Jordan holds final
decision on alcohol
recommendations
By ALAN J. CRAVER
Collegian Staff Writer
The University President’s Task
Force on Alcohol has completed its
recommendations and its report is
now in the hands of President Bryce
Jordan.
Jordan said he expects to decide by
January which recommendations
will become University policy. The
approved recommendations will
probably take effect in June or July.
The task force was formed by Jor
dan in February to study the prob
lems created by alcohol abuse among
University students and recommend
ways the University can solve these
problems through stricter policies
and increased awareness and educa
tional programs.
Even though the task force has
already considered student opinion,
Jordan said he will consult with the
leaders of the student organizations
such as the Interfraternity Council
that will be most affected by the
recommendations.
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment President David Rosenblatt, co
chairman of the task force, said he
expects student reaction to the rec
ommendations.
Students with negative or positive
Planning board suggests
limits to building heights
By PETE BARATTA
Collegian Staff Writer
The State College Planning Com
mission last night voted to recom
mend to Municipal Council a proposal
that would reduce downtown height
restrictions from 65 feet to either 45
feet or four stories.
The proposal includes a provision
for the commission to begin work on
an incentive measure to allow height
extension in certain cases.
The commission voted unanimous
ly to propose the measure which, if
passed by the council at its Dec. 2
meeting, will affect the State College
commercial district from South Ath
erton Street to Sowers Street, includ
ing part of South Allen Street.
Chamber of Commerce President
William Tucker asked the commis
sion to delay its decision until more
University survey gets Pennsylvanians' views on waste issues
Editor's note: This is the fifth in a
five-part series dealing with Pennsyl
vania's low level radioactive waste
problem. Today’s segment details
public reaction to the LLRW issue.
By RENEE BANERJEE-FLEMISH
Collegian Science Writer
Many Pennsylvania residents are
concerned with the factors of low
level radioactive waste disposa.l in
cluding various health, -safety and
property issues, according to a recent
University sqrvey on LLRW.
Public safety and the protection of
health and property are the primary
concerns of Pennsylvanians on the
issue of LLRW disposal, the study
stated.
Richard J. Bord, University profes
sor of sociology, said these concerns
overshadow economic incentives
such as local tax relief for creating
an LLRW disposal site.
Bord, in conjunction with the Insti
tute for Research on Land and Water
Resources, conducted the public opin
ion survey as a part of the Universi
ty’s Public Involvement and
Education on Radiation group.
The key to protecting public health
and property is local involvement and
resident participation, Bord said.
Judith Johnsrud, co-director of the
Environmental Coalition on Nuclear
Power, said, "Although I am not a
proponent of the ‘not in my backyard’
attitude, everyone has the right and
comments should contact their stu
dent leaders, said Rosenblatt. He said
the leaders will pass the comments on
to him and he will relay them to
Jordan.
“lt is important for students to take
time to respond,” Rosenblatt said.
“Students will be the ones who will be
directly affected and must speak up.”
Rosenblatt said the task force re
lied on the feedback it received in
September and October to form its
final report.
“The report was molded around the
feedback from students and the com
munity,” Rosenblatt said. “Obvious
ly, it was a compromise.”
Most of the final recommendations
are similar to the task force’s earlier
proposals, but it formed new recom
mendations concerning tailgates at
home football games.
The task force found that most
alcohol-related problems happen dur
ing the game, Rosenblatt said, and
recommended that alcohol consump
tion be prohibited during football
games. Also, people who leave the
stadium during the game would not
be readmitted without permission
from the Department of Athletics.
Rosenblatt said the recommenda
tions concerning residence hall stu-
Please see ALCPHOL, Page 24.
information from various studies
including the borough parking propo
sal and the neighborhood resident
survey is compiled and the three
new council members assume their
positions.
The chamber still does not think
lowering the height limit will achieve
the attractiveness and economjc vi
ability the commission wants, Tucker
said.
However, commission member
Donna Queeney said the commission
agreed to postpone its decision before
because it thought “new ideas were
coming in” from the chamber con
cerning the issue.
Local architect John Haas, a mem
ber of the chamber, recommended
the amendment to the height restric
tion proposal that would allow devel
opers the option of a four-story or 45-
foot height limit.
responsibility to say, ‘Not in my back
yard unless and until what, you’re
going to do is good enough,’ ”
Johnsrud said.
