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Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper Newspapers 9-28-1984 The Grizzly, September 28, 1984 Rosemary J. Wuenschel Ursinus College Tom Feeney Ursinus College Joseph F. Pirro Ursinus College Amy Kistler Ursinus College Walter S. Keehn Ursinus College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews Part of the Cultural History Commons, Higher Education Commons, Liberal Studies Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Wuenschel, Rosemary J.; Feeney, Tom; Pirro, Joseph F.; Kistler, Amy; Keehn, Walter S.; Wise, Karen; Cyr, Katie; Bull, Kenny; Nevins, Doug; Cosgrave, Timothy; and Godor, Christopher F., "The Grizzly, September 28, 1984" (1984). Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper. 122. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/122 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Rosemary J. Wuenschel, Tom Feeney, Joseph F. Pirro, Amy Kistler, Walter S. Keehn, Karen Wise, Katie Cyr, Kenny Bull, Doug Nevins, Timothy Cosgrave, and Christopher F. Godor This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/122 GIYE IlOeD OCT. 2 & 3 In Helfferich Hall New faculty profiles VOL 7. - NO.4 The Grizzly Collegeville. Po. September 28.1984 Communication Arts' newest member in the communication field. From By JOSEPH F. PffiRO His office at the Ritter Center 1971 to 1973, he taught at Rutgers in their Urban Studies Division. begins to take shape, with the In this program, Miller was an third week of classes. J .K. Miller assistant in mass com is an educator who brings a munications courses. wealth of knowledge and ex perience to the Ursinus com In speaking with him last week munity this year. He responded he expressed that he became to an advertisement placed by interested in Ursin us College Dr. Joyce Henry, head of the because of the small school en Communication Arts depart vironment, -and its emphasis on ment, in the Chronicle of Higher the student which Miller believes Education back in March. Dr. to be essential in a college career. Miller has arrived and will teach This is achieved from the person courses in mass media and to person contact. Thus far, he is society, advanced television happy with Ursinus because of its production, and two sections of friendliness. Dr. Miller also likes public speaking. He also plans to being able to go across campus be the faculty adviser for the and cross paths with one his '--_____________________________________~ Ursinus radio station WVOU. He students. has had training and experience He says that students in his two in such areas as video production speech sections have been "a bit and skills, television, radio, nervous." But Miller mentioned Limerick: Nuclear power photography, broadcast that he is very impressed by the newswriting, educational media, fact that all of the students are and theory of mass com eager to talk about any problems comes to MontgolIlery munication industry. they are having. Within the Ct)unty Dr. Miller's educational Communcation Arts Depart background began at Rutgers ment, he hopes more courses will By TOM FEENEY caused th~ United States to lag mercial use" will perhaps be University where he graduated in soon be added, and that the newly (Part 1 of a 3 part series) far behind other countries in seen as one of the major 1967 with a BA in Political installed course in mass media According to the Energy nuclear technologies. And the questions of this century. And as Science. He then went to Miama and society will continue to draw Research and Development fears of those who oppose nuclear such, it is imperative that each of University in Oxford, Ohio to more students. Administration (ERDA), there power, proponents believe, are us find a satisfactory answer by obtain a masters in Political The stUdents themselves seem are now more than 230 nuclear unfounded. These apprehensions drawing conclusions from in Science. From Union Graduate to be very impressed with the power plants in various stages of are caused by a lack of in formation grounded in fact, not School at Antioch University he new professor. A senior in one of myth. operation, construction, and formation or misinformation, received a Ph.D. in Mass Com Miller's public speaking courses planning. Although more than 60 they say. If we are unable to put munications. He has also earned said that, "He is very personal of these plants now operate these fears to rest, proponents of THE QUESTION AT URSINUS and has a good delivery." As we In Limerick, just a few miles a MCRP degree from Rutgers, commercially, a large per nuclear energy believe we will which is a professional degree in have seen, Dr. Miller brings an centage of the remaining 170 lose political leverage with west of Collegeville, Philadelphia the planning of telecom education filled background; one plants continue to exist only as smaller but more technologically