pennState
Harrisburg
CAPITAL TIMES
Vol. 26, No. 1
Billboard on Route 322
The name game
College name debated
Karen M. Putt
Capital Times Staff
Signs on Route 283 call us "Penn
State at Harrisburg." Billboards
celebrating our 25th anniversary label us
as "Penn State Harrisburg." And the
sign out front says "The Pennsylvania
State University-Harrisburg." So what
is the name of this place anyway?
Well, all of them are wrong to one
degree or another. The signs on the
highway are far from correct, but you
have to figure Penn D.O.T. had to
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Like most people across the state,
Penn State Harrisburg is doing its best
to conserve during the state-wide drought
emergency.
"We’re following the guidelines of
the governor's proclamation," said Ed
Dankanich, manager of facilities and
maintenance operations. "We've
eliminated lawn watering and car
washing."
Water used for cooling purposes in
the laboraties has also been cut wherever
possible, Dankanich said.
Under the drought emergency
guidelines, watering newly planted
shrubbery is allowed, but Dankanich said
his staff has not done much new
planting this summer. In addition, the
maintenance staff has been able to pick
up mowing again because the lawn has
"come back" due to recent downpours, he
said.
Besides replenishing the lawn, the
shorten the name or it never would have
fit on a sign. But it does say what we
are and where we are, sort of. We are a
Penn State college, but we’re not really
located IN Harrisburg.
The sign out front also clearly
identifies us as being Penn State and
located at Harrisburg, but it's not 100
percent correct either. According to
Ruth Leventhal, provost and dean of the
college, the sign out front should read
"The Pennsylvania State University at
faces water
restrictions
occasional downpours don't provide
much relief.
"We need a steady soaking rain,"
Dankanich said. "Because of the run-off
the downpours don't do much good
restoring the groundwells.”
Besides maintenance, Food Services
has also managed to conserve water by
waiting for full loads before running the
dishwashers, using buckets with water to
scrub the serving area rather than the
sprayers, and not continuously running
water in the sinks, Food Services
Manager Joanne Coleman said.
University Park has even gotten into
the act by sending out pointers on water
conservation for students.
Some of the suggestions include:
keeping showers to a minimum, not
letting the water run while brushing
your teeth or performing a similar task,
and reporting all dripping faucets and
water leaks to the campus housing
department.
Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg
Photo by John Rudy
See Name, page 11
Poor organization
causes coup failure
T.J. Brightman
Capital Times Staff
In the eyes of many Westerners in
the world it might appear that democracy
has once again triumphed Qver the evil,
rearing head of communism, as seen in
the recent turn of events in the Soviet
Union. But as one Penn State
Harrisburg professor sees it, the right
wing coup plotters just might not have
"thought things through clearly," and is
the reason why their attempt to fully
take over the Soviet government failed.
"These are people living in the past,"
"There's no love for these people [right
wing opposition]. They would have had to
act more decisively and with greater military
clout to succeed."
said Carol Nechemias, associate
professor of public policy, just
moments after the coup was stopped and
Gorbachev was placed back in power.
"They tried to use material appeals to
gain the support of the Soviet people."
TMI drains reactor water
Three Mile Island's Unit 2 has begun
draining water from the reactor vessel in
preparation for monitored storage.
Engineers have pumped 47,500 of
approximately 52,000 gallons of water
from the vessel and have completed 11
of 18 measurements. The work is
expected to be completed in September.
The water is being drained in nine
stages. At each water level hold point,
eqipment is positioned in the vessel to
measure neutrons emitted by fuel lodged
in nooks and crannies of the vessel.
"The neutron counts will provide a
clearer, more accurate picture of the
small amount of fuel remaining," said
TMI-2 engineer Mahmound Haghighi.
Two days of measurements are taken
at a hold point, then the water level is
August 26, 1991
Nechemias, who returned from the
Soviet Union two weeks ago where she
was conducting research at the country's
first center for Women's Studies, said the
true victor in all of this was Russian
President Boris Yeltsin.
"He is not only a winner in the eyes
of the Moscovites, but in the minds of
many Westerners as well," she said.
"Gorbachev has a big problem: he owes
a lot to Yeltsin."
Nechemias said the real test now will
be whether or not Gorbachev shows "real
guts and power by cleaning house" and
doing away with those associated with
the right-wing. She also added that
Gorbachev's power structure would now
be compromised or diminished by a
seemingly popular Boris Yeltsin.
See Soviet Union, page 2
lowered to the next hold point and two
more days of measurements are taken at
the first location. Then the detector is
lowered to the new water level and the
process repeated.
The water pumped from the vessel
goes into indoor holding tanks. It will
eventually be processed and evaporated as
part of the 2.3 million gallons of
accident-related water currently being
evaporated.
Video inspections in 1990 helped
engineers estimate that less than 1
percent of the original fuel remained in
the vessel.
The information from the neutron
measurements will be submitted to the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.