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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Spring 4-17-1987 Maine Campus April 17 1987 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus April 17 1987" (1987). Maine Campus Archives. 1970. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/1970 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 16, 1987 The Daily Maine Um THE UNIVE?SITY OF MAINE NEWSPAR SINCE 15 Friday, April 17, 1987 vol. 100 cg? Coach charged with OUI, hit-and-run dismissed by Jan Vertefeuille of Bransfield's sentencing at the Staff Writer 3rd Disrict Court in Bangor. Court records also show Bransfield pleaded guilty Mon- charge against team, A a university day to driving 46 mph in a 25 diving coach of leaving the mph zone. Roberts said nesday he did scene of an accident with bodi- not believe the speeding viola- ()liege ly injury was dismissed Monday tion was connected to the hit- "tine after he agreed to plead guilty and-run accident. 10 p.m. to the more serious crime of At the time of the arrest, OU I Orono police said they believed John Bransfield was arrested Bransfield was speeding. on the charge after a March 28 Eyewitness descriptions and a hit-and-run accident in which portion of the license plate University of Maine student number of the vehicle that hit Mark St. Peter was seriously St. Peter led police to injured. Bransfield. "The OUI charge had to be a plea bargain between Bransfield and the district attorney." —Forrest Davis Orono police officer • Assistant District Attorney The accident occurred at 1:26 Michael Roberts said Bransfield a.m, and the UMaine diving spring Football - (Martin photo) agreed to plead guilty to coach was arrested later in the operating under the influence if morning and charged with ag- No! No! Irou put your right foot in. Vou take your right foot out. lou put your right foot the charge of leaving the scene gravated assault and leaving the in and you shake it all about. of an accident with bodily in- scene of an accident with bodi- jury or death were dismissed. ly injury or death. April 30 is the tentative date (see OUI page 3) WMEB announces new format by John Robinson Twins, U2, Peter Gabriel, Bangles, Dire Straits, Residents angry about waste Volunteer Writer and Wang Chung as part of the third tier. "We do that anyway," Brann said, "Most The future general manager of the Univer- all those bands have been in heavy rotation, sity of Maine's radio station, by Jennifer Orr Joseph Khoury, that is before they broke into the big-time" has formally announced the slated format Staff Writer Airplay of such bands will be relegated to change for WMEB. "After months and what Khoury termed "Bsides." These will months of research and planning, we have (GREENBUSH) — Residents of Greenbush are angry about the be songs taken from their latest albums, but come up with a format that although slightly town's "radioactive landfill," which stores hazardous waste from the ones that were not expected to be "Top 40" altered, will stay very close to the present University of Maine. hits on other radio stations, he said. system," he said. About 40 townspeople were at Thursday's board of selectmen meeting, The program will be based on a three tier If a song being played on WMEB started to discuss the potential dangers. system, each of which will weigh equally on to break into the "top of the big charts" it The low level radioactive chemical waste was deposited at the site after the air. would be "pulled immediately," Khoury being deemed unsuitable to remain stored on university property in 1963. The first component will be made up of the said. Thomas Aceto; vice president for administration and James Cook, progressive bands that have established He said that rumors of the station turning director of radiation safety operations, were on hand as the liaisons from themselves at WMEB already. The second will to a "Top 40" format are "completely un- the university. incorporate progressive bands that are "new founded" since no formal announcement had According to Cook, the 40by-40' landfill holds about 300 drums that or upcoming to the progressive scene," been made of the proposed format change originally contained eight to ten different radioisotopes. Khoury said, so as to at least give them a prior to his telling The Daily Maine Campus. "Many of the radioisotopes buried there disappeakd quickly because chance for recognition. Weekend programming will remain they have short half-lives," Cook said. the Keith Brann, present program director at same but will include a few new categories. Of the remaining radioisotopes, Cook said the small afflOtifIt5 of WMElit, said he is skeptical of Khoury's ex- tridium, carbon 14, cesium, toluene and radium These will include jazz, reggae, classical, are not harmful to the pertise on the matter. environment or water supply. blues, all world, heavy metal, oldies/60s, hard- "He(Khoury) does not know enough about "Everything has some radioactivity; milk is radioactive The only sur- core, such as The Dead Milkmen, X, Broken progressive music to make any kind of format prising thing would be to find water that is not radioactive" Bones, and The Cramps,. and a softer jazz decisions," he said. According to Donna Jandreau, the town manager, the 1,064 residents Khoury termed as "Windham Hill." The "I don't think a format change is are adamant about getting waste weekly"Progressive Top 30" will also be kept, rid of the site altogether. necessary," Brann added. "I'd say the general consensus is to get the waste out of Green he said. - Brann also said that Khoury had a 3-by-5 bush," Jandreau said. Khoury noted that these programs are card with a list of groups, primarily pro- sub- Residents are concerned about the possibility of contamination to ject to availability of DJs v'Vho are willing gressive, that would not be allowed on the air to the sbil and water sources that are near the site. play them. next year, but he was not specific as to group Cook said the dangers posed by moving the waste are much greater names. He said all applications for these positions than those posed by leaving it where it is. "It's censorship, plain and simple," he will be considered and seniority will play no UMaine was aproached by the selectmen to upgrade the monitoring said. part in his final decisions. of the waste site, because the Department of Environmental Protection • Khoury later denied the existence of such The possible elimination of some weekend the area annually. only checked cards. programming was labeled by Brann as "a "We twice a year now, and monitor the changes," check it Aceto The third level of the proposed program travesty." He said, "I get a lot of calls beg- said. change will be made up of well known bands ging us not to change the format:' One resident opposed to the site said, "If we don't get rid of this one that have established themselves on the con- then we're setting ourselves up for more dumps." "And I'm not the only DJ to get such temporary scene, Khoury said. Cook estimated the cost of digging up and relocating the containers calls," Brann added. Khoury cited The Police, Crowded Hou§e, to be million to $2 million. (see WMEB $I Howard Jones, Simple Minds, Thompsibn page 2) 2 The Daily Maine Campus, Friday, April 17, 1987 The Daily •WMEB (continued from page 1) Al Ed Lyons, present director of weekend school in the fall, and critique sessions Khoury's fourth goal is to increase the better and cited the possibile addition of programming, said he was disappointed for the Ws. involvement of his promotions a few more away games to the existing that folk programming was apparently The second goal is to set up better department. radio schedule. by Micha being eliminated, while the classical for- lines of communication between the ex- He said the 1987-88 year will be "a He also said there will be no basic Staff Wri mat remained. ecutive staff and the listening public. banner one for promotions." changes in the news department!'Bob "Folk is more of an alternative than Steele (WMEB adviser) pretty much Editors, Khoury said he is planning on a write- "Fun and uniqueness will_be the key is classical, especially when MPBN can in comment box makes the decisions on that topic, but as of four a to be addressed to in all promotions. We want to be do it (classical) a greater justice than himself. far as I can tell, news should remain creative." the WMEB can," Lyons said. He said there had been "no previous same." What b There will be more live remotes and "I also don't feel this is a wise move effort" to respond to listeners' needs and WMEB will, play its new format, in- now a mt. plenty of giveaways, such as T-shirts, considering that we(WMEB) have over he said the station had a"responsibility cluding both the progressive and con- well. concert tickets. He also 1000 folk-related albums as opposed to to its listeners, from both on and off albums, and temporary aspects, on Wednesday, April Betsy a very sketchy, at best, 200 albums of the campus, while on campus." alluded to the fact that there were a cou- 29, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.