Electric Company (PEC) plans that can only help our college. to begin commercial operation of munications. blueprints; the construction of advanced nations. As J.K. Miller enters Ursinus The Ursinus community these plants has been stalled or College, he brings about 11 years welcomes J.K. Miller. stopped by technical of teaching experience with him inadequacies and political (Anti-Nuclear Groups) controversies. Most groups believe that the possible ill effect Despite the claims of groups such as Edison Electric Institute of radioactivity are sufficient cause to abandon (EEl) that an overwhelming the construction of nuclear power plants. majority of Americans favor the completion and subsequent full- The Committee for Energy tneir nuclear power plant in April scale commercial operation of Awareness (CEA) blames the of 1985. these plants, opposition groups press for a great deal of misin Because of the proximity of this are vocal and vehement. formation, claiming that "scare facility, the nuclear controversy Although specific concerns differ statements" tend to grab takes on an added dimension for from group to group, most headlines, excerbating and Ursinus College students. believe that the possible ill ef- perpetuating the public's un Regardless of the result, the fects of radioactivity are suf- founded apprehensions. EEl decision will affect us all. ficient cause to abandon the maintains that "imaginative Naturally, then, it will benefit development of nuclear works of fiction," such as "China all of us if we can sidestep the technologies and the construction Syndrome," have crpated enormous amounts of of nuclear power plants. irrational fears in the minds of propaganda spawned by both Opposition groups have not uninformed Americans. proponents and opponents of been able to disuade those who Pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear nuclear power, and examine the believe nuclear energy is the groups have been squared off for issue open-mindedly. energy source of the future, but more than a decade now and it is This article and the remainder they have stalled the construction likely that they will be in op of the articles in this series will of many facilities. position for many years to come. provide information about Advocates of nuclear power, The seemingly simple question nuclear technology in general, especially the large utilities, "Should America put nuclear and about the Limerick Nuclear J.K. Miller. assert that their opponents have power technologies in com- (See P4 ) September 28. 1984 2 The GrlzzlV National CalUpus News Campus Press Service College programs may.face budget cuts Editor ......................... ........ Rosemary Wuenschel WASHINGTON, D.C. last three years. mittee, who died this summer, Associate Editor ................................. Brian Kelley College programs may be more They are leaving their com and Rep. Paul Simon (D-TI) , News and Features Editor......................... Tom Feeney vulnerable than ever to budget mittees, moreover, as Congress chair of the House Subcommittee Entertainment Editor ........................... Andrea Butler cuts in the next year because considers the Higher Education on Postsecondary Education, Photo Editor ...................................... Nick Abidi several key congressmen will be Reauthorization Act of 1985, a who is running for the Senate Sports Editor .................................. John Callahan missing from House education crucially-important law that will against Charles Percy. Business Manager ................................. Noel Sabel committees, sources say. set federal college policy for the Two other House education The Grizzly was founded in 1978, replacing the previous campus The missing congressmen all rest of this decade. committee members are retiring newspaper, The Ursinus Weekly. It is published by students ten played important roles in staving Mis~ing will be Rep. Carl this year. weeks each semester. The Grizzly is edited entirely by students and off many of President Reagan's Perkins (D-Ky), chairman of the "Perkins was probably the the views expressed in the paper are not necessarily those held by proposed student aid cuts in the House Education-Labor Com- person most responsible for the administration, faculty, or a consensus of the student body. The holding the line against budget staff of The Grizzly invites opinions from the college community cuts Reagan has proposed since and will publish them as time and space permit. 1980," says Dallas Martin, head Students nix pass(fail system of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Ad Pass/fail grading systems reports Registrar Linda Girard. ministrators. have failed, and students who "People were taking advantage "It was clearly his strong have a chance to use them of it: using for hard major leadership on that committee generally reject them, according classes and GED requirements.