Winona State University OpenRiver The inonW an - 1970s The inonW an – Student Newspaper 10-25-1978 The inonW an Winona State University Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/thewinonan1970s Recommended Citation Winona State University, "The inonW an" (1978). The Winonan - 1970s. 224. https://openriver.winona.edu/thewinonan1970s/224 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The inonW an – Student Newspaper at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in The inonW an - 1970s by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WINONAN Winona State University The Student Voice Vol. LIVI Number 6 111 October 25, 1978 Don Bobben and Jerry Schreck discuss the world energy problem and what we can do about it. Corporation, Cooperation, Conservation: What Can We Do? by Karen Markert Bobben, hired through the- CETA Energy audits are done strictly on a 7. Insulate ceiling. audit, or information is urged to call (Comprehensive Employment voluntary (for private homes) and Don Bobben or Jerry Schreck at It is fact that the earth has limited Training Act) program, answered confidential basis. Since January, 8. Install paddle blade air See Corporation page 12 resources, and that all nations many questions and gave many 1978, roughly 40 homes requested to circulations vs. air conditioner. industrial or post industrial, will be helpful hints. Schreck firmly be- have a home energy audit. Schreck • requiring resources as proportion- lieves America's total energy needs noted that they had just completed 9. Insulate: ate to gross population. could be cut by 50 per cent. This is a full energy audit on the Winona Council only possible if all agencies, public Public Library. This completed a. boiling hot water supply pipe. The urban population in 1920 was institutions, homes, private and audit is sent to Minnesota Energy b. air handling ducts in attic Deals 100 million and it is estimated that public corporations will recognize Agency. The Minnesota energy code spaces. by the year 2000 the urban that need of energy conservation is apparently very minimal through- c. hot water heater. population will double to approxi- and take serious, but appropriate out cities in Minn., thus energy d. hot water pipe from the water Students mately 2 billion. Population tends to steps. Schreck and Bobben are conservation measures ultimately heater to the sinks. increase and resources can decrease strong advocates of personal energy are selected, and performed at the rapidly, we are faced with a very conservation. Schreck and Bobben discretion of the corporation and 10. Turn down water heater to 110 Setback real and urgent dilemma. present conservation programs and companies. Schreck emphasized the degrees Fahrenheit. plan, and also do energy audits on need to speak to businessmen and The city council of Winona discarded a proposition Tuesday Some of the questions we might both public buildings and private companies in terms of money as far 11. Use task "oriented" lighting vs. that would have given the students ask ourselves are what we can homes. as energy conservation tactics; general task lighting. personally do to conserve energy. I money obviously talks! Schreck and in the Winona area equal rights. started searching for these answers For example, Schreck mentioned Bobben believe very strongly in Money can be saved, energy can The estimated students that at the Winona Energy Conservation that they had presented an informa- effective energy conservation; be conserved and our life styles can showed up at the meeting were Office, located in The Winona City tion energy conservation program Schreck mentioned that his home still be very comfortable. An shocked when the proposition was Hall. Jerry Schreck and Don at a neighborhood block party. and energy needs are all met Energy Audit is one way to promote put on the coincil floor and was through alternative forms of ener- energy conservation, however we, instantly killed without a vote being gy; for example, solar energy. He American people and businessmen taken. Mondale to Visit noted that he had installed (inex- must take conservation seriously pensively) a do it yourself solar and really make an effort both The Proposition • was written energy panel. Schreck and Bobben up personally and socially if energy by the Human Rights Commission. WSU Tomorrow put together a list of suggested conservation is to be successful. - There will be a follow-up story in energy conservations measures use- Vice President Walter Mondale, Anyone interested in an energy next week's edition of the Winonan. in an attempt to drum up support to draw over 1,000 observers. ful