2—The Daily Collegian Friday, July 19, 1985 Female advance ag. slow By PATTI CAPARELLA Collegian Staff Writer 'At the Farmers High School in 1859, not one of of the schools 69 science and practical agriculture students was female. Although the Farmers High School went on to become more than just an agricultural school it became the Pennsylvania State University its College of Agriculture was still a major area of study. Since then, more and more women have enrolled in the University's ag riculture program. In 1968, 50 women enrolled in the University's College of Agriculture and in 1984, 469 women studied agriculture. The University's peak year for fe male agriculture majors was 1978, when 899 women were in the major. Since then, the number of women studying agriculture has decreased, partially because of a University wide decrease in student enrollment, said Carolyn Sachs, assistant profes sor of rural'sociology. "In the College of Agriculture, the number of women on the faculty has increased; however, there are still not enough women in the faculty to be role models for the female students," Sachs said. "We did a study about three years ago of women studying agriculture and whether or not they were encour aged or discouraged to continue with their major," Sachs said, "Many of them gave accounts of being discour aged." "There's no doubt that there are obstacles women must overcome," Sachs added. However, Dorothy Blair, assistant professor of nutrition and_ agricul ture, said that at the University, women agriculture students get a hands-on experience, including driv ing tractors, farming on the Universi ty farm and using regular farm equipment and tools. • Women are not equally dispersed among all of the majors in the col lege. The animal bioscience, animal production, environmental resource management, agriculture business management, and horticulture ma jors are most popular with women students. However, almost no women are agronomy or forest product ma jors. Mtn II 4 free Pepsis „API --6. • . with any Large Pizza , • - / • • ,w \L - h -r -/....8*. expires 7/21/85/am. expires 7/21/85 rz aims one coupon per customer 1 - 12211 II one coupon per customer State College '4) and toWILITN6 Aerobics Club with A Pre-Grand Opening Membership Sale Animal research: Project suspended amid abuse charges by activists By WILLIAM KRONHOLM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON A medical research project that inflicted head injuries on laboratory baboons was suspended by the government yesterday after a pre liminary investigation showed mistreatment of the animals. Margaret M. Heckler, secretary of health and hu man services, ordered the project stopped after receiv ing a report from the National Institutes of Health indicating "material failure to comply" with guidelines requiring humane treatment of laboratory animals. Animal rights activists, who had occupied offices at NIH for four days in a protest of the research project, hailed the decision as a victory and ended their sit-in. "This is a tremendous victory for which we thank Secretary Heckler," said Alex Pacheco, chairman of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. "It is the first of many steps that must be taken to stop the hideous abuses of feeling animals that go on in federal ly funded laboratories." Heckler's statement did not mention the four-day protest at NIH, but did note that "serious concerns" have been raised about animal treatment at the University of Pennsylvania head injury clinical re search center in Philadelphia. She said an NIH investigative team gave her a preliminary report yesterday morning; and the univer sity was being given a chance to respond. "In the meantime, until all questions about the use of primates in these head injury experiments have been satisfactorily resolved, I have instructed NIH to sus- Crews continue to spray campus elms University crews will continue pes ticide spraying tonight through to morrow night as workers from the Office of Physical Plant attempt to wipe out the population of bark beetles threatening to spread Dutch elm disease to campus elms. Marcus Schneck, University assis tant news bureau manager, said spraying will begin at 9 p.m. each night. "The effort (begun with spraying on the Mall and around Old Main Wednesday night) will move out around campus now," Schneck said. He said the area sprayed Wednes day night was sprayed again last night as an added precaution. 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The Philadelphia project receives about $1 million a year in federal money to research head injuries. Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, director of the NIH, said the preliminary report "indicates material failure to comply with the Public Health Service policy for the care and use of laboratory animals." He said areas of special concern include the supervi sion and training of laboratory personnel, the manage ment of anesthesia and . pain relievers for research animals and the adequacy of techniques that are supposed to ensure a sterile environment. Wyngaarden also said the investigation included viewing more than 60 how's of videotapes of the experiments by government and outside experts. Those videotapes are the subject of a grand jury investigation in Philadelphia because they were stolen from the lab in May 1984 by members of the Animal Liberation Front, a radical animal rights group. The tapes show researchers using a device that flips the heads of baboons forward to inflict injuries similar to those suffered by humans in automobile accidents. Evelyn Andrews, a spokeswoman for the university, said officials there had not yet seen the NIH report and therefore had no immediate comment on it. University officials have said previously that the experiments comply with rules governing laboratory animals and are valuable in helping find treatments for human head injuries. They also have said their laboratory has been subject to repeated inspections, with no indications of problems. The animal rights activists, in their victory statement, said the Philadelphia situation is not unique. park their cars in the spraying areas because the pesticide rnethoxych lor can damage a car's finish. "People should watch for the signs," he added. Schneck said aerial spraying by helicopter, scheduled for 6 a.m. Tues day, apply pesticide to campus and some areas of town. • "(The ground spraying on campus) is just an additional precaution," Schneck said. University officials began this spraying campaign when they learned that five diseased American Elms cut down on campus this week were infested with bark beetles, which could spread Dutch elm dis ease to other elms in the area. —by Nan Crystal Arens $1 off any Large Pepperoni Pizza THIS SEASON'S FASHION! FOR HIM & HER! „, h`c -- . "7\ ------- S0 "Today's Fashions at Yesterday's Prices" OUR SUMMER CLEARANCE WILL SAVE YOU $ $ SAVE 50% ON EVERYTHING FOR THIS SEASON. 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Kern. • The Music Boosters of the State • Black Moshannon State Park College Area School District will be will hold the nature program "Bats of sponsoring a used instrument sale in Pennsylvania" by University profes- September. Anyone wanting to sell an sor Jack Payne at 9 p.m instrument should call Joan Koval chik at 238-6359, • The Penn State Frisbee Club will Gita Class and vegetarian feast at 6 have Frisbee practice and tutorial at p.m. tonight and Sunday at 103 E. 7 tonight on Old Main lawn. Hamilton Ave. • The movie the "Badlands" will be shown at 7 and 9 tonight in Eisen hower Auditorium. W.,11112.:11WIle:462VIILIVIla:1112S4112 , ,:41111;4111V1:411112g KV Ilk:411.W4IP„e:111;6111.2;411:e;116:6,11;t:d ic 1 MI Mil MI MI MI MI PM 1:411 PM.115:114 - 41P5Z1M11574/MIINZ•IMIPMiIanIiNSI/70111 , . b i 1. 2.1 !: l l t t l l Who are you setting 0. ::: P. AE your sights on? AV AV- - kltri .1 .- . . ME ME kl ME ME 2 2 VAV i i 011 e Alliance Ttristian lirellatusilip =ME q d AN r ' A • . 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AMONG --"rlC N ALTOONA... 11TH AVENUE op daily 10 to 5 & Thurs. to 8:30 Japanese governor visits the University By JEANETTE REBS Collegian Staff Writer The governor of Hokkaido, Japan spent Wednes day touring the University Material Research Laboratory, as part of a fact-finding tour of the United States to learn about high-level radioactive waste, a topic of controversy in Japan. Through an interpreter, Gov. Tadahiro Yokomi chi said that even though the country has had a nuclear power plant for 30 years, the issue of the handling and disposing of high level nuclear waste has become a matter of dispute only in the last three or four years Hokkaido, which covers 22 percent of the land area of Japan, is the prime candidate for the disposal site for high-level nuclear waste. The people of this region are questioning the mainte nance of the nuclear waste, he said. "(The concern) is because this is the first time (nuclear waste is an issue) for Japan and there are many unknowns." he said. Toxic waste from the nuclear power plant is currently housed at the plant or sent to be reproc essed, because Japan has no disposal site. While the people of Hokkaido are nervous about Turner trying to keep CBS takeover bid alive WASHINGTON (AP) Ted Turn er, who wants to buy CBS, asked Congress on yesterday to defeat legislation he said would shield CBS from his takeover bid. "I'd like it to be decided by the CBS shareholders," Turner said. But CBS Chairman Thomas H. Wyman, also testifying, urged the bill's passage "to protect the fun damental interests of the Ameri can television viewing public." The legislation, offered by Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., would force the Federal Communica tions Commission to hold full blown evidentiary hearings on Turner's unsolicited offer to buy CBS and any other hostile take over attempt involving a network. Current law leaves the FCC out !:11; AE AE tk of most network activities, and provides for the commission to consider only whether the transfer of individual stations is in the public interest. Turner said if there were some thing wrong with his offer, he was sure the commission would uncov er the problem during the normal course of action on the application. wisoninsimmomm NM ma N NI 1 10% Discount II 1 with Coupon I a N • Sell-Service COpies • • Short & Long Run .ii II Quick Printing ' I • Grove Printing I 111 157 S. Gamer Street I I 234-0580 Monomslamemoimemnseoll Give the world a little gift today. Blood. +lheAmerican The Good Neighbor nuclear waste, Yokomichi said the