Bob Rybarczyk, executive director
of the state House Conservation Com
mittee, said, “People understand that
the issue of LLRW cannot be ignored.
It impressed (legislators) that so
many people know so much about the
issue” and put forth the efforts to
strengthen the compact, Rybarczyk
said.
Despite the consensus, there is dis
agreement about which disposal
methods are most efficient.
Bord said that according to the
PIER survey, the public favors un
Reagan calls summit a good start
By DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President
Reagan, back home from the sum
mit, told a joint session of Congress
on last night he had a “constructive
meeting” with Mikhail Gorbachev
and that together the two made a
“measure of progress” on arms con
trol.
But the president said, “I can’t
claim we had a meeting of the minds”
generally, and his description of the
arms understandings included only
the modest provisions carried in a
joint statement issued from Geneva.
“While we still have a long way to
go, we’re at least heading in the right
direction,” Reagan told the national
ly televised session. “I gained a bet
Integration of Phila. neighborhood protested
By LEE LINDER
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA - Hundreds of
people gathered last night near the
home of an interracial couple in a
predominantly white neighborhood
where an earlier demonstration
caused officials to take action to
prevent racial-violence. ~
Neighborhood leaders upset about
Blacks living there had called off a
planned protest for last night at the
request of a task force formed to head
off racial violence.
Nevertheless, about 300 Whites
showed up outside the home of a
black man and his white wife.
Mounted police cordoned off two and
a half blocks on either side of the row
house in the southwest Philadelphia
neighborhood.
The.protesters began congregating
shortly after the dinner hour, and by 9
p.m., they were chanting and milling
about. There were no arrests or vio
lence.
About 75 teen-agers standing out
side the house began yelling, “Move!
Move! Move!” When police told them
to disperse, they refused, shouting:
“Hell, no! We won’t go!”
The only Blacks present were po
lice and. reporters.
Both of the families said they will
not move out of the neighborhood.
“While we were moving in people
yelled a lot of slurs at us,” said Carol
Fox, 30, who moved to the neighbor
hood Sunday with her husband, Ger
ald, 10-year-old daughter and 5-year
old son. “They called us niggers, and
yelled ‘You’ve got it coming.’
“If they don’t like us, fine. Don’t
talk to us, that’s OK. We bought this
derground disposal facilities with
man-made barriers.
However, Jeff Schmidt, spokesman
for the Sierra Club, an environmental
group, said most environmentalists
oppose underground disposal facili
ties.
“We very much oppose shallow
land burial,” Schmidt said. “Shallow
land burial facilities are designed as
planned leakage facilities.”
The only method of LLRW disposal
authorized by the federal Nuclear
Regulatory Commission is shallow
land burial. However, every LLRW
disposal site has leaked or is leaking,
Schmidt.
Johnsrud said environmentalists
ter perspective; I feel he did too.”
. Back home after the first U.S.-Sovi
et summit meeting in six years, Rea
gan declared that he, as well as
everyone, was “impatient for re
sults” in the drive to improve super
power relations. But he quickly
cautioned that “goodwill and good
hopes do not always yield lasting
results. Quick fixes don’t fix big prob
lems.”
“We don’t want a phony peace or a
frail peace,” the president said. “We
did not go in pursuit of some kind of
illusory detente. We can’t be satisfied
with cosmetic improvements that
won’t stand the test of time. We want
real peace.”
The speech capped an 18-hour
working day for Reagan that included
a long trans-Atlantic flight across six
time zones. Even so, the 74-year-old
Demonstrators gather on 61st Street near Buist Avenue Wednesday night
Southwest Philadelphia. The demonstrators chanted “We want them out.”
house, so we’re here to stay,” said house, chanting “We want them out”
Carol Fox, who is white. Her husband and “Beat it.”
is black
Mayor W. Wilson Goode, the first
Black to head the government in the
nation’s fifth-largest city, said he
would use the “full authority of his
office” to protect the neighborhood’s
black residents from harm.
About 400 people rallied Wednesday
night outside the other family’s
also want curie count the degree of
radioactivity and not merely vol
ume considered when calculating the
amount of waste disposed.
