EXPONENT See Story Page 15 Tuesday, April 9, 1985 Volume 76, Number 39
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Dinosaurs Come To Life EXPONENT See story page 15 Tuesday, April 9, 1985 Volume 76, Number 39 Expansion begins on greenhouse $5.3 million building will be completed in two years. by MELISSA KORBER Glass houses are the traditional green Construction will begin this month on house growing space for plants, while 1 new Controlled Environment Center growth chambers are ·•small scale and .o replace and expand upon services sophisticated," according to Miller. A provided by MSU's greenhouses. growth chamber is a little larger than u The S5.3 million building will be refrigerator and has its own climate con ocatcd on I Ith Street at the site of the trol system including humidity and wind irccnhou es. But because the new facil velocity controls. ty will be so much larger than the exist In addition, the 16 growth rooms will ng greenhouses. additional land was provide a totally artifical growing envir iced to facilitate construction. onment in a ~oom about 15 by 20 feet, I The center will cover about 50,000 Miller said. 1.quare feet, according to Dwane Miller. The center will also house two 1ead of the Dcpanment of Plant and research and teaching laboratories Photo by Garv Small ioil Services. A parking lot located which will hold about 60 to 70 students. An artist '.J rendition of the completed Com rolled Environment Center (above). The /01 where 1he cenltr will be constructed (below). f>etwccn Hames Hall and the existing One of the center's main functions no other faculty offices months, Miller said. trecnhouses has been permanently will be to provide .. a lot of hands on The quarantine laboratories will be tors. although in the building. ·About one-fourth of the old facility i·loscd down in order to provide the classes," according rn Miller. one of only two locations in the nation 'will be housed Miller will be incorprated into the new build tdditional land needed for the center. The facility will be available for where researchers can study insects from · "It's primarily a use facility," explained. But the center will also ing." he said. The rest of the existing 1 Alternate parking has been provided research on all levels of university edu other countries while they are still under conservatory greenhouses, however, will be de ast of married student housing in what cation, Miller explained. Undergradu quarantine, according to Miller. include a small public horti stroyed. \as previously part of the married ates, graduate students, and instructors The other facility which can handle , which will emphasize plants and Phase one of the project should be tdcnt housing garden plot, Miller said. will have access to the center, he said. quarantined .insects is located in Cali culture native to Montana. two usable by fall of 1986, but the second The Controlled Environment Center The Montana Potato Improvement fornia, he said. The center will be constructed in will phase of the project won 1 be completed viii include glass houses, growth Association laboratories will be located The center will also include a student phases. Phase one of construction greenhouse until the following spring, Miller said. hambers, and about 16 growth rooms, within the center along with The Mon lounge complete with study tables and utilize pan of the existing >'liller said. tana Insect Quarantine laboratories. offices for the greenhouse administra- and should be completed within IS ; (cominiad on page U) 1 Tuesda . A ril 9 198 THE CREAMERY 2nd Floor Strand Union in the Union Market ~BAR Novelties ~) Mr. Bars........................ 85¢ I Chocolate dip Bananas ........... 50¢ PDDL Choe-Chip Cookie Sandwich.•.... 55¢ Choe Chip dip Cookie Ci cle.... 75¢ Brownie Wich................... 75¢ Rice Krispie Sandwich.......... 75¢ Yum-E-Bar...................... 50¢ 12 Flavors of Shakes and Sundaes Raspberry Blackberry Brandied Peach Hot Fudge Blueberry (coming soon) Strawberry Choe. Choe. Chip Photo by Tom Lo\\-e Choe. Chip 0 .K. Corra)? The.w rwo horses are reminiscenr of an earlier ua e\·en though one is 1e1hered 10 a telephone pole rather than a hi1ching po.sf. The ..broncos" ~re photographed sou1h of Three Forks. Marshmellow Chocolate Vanilla Matheson adresses nuclear woes Butterscotch by JOHN AKRE for nuclear power. The government paid for this on a cost plus 2 Sizes of Shakes 75¢ Hand in hand with America's racing nuclear technology basis, which helped to make the price of making this power a $1.00 has been its rapid ignorance in any thinking that takes the reality extremely expensive. nuclear situation into the next few years. One of the most The Three Mile Island incident brought about more string Sundaes 75¢ important things neglected is what to do with the large ent regulations by the uclear Regulatory Commission and a 8 