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Special 1974 Summer Term
Course For Those Concerned
About Energy Problem
ET 498 "Introduction to
Energy Sources"
Prerequisites: None. This
course is designed for those with
and without a science or
engineering background.
Class - 3rd period M, T, W,
Th, F (8 weeks)
Instructor - Assistant
Professor C. P. Hary.
Text: ENERGY, ELECTRIC
POWER AND MAN, by
Timothy J. Healy.
The following is a quote from
the Preface of the text:
"At approximately 5:16 p.m.
on November '9, 1965, in a
power station in Ontario,
Canada, a protective relay
opened to disconnect a
transmission line carrying
electric power to Toronto. This
triggered a complex sequence of
overloads and line disruptions
which darkened neighboring
regions within seconds. Within
about twelve minutes 80,000
square miles and thirty million
people in the United States and
Canada were blacked out. The
outage lasted from a few
moments to over thirteen hours.
Elevators and subways in New
York stopped; air-traffic control
systems failed; some hospitals
lost power. Suddenly people
learned what it meant to live
without electric power. Some
by candlelight, read forgotten
books, and went to bed cold.
The occasion inspired a number
of jokes; a persistent but
probably incorrect rumor that
nine months later there was an
abrupt rise in the birth rate, and
a movie "Where Were You When
The Lights Went Out?" starring
Doris Day and Robert Morse.
Five years later and 3,000
miles away, on a Sunday in the
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The Placement Center
Newsletter will be incorporating
information about summer job
opportunities, etc.
Juniors are asked to pick up
and review copies of this
informative bi-weekly
publication.
Copies are regularly
distributed via the Roundtable
and the racks at entrances to the
main building.
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summer of 1970, 2,500 people
met in a remote valley of
southern British Columbia to
protest the proposed flooding of
the valley by a hydro-electric
project. They picnicked; they
listened to speeches against the
project, and they heard a protest
song written about that valley -
Skagit Valley - by the noted
folksinger and composer Malvina
Reynolds.
How is a protest in a remote
canyon in British Columbia
related to a blackout in New
York? For the student of
today's problems, they
dramatize the dilemma which is
the subject of this book; man's
need for energy, as opposed to
the problems associated with
generating and using that energy,
as opposed to the problems
associated with generating and
using that energy. Man has
succeeded, perhaps too well, in
"taming nature," and he has
come to realize that he must ask
not only what he wants but
what it really costs as well."
The Energy Crisis, what is it?
Why is it? How can it be
avoided? The above questions
have been repeatedly asked in
news broadcasts, committe
meetings, newspapers, seminars,
etc. This course will attempt to
explain all of the questions by
looking at fossil-fuel electric
power plants, atomic fission
power plants, geothermal power,
tidal power, solar power, nuclear
fusion, waste heat, and energy
resources.
This course will not be a
problem solving course per se.
There will be some basic
problems illustrating the
principles involved. It will be
conducted under a
lecture/discussion format.
C.C. READER
MUSIC
Ida Briscoe, soprano
accompanied, by Mary Fendrich
will give a song recital on
Thursday, May 23, at 2 p.m. in
the Main Building Auditorium.
Miss Briscoe ( married to
Nicolas Gressis a faculty member
in Finance) is the daughter of
the Lord Mayor of Dublin and
studied in Ireland (Royal Irish
Academy, bublin) Italy (St.
Cecilia Academy in Rome), and
also in Greece (Academy of
Music, Athens). She has
appeared in leading opera houses
in Rome, Naples, Athens and
Dublin and has performed for
radio and television in the
United States as well as Italy,
Greece, and Ireland. She has
appeared in concert at
Pennsylvania State University at
University Park, Shippensburg
State College and in New York.
Mary Fendrich is a student at
the Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, New York. She has
performed as a soloist with the
Harrisburg Symphony concert in
"This is Jazz," December '7l
and also as a soloist with the
Harrisburg Youth Symphony,
May '72. Miss Fendrich served as
musical accompanist for Cedar
Cliff musical productions and
C umberland County chorus
productions. Presently, she is
pianist for the East Pennsboro
production of "My Fair Lady,"
and also a student of Merl
Freeland of Lebanon.