to note for both homes and for Wendell Anderson and other buildings. Democratic-Farmer-Labor candi- Intense battling between DFLers Inside dates in Minnesota, will appear on and Republicans in the state has 1. Repair and replace stone the Winona State campus tomor- now brought President Jimmy windows. row, it was announced Friday. Carter, former President Gerald A look at the Ford, and Mondale, among other 2. Weatherstrip all windows and Although details were not final- notables, to Minnesota in the last doors. Winonan's past Page 3 ized at the time the Winonan went week. to press, Mondale is expected to 3. Operate windows for cooling in conduct a 90-minute rally at 12:30 Carter and Mondale appeared in the summer. James Dickey Page 9 p.m. in the Somsen Hall Audi- Rochester Saturday, speaking in torium. support of 1st District congressional 4. Continue use of plastic over candidate Gerry Sikorski, while windows in winter. No. 1 Morris plays Mondale will likely make a brief Ford appeared at Sunday's Packer- tour of the WSU campus before the Viking football game with guber- 5. Use vestibules in the winter. here Saturday Page 10 rally at Somsen, which is expected natorial candidate Al Quie Sunday. 6. Install outside combustion air. Page 2 South African to High School was Kid StuffOctobe 978 Lecture on Apartheid For 15 year old Student by Casey Clark teachers; they had to keep coming faster,"...but it's okay, because I do by Jeanine Semrad up with extra work for me to do. But a lot of advanced reading on my He can decipher a physics I completed all my requirements so "Abraham Lincoln spoke of 'gov- own. problem in a matter of minutes, but I had to graduate." Joe continued to ernment of the people, by the he isn't yet old enough to drive a say that he wasn't happy in class. people, for the people.' Apartheid in Joe finds the faculty very helpful. car. "Everything moved so slow, I got South Africa is government of the "They encourage me, they loan me bored listening to the same things." blacks, by the whites, for the books and other materials which are Such are the problems of Joseph whites." — Donald Woods. beneficial." Sebany, a 15-year-old college stu- Joe's overall IQ is 150 plus, his dent at WSU. science and math IQ ranges 200 Donald Woods, the South African Joe doesn't feel that he has plus. He wants to eventually obtain missed any of the growing up columnist who escaped into exile Joe is a special student. He is not his doctorate in physics. "I want to after being "silenced" by his experiences that a 15-year-old in a degree program, or working on do research, maybe nuclear physics, government for his outspoken encounters. "I still enjoy my spare credit hours, but his academic or laser physics." time. I like swimming, volleyball, criticism of apartheid will give a standing would make him a junior. lecture at Winona State on Novem- hiking, and fishing. I like to have fun Joe's family is from Winona; that ber 13 at 8 p.m. in Somsen like everyone else." "I completed high school in eight was one of the influencing factors Auditorium. months. From January to mid-May I that made him choose WSU. He feel Joe really enjoys strategic war Donald Woods finished- 12 junior and senior high that Winona State is a good school South Africa and its crisis has games, and is a World War II buff. school classes, plus, I took a full load to get his basics down, and a few effected us all. The basic idea of a ment, but there must be some He enjoys reading books on the here at Winona State" he stated. higher level courses that will help white minority (5 million citizens) consensus between the ruled and history of the Jacksonian period as him after he graduates and moves representing a black majority (20 the rulers. well as the world wars. Joe felt that it was difficult to on to another university. million) can not be a legitimate Come and attend the lecture on advance in the school district. Most government of the will of the November 13 and hear Donald Joseph Sebany feels he is coping people felt he wasn't ready to "The environment makes it easier people. Not that the American Woods' solutions for the racial with college life very well, despite graduate from high school. on me. I am still around friends my representative democracy is the conflict in South Africa. The lecture his age difference with the rest of age, that way I don't have any social answer for every country's govern- is sponsored by SCAC and BCA. the WSU's school community. His "I took all my classes on an pressures. It was easier to come parents, friends, and instructors are individual basis. I missed out on the here, until I'm older," Joe stressed.