Volume 49 No. 2 Cciober 7. 2009 Vegetarians at PSU-Harrisburg unite for more options See Page 6 for details Club Spotlight Capital Alliance highlights on page 11 Parking Permits on Wharton Hear both sides of the debate on page 11 Zombies Return! Get the gory details on The latest #1 blockbuster ‘Zombieland’ on page 14 Campus Sport Updates Women’s soccer upholds a perfect record while men’s soccer suffers a dramatic defeat. Read it on Page 15. Gun Control in PA Hear what locals and other Americans are saying about perceived threats to their guns on page 5 Index: News Opinion Campus Life Entertainment .... Sports ...... Police, Calendar The By Allison Mills Assistant Editor MXA932@psu.edu Students and community members filed into of the Capital Union Building at Penn State Harrisburg Tuesday night. The crowded room was filled with people ready to hear Alina Fernandez Revuelta speak about her experience as a daughter of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Attendee Adrienne Hodson, a sophomore majoring in public policy, was not there because of a class requirement. “I came willingly,” she said. “I was just really excited that Penn State Harrisburg got someone so well known to come to campus.” Hodson sat with Zachary Dixon, a 2008 PSH alumnus. Dixon said he’d read about Fernandez before but thought it’d be neat to hear her tell her own story. Introduced at 7:15 p.m., Fernandez began by evoking laughter from the audience when she placed her water bottle on the podium and suggested it was vodka. She moved onto more serious matters when she explained that her name. “Revuelta” was her mother’s maiden name, and “Fernandez” came from her mother’s husband New TMI generator turns a short trip into a long journey By Jenna DeNoyelles Editor in chief JHDSO3S@PSU.EDU Replacements for the steam generators at Three Mile Island finally arrived on Sept. 30. after travelingover4,ooomilesby cargo ship aicross the Atlantic Ocean from France and another 75 miles from Port Deposit, Md., to the ....8-9 .10-13 ,14-15 1647 lB Capital Ti Castro’s daughter brings tale of revolution, escape who she knew as her father for ten years. “Even if my last name is Fernandez, I am still the daughter of Fidel Castro,” Fernandez said before she launched into the love stray of Castro and her mother, Natalia Revuelta. Revuelta met Castro when she was actively involved in the revolution. “There is nothing like a common political cause to bring people together,” TMI facility in Middletown, Pa. Once in Port Deposit, Md., the 70 ft. tall, 510-ton steam generators traveled at an average speed of three miles per hour using a specially designed, technologically advanced flatbed transporter, called a self-propelled modular transporter, according to the Fall 2009 community update. The eight-week trip began in the location where the steam generators were manufactured, the Chalon/St-Marcel facility in France. They also arrived on time and safely having traveled through four counties and 17 muoicjpalities in Maryland and Pennsylvania before arriving at TMI, according to a press release mes she remarked. Alina Fernandez Revuelta was . bom in 1956, and three years later, she can remember watching cartoons before they disappeared from the television screen. According to Fernandez, they were replaced with hairy men shouting, “Viva Cuba fibre!” which translates to “Long live free Cuba!” When Fernandez was 10, after on Oct 2 by Areva NP Inc., the manufactures of the steam generators. The steam generators that were transported contained no radioactive materials and are just replacement components. The steam generators are similar to gigantic double boilers, according to the Areva NP Inc., Web Site. The replacement of the steam generators is a $3OO investment and is part of the plan to operate TMI into the future according to Three Mile Island Site Vice President, William Noll, in the Exelon Nuclear Fall 2009 community update. According to the Fall 2009 community update, the service her father from whom she derived her name fled Cuba, her mother told her that Castro was her real father. It was then that she met “the top hairy man himself.” From then on, Castro would “jump from the screen to the living room just like that,” said Fernandez. That night marked “the beginning of the endless revolution” for her. Please see DAUGHTER on page 5 fife ofthe current steam generators are ending and will be removed from the reactor building by a crane. They are to be moved on to a flatbed transporter to a storage building made of concrete and steel. The new steam generators will be lifted in and out by use of a crane by an opening that will be made in the reactor building. The opening will be made from a high water pressure used to remove the concrete on the reactor building wall. “The opening will occur after the fuel has been removed from Please see TMI on page 4
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