The program will include
songs from Madam Butterfly and
the works of such diverse
composers as Bassani, Mozart,
Puccini, Verdi, and Mascagni.
Also Irish folk songs from the
Bunting Collection, Yorkston
and Weatherly.
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A Threat of War
Although the threat of war
has declined slightly, the
Sino-Soviet frontier is still the
most dangerous area of the
world today in the view of a
Soviet expert recently returned
from The Peoples Republic of
China.
"The Chinese leadership
honestly seems to believe the
Soviets will attack them and
they have convinced large
numbers of their people of the
reality of this threat," continues
Dr. Aspaturian who heads the
University's Slavic and Soviet
Language and Area Center.
The Chinese, he found, look
on Russia as one of the coterie
of imperialist 'Western powers
who have dismembered and
humiliated them for centuries.
As as result of what they regard
as illegitimate Russian
aggression, they currently lay
claim to 500,000 square miles of
Russian territory.
The Russians, on the other
hand, remember the
Mongol-Tartar conquerors from
the East, and to them, Mao
Tse-tung is Genghis Khan with a
hammer and sickle.
"The danger of war has
decreased, however," Dr.
Aspaturian points out, "because
China now has enough nuclear
weapons to protect herself. The
other factor is that the U.S. has
sought a moderating role rather
than trying to play off one side
against another.
"But Watergate has moved
Sino-Soviet relations into a
period of uncertainty," Dr.
Aspaturian warned. "If we are
paralyzed and unable to make
serious decisions ir. a time of
crisis, it is more likely to
increase the risk of war between
China and Russia."
COUNCELING CENTER NEWS
New Test Study Guides
The Counseling Center has
recently acquired new study
guides for test preparation for
the Graduate Record
Examination, the Law School
Admissions Test, the Miller
Analogy Test and the
College-Level Examination
Program (CLEP). These study
guides have been prepared by
the Barron's Educational Series,
Please be advised that if you
wish to take the first Fall, 1974,
test administration of the
Graduate Record Examinations,
the Admissions Test for
Graduate Study in Business, the
Law School Admissions Test,
the National Teachers
Examinations, the Test of
English as a Foreign Language
and/or any other test required
for graduate school admissions,
you should contact the
Counseling Center on or about
Monday, September 2, 1974 for
registration applications for
these examinations. Educational
Test Dates To
Remember
The following testing and registration dates for Graduate School
examinations will be the last dates for the academic year 1973-1974.
Applications for these examinations, as well as study guides for some
of these tests, are available from the Counseling Center, W-117.
GRADUATE RECORD
EXAMINATION (GRE'S)
LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS 7/27/74
TEST (LSAT'S)
STUDY IN BUSINESS
(ATGSB)
NATIONAL TEACHERS 7/20/74 6/27/74
EXAMINATION ( NTE'S)
COLLEGE OF PODIATRY 6/22/74
ADMISSIONS TEST (CPAT)
Miller Analogy Tests (MAT'S) are administered daily,
by appointment, in the Counseling Center, W-117.
On or about September 2. wish to take.
1974, you can contact the lb, Miller Analogy Tests are not
Counseling Center either by administered by the Educational
calling 717-787-7757 (or 7733) Testing Service. The MAT's are
or by writing directly to administered daily, by
Educational Testing Services, appointment, in the Counseling
Princeton, New Jersey 08540, Center Office, W-117. This test
and request the registration will be administered throughout
packet for the examination you the summer
May 16, 1974
Inc. and include helpful hints for
taking these tests as well as
simulation tests for practicing
skills.
These books are available in
addition to the ARCO Study
Guides already in service in the
Counseling Center Library and
are available to students on a
two-week loan basis.
Attention Juniors!!
Testing Service has not yet
announced the date of the first
Fall administration of these
examinations, but since the
arrival date for students for the
Fall term will be September 28,
1974 it is quite possible and
more than likely that several of
the registration dates for the
October and November 1974
administrations of these tests
may have passes by the time you
return to school and you might
miss an opportunity to take
these examinations and have to
wait for the December, 1974,
January or February, 1975
administration dates.
Final
Test Date Penalty Date Closing
6/15/74 5/21/74 5/28/74
7/13/74
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7/5/74
6/21/74
7/3/74
6/5/74
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