4—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, April 15, 1986 state/nation/world Shuttle joint blamed for explosion found By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A salvage ship has recovered a two-ton piece of Challenger rocket debris with a 2-foot-square hole burned through the steel casing at the joint blamed for the explosion of the space shuttle, the Navy said yesterday. The 14-foot-by-20-foot piece, which, could be vital to the investigation, was pulled from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean about 40 miles north east of here by the Stena Workhorse after a robot submarine attached lift lines to it. The retrieval was made at 5 a.m. Sunday in 560 feet of water, the Navy said. Lt. Cmdr. Deborah Burnette, a Navy spokeswoman, said the hole burned in the joint and casing by a plume of escaping flame measured 1- foot-by-2-feet. The surrounding area was badly scorched. The recovery was announced ear lier by the presidential shuttle corn mis,sion, and a member of the commission was coming here to in spect the piece. A statement by commission Chair man William P. Rogers said, "One of the two sections of critical interest" was recovered and that it was from the joint area where a leak in the right booster rocket is thought to have occurred, causing the shuttle's explosion on Jan. 28. "A burnt out area of the joint tang at about the 300 degree position is evident," the statement said. The other key piece, the bottom of the joint, has not been located but is believed to be in the same area. Investigators have said the acci dent that killed seven astronauts was caused by a failure in this joint. But they don't . know exactly how it failed, and they feel that by recovering the 000000®®O®®000®®®0®®0®®®00000000000000 o 0 E SECOND AMENDMENT o o. AND o 0 0 L. 0 GUN CONTROL,. 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Thompson Jr., vice chairman of a NASA's task force working with the commission, said last week the investigation is focusing on possibly defective 0-rings designed to stop hot gases from escaping through the joint; on the effect of the rotation of the joint when subjected to ignition pressures; on characteristics of the putty intended to put pressure on•the rings; a possible joint alignment problem; and the effect the freezing temperatures and high winds aloft on launch day might have had on the rings or the putty. Recovering the two pieces of the joint have been high priority items of the salvage team. But Thompson said last month that even if they were not recovered, he believed there was sufficient evi dence to pinpoint the cause of the accident. More recently, commission mem ber Richard P. Feynman said testing of sub-scale models designed to re create the conditions on the day of the explosion would never be able to find the exact cause. Feynman said, however, that a new joint could be built to prevent all possible causes. The man in charge of redesigning the joint, James Kingsbury, head of engineering at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said last week that 70 engineers are working on 10 possible alterations in the joint. Only $4.97 Unisex insurance rates crash HARRISBURG (AP) Legislation allowing sex-based auto insurance rates to continue in Pennsylvania finally won approval yesterday when the Senate voted overwhelmingly to override Gov. Dick Thornburgh's veto of the bill. The 43-6 vote marked a major victo ry for the insurance industry, which mounted a massive lobbying cam paign for the bill. The vote also marked a rare override of a Thorn burgh veto during the governor's nearly 7 1 / 2 years in office. As a result of the vote, conducted 237-7314 Expires 4/17/86 without any debate, the Insurance Department will not be allowed to force insurers to implement unisex rates on June 1. Under a unisex insurance system, rates for young women in Pennsylva nia would have increased while those for young men would have dropped. Thornburgh spokesman David Runkel called the vote an "empty act." Women's groups, which call sex-based rates discriminatory, prob ably will take the issue to court "and the courts will uphold the governor's view," he said. But David Snyder, a Nationwide Insurance lobbyist, applauded the Senate's action and said he doubted the effectiveness of any legal chal lenge. "This legislation prevents rate in creases for more than 1.1 million Pennsylvanians," Snyder said. "That involve% 600,000 young women, older women who now have a 10 percent discount and older drivers male and female who would have had to subsi dize young males," he said. The battle over unisex insurance rates in Pennsylvania began in 1978 I -I•11 - •f•i••C I•J , 'I I•1 , I•I I 't Yale police arrest 78; shanties go NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Sev enty-eight demonstrators were ar 'rested at Yale University yesterday before college employees leveled a shanty village erected to protest, Yale's investments in South Africa. I Afterward, more than 700 people !shouted anti-apartheid slogans at a rally where protesters promised to keep up pressure on the school to divest at least $350 million in stocks. "We are not going to let them get 'rid of us," Jonathon Piper, a second year law student, yelled at the rally, where shouts and applause echoed off buildings surrounding Beinecke Pla za, former site of the shantytown. The shantytown, opposite the office of Yale President A. Bartlett Giamat ti, symbolized the homes of poor blacks in South Africa, where a white minority rules a black majority un der a system of racial separation known as apartheid. • The shanties were torn down by Yale supervisory workers after the students were warned to leave the site, then arrested by campus police when they refused. Members of Local 35, the custodial union, had said last week that they would not obey university orders to dismantle the shanties, The 78 arrested were charged with criminal trespass and were sched uled for arraignment April 21, said university spokesman Walter Littell. Four others were charged additional ly with disorderly conduct. Five of those arrested were not students, including a leader of two Yale labor unions, John Wilhelm, and a former city alderman, Martin Kris lov. The students had ample time to protest since the shanties were allow ed to stay on the plaza since April 4. License fees for bed and breakfasts decrease The health license fees required for homes operating as bed and break fast establishments have been re duced from $5O to $25 to