5 ¢ amounts of high-level radioactive waste produced by this total about-face in public opinion toward nuclear energy. The 9 0¢ expanding technology. The issue of high-level radioactive result is that the nuclear industry is. as Matheson state, .. if not waste disposal was the subject oflecture given by former Utah moribund, the comatose." governor Scott Matheson last night as part of an Earth Matheson claims that the failure of the nuclear industry is Sciences class ia the geologic aspects of nuclear waste due to mismanagement in the top management levels in the disposal. industry. Ah hough to new reactors are being planned, many Ice CreamCones Matheson's concern in the issue was triggered by the preveously produced reactors are still in operation, and in Depanment of Energy's solution to the problem. The DOE their operation are producing high-level radioactive waste. ~ Dipped Cones selected nine sites nationwide for the prposed permanent Low level waste is currently being disposed of in burial sites storage of high-level radioactive waste. Utah holds two of such as that in Halford Washington, he said. High level ~ 45¢ & 65¢ those sites. wastes are now being stored at the sites of the reactor plants in Though Montana contains none of the sites, the simple fact temporary facilities. 10 Flavors of Wilcoxson '.s that one oft he proposed locations is in Hatford, Washington The radioactive isotopes in high level wastes have halflives Ice Creams S<X a scoop necessitates the moving of the wastes through Montana on that vary from half a year to two million years. On an average. their way to the storage site. it takes about 10,000 years for half the radioactivity in these Matheson served eight years a governor of Utah. When he wastes to dissipate. We still have Haagen-Daze first entered office he had no idea how to deal with problems The solution being offered by the Depanment of Energy to of national scale but he was quick to realize that the solutions get rid of high-level wastes is to bury them deep underground to those problems were usually dumped on states like his, a in sealed containers. Specialties sparcely settled state with lots of federal land and little politi In December 1982. in a lame duck session of congress. our cal clout. nation's current solution to the disposal of high level wastes Banana Splits $1.65 Often these small states, such as Utah and Montana, have was made official in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. federal problems dumped into them without any chance for Under this Act, the DOE is to find t\\O sites for deep geologic Sherb'a'Sof Coolers .85¢ the state to get involved in the decision-making process. To burial of wastes and a third site that will also be used 10 prove his point, Matheson brought back the spectre of monitor the buried radiation sources. nuclear testing in Nevada in the 50's. when, as Matheson said, The DOE decided on nine sites out of which these three the government wouldn't blow bombs until the winds were would be narrowed. Those sites are located in Michigan, blowing in the direction of Utah. Louisianna. Texas. Nevada, Utah and Washington. Utah During hi s term in office, Matheson fought the federal contains two of the nine sites. government's decisions for Utah in such cases as the storage The Utah sites are located in Lavender and Davis Canyon. Don't even wait for a hot day- of chemical warfare agents and basing of MX missiles within Matheson said that the Davis site is located a mile and a half his state. from Canyonlands National Park. HA VE ONE NOW! The issue of the storage of nuclear waste materials stretches After two years of narrowing the sites down. the Depart- back into the 40's and so·s when the federal government gave ment of Energy decided on three sites, but also said that all ' ••---~---••••••••••••••·~~--· tfle private sector the responsibility of building the ':pacit~ •• • • • · - __ [conrmued on page 7) Career Day 1985 will feature 50 companies ts a by SHELIA BEARDSLY available." student volunteers. Each represen different discipline at MSU. Before Career Days 1985 will feature more The Representatives of these compan Career Days , t hey issued a survey to company participants than in past years, ies will form a swapmeet of information students within each department to according to Tom Messick. industrial in the SUB Ballroom with displays, to invite. placement manager for Career Services. pamphlets and movies concerning determine what companies ..Most of the companies that are com .. This will be one of the biggest Career careers now available within their ing were requested by the students. "said Days rn a long time," he ~aid Represcn organization. , chairman of the com tati\CS from Schlumberger paper com Messick said Career Days is struc Dan McCauley pany to Exxon and 18\11, will be partici tured to pro\'ide students with .