Mustang Daily, May 6, 1985

Mustang DailyC'ulifornia Polytechnic State l'nivcrsity, San l-uis Obispo Volume 49, No. 110 Monday, May 6,1985 Nuclear response plan distributed to dorms By MARY ANNE TALBOTT Staff Writer A handbook that details the response plan at Cal Poly in the event of an emergency at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power RADIATION SHtITFR ARfAS Plant is scheduled to be distributed to student residence halls Monday. Faculty and staff received copies of the handbook last week, said Richard Hrug, director of Public Safety. Titled "Your Respon.se to an Emergency at Diablo Canyon," the handbook has been distributed throughout San Luis Obispo County. A green cover that gives response instructions for people on the Cal Poly cam pus and describes the four stages of radiation alert has been added to the booklet. "Faculty, staff and students in residence halls are generally the ones we'll have to deal with," said Hrug. The plan was prepared by En- virosphere Company of New • % York, which also prepared the master disaster plan last lall for Cal Poly. Hrug said the emergency plan was designed voluntarily with the aid of the County of San Luis •J:' Obispo, and was not mandated t by law. ' i r He explained that the campus i| is only twelve miles from the OONAIO MUNRO/Muttang D*lly Diablo Canyon plant. If the In the event of an emergency at the Diablo Canyon Nu- Sheltered in 13 buildings on campus. A response plan was campus was within a ten mile clear Po\wer Plant, students would be temporarily scheduled to be distributed to dorm residents Monday. radius of the nuclear plant, an campus. within those buildings desig building, and all the leaders have mality which does not affect the emergency respon.se plan would People on campus will be nated as shelters. The safest received emergency training, he operation of the plant. Brug said have been required by law, Brug notified of an emergency by tele rooms are those with the least said. that this could be anything from said. phone, loudspeakers and sirens external exposure. " I t ’s not for a nuclear attack, " a brushfire five miles away to an Under the response plan, the located in Poly Canyon, on Yellow signs that list the Brug said. "This is just a short airplane flying over the plant. Public Safety Department is Grand Avenue and on Highland shelter rooms have been posted term holding of about four to The second stage is an alert prepared to notify the entire Drive. in each of the buildings. eight hours." signifying any actual or potential campus of an emergency and Shelters are located in 13 Sixty faculty and staff have There are four stages of safety problems. The third stage shelter 14,584 people. A t any buildings on campus. Brug said been chosen as leaders for the emergency at the Diablo Canyon is a site area emergency, such as given time, said Brug, there are that the .safest buildings were shelters. A t least three leaders plant. The first is notification of the release of small amounts of no more than 10,000 people on chosen and the safest rooms have been assigned to each an unusual event, or any abnor Please see EMERGENCY, page 4 Japanese language may be taught at Poly By DAWN YOSHITAKE promote Japanese studies in "The teaching position won't His proposal will be submitted Sta‘1 Wntftr other nations. said .John be just for Japanese language to the Foreign Langages The opportunity to link Cal McKinstry. social sciences pro courses, ” said Little "The in Department. Dean Jon Ericson F’oly with .lapan is the aim of a fessor and Japanese cultural in structor needs the ability to of the School of Communicative proposal that would add a .Japa structor. teach language as the primary- Arts and Humanities. lYovost nese language course to the The Japan Foundation would ability. but they'll need to teach Tomlinson Fort; FYesident Baker Foreign Languages Department. match funds with Cal J’oly for culture and history as a second and Chancellor W Ann Reynolds Dr. William Little, Foreign three years to get the program ability." for approval. Languages Department head, is started, said Little. He added that the main cost McKinstry will be traveling to requesting a joint venture with If the program is judged suc for the program will be the in Japan this summer and will visit the Japan Foundation to offer a cessful after three years, he said structor’s salary. the Foundation to promote the Japanese language course that the university would be "The administration is inter proposal. through his department responsible for hiring a tenured ested, but they haven't seen the I ’ve already met with the The Japan Foundation is run instructor and cover the costs of specifics and aren't committed Japan Foundation head in I.,os by the Japanese