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Beards, Blinders, Martians
A male’s harrassing
glance at a female is a
horrendous crime and ser
ious measures should be tak
en to prevent this.
There has been much
concern over this matter la
tely. In response to this
growing crime, a modest
proposal has been drawn up.
The plan calls for having a
Samantha Spade type detec
tive, equipped with trench
coat, pen and notebook;
monitoring the halls of col
leges and places of business,
watching for a lusty glance to
Metric on the March
No doubt, most Americans have encountered metric measurements
alongside conventional measurements during the last few years.
Current temperature readings are given Celsius and fahrenheit on the
bank sign outside the Olston Plaza, distances to places are given in
kilometers and miles along the turnpike, liquid containers list liters and
milliliters as well as quarts and ounces and weight measurements on
food items are given in kilograms and grams plus pounds and ounces.
What’s this all about?
The United States is in a transitional stage from the English system of
measurement to metric.
The metric system works on the decimal system -- a system using
increments of ten. A kilogram is a thousand grams, centigram is a
hundred grams and a decagram is ten grams.
A decigram is one tenth of a gram and so on. These prefixes of ten
apply also to liquid and linear metric measurements.
Working in increments of ten makes mathematics simpler. If one
wants to compare a 2.2 kilogram can with six 394 gram cans as to total
weight, on would simply multiply 400 by six, six times six, then subtract
36 from 2,400 to get 2,364 grams, or 2.364 kilograms.
Nuclear Wastes River
There is no radiation con
tamination in Capitol Cam
pus’ water, according to wa
ter officals.
Capitol Campus water
comes from a company lo
cated at the Harrisburg Inter
national Airport, explained J.
Russell Rorabaugh, Manager
of Maintenance and Utilities .
at Capitol.
Rorabaugh said that Cap
itol Campus merely pur
chases the water while the
water company is responsible
for testing it. Capitol Campus
, however, tests the water
when there is a complaint
about it.
Louis Hale, water plant
operator at the company the
campus buys its water, said
that the well water they sell
was tested shortly after the
TMI accident and had no
problem with radioactivity.
The first meeting of the Provost’s Advisory committee on Student
Welfare will be held on Monday June 11 at 1:30 p.m. in the Gallery
Lounge.
Students are encouraged to attend. Anyone wishing to place an item
on the agenda for discussion should contact Mike Sheldon, SGA president
or Jerry South, Dean of Student Affairs.
PROJECT HEOPUNE will be closed for the rest of the term. It will reopen
in September for the 1979-80 school year. If interested in becoming a
volunteer please call Kathy Strakosch at 944-9277.
be thrown upon some poor
unsuspecting female.
The flagrant misuse of
eyes is far reaching. Even the
president of the United States
has confessed to committing
this hideous act. This is
worse than Watergate! Jim
my Carter should be indicted!
The public is urged to support
the "Stop That Smile" bill
which is now before con
gress.
Appropriate protection
must be provided. Victims of
this crime have no way of
dealing with the situation.
by jeff drinnan
Hale said the wells have
an average depth of 400 feet.
This fact along with the wells
location up river are reasons
the likelihood of contamina
tion is not too great if radio
active water is dumped into
the Susquehanna.
Geologists believe that
water from areas far away
from a well may reach it by
being carried along an under
ground route. This migrating
water is known as groundwa
ter.
Alan Gier, offical for the
Pennsylvania Department of
Topographical and Geolog
ical Survey, said that to find
the source of.the wells water
would involve much data and
surveying of area. However,
he said that the jpossibility of
groundwater from the Sus
quehanna reaching the wells
is very remote.
by jeff drinnan
They are unlike most bearded
persons who take the law into
their own hands.
On one occasion, a
bearded student was leaning
against a wall inside a college
talking to a bearded profes
sor. A group of non-bearded
students approached. A few
of them glanced at their
I beards, giggled, and made
nasty remarks. One of them
said “the Smith Brothers, the
legendary founders of cough
medicine, choked to death.”
Upon hearing this, a
young bearded student pulled
by jeff drinnan
The main problem with metric is in making the transition. Some
people just want to keep using the English system.
Parents of preschool children complain that they won’t be able to
help their kids with homework.
Some people in America have been using the metric system all
along. Chemists use metric because of its efficiency in he I ping them
simplify complex problems. For them metric involves less steps in
working mathematical formulas.
One chemist told me that the English system of measurement is
"very inefficient, indubiatably extraneous, not at all logical, and further
more, it stinks!”
Ben Franklin, who published Poor Richard’s Almanac’, which
contained practical ideas for eveyday life and who was a scientist, was
pro-metric.
The United States and England are the only countries in the world not
using metric, one metric equivalent given alongside of convertional
measurements is a step to familiarize the general public with the nearly
universal system of measurement to which the U.S. may someday
convert.
Gier said the wells would
have to be “right on the
river’s edge” for this to hap
pen. He said the higher
elevation of the area around
the well and the well's depth
also make contamination re
mote.
Ray Urciuolo, Radiation
health Physicist for the Bur
eau of Radiological health,
said the radiation dispersed
in the air over top of the land
above the well shouldn’t have
seeped into the well and
wouldn't latently. He ex
plained that noble gasses
emitted during theTMl ac-'
cident don’t interact biologi
cally and that radioisotopes
with short half-lives such as
iodine (which decreases its
radioactivity 100 percent in
eight days) wouldn’t migrate
into the wells.
out a gun and defended
himself by shooting alt in
volved and all witnesses. He
and the professor then yelled
at the top of their lungs,
“death to all tyrants!”
The dangers of being
gazed upon, even for a mo
ment, may be severe. The
gazer may be an alien from
outer space bent on hypno
tizing an earthling so as to
take over the world. Behind a
pair of sunglasses may very
well be the mesmerizing eyes
of a martian!
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Something definitely must
be done to curtail harrass
ment in our land. As the
adage goes, "A gram of
prevention is worth a kilo
gram of cure.”
To circumvent those co
vert and overt looks at the
human anatomy, a law to
have people wear blinders in
public places should be
passed. Only when it is safe
to walk in public without
being visually abused is the
canon “with malice towards
none” justified.
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