Anti-Nuclear Group to Start Student Chapter

Vol. LXIV no. 8 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNA Tl Tuesday, October 24, 1978 Enrollment decline cited u_c may lose over $1 Inillion By Glenn S. Sample committees of instructional recruit scholars." NR Staff programs, recruitment, registration "Right now we're looking at the As a result of a decline in enroll and non-academic services. subtle things like whether the ment at the university this quarter, Lyla Haggard, enrollment coor bulletins of the university are selling prognosticators in and associated dinator, has indicated, according to the university," said Bigler. with the administration have ten Bigler, that she would like to see at According to Dan Blazar, the only tatively predicted that between $1.2 least three to four students sitting on student on the non-academic sub and $1.8 million in subsidies from the each of the four subcommittees. committee, "our role is to find out state, tution and fee income may be Haggard has indicated she would 'why students leave." Blazar has listed lost, according to Mike Bigler, stu like to see students on the committees the priorities he considers to be the dent body vice president. who are not as involved with the uni most important: social life, security The final figures on the enrollment versity as student governments per on the campus, and residence halls. "In my talks with students, they are decline and the resultant loss in Full sons. Time Equivalent (FTE) enrollment, not leaving because the program According to Bigler, Haggard has wasn't here. In many cases, UC has as which justify state subsidy, will not "made it clear that the university is good a program as Ohio State. It's· be known until later this week. looking to find out what we are doing because of the social life," said The Enrollment Planning Task wrong." Blazar Force, which includes faculty, At a meeting of the recruitment The university had hoped to recap students and administrators, has subcommittee, Bigler said it was dis ture 741 additional FTEstudents this been addressing the problem of an closed that UC does not buy the quarter which would have meant $1.2 -anticipated decline since last winter national merit scholar finalists list, million in subsidies, tuition and fees. quarter. which identifies the top high school That amount had been incorporated Currently there are seven students graduates in the country. "We recruit in the university's 1978-79 fiscal sitting on the task force's four sub- athletes," said Bigler, "Why not budget. Anti-nuclear group The Cincinn11ti Reds practiced at U C yesterday, and will try it again today astheypreparefortheir upcoming tour in Japan. Ken Griffey is still trying to figure out what went wrong this year ... maybe they're making those bats too small to start student chapter these days. By Lisa Steinker there'll be power produced in one to pump that stuff into our environ NR Staff year that is I 00 times the amount that ment until they discover what to do Foreign students encounter A local anti-nuclear organization, was in the Hiroshima bomb." said with it,'' she said. "The half life of Citizens Against a Radioactive En Brokaw. "What we're doing this all plutonium is 24,000 years." vironment (CARE), currently is for is a little bit of electricity" 1 wo examples of improper nuclear barriers in their education attempting to start a student chapter Brokaw said nuclear power plants waste disposal operations were cited on UC's campus, according to Polly can only be insured up to $560 by Brokaw. In Maxi Flats, Ky .. there Bv Debbie Due tries ranging from Nigeria to Spain encountered by the students. Hemant Brokaw, CARE spokesperson. million. "If there is any damage over is a "low level'' waste site that has So you think you've got it rough. and from Germany to Taiw; 1. Trivedi's biggest problem was find "The more I read about nuclear that amount, the utilities are not been in existence for ten vears. This is your first yea r at lJ C, you're Most of them do not speak English ing a place to live. He was in Cincin !'"'' '· • ·1-.e rrc•e l c •'.' ' '• !.,.].;eve li 1hle • oh• <:Jic! "The "'llv re• ~ODf Buried in thP. gro• ncl io "Pol th~ ,<tuf£ from r '"veland. o • io , ' a p$y ' '~ thc•r nat•ve tongue. hut siucc thcv nati for 20 davs before he was able to that we were going to go ahead with that they can get that amount is out of reactors," but dirty gloves, un chology major. Here it is already the have come to the US they have had to get a dorm .in Sawyer Hall where nuclear power plants," she said. The through the Price-Anderson bill. iforms, empty contamers, equip fifth week of the quarter