government to running the program. yet, ” said Little. Angeles and our schedules will overlap while in Japan, so we ll go to the Foundation together, ” CSU fall applications increasesaid McKinstry. He added that he was in troduced to the Los Angeles By DAWN YOSHITAKE one hand it's extremely nice to be selective, but it foundation head by Kenji Izumi, Staff Writer can work against you." Snyder said. an aid to' Japanese Prime In the late 1960s the Architecture Department TERESA NO/Mu«t»ng DaMy Minister Nakasone. Applications for admission to the California became the first impacted program. Engineering John McKinstry "They (Japanese) judge you by State University system for Fall Quarter 1985 and business became impacted during the late the person who recommends you. "When I was hired here, I have increased 10.8 percent, but Cal I’ oly will not 1970s, said Snyder. So if you don't have a name, you assumed. that being on the be affected by the increase. "In 1980 everything was pretty well impacted, don’t have much weight.” said California coast there was an CSU Chancellor W. Ann Reynolds announced it had a coattail effect with less popular programs McKinstry. He Oriental division in the Poly cur that 134,720 students have applied for admission like history and English,” said Snyder. added that Americans should riculum, said Little. ‘T was sur into the CSU system compared to the approxi Of the 200,000 students that apply to the CSU study Japan because it has a prised that there wasn't. I think system each year, Snyder said Poly receives mately 120,000 that had applied as of this time greater economic impact on the it’s a newer focus of Poly to in around 18,000 applicants and 10,000 get accepted. last year. Cal Poly, however, is not accepting United States than European ternationalize the institution." anymore Fall Quarter applications unless a stu He noted that only 6,000 students usually attend nations. A Japanese language course is once selected. dent is applying for a graduate program. McKinstry hopes to have the offered through Extended Cal Poly Admissions Officer Dave Snyder said Snyder cited three reasons for Poly 's admission program started by Fall Quarter Education but college credit isn’t the university has a maximum enrollment of success: location of the campus, academic pro 1986. given for the course. grams and the requirement to declare a major. 15,800 students, and this year’s enrollment was Little said when he first came Although European languages "Because all students have to declare a major, cut back by 300 students because fewer students to Cal Poly he was surprised the are easier to learn than Japanese, we have an up-front policy. This attracts students are dropping out. university didn't offer Asian Little said he expects the pro- 'Tt's a two-edged sword. Turning people down who've made an initial career decision," said languages cun lead to negative ffH-dbuck on ih*» campus. On Snvder. Please see LANGUAGE, page 4 Page 2 Opinion Mustang Dally Monday, May 6,1985 An international future One could make a logical assumption that a school as technical Japanese language but that would also include sections on Japa ly oriented as Cal Poly would train students in the language and nese culture. The Japan Foundation would provide funds mat culture of a country also with a celebrated technical orientation — ching those provided by Cal Poly for the first three years of the Japan. But no Asian languages are "part of the regular curriculum program. The planned date for starting the program is Fall here. Quarter, 1986. I The technical interchange between the United States and Japan But moving away from the common Cal Poly technical perspec is staggering and many Cal Poly students from a variety of ma tive, the course would also be a welcome addition to a campus not jors will undoubtedly be involved. They will be gravely ill- exactly overflowing with opportunities to explore a variety of prepared for the challenge without the knowledge of Japanese cultures and arts. language and culture that a proposed program would give them. The program is still in the talking stages and must be approved Through a program in conjunction with the Japan Foundation, by a chain of officials starting with Cal Poly Foreign Languages an organization run by the Japanese government to promote Department head William Little and ending with California State Japanese studies in other nations, this educational gap could be Universtiy Chancellor W. Ann Reynolds. closed. Cal Poly students would then have an opportunity to learn something about a nation that will undoubtedly play a large part Permanent funding for the program does not come with the in many of their futures.

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