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1137 MATT BENSON
dhily Collegian Staff Writer
i One of Penn State's most popular
`branch campuses" is actually an island
in the sun. .
The Wallops Island Marine Science
Program allows about 50 students to live
and work at the Marine Science Con
sktium in Wallops, Va.. .
;;The consortium is located on the
i mtsstern shore of Chincoteague Bay, 50
miles south of Ocean City, Md.
The courses taught at this marshy
Atlantic shoreline location include:
Methods in Oceanography (Engineering
200), Costal Geology 445 and Coastal
Biology 482. Each course is worth four
cedits
pf the students that participate in the
program, some are interested in the
Marine sciences professionally, but
"most see it as an opportunity to get
,involved in a quite different type of
eacational experience," said Albert
Snow Shoe landfill gets. Centre County's garbage
By MOLLY HERRING
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Filling in ugly strip mine gullies with
~overabundant solid waste provides an ironic
environmental benefit similar to killing two
birds with one stone.
g - prullies carved from strip mining near Snow
Shoe in Centre County will someday be filled and
given a facelift, thanks to the Centre County
Solid Waste Authority's landfill operation there.
Solid Waste Authority Manager Don Smith
said the Authority is permitted to fill, with
alternate layers of solid waste and soil, a 100-
awe, 30 to 35 foot deep pit left over from surface
c coal mining.
,lmith said the landfill was chosen because "it
was a strip mine that could be reclaimed."
"It is also one of the areas where the soil could
134 approved by the state Department of
Environmental Resources," Smith said. "DER
won't approve all soils," he said.
According to Smith, almost any solid waste
Oh be put in the Snow Shoe landfill.
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Guber, a faculty member of the Geology
Department and professor in charge of
the program.
Guber said the program is not
designed to meet the needs of those
going into marine science, but is more of•
an unusual experience. Only about 10 per
cent of the students involved are in
marine science, he said.
The Wallops Program is not limited to
students in particular majors. All that is
necessary to enroll in the program is at
least a sixth term standing, a fairly good
grade average and an interest in the
marine sciences.
The area is isolated and leisure ac
tivities are left up to the individual
imagination. The town of Chincoteague
is 10 miles away and offers little in the
way of entertainment. However,
Wallops is located in a wildlife refuge
and the area's fishing is excellent.
The social circle and academic circle
are one and the same, Guber said.
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SANDWICH
Good at both locations:
111 Sowers St.
400 W. College Ave.
offer valid Nov. 8 only
Wallops: Texts and tan
picked up from household waste, anything from
the garbage bags set along the street," Smith
said. "We get brush, old furniture, water
heaters, washers, dryers, stoves, even
refrigerators," he said
About 186 tons of solid waste per (f l ay (Sep
tember's average) gets hauled to Snow Shoe by
tractor trailor, Smith said.
Only about 16 of the pit's 35 feet are actually
filled with waste, he said. The first 11 feet must
be a layer of DER-approved soil, then a layer of
waste, then soil, and so forth until the pit is filled,
Smith said.
"Each day everything that is taken there is put
in a cell(a smaller division of the landfill pit) and
compacted," Smith said. "In the evening
everything is completely covered with soil. Then
the next day we start right at the edge of that,"
he said.
Smith said that his method, allows the land
pitted by strip mining to be restored to its
original contour.
The landfill area "will be covered and
vegetation will be planted," Smith said. Then,
Students have to depend on each other
for individual interaction and
cooperation.
"Life at Wallops is one big com
promise," Guber said.
Brian Dade (10th-earth science) said
the type of social interaction is like that
found in a small, close-knit community
with everyone working towards the
same goal.
"The work was hard and sometimes
frustrating, but I learned a lot About
myself and the scientific method," Dade
said.
Dade said he didn't miss anything
about University Park during his stay at
Wallops.
"Wallops spoiled me," he said. "I had
a hard time adjusting again to life at
Penn State. I wondered just how
relevant work here is."
The cost of tuition for Spring Term at
Wallops is the same as at University
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"DER will specify what they want put on that
land. They tell you what you can do and what you
cannon do," he said.
Environmentally, the Snow Shoe landfill is
much better than the former dump on N.
