It has been over a month since the incident at TMI.
Campus life is back to rvormal, with the exception of a
few students who have dropped out or transfered
because of the potential danger of another nuclear
accident or radioactive emissions coming from the
power plant.
It is the prevailing opinion of the C.C. Reader staff
that the only good nuclear power plant is a dead one.
We feel that the TMI nuclear power plant should be
shut down permanently.
For this reason, the staff has allotted one page
worth of free advertising space to the Three Mile Island
Alert organization advertising this Sunday,s demon
stration and march on Washington.
The response from the university has not been
adequate. The administration feels (see Op-Ed page)
that research and study into the incident Is a solution
in itself. Though Individual faculty members have taken
some action and/or announced their opinions, the
faculty as a whole has not made a statement or acted in
response to the incident at TMI. And while some
individual students have taken action resulting from
their opinion on nuclear power plants (both pro and
The study, entitled “Risks
Associated with Nuclear Pow
er,” was financed by the
Department of Energy. It con
cluded that one person in every
1,000 develops cancer from the
combined effect of all radiation
sources. The report was based
on a four-year study.
The report also stated that
additional deaths will result
from the mining of radioactive
materials, their fabrication into
fuel elements, the release _of
small amounts of radioactive
materials into the atmosphere
and the transporting and re
and the transportation, repro
cessing and storage of nuclear
materials.
Other factors, such as a
ma jor accident in a power plant
or as yet unforeseen problems
with aging atomic plants would
also increase the incidence of
cancer the study said.
These findings are just one
more reason wny all nuclear
power plants should be closed
down. As the excellent article
published in your paper last
week by Ralph Nader stated:
“Nuclear power is a marginal
energy source, requiring enor
mous financial expense with
low reliability." It is also un
safe, unreliable, damaging to
the environment and expen
sive.
I urge all students, faculty,
Samuel Bookheimer administration members and
Senior Senator staff to go to Washington this
Social Science Sunday and help close down all
nuclear power plants. As a
KWer ran University community, we sh
* ould guide the rest of our
Editor: geographical area into making
. , the rignt decisions about ener-
According to an article m ™
the May 1, Philadelphia Inqu
irer, by the end of the 20th Steven Horowitz
century over 2,000 Americans
will die of cancer as a result of
the use ot nuclear energy, this
finding was originally reported
in a major National Academy of
Sciences study
editor
Thanb wfert
Editor:
I would like to thank the
student body for their support
in the recent student govern
ment elections. I hope, as your
representative in tne student
government, that we can work
together to improve the quality
of student life here at Capitol
Campus.
I must have your support
and ideas in order to make any
positive changes at our school. I
will establish office hours later
in thetermso that we can work
together during my tenure as
Senior Senator. Thank you a
gain for your support in the
recent election.
c.c. reader
of the mkkfietowii, penna. 17057
Pennsylvania state university office w-129
the capital campus phone [7l7] 944-4970
editor lyda baker business manager bob manley
feature editor sue girolami sports editor tony
gladfelter photography editor bob foster copy editor
louisa baskin type setter me cartoonist joe horvath
staff joan klein jeff drinnan gayle greenwald
adviser candy williams
the views expressed in this paper are not necessarily
those of the c.c. reader staff.
Leaders shirk
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C.C. Reader Opinion
Editor:
How low can you go?!! I
would liike to appeal to the
goodness (and there must be
some) of the person that so
wantonly removed two of my
plants from the window ledge
m the first floor lobby of the
Multi-Purpose Building!! Please
Return them!! They cannot
possibly hold any value to
someone else but to me they
were prized very highly.
During all
the years 1 have worked on this
campus, I can honestly say I
have never before had anything
disappear from our whole area!
So in
stead of wasting your precious
time on needles, senseless,
deeds, try spending it doing
something constructive! You
just may be amazed at how
much it will pay off for you!
This complete disre
gard for other people & prope
rty is impossible to understand.
So mucn time and effort is
spent trying to improve the
totla atmosphere on campus,
how can our labors be so
flagrantly ignored!!
The designated handicapp
ed parking area in front of the
Mam Building will be expanded
as a result of the increasing
enrollment of handicapped stu
dents at Capitol Campus.
The handicapped area will
now include most of the parking
spaces on the west end in front
of the Main Building. The
remainder of the spaces will be
designated for snort term
parking.
The visitor parking area will
<w be located in the first row
>st end) of the main lot
tind the Main Building.
con), the SGA, the representative body of the students
has been remarkably quiet.
Unfortunately, a formal study of the situation at
TMI is not enough. Action is needed to make sure that
TMI is never reopened, or depending on your opinion, if
reopened, reopened as a safely operating plant.
History has taught us that learned men can study a
problem and even reach correct .conclusions as to
solutions to these problems, but if these educated
people do not act on them, tragedy results. Anyone
familiar with the Bloomsbury Society in London, or
John F. Kennedy’s “Best and the Brightest” advisors
should know that.
The faculty, as our educational leaders should also
publicly announce their opinion on the TMI incident
and take a positive mode of action as a result. And so
should our student leaders at the SGA. As a campus
within five miles of the nuclear reactor, we should not
be silent.
A month has passed by since the incident at TMI,
and we’re still waiting for our leadership to respond.
We need to know.
To be silent is morally repungnant.
Step tfcitf
Ruth K. Arehart
Divided
we Stand
Giving a free, full-page advertisement (pg. 12
concerning the anti-nuclear power plant demonstration
in Washington D.C., Sunday May 6, was beyond the
responsibility of the C.C. Reader.
It is true that some newspapers, which are
supposedly objective, do slant to one side concerning
social problems or decisions, but their bias is due to
the fact that these newspapers are mostly privately
owned.
The C.C. Reader is not privately owned. It is a
student newspaper which operates under student and
public funding and doss not have the right to devote a
full page of free advertising to the issue of nuclear
power.
It is not fair to use student appropriations from SGA
funds for the emotional whims of our staff.
If the ad was a" paid advertisement, it would
obviously lessen the dependence of the C.C. Reader
upon SGA funds and aid the newspaper from going
into the hole, as it did last term.
The editor-in-cheif stated that the C.C. Reader
should “guide” the student body and indicated that the
majority of the student body is against the use of
nuclear power.
I think that the editor should take note of the lasi
issue’s artice entitled “Opinion at a Glance” and tally
the score of those students who felt safe and those
who felt threatened. The result is seven felt safe anC
two felt threatened.
Clearly the editor does not know the feelings of th<
student body and should not make a fool out of th<
newspaper and its staff by the free and biaser
anti-nuclear advertisement.
If some swaying must be done, let it be don*
subtly. A news article covering the demonstratior
would be all that is necessary to show the feelings oi
the newspaper, not advertising for free.
The memories of the C.C. Reader’s past antinucleai
issue is only turning the paper into a propaganda sheet
for the few on the staff who believe they speak foi
everyone.
Joseph A. Horvath
Cartoonist-C.C. Reader
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