield, Missouri. They
ended the fast after 30 days, and
are now awaiting further
transferral.
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