The Chronicle 78Th Year, No

The Chronicle 78th Year, No. 112 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Friday, March 4, 1983 Eight arrested at protest By Jenny Labalme . ed citizens said they have not Many Warren County WARREN COUNTY - Eight been adequately represented by citizens are concerned that the . people were arrested Thursday some of their county commiss state will not follow the proper in Warren County protesting ioners, their health director and precautions for pumping out the the state's handling of the by the president of the NAACP estimated 600,000 gallons of removal of large quantities in Warren County. water. State officials say this of PCB-contamingted water at Legal action has been futile figure is too high though they the landfill. and Wednesday evening the are unsure of how much water is citizens voted unanimously to in the landfill. The dumping of PCB, which drop their lawsuit and protest. Bill Phillips, the project causes cancer in laboratory The eight demonstrators were director ofthe landfill, said "the animals, sparked numerous arrested Thursday for trying to state has dealt with this protests last fall when more block engineers from entering responsibly from the beginning." than 500 people were arrested. the landfill. In spite of such assurances, in Protesters contend that the After PCB was illegally a publication issued by the state chose Warren County dumped -along 210 miles of EPA, several agencies because it is largely black. North Carolina roadways in including the Sierra Club "If this isn't the major civil 1978, the state built an EPA- criticized the procedures the PHOTO BY STEVE FELDMAN rights issue in the nation, approved landfill for the agency used to build the New R&S manager Sherwood Van Campen examines there's never going to be one," containment of PCB. The dumpsite. merchandise. said Ken Ferruccio, president of landfill has since been filled, Although much skepticism of the Warren County Citizens but there is now a problem of the state's handling of the Concerned About PCB. water accumulation within the matter remains in the minds of Ferruccio and many concern dump. many Warren County citizens, Division reworked Phillips said, "You have to accept somebody [as rightj in this world, that's what the following scandal government is all about." By David Sorensen University has "defamed" Amidst continuing contro and "slandered" him. Phillips also objected to a versy surrounding his Van Campen, formerly plan by county citizens to hire predecessor, the new merchandising manager for an independent chemist to manager of Recycle and Montgomery Ward, became study the landfill, saying "we Sales has reorganized the R&S manager in August and want to know what laboratory division and University has reorganized the depart they'll be using; the state needs officials say it has improved ment and developed new to know if they're using a markedly. accounting procedures to reliable chemist." Sherwood Van Campen "tighten up" the operation. Ferruccio said he is frustrated became R&S manager after "The department was too by what he considers bureau James Duke was forced to cluttered when I first came cratic manuevering. "I'm resign in June for allegedly here," he said. "We know issuing an emergency plea to falsifying $136,000 in sales. where we're going now." every individual and organizat The University filed a Operated off East Campus ion committed to civil, human $510,000 lawsuit in Decem since 1975, R&S is a'division and environmental rights ber against Duke and his of the material support throughout the nation, former assistant, Deborah department responsible for throughout the world,- to Turley, for diverting $10,000 transporting, storing and support Warren County in for their own use. Last week, yelling old and outdated PHOTO"BY JENN^ABALME whatever way is possible," he sa Duke filed a $1 million University equipment. Police arrest woman protesting against the dumping of PCB >d. countersuit claiming the See DEPARTMENT onpage4 in Warren County. See ARRESTS on page 2 Isolation breeds student apathy at Duke By Molly Castelloe "We live in a playworld," added centers too heavily around Duke-related In response to the relative lack of Aside from the occasional roadtrip or Trinity freshman Blaine Bortnick. "We events and that few people from outside interest among students for issues of supermarket visit, many Duke students have a plastic card to take care of our the University community feel welcome international scope, the SHARE World isolate themselves from the realities of meals. We can play golf, tennis, go on campus. "We don't try to be a part of Hunger Project limits its focus to hunger life beyond their gothic hunting ground. swimming and the only prerequisite is to Durham and Durham has stopped in Durham. Even students who once found need to pass our courses." trying to be a part of Duke," Whitney Project leaders said students have venture off-campus for the necessities of " In a sense, the environment coddles said. found it easier to identify with destitution everyday life can stay put. Clothes, food, students. "It's like a small child — Often students are unaware of news the closer it is to home. banking: what the Bryan Center lacks, everything is given to you, you're taken events until they reach crisis proportions. "Many students don't care what the Union Building or the East Campus care of," said Trinity sophomore Jo "A lot of people saw the effects of the oil happens outside their circle of friends, Dope Shop probably has. Whitney. "Something for every need, embargo as a few cents hiked on gas their family and the job they're going to What's more, Durham's size and which is directly opposed to the real prices, and a nothing to do with OPEC, have. It's a shame that the events, the southern setting often makes news from world. There's no rent, no food payments, and U.S. relations with Arab countries," lectures, the intellectual films on campus the "real world" seem less relevant. only the bursar's bill." said Trinity junior John Wheeler. are attended by the same subculture at "Harvard and Yale are in the middle of For some the Duke experience can be With textbooks often acting as ear Duke," Hergoz said. big cities; Duke's in the middle of a predictable. "It's possible to fill your plugs and binders, seclusion behind That "subculture" is widely viewed as forest," Trinity senior John de Beixedon time going to classes, studying just what campus walls can create steadfast an off-beat fringe with interests and said. "There's no real link between the you have to know for tests, partying — apathy. According to Trinity junior attitudes that fall left of the political Research Triangle and the students — your life can be uneventful, so stifling," Susie Evans, "Because of our self- center. "Students are so apathetic and so only a minority of students are interest Trinity senior Dagmar Hergoz said. absorbtion we don't hear things until am I. Where NC-PIRG is concerned, ed in medicine." Many complain that campus life they've already happened." See STUDENTS on page 5 Page Two The Chronicle Friday, March 4, 1983 Students to take part in financial aid protest By James Winter home. Hopefully, they'll carry these ideas back to Aldridge said that the proposed cuts in grants would While most of us have been busy planning our campus." i have a crippling effect on students in the lower retreats for spring break, a handful of determined Much of the protests and lobbying efforts are admissions categories. "Grants will be assigned to Duke students will travel to our nation's capital to expected to center on the controversial Solomon the students in the highest admissions categories first, protest the Reagan administration's planned cuts in Amendment, the recently passed law that links consequently those students not in the top admissions financial aid. financial aid to draft registration. "We are not level will have to rely on loans and work-study money. National campus organizers said they expect necessarily anti-draft, but we are taking issue with the This means that those who need the most time for several thousand students, including a contingent fact that the Solomon Amendment unfairly singles out academics are going to be forced to spend more time from Duke sponsored by the Duke Democrats, from male students who are in need of financial aid," working. We feel that education is a most serious area across the country to march on Capitol Hill Mar. 7 McKinney said. to cut. It's just not good planning for the future." for the third annual National Student Action and Duke student body president, Bill Bruton, said that McKinney said that past rallies have been effective. Lobby Day. although ASDU has ceased its national-level efforts to She said Reagan's anti-financial aid stands have This year's rally is being sponsored by three groups: fight financial aid cuts, it agreed to help the Duke motivated many students to get involved in the rallies, the National Coalition of Independent College and Democrats organize the Washington trip. "We've adding, "We're getting the sense that the legislators University Students (COPUS), the National given them partial funding so that they can advertise, are agreeing with us — they're not going to buy Organization of Black University and College and we're also providing phones so that anyone who plan." Students (NOBUCS) and the U. S. Student wants to can phone his legislator to schedule a Association (USSA). meeting," Bruton said. Gwen McKinney of USSA said she expects a large Bruton added, however, that ASDU would continue Protestors arrested turnout.

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