For example, while waste from
nuclear power plants accounts for a
very small amount of volume, it has a
higher curie count and is more dan
gerous, she said.
Also, many environmental groups
want site operators held liable if
radioactivity escapes into the envi
ronment and causes a health hazard,
Johnsrud said.
Finally, the most radioactive waste
should be separated from less dan
gerous material, she said.
“If we segregate (the waste), we’ll
have the more hazardous, long-term
radioactive wastes set aside for dif
ferent treatment,” Johnsrud said.
“We feel ttjat a better form of waste
management would involve looking
at chemical toxicity and half-lives
and storing the short-lived wastes
(including the majority of radioac
tive materials used in medicine) on
site at the place of production.”
Environmentalists also oppose
Congress’s proposal to allow mini
mally contaminated materials to be
released to ordinary landfills or be
recycled, Johnsrud said, adding that
she does not support incineration as
an LLRW management technique.
Once a disposal site is in place,
however, many residents fear its
presence will decrease property va
lue, Bord said.
president looked anything but tired as
he strode into the House of Represen
tatives chamber to a prolonged,
standing ovation from the members
of Congress.
In all, the president summed up his
trip this way:
“A new realism spawned the sum
mit; the summit itself was a good
start; and now our byword must be:
Steady as we go.”
Reagan’s report to the nation fol
lowed a summit that produced
agreements to meet again next year
in Washington and the year after in
Moscow, and accords on issues such
as a cultural exchange and establish
ment of new diplomatic facilities. But
the two leaders failed to break their
deadlock on the main business of
superpower arms control, and Rea
gan said that on the issue of so-called
Both properties were sold by the
Veterans Administration, which ac
quired them after previous owners
defaulted on GI mortgages.
VA loan officer Ron Veltman said
race wasn’t ah issue and each home
went to the highest bidder one for
$21,000 and the other $20,000. Protest
ing neighbors, however, claimed
However, Bord’s research found no
such relationship.
“Some research has even shown an
increase in property values such as in
the area around the LLRW site in
Barnwell, 5.C.,” Bord said. “Most
people consider their houses not only
a place to live but also an investment,
so they are very concerned.”
Legislators and disposal site sup
porters are using the promise of jobs
to encourage community support,
Schmidt said.
“The jobs will only be around for
the brief period of operation,” he
said. However, “human health and
environmental safety are the prima
ry concerns. Jobs should not even be
secondary concerns; they should be
the last item considered.
“This is not some kind of economi
cal development scheme,” he added.
The survey of Pennsylvania resi
dents showed that most people prefer
LLRW disposal site regulators to
come from within the community,
Bord said.
Johnsrud said, “People feel the
government has not been forthright
in recognizing the dangers involved.”
Bord agreed. “They trust their own
more than they trust the industry’s,”
he said.
Johnsrud said, “In the 19605, con
gressmen said waste disposal is our
grandchildren’s problem let them
worry about it. That was the attitude
and Congress hasn’t wanted to worry
about it since.”
“Star Wars,” the two leaders had a
“very direct” exchange.
“Mr. Gorbachev insisted that we
might use a strategic defense system
to put offensive weapons into space
and establish nuclear superiority,”
the president said. “I made it clear
that SDI (Strategic Defense Initia
tive) had nothing to do with offensive
weapons.”
Reagan also said he restated his
proposal for “open laboratories” for
scientists from the Soviet Union and
the United States to observe each
other’s research on strategic defense
systems.
Reagan thus ended his three-day
venture into superpower summitry
with a flourish; He began the day with
Gorbachev in Geneva, then moved on
to a meeting with NATO allies in
Please see REAGAN, Page 24.
near the home of a black family in
there was a deliberate effort to seek
out Blacks and that white bids were
rejected.
“I didn’t expect it to be anything
like this,” said Charles Williams, 23,
who moved in on Oct. 30 with his wife
and 7-year-old daughter.
“I don’t know what to do,” he said
after the rally. “I was standing there
and watching them, and it bothered
me a lot.”
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Charles took this a step further
by getting one before he even
began playing Page 18
• The past could play a large
role in the outcome of tomorrow
evening’s game when the foot
ball team faces Pittsburgh at
7:45 tomorrow night at Pitt Sta
dium Page 13
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participating in a study to help
researchers track the devel
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