issue has not become a national matter. However, he said that a national poll on nuclear waste showed that 70 percent of the Japanese people do hold anxieties about the issue and that a waste site will be built in the country He said that this anxiety could stem from the World War II bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. "Ideally, we should have started our research in high-level disposal at the time we started our nuclear power plants, but that was not the case and I think we are actually quite late starting our research in this area," he said. During his visit, Yokomichi will also be visiting the U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. "We came here to learn about the system of dealing with the high level waste, we wanted to know some of the problems, we also wanted to know the present status of the research and where the research is heading in the future," he said. During his U.S. tour, Yokomichi visited Wash ington state. He said that after visiting the nation al nuclear waste facility there, he noticed a Wyman conceded under ques tioning that it was probably the first time that CBS had ever sup ported legislation calling for addi tional regulation on the broadcast industry As he has in the past, the CBS chief said Turner Broadcasting System would not have the finan cial resources to run a national television network. "I think the issue is relatively simple. The issue is whether the resultant enterprise would be fi nancially strong enough to be com petitive and offer the kinds of programming that have seemed important and do seem important, I think, to millions of people across the country," the CBS chairman said. Current commission rules call for full-blown and potentially time-consuming evidentiary hear ings, only if there are substantial or material questions of fact as to whether the license transfer would serve the public interest. Turner's record and his fiancial plan for CBS, are being scruti nized now by the FCC staff. Free Delivery after 4 p.m. igi FREE Expires I 7-30-85 I 22 -- Dr k I with hoagiean o yii-i j ne r l i t n I Li J Explosions kill two in Louisville plant LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) —A 20,000- gallon storage tank at a chemical plant ignited and ruptured yesterday, setting off a series of explosions that killed two people and forced about 100 people to flee their homes, officials said. The flames spread to three other tanks at the Borden Chemical plant, a subsidiary of Borden Inc., but fire fighters extinguished them and no other tanks exploded Plant officials believe sparks from welding flew up and ignited the tank, which was filled with a phenol-for maldehyde resin, lifting it off a three foot base, tipping it on its side and spilling the chemical. The men who died and an injured Correction Because of a reporter's error, the Daily Collegian incorrectly reported that University history professor Jackson Spielvogel said that Hitler would have been regarded today as one of the greatest political leaders of all time, if he had died before the Holocaust. Spielvogel stated that while some historians believe that Hitler would have been regarded as one of the greatest German leaders of all time if he had died before 1938, the beginning of World War 11, Spielvogel does not agree with the historians. Let That Special Someone Know You Care With ROSES! 5 66 doz. cash & carry 7,0 4 / 4 3 1 4v, rod ?auk/a `—.z3 145 S. Allen St. 238-0566 • 4,ealxrt, 234-3777 i Hoagie Heaven i I FREE Expires I 17-30-85 I 22 oz. Drin k 18-inch I with any h oagie I i L a similarity betimen that state and Hokkaido. Just as Washington state is farthest away from the central government in Washington D.C., Hok kaido is the farthest region away from the Japa nese central government. He pointed out that like the United States, Japan's proposed waste site will be located far away from the governmental head quarters. He said he came to Penn State because of the worldwide reputations of researchers at the Uni versity including two material science professors, Della and Rustem Roy. "None of (the Japanese) are really experts in this field and yet we are very curious and we came here to find out as much as we can, we are quite ambitious in that endeavour," he said. Della Roy, said the University was one of the first higher educational institutes to research high-level radioactive waste 12 years ago, and is now renowned for this research. "For several years now our University has been involved in nuclear waste management and inves tigating alternatives to nuclear waste forms, their characterizations and studying their stability," she said. man burned over 98 percent of his body were employees of Brown-Eagle Corp. of Baton Rouge, La., a mainte nance company that has been work ing at the Borden plant for at least a year, plant manager Chuck Stevens said. The three were building catwalks over a field of 20-25 outdoor storage tanks when the explosion occurred. About 100 people, including resi dents of four nearby streets in south western Jefferson County, were evacuated, said Lt. Charles Cook of the Jefferson County Police Depart ment. About 20 gathered at a nearby Baptist church, where Red Cross volunteers served food and bever ages. 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