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Orange Bowl committee courting Lions
By MARK ASHENFELTER
Collegian Sports Writer
The top-ranked football team
may celebrate the coming of 1986
in Miami, if the Orange Bowl Com
mittee has its way Saturday.
After the 10-0 Lions thrashed
Notre Dame 36-6 Saturday at Bea
ver Stadium, the focus shifted
from the playing field to bowl com
mittee board rooms across the
country. Yesterday, Penn State
made the committees’ decisions
easier when it expressed a prefer
ence to accept if offered an
invitation to the Jan. 1 Orange
Bowl.
The Lions would face the cham
pion of the Big 8 Conference in that
game, which could be for the na
tional championship. Nebraska,
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are
the three teams in the running for
the conference title.
“We met today and hopefully
will offer a bid at 6 p.m. next
Saturday to the highest ranked
team that we are able to invite,”
Orange Bowl Committee President
Nick Crane said from Miami last
night.
National Collegiate Athletic As
sociation rules prevent the com
mittees from announcing their
selections until this Saturday, but
Crane hinted that the Lions were
the committee’s choice.
“That kind of says it all,” he
responded when he was told that
Penn State was ranked No. 1 and is
eligible for the Orange Bowl.
Dave Baker, Penn State’s sports
information director, emphasized
that the team met to discuss the
bowl situation and that no concrete
decisions were made in the team
meeting.
“They expressed a preference;
it wasn’t a formal vote where they
counted hands or anything like
that,” Baker said last night. “They
talked about the possible scenarios
and their preference was at this
time that the Orange Bowl was
the leading choice.
“At this time that bowl would
offer them the highest ranked
team possible but (the Orange
Bowl) is just a preference at this
point.”
Nebraska, currently ranked sec
ond, was a 56-6 winner over Kansas
Saturday, while Oaklahoma, a 31-0
victor over Colorado, was ranked
seventh in last week’s Associated
Press poll. The two teams will
meet next week in Norman, Okla.,
in a game that should help decide
the conference’s representative.
In case of a tie, Crane said the
committee would have a choice of
which team it invited to the bowl.
The search continues for
radiation disposal sites
Editor’s note: This is the first in a
five-part series dealing with Pennsyl
vania's low level radioactive waste
problem. Today’s segment details the
history of the LLRW issue.
By DON BISZEK
Collegian Science Writer
Before a 1980 Congressional deci
sion, low level radioactive waste
the material produced by hospitals,
research labs and nuclear power
plants was disposed of in a small
number of federal dump sites.
As a result of the 1980 decision,
however, Pennsylvania is now re
sponsible for disposing all LLRW
produced within its borders a di
lemma concerning both Common
wealth legislators and citizens.
Because it encompasses a wide
range of materials, the Nuclear Reg
ulatory Committee and the U.S. De
partment of Energy defines LLRW as
what it is not.
Kenneth Singh, a nuclear engineer
with the state Bureau of Radiation
Protection, said the NRC defines
LLRW as all radioactive waste not
classified as high-level.
Waste sources include objects con
taminated by radiation such as pa
‘I would want to talk
to the team about it.’
—Coach Joe Paterno
He added that they would select
the highest ranked team which
currently is the Cornhuskers.
Since the bids can be awarded
either after a team’s game on
Saturday or at 6 p.m., depending
on which is earliest, it is conceiva
ble that the Lions could accept the
Orange Bowl bid before they play
Pitt in the 7:45 p.m. game televised
nationally by ESPN.
Crane, however, is not worried
that the Lions could lose their No. 1
ranking with a loss to Pitt.
“Any team we would be interested
in would still have a game to play
(after 6 p.m. Saturday),” Crane
said. “Miami (the committee’s
second choice), would have had a
game to play that night and one the
next week so it didn’t matter.
“You just have to kind of role the
dice. They (the Lions) would be
just as attractive they might not
be No. 1 but they are the type of
quality program that we want to
work with.” /
Lion Head Coach Joe Paterno
said after Saturday’s game that he
wanted to spend this week prepar
ing for Pitt and not worrying about
the bowl games. Baker, however,
said that the meeting was called to
help the team get in the proper
frame of mind as it prepares for
Pitt.
After Saturday’s victory, Pater
no said he would look at the bowl
picture only if it was necessary.
“If we’ve got to make a decision
this week before some games
next week then I’ve got to sit
down and think some things
through,” he said. “I would want to
talk to the team about it.”
With that accomplished, Crane
said he was not surpised that the
Lions expressed a preference for
the Orange Bowl. He said that
Penn State has always tried to play
the best team possible and this
year that team apparently will
come from the Big 8.
“There’s no doubt that Penn
State wants to play the best if they
are going to win the national
championship,” Crane said. “They
do not want to back into the title.
They want to play the highest rated
team they can so that it is not a
tainted championship.”
Penn State has played in the
Orange Bowl three times in the
past, the last time a 16-9 victory
over LSU in 1974.
per, gloves and glassware, Singh
said.
“These sources originate from hos
pitals, labs, nuclear pharmacies and
industry,” Singh said. For example,
he said, producing exit signs involves
Tritium and smoke detectors use
Americium 241, both of which are
radioactive elements.
John Vincenti, director of the Uni
versity’s Public Involvement and Ed
ucation on Radiation program, said
the University has about 200 labs that
produce LLRW.
“If a nuclear power plant is re
fitted, re-fueled or cleaned out, the
result is (LLRW). Whether it is high,
low or intermediate level waste, it all
must be cared for.”