and you learn English thoroughly to survive. most of the foreign students reside. first meeting drew about six people in We're paying for this in our taxes, ment, etc. haven't even bought all of your books It's hard enough to take Chemistry According to Mary Campbell, July 1978 but CARE now claims to with a small portiun of that money Recently, it was closed down. "It yet. You're so far behind in your notes when you understand the department of lnterna tiona! Ser have 125 persons in its ranks. "It's coming from private industry." was found that plutonium is moving reading that it would take Evelyn language, but can you imaging trying vices, housing is one of the major dif amazing how fast news is traveling Brokaw said an anti-nuclear group in through the earth, and outside of the Wood a week to catch up on what to understand molecular orbitals if it ficulties the foreign students face about our organization. It's growing South Carolina had questioned the confines of the dump," she said. "If it you've neglected. were explained to you in Chinese? when they arrive at the university. so because more information is com validity of the bill. They challenged comes to the surface, is borne on the You already miss your family but Foreign students have this exact Most of them don't arrive until after ing out against nuclear power." the bill in that state's highest court, air, and lodges into someone's lungs. Christmas break is over a month problem - only English is the Labor Day and by this time few The first activityCAREsponsored where it was ruled invalid. It was then It can be very dangeorus." If one away and spring isn't even in sight. foreign language. spaces are available, she said. was a balloon release from the taken to the Supreme Court, who radio-nucleiod particle gets into your You haven't seen your friends from Tsai. an electrical engineering stu This year, 21 spaces were reserved Zimmer Nuclear Power Plant under overturned the state's decision, say lung, you are guaranteed lung cancer. Cleveland in weeks or even taken a dent from Taiwan, said language is for the incoming students so housing construction in Moscow, Ohio. Hun ing the bill an issue entirely up Unfortunately, she continued, "you breath of that exhilarating Cleveland his biggest barrier to learning. was not as much of a problem as it dreds of helium filled balloons were to Congress. can't smell, feel or taste plutonium. It air. At this point, you may even be Because of the technical nature of has been in the past years. Hooyoung Lee said the problem released f~om that site with anti "If it (nuclear power) is so safe, takes 20 years to develop the cancer. contemplating a leap from your 15th engineering and the math involved, nuclear messages enclosed. One of why can't the insurance companies There's no way of knowing how floor Sander dorm window. Tsai has less problems than an with the housing situation was not them read, "If there had been an acci insure them? (power plants)" asked many cases oflatent cancer are on the Wait just a minute. English or education major might. that it was unavailable, but that it was too expensive. In Lee's native dent at Zimmer Nuclear Power Brokaw. "Even Lloyds of London way." Before you jump, find out JUSt how He still said he is bewildered when the Plant, you would be radioactive." won't insure them." In Hanford, Washington, 160,000 much worse it could be. To some 540 professor makes a joke and the rest of country, Korea, he was able to rent an apartment simply by putting Another message said no insurance It's been 42 years since the atom gallon stainless steel drums full of students at UC this year, your the class bursts out laughing. He can down a deposit on it. After he and his company would insure against was split, said Brokaw, and finding a nuclear waste were enclosed in con problems would seem insignificant. only sit and wonder what is so amus wife left the apartment they were ·radioactive material. safe way to dispose nuclear waste is crete then buried in the ground, said These st).ldents come from foreign ing. "In Zimmer Nuclear Power Plant, still a problem. "They have no right continued on page 3 countries - over 60 different coun- Language isn't the only problem continued on page 3 Luken, Aronoff slated Toga party resembles Roman lifestyle The News Record has traditionally determined, everyone sneaked into casional kiss never seemed to hurt "The Roman Disco." He also led a printed stories about academics, the hall; and hesitantly approached anything though, unless maybe she's boisterous line in time with the for debate at UC today services, etc.

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