Atherton Street, Eco-Action President Theresa
Kerchner (10th-environmental resource
management) said. The former dump was
inadequate for the area's development, she said.
Smith 'also said the dump did not comply with
the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Act of the early
'7os.
Kerchner said using the landfill is "burying a
problem so we don't have to think about it,"
adding, "but the actual operation of the landfill
is really sound."
Kerchner said most people believe that "All
garbage has a place to go." She said, "People
don't think solid waste is a very big problem.
There is no thought that we may ever run out of
space to put our garbage.
"The landfill itself is fine it's a great en
vironmental project," she said. "It's so far out
offer valid Nov. 8 only
Park. Room, board and operation cost
for the stay at the Consortium will be
about $625. Books are the only additional
cost.
Applications for Spring Term 1978 at
Wallops Island are available in 540 Deike
Building and are due by Dec. 9. Selec
tions will be made during Christmas
break and announced Jan. 9, 1978.
This past Spring Term 55 out of 120
applicants were chosen.
Lodging is dormitory style in the
barracks of the former Naval Air Station
and meals are served in the cafeteria.
The University is one of 19 colleges
that owns and operates the Consortium.
Penn State joined in 1971 and pays a
share towards upkeep of the facilities.
"It isn't fun in the surf, sun and sand,"
Guber said. "Most students say they've
never worked so hard, but the majority
discover they can do a lot more than they
thought they could do."
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The Associated Student Affairs
Budget Committee has allocated
funds to many organizations in the
past few weeks, with the big money
going to the StUdent Film
Organization and Homophiles of Penn
State.
The Student Filin Organization
received $1,904.40 for a film festival to
be held Feb. 9 to 11. The funds will
cover judges and advertising.
There had been some delays in the
committee's decision because it was
unsure if the film organization would
be charging admission, thus making
it ineligible to receive ASA funds. No
admission will be charged.
HOPS requested $1,790.50 and
received $460.50 for advertising,
there in no-man's-land it doesn't really matter
that it is a landfill area."
"It's not going to matter for a long time what it
gets used for," Derchner added.
Once the Centre County landfill at Snow Shoe
is finished, the reclaimed land could be used in
several ways.
Smith said, however, "Knowing the area, I
would doubt that they would build anything on it
for many years to come."
In Anne Arundel County, Maryland, a landfill
there will be a recreational facility by 1998.
Anne Arundel County Bureau of Solid Waste
Chief Parker Andrews said the 560-acre
Millersville landfill is being developed into a
recreational area featuring rolling terrain, a
plateau for athletic fields, a bench-and-terrace
open amphitheater and 210 undisturbed acres of
natural land.
Andrews said the Millersville landfill is
divided into ten "cells." Each cell will be used as
soon as it is filled, he said. The cells are top
soiled, seeded and shrubbed as completed,
Andrews said.
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organizations
newsletters, office supplies and
rental of the Jawbone for cof
feehouses.
The International Relations
Organization requested $811.82 and
were allocated $440.70 to bring
speakers to.campus for their model
United Nations program to be held
March 17 to 19.
The Hetzel Union Board was funded
$139.84 for travel, lodging and
registration fees for two people to go
to the Association of College Unions'
International Convention in
Maryland. • The request was for
$265A4.
On Drugs, Inc. requested $451 for
travel to a convention in Phoenix,
Arizona. They were not funded.
"We don't wait until cell 10 is done," Andrews
said.
Andrews said the landfill is being developed
into a recreational area by excavating virgin
land, filling the excavation with trash and
redeveloping the land
According to Andrews, Glen Burnie landfill in
Anne Arundel County is being developed into
land suitable for light industrial or warehouse
use.
Andrews also said sections of golf courses in
Baltimore County and Salsbury, Maryland. are
being built from solid waste. A ski jump con
structed from solid waste and covered with clay
is also possible, Andrews said.
The county landfill in Snow Shoe opened in 1973
and is expected by engineers to last fifteen
years, Sinith said.
"If the tonnage for some reason would go way
beyond our anticipation, then it would fill up
faster.
"There are so many strip mines out there in
that area that I don't think you and I will ever
have to worry about this."
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