Singh said, “Whatever is in the
pressure vessel (of a nuclear reac
tor), the spent fuel or reactor inter
nals is high level waste. Anything
outside this is low-level.”
Singh said LLRW is categorized in
four classes: A, B, C and greater
than-C waste. Greater-than-C waste
has the highest concentration of ra
dioactive particles and is most dan
gerous.
“Greater-than-C involves weapons
and defense people and the (U.S.
Department of Energy) accepts that
Please see WASTE, Page 24.
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While everyone else was merely speculating on an Orange Bowl invitation, Penn State defensive back Troy
Davis, with an orange in his hand, was already psyching himself up for the possibility as the Lions overcame
Notre Dame 36-6 Saturday.
PSU heart not a failure, doctors say
By NAN CRYSTAL ARENS
Collegian Science Writer
HERSHEY Despite the death of
Anthony Mandia, the first human to
be sustained by the Penn State artifi
cial heart, doctors at the University’s
Hershey Medical Center refuse to
label the artificial heart program a
failure.
Dr. William Pierce, chief of the
division of artificial organs and de-,
veloper of the heart, said there was
no connection between Mandia’s fatal
infection and the University’s artifi
cial heart.
“(The artificial heart) did exactly
what we had asked it to do and I don’t
think we can ask much more of it than
what it did,” Pierce said. “It served
as a bridge for transplantation.”
Two sterile artificial heart units
and the implant team are waiting for
another patient like Mandia, whose
diseased heart could no longer sus
tain him while awaiting a donor or
gan, Pierce said.
“We would not be hesitant in the
least to go ahead,” Pierce said.
Although the final evaluation of the
artificial heart that sustained Mandia
for 11 days is not complete, Pierce
said, overall, the heart performed as
designed.
“The information we learned in the
lab was able to be applied in the
clinical setting,” Pierce said.
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The polyurethane blood sacs inside
the artificial heart did not trigger the
blood clotting seen with other artifi
cial heart models, Pierce said, add
ing that his initial inspection of the
heart after it was removed from
Mandia showed no sign of clotting.
‘(The artificial heart)
did exactly what we
had asked it to d 0..,
Pierce said the results of micro
scopic studies of the blood sacs will
not be available for some time.
Overall, Pierce said he was pleased
with the heart’s pumping ability,
adding that the device allowed Man
dia to sit up for extended periods of
time.
Pierce said the fit of the heart was
also excellent.
“We were very pleased at the time
we closed Mr. Mandia’s chest that
there was no obstruction of the blood
vessels going in and out of the heart,”
Pierce said, adding that obstruction
had been a problem in animal experi
ments.
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Dr. William Pierce,
developer of the heart
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However, Pierce said the artificial
heart would not be an option for a
smaller person whose chest is simply
not large enough to accommodate the
one-pound device.
In this case, physicians would opt
for a bi-ventricular assist device
two artificial heart units that remain
outside the body and are connected to
the natural heart by tubes running
through the patient’s chest, Pierce
said.
Despite its outstanding perfor
mance, Dr. John Pennock, associate
professor of surgery, the surgeon who
performed Mandia’s heart trans
plant, said the pneumatic artificial
heart would not be considered as a
permanent implant.
“That is not our policy,” Pennock
said. “No matter how you look at it,
the pneumatic artificial heart is ex
perimental while heart transplants
are therapeutic. The transplant is
always better.”
However, Pierce was unwilling to
compare the Penn State heart with
the Jarvik-7, which has been used as
a permanant implant and a bridge to
transplant.
“We need more experience with
both the Jarvik-7 and the Penn State
heart before we can make any com
parisons,” Pierce said.
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By DAMON CHAPPIE
Collegian Staff Writer
To prevent next year from becom
ing the 19th year of tuition increases,
the University is asking the state for
an almost 19 percent increase in
appropriations.
The University Board of Trustees
Friday approved a budget plan
already in Harrisburg that calls on
the state to boost its share of contri
butions to the University by
$31,992,000.
•The request is divided into a re
quest for funding to cover operating
cost increases, such as salaries and
fuel, and money for “critical” items.
Critical items the University be
lieves are needed immediately are
packaged under the new concept of
differential funding and include mon
ey for scientific equipment and mi
nority student aid. See related
stories, Page 2.
The administration has requested
two packages: one for $19,692,000 for
basic cost increases and the second
for $12,300,000, labeled differential
funding.
- • The first request would result in an
11.5 percent increase in state money
compared to last year. Much of the
funding will go to salaries and insur
ance.
Some funding has been targeted for
buying books and magazines for the
University libraries. Funds will also
be used to reduce class sizes in
courses that have grown too large.
Those courses include English com
position, business administration and
the basic scienc es.
With this request, the University is
attempting to equalize state support
for the general funds budget with
tuition support.
Ten years ago, the state contrib
uted more than 55 percent to the
University’s budget, but that money
has steadily slipped to last year’s 44.8
percent.
The drop has translated into more
tuition dollars that students must
pay. Although the Univeisity still has
the lowest tuition rate of Pennsylva
nia’s three research universities
(University of Pittsburgh, Temple
University and Penn State), students
here receive the least amount of per
capita support from the state.
University administrators main
tain tuition is too high for a land-grant
university which seeks to educate the
working class.
They cite a study of 23 of the top
public universities showing the Uni
versity’s tuition is third, with only
Temple and Pitt having higher rates.
In addition to increasing tuition, the
University has tightened its belt be
cause of fiscal constraints. The ad-
Please see BUDGET, Page 12.
Today is the last day to file
applications in the Office of Stu
dent Aid, 335 Boucke, for stu
dents loans for Fall Semester
1985.
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