Addresses faculty not students
Provost responds to editorial
Editor’s note: The following editorial is in response to
the student newspaper’s editorial “The Silence” which
was printed in the last issue of the C.C. Reader. This
editorial by the Provost is reprinted from “This Week,”
a faculty-staff oriented newsletter. “This Week“ is not
circulated among the student body.
Dear Colleagues 9
It has been several weeks since the Three Mile
Island incident occurred. In a recent editorial of the
C.C. Reader, entitled “The Silence,” a challenge is
posed to the “University Administration” that I think is
particularly pertinent: “We need leadership from the
university, not silence. We need to know.”
What is the appropriate response of an istitution of
higher learning to the nuclear accident that took place
at Three Mile Island? More precisely, what should be
the response if the institution is within the five-mile
radius of the , nuclear reactor? The faculty and
administration are expressing themselves in at least
five ways that seem appropriate to me.
1. After considerable discussion as to the most
useful service that we, as citizens of a university and
this community, might serve, we have decided to
establish a Research Information Clearinghouse for the
Three Mile island Incident. Dr. zrobert Munzenrider
(The Masters Program in Public Administration) has
agreed to be Acting Director. The following is our draft
statement of the scope and purposes of this clearing
house: .
The Capitol Campus, an upper-division under
graduate and graduate center of the Pennsylvania State
University, has established a Research Information
Clearinghouse for the Three Mile Island nuclear
incident that began at Middletown, Pennsylvania,
March 28, 1979.
Located in Middletown, Pennsylvania, the Re
search Information Clearinghouse will collate all data
pertinet to the impact of this nuclear event: current and
future research, oral history studies, and short and
long term projects. The clearinghouse at the Capitol
Campus will serve future scientific, social, and
humanistic interests of individuals and groups con
cerned with the Three Mile Island* nuclear incident and
will perform the following functions:
1. Assemble, maintain, and update information
on all studies concerning the Three Mile Island incident
and its aftermath.
2. Develop a library of pertinent research reports
and documents.
3. Make this information available to researchers
and to funding agencies through published bibliogra
phies and a periodic newsletter.
4. Develop, under appropriate contracts, ad
ditional data-gathering, processing and disseminating
capabilities.
5. Provide a temporary base of operations,
insofar as space and facilities are available, for
researchers associated with the University directly or
through funded projects.
6. Function as a forum for seminars, confer
ences, and training sessions on pertinent topics.
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The April 19th issue of the
C.G. Reader reported a possible
refund to on-campus students
for services unavailable during
the TMI emergency.
fir. Jerry South, Director of
Student Affairs, reports no fi-
nal decision has yet been re
ached by the administration at
University Park on this ques
tion.
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On Saturday, May 5,1979 a
forum focusing on sexual har
assment on the job will be held
at the Rose Herman Lehrman
Arts Center Auditorium, Har
The Capitol Campus of the Pennsylvania State
University recognizes that the Three Mile Island
incident is an event of major significance in the history
of nuclear energy. The Capitol Campus realizes that
studies will be developed to measure the impact of the
incident on the physical and genetic health of local
residents as well as on their mental health and on the
economy of the region; the role of the media in
reporting the incident; the civil emergency procedures
for necessary evacuation of a large metropolitan
community in times of crises; and the nation’s public
policy concerning nuclear energy. The Capitol Campus
acknowledges that the region it serves has become a
“living laboratory” for the age of nuclear energy.
As an institution committed to the gathering and
dissemination of knowledge and as the only graduate
center in the vicinity of the Three Mile Island nuclear
power plant, the Capitol Campus recognizes its special
obligation to the Greater Harrisburg Area, the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, and the nation. The TMI
Research Information Clearinghouse, which will initi
ally be housed in the Institute for State and Regional
Affairs, invites all concerned scholars and citizens to
toward information concerning short and long term
research projects to the following address;
risburg Area Community Col
lege. The time will be from 1:00
to 4:00 p.m..
Admission is free. The pri
mary speaker will be author
Lin Parley, writer of the book,
“Sexual Shakedown.”
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A blood pressure control
program will be conducted by
Dr. Robert Munzenrider, Acting Director
The TMI Research Information Clearinghouse
The Capitol Campus
Pennsylvania State University
Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057
We are presently seeking funding for the Research
Information Clearinghouse.
2. The second activity underway is a proposal for
the series of forums, seminars, conferences and
lectures that will explore the meaning of the Three Mile
Island incident. Nationally-known figures from differ
ent walks of life—nuclear physicists and engineers,
medical researchers, economists, journalists, social
scientists, and humanistic thinkers-will be invited to
comment and analyze the Three Mile Island incident.
Professors Robert Brassier (Social Sciences) and Eton
Churchill (Humanities) are co-chairing these events
and hope to publish the proceedings in a document
tentatively entitled The Three Mile Island Papers.
3. The Capitol Campus is exercising the leadership
role in bringing together researchers from various
colleges in this general area: Elizabethtown, Dick
inson, Franklin and Marshall, Lebanon Valley. Duane
Shuttlesworth (Social Sciences) will be co-ordinating
efforts to develop a major grant proposal.
4. We hope to attract a well-known commencement
speaker who will address the issues raised by the Three
Mile Island incident.
5. We will be welcoming the community to use our
facilities for a program specifically devoted to the
Three Mile Island incident. Together with local
residents, we will be addressing ourselves to the
incident and expressing our views about the future of
the nuclear reactor.
I welcome the challenge that the editors of the C.C.
Reader have issued and I think that all of us,
administrators, students, and faculty-should respond.
I trust that in one of the five activities listed above, we
will find the response that is appropriate to each of us.
Sincerely,
Theodore L. Gross
Provost, PSU Capitol Campus
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This service is free to all
students, faculty and staff. In
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