coordinate the fees with the time needed to inspect the homes, State College health officer Mark Henry said. The $5O fee was too high for the short time needed to inspect the es tablishments, Henry said. Homes designated as bed and breakfast establishments provide one or two rooms for overnight stay and breakfast the following morning. They are operated for people visiting the area who may not want to pay for a hotel room, Henry said. A health office, zoning office and code enforcement office provide the licenses and permits required for people who want to operate their homes as bed and breakfast estab lishments. The health office ensures a home's kitchen meets all health standards and that all food and cooking materi- police log A $2OO microwave oven belonging missing from a car parked at 255,E. to Unico Corporation was taken from Beaver Ave. between Friday and an apartment at 458 E. College Ave. Sunday, State College police said sometime between March 12 and Thursday, State College Bureau of Police Services said , • A small caliber pistol was found on Logan Avenue Sunday afternoon and turned over to police, State Col ` Two signs worth $2OO were taken lege police said, from Nittany Valley Winery, 724 S. Atherton St., between Thursday eve ning and Friday morning, State Col lege police said , • Richard Weachock, New York, reported his $225 watch missing from an apartment at 340 E. Beaver Ave. Saturday, State College police said. • Several windows were discov ered broken Saturday in the snack bar at Starlite Drive-in, 1100 Benner Pike, by a police officer, State Col e A $2OO watch belonging to Robert lege police said. Olseski, Coatesville, was reported OPEN 'TIL MIDNIGHT APRIL 15. April is taxing enough. Kinko's wants to take some of the bite out of tax time by giving you one free set (on 8 1 / 2 "x11" 20 lb. bond) of copies of your personal tax return. Tax included. . . . , . . Open early. Open late. Open weekends. 256 E. Beaver Ave. 224 W. College Ave. 238-2679 237-1317 als are within the office's health guidelines. The zoning office checks for ad equate room size, while the code enforcement office looks at whether the proposed area has the proper electrical wiring and ventilation. Three area homes are designated bed and breakfast establishments but the addresses of these homes are not available, said Ernest Dabiero, zon ing officer. People are particulary interested in these establishments when visiting State College for the annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and for football games, he said. Dabiero said single family dwell ings are typical of bed and breakfast establishments, but fraternities are atypical because of their multiple occupancy. Fraternity's fees for overnight lodging and food service to non-mem bers will remain at $5O, Henry said. by Winslow M. Mason Jr. • A drainage grate was removed from a hole at the east end of the HUB sometime Sunday, University Police Services said. —by James A. Stewart Program praises region's cultural diversity By ERIC SCHMIDT Collegian Staff Writer • The Academic Assistance Programs Council launched a program to celebrate the expanding racial and ethnic diversity in the Centre Region, the publicity director for the program said. Kevin Perry said the program, titled "We Are Community," is sponsored by the Town/Gown committee of the AAPC. The council was devel oped in 1984 to integrate minorities into the community. "The program will raise community aware ness in the Centre Region and celebrate the diversity, which we regard as a strength to the area," Perry said. The committee has distributed posters with photos of people representing the ethnic and USEC to students: Call your congressmen University students will be asked this week to call their senators and representatives and urge them to co-sponsor an inflation adjustment measure for higher education, which would protect the nation's colleges and universities from the expected Gramm-Rudman cuts. Edith Raphael, chairwoman of the Washington, D.C. governmental relations committee the University Student Executive Council's lobby will coordinate a phone drive today and tomorrow aimed at getting Pennsylvania's Republican U.S. Senators Arlen Specter and H. John Heinz 111 to co sponsor the measure. "Everyone who enters the (Undergraduate Stu dent Government) office, whether or not they're in student government, will be asked to make a phone call," Raphael said. ' 'GRADUATES - CALL 1-800-457-4065 FOR $4OO A..: -- '•: . •.:: . ..:"' . 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Hoskins, assistant professor of theatre arts and director of "Strut n' Roar," said the program's acts will include a Chinese tam bourine dance, juggling, an Indian dancer, an Indonesian sword dance and a commedian. The last hour of the program will be a period of Students can also call on their own. Heinz's Washington phone number is (202) 224-6324 and Specter can be reached in Philadelphia 1-800- 222-2752 as well as in Washington (202) 224- 4254. Known as the Andrews Amendment, the Demo cratic-sponsored bill would provide higher educa tion with $1.2 billion in federal appropriations this year and guarantee the same appropriations, adjusted for inflation, in the future, Raphael said. The phone drive is aimed at getting co-sponsors for the bill, not necessarily urging its passage, Raphael said. Proponents of the bill want to make it a bi-partisan effort, making Heinz and Specter important players because they are both Republi cans. 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The program will be held April 20 at the State College Area Intermediate High School, Perry said, and will last from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admis sion is free. `The more co-sponsors you have and the more bi-partisan a bill is, the likelier it is to pass.' bi-partisan a bill is, the likelier it is to pass," Raphael said. The phone drive will be held nationwide and is sponsored by the United States Student Associa tion, a national student lobby for student aid and higher education funding. —by Steve Wilson You are eligible for $4OO even if you don't finance your purchase. Use it toward your down pay ment or get a check from Ford after the purchase or lease. The amount of your pre approved credit is deter mined by the qualified vehicle you buy. If a vehicle is not in dealer stock, it must be ordered by June 1, 1986. Delivery of all vehicles must be taken by August 31, 1986. 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