Here Come the Brides Well, Almost

AEOLUS The Chronicle's weekly magazine 76th Year, No. 130 Duke University, Durham, north Carolina Wednesday, April 8, 1981 Here come the brides well, almost .Today's news Teller backs increase in nuclear energy By Ron Coleman Stressing that "nuclear weapons and power have to "This can't be done without enormous sacrifices, but The United States cannot resist the Soviet threat in be stopped before it's to late," protesters outside the they would be incomparably less than those if we tried the Persian Gulf except by saving the energy it has auditorium showed a slide projection ofthe results of to fight a war in the Persian Gulf," he said. and producing more energy, nuclear physicist Edward the Hiroshima atomic bomb for people to see as they Teller said the U.S. is doing well at saving energy Teller told an overflow crowd in Gross Chemistry entered the building. but "in producing energy, we haven't done well." He Auditorium last night while a crowd of anti-nuclear Sumerford said the vigil was necessary because "it's blamed excessive oil regulations which kept prices low demonstrators held a silent vigil outside. important to have an anti-nuclear presence here since and did not give oil companies incentives to find new A group of more than 50 Duke students and Durham we disagree completely with everything he has ever energy, but he said that the Reagan administration is residents carrying signs and posters protested against done." starting to reverse that trend. Teller, the man who vigil organizer Steve Sumerford Stan Gergen, Trinity sophomore, said that he He cited windmills in high-wind areas of Hawaii called the "father ofthe H-bomb and the major author participated in the vigil because "nuclear energy and and solar cells as his favorites for the future. Teller of nuclear power." weapons are not as big a concern as they should be. It's said solar energy may even be competitive with other Teller, a native af Hungary and now a senior a shame that it takes something as disastrous as Three forms of energy in some areas within five years. research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford Mile Island to make people concerned." But Teller said the full-scale continuation of nuclear University, delivered a witty, 50-minute talk and then Some of the protesters also laid themselves across energy is necessary in the near future to counteract the answered questions for the 21st Fritz London the floor of the lobby conducting what Sumerford destabilizing effects of oil imports, and he warned Memorial Lecture. called a "die-in." This was done to "symbolize what those opponents of nuclear power that peace is in He dwelled on the "really bad news" that the Soviet nuclear weapons mean — the death of millions of danger. Union has surrounded the Persian Gulf, an area from people," he said. Stating that there is no safety record in the energy which he said America imports 45 percent of its oil, Inside the auditorium, Teller, perched comfortably industry to parallel that of nuclear power and that with an army stronger in both size and quality than on the lab counter, said the energy shortage facing the better educated and better paid operators could insure that of the U.S. world is "exceedingly serious, and it will hit the Third even greater safety, he urged the Nuclear Regulatory "When the Kremlin decides to take over the oil fields, World in an even more cruel fashion." Commission to hurry and license all existing reactors they can do so, and we can't do anything to stop them," "The worst kind of pollution, the pollution of and those under construction. This would result in a he said. poverty, cannot be relieved without energy" to provide decrease in imports of one million barrels of oil per day While in the long run Teller pointed to wind and irrigation and fertilizer for Third World land, Teller and save the U.S. approximately $15 billion in just one solar power as the "horses I am betting on," he said said, and to do this "we need to use energy from every year, he said. this country must now look for more oil and gas and available source. Teller summed up his speech by stating what he must fully utilize nuclear energy which he called the "We need to satisfy the elementary needs of people if considered should be America's two most important "cheapest, cleanest, safest source known to us." we want peace," he said. goals — to ensure peace as far as possible and to help "The nuclear option is not an option," Teller To avert the consequences of a cut-off of Persian the Third World through the unavoidable process of claimed. "It must become a major part of our energy Gulf oil caused by a possible Soviet takeover, Teller chansging into an industrial society. The only way to effort because it is one ofthe most potent ways to make said, America's ultimate goal must be to stop achieve these, he said, was to use all possible "energy the world in which we live more stable," he said. importing oil altogether. from heaven and earth." Speakers discuss U.S. intervention By William Hawkins Walter said he supports the political solution. intervention which the United States has Three speakers last night discussed the pattern of "I would hope that we may find a political maintained," Sumerford said. United States intervention in El Salvador in a settlement, but we must be aware of the fact that Sumerford said the U.S. intervention has been symposium entitled "El Salvador — an American political solutions are more difficult to reach, evidenced in its involvement in Vietnam and Chile, Perspective. especially when conditions are as polarized as they incidents which should not be considered as Knut Walter, former administrator of El Salvador's are," he added. unintended aberrations of policy. Catholic University; Steve Sumerford, member ofthe Sumerford said the intervention in El Salvador is "This country has a history of intervention which Southeastern branch of the War Resisters League; and part of a general pattern of administrative support for was accepted by the public until Vietnam . Reagan Joyce Johnson, a member of the National Black repressive regimes. is following the pattern he advocated in Vietnam and Independent Political Party, spoke to a crowd of "I think it's extremely important to see it as a part of Chile. It is wrong for him and others to see a Soviet approximately 150 people in Social Sciences in the a broader policy that the Reagan administration is threat as a justification for our presence in EI second in a three-part series of symposia on El implementing. El Salvador is part of a long pattern of Salvador," Sumerford said. D Salvador sponsored by a number of campus organizations. A graduate student in Salvadoran history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Walter ASDG urges rehiring of Kolena emphasized the "dangers of looking at the problem from an immediate point of view," and said the present By Ranee Cleaveland was the professor himself. Failing that, "you should go conflict in El Salvador is part of a history of popular to either the director of undergraduate studies for the rebellion against oligarchical rule. The ASDU legislature last night passed a resolution urging the University to offer John Kolena, visiting department or the chairman of the department. "For years it has been thought that Central America assistant professor of physics, an adjunct "If you can't get satisfaction from these channels, could operate on the basis of a pluralistic, capitalistic professorship. you should talk to the assistant deans of Trinity society, and it has been clear that change, if it could Because of budgetary problems, Kolena, who College. If they can't help you, go to the associate dean occur, could only come at the expense of the oligarchy. teaches courses in astronomy and astrophysics, was of Trinity or myself." "When this change fails to come about, we find not rehired for next year by the physics department. Commenting on ASDU's role in disciplining ourselves back at square one, with the added threat of Over .600 students signed a petition expressing teachers, Friedl said, "It is ASDU's privilege and right political violence," Walter said. disapproval of Kolena's dismissal. to question teaching practices, but some degree of While organizations for popular government have As an adjunct professor, Kolena would teach courses confidentiality should be retained because people's been supported by most Salvadorans, Walter said on a part-time basis but would be ineligible for tenure. lives and . reputations are at stake. these organizations have had to compete with official "We feel this compromise will solve the situation," "Suggestions are welcome, but suggest through military organizations and tended to exercise said Bill Podulka, one of the co-sponsors of the bill. private, established channels, with ASDU committees repression. "It's not fair to ask the physics department to have working through the proper avenues." "I think that it can be said that the Army is the him stay on when they don't have the money, and its In other business, the legislature approved budgets political party of El Salvador. Both the present Junta unfair to Kolena for him to be rehired full-time when for the Anthropology Majors' Union and Pi Sigma and the-previous one exist at the discretion ofthe there is no possibility he can get tenure." Alpha, the political science honorary fraternity. The army. Early in 1979, the situation was becoming Stephen LoBuglio, another co-sponsor of the bill, body also heard a first reading of a bill to institute the crucial, and there were violations of human rights.

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