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Capitol switches to metric
As you may already be
aware, beginning next term
Capitol Campus will follow the
trend set by several other
branch campuses and begin its
conversion to metric time.
Since Capitol has always been
in keeping with the times, it is
only natural that we begin the
switch as soon as practical. The
following is a condensed
explanation of the new system,
and is by no means compre
hensive. If you have further
questions, consult your advisor.
The basic units of time are
based on our current standard,
the day. Other units will be
changed as follows:
Old unit New unit
second milliday
minute centiday
hour deciday
week decaday
month hectoday
year kiloday
In keeping with the
metric system, there will now
be 10 decidays per day, 10
centidays per deciday, 10 milli
days per centiday and so on.
For convenience sake, the hec
todays of March and August
“A surprising fact I teamed:
Just about every lifeguard
you've ever seen has had Red
Cross safety training. To date.
Red Cross has issued over
65 million swimming and Iffe
saving certificates.
“Tnere's just ho telling how
many lives saved those hard
earned water safety certificates
represent. -
“Yet important as lifesaving
is, it's just one way Red Cross
serves our town.
“In towns antfcities across
the nation. Red Cross performs
scores of different services.
In some places. Red Cross pro
vides home health care for
senior citizens. In many places
they teach preparation for par
enthood. Red Crpsst'helps peo
ple relocate after fires. Ifeaches
health, safety, firs; aid. Helps
veterans. In fact, if it needs to
be done, chanCfcs'Are Red Cross
is doing it right now.
"Arid Red Cross could sure
use your help in getting it done
Call your Red Cross chapter
today - if you’re ready to help.
Thanks!”
Keep Red Cross ready.
by Gayle Greenwald
will be eliminated, as it was
found that nothing occurs dur
ing these hectodays anyway.
Birthdays and other events can
be found by a simple conversion
formula that will be included in
the revised Policies and
Rules for Students.
Class will now run 85 centi
days and the new schedule will
be as such:
Ist period 3:05 to 3:90
2nd. period . 4:95 to 4:80
3rd. period 4:85 tO 5:50
Time between classes will
be five centidays or 50 millidays
Classes will be held for six
consecutive days, allowing 2/5
of a decaday for the decaday
end. The term Thank goodness
it’s Friday’ will be replaced
with Thank goodness it’s the
sixth day of the decaday.’
Likewise, the expression ‘a
month of Sundays’ is obsolete,
and will now be ‘a hectoday of
Decadays.’
" Courses will be 2*/» decidays
apiece and a total of 4 decadays
will be requited to complete
your 2 kflodays at Capitol.
Grades will be distributed
every JA kiloday and you will be
allowed 1.5 hectodays to drop a
course, but only 40 decidays to
Dear Aunt Dorothy
Dear Aunt Dorothy:
My father is a machinist who was laid off by the
B-l bomber cancellation. Military cutbacks cost him
his job!
—Out in the Cold in California
Dear Out in the Cold in California:
Your father’s employer, Rockwell International,
was guaranteed total compensation for all expenses
and losses from the B-l cancellation. The workers got
the ax. It was another case of socialism for the rich and
“free market” for the workers. More jobs are created
by converting to non-military projects. But planning fe
necessary. Support a bill for conversion planning
presently in Congress (the Defense Economic Adjust
ment Act). Contact me or your congressional
representative for more information.
Dear Aunt Dorothy:
The Reader’s Digest says it’s high time to dig
deeper fallout shelters because the Russians are way
ahead of us in civil defense and are getting ready for a
first-strike. And President Carter wants plans to
evacuate our cities. What about it?
Dear Eighth Grade:
Dig a deep bate aad bury all your Digests. They
use their own writers far scare artktes to keep up the
arms race, Oar own National Security Ceaacfl says
that Idl sdlliMi Americana wil die te a aactear war.
Beth countries weald ha destroyed. The Rmwteter da
have a dril defease frsgraa hat It is daw staaiditv
aad went work. MayhTthey have heea reJSSiE
Reader's Digest. RasahuM have richaacaed thsir
program “grab," which mesas “ee«a." those Is ae
dafsase against aactear weapons. Write President
Carter aad teH him ae.
Confidential te Wanted te Wisesaate:
rd be worried tee chant the ■**»»«■ of gottteg
raped te the “Wsmea’s Army"! Dent depend ea the
castas recruiter te tell yea everything. Rape te eae of
the fastest growing crisms te the mUtairy, la the
wards of one enlistee: These gays thtek the
servicewomen are here to service them.” Aad yin
thought all the macho men were te the fraternities!
Send your heartfelt questions on politics, the military
and nuclear issues to: Aunt Dorothy, c/o Fellowship of
Reconciliation, Box 271, Nyack, N.Y. 10960.
add. Students will be excused
for 300 centidays to adjust to
the new schedule.
The C.C. Reader will be
published twice hectodaily. For
safety reasons, you may wish to
remember that the speed limit
in the Heights will now be 18
kpd or 18 kilometers per deci
day.
To further simplify things,
instructors will also convert to
the new system. Sick leave wil 1
be based on 45 centidays per
deciday worked and annual
leave will be accumulated at the
rate of one deciday per hecto
day, except for leapkiloday,
when it will be computed as 600
millidays for every kiloday of
tenure. The head of every de
partment will be required to
spend 4.5 decidays per hecto
dayto keep track of their sub
ordinates, except for the En
gineering department because
they are already familiar with
the business of metric conver
sion.
It is estimated that this new
system will greatly improve the
efficiency of the campus by the
end of the third kiloday, when
everyone has either graduated,
retired, or resigned.
—Eighth Grade Reader
CMS
It’s no sac rat to some people,
but the government isn’t telling us
that building nuclear weapons
is hazardous to our health.
Residents of Utah and Nevada
living downwind of A-bomb test sites
are getting cancer.
People living near the Rocky Flats
weapons plant In Colorado are getting
higher rates of cancer.
Workers at the Hanford, Washington
Nuclear Reservation have Increased
levels of cancer,
The more bomba we build,
the more radiation exposure
and chance of: increased cancer rates.
Support a moratorium on nuclear weapons.
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