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Briefs HDD committee halts plans for Fiat Lux Earth Day The Student Newspaper of Alfred University * April 12,1989 » Issue Number 12 « Volume Number 80 Efforts to celebrate the 22nd national Earth Day came to a halt last week after the Hot Dog Day committee denied a recycling group permission to set up an Eddie Money, Simon Says top information booth. The Alfred Center for Recycling Education Project had requested an OK to set up a booth for distributing pamphlets Hot Dog Day plans on environmental issues. f But last week the HDD committee told Brian Folker According to Adam Lang, AU Hot Dog ACREP director Dr. William White that Rock and roll will be in Alfred next week Day Chairman, events for the weekend they thought the booth was inappropriate when Eddie Money kicks off Hot Dog are on schedule but there is a lack of for Hot Dog Day. weekend with a Thursday night perform- assistance. Volunteers are needed to set "It's a day for fun and a carnival ance at McLane Center. up booths, to clean up and to form a music atmosphere," said AU chairman Adam Due to a cancellation in Money's tour, and concerts committee. Lang. "On a day like that, (an informa- SAB was able to secure the April 20 Hot Dog Day raised $3990 last year and tion booth) is not appropriate." show and clinched the $16,000 deal the committee hopes to raise at least Lang said the committee offered to let March 30. $5,000 this year. ACREP run a game booth, but ACREP Another highlight of the weekend will Lang attributed the increase in proceeds declined. be an audience participation performance to lower costs. Hot dogs and Coca-Cola White said his group scored one envir- by Bobby Gold, a nationally renowned were purchased at a lower cost than last onmental victory, however, in petitioning Simon Says master. year and some organizations are building Sign-ups for events are available at the the committee not to have a balloon Because of the long Alfred winter that their own booths instead of renting them. campus center desk. Tickets for the launch this year. In fact, ACREP threat- tends to breed less than physically fit Proceeds from the weekend will go to Eddie Money show will be available at ened to get a court injunction against Hot students, the triathalon course has been Southern Tier charities such as Red Cross, the desk from 9-4 daily until the day of Dog Day if they planned a launch. cut to 250 yards swimming, three miles Association for Retarded Citizens and the the show. The cost will be $10 for White was angry that the committee running and nine miles biking. Alfred Fire Department. students and $12 for general admission. denied his request for a booth. "Maybe next year we'll ship in a supertanker and have a rock-throwing contest to see who Dancers excel in spring concert can break it" Review by Lisa Pye Diversity, depth and innovation marked Citizens target the Performing Arts Spring Dance Concert March 31 and April 1. environmental The Holmes Auditorium was nearly filled with a receptive and enthusiastic 'bad guys' crowd, responding to the energetic and The Concerned Citizens for a Clean capable group of students. Environment recently targeted a group of The students danced in a wide variety of "bad guys," products and/or corporations styles, from ballet to progressive. The promoting dangerous environmental production was mainly student-produced. practices. Creative pieces such as "How to Make In the spring issue of its newsletter the an Impact on a Man," based on an excerpt Earth's Holidays, CCCE said it has from Cosmopolitan magazine, made a Dan Eno boycotted the following: social commentary on the roles of men •California table grapes, because and women interacting in the world today. The "Mexican Connection" being danced by Monica Aparicio, Kim Sidoti, Suanne corporate use of pesticides pollutes the The piece, choreographed by Heidi Bierman and Mara Filler, at the spring dance concert in Holmes Auditorium. grapes and endangers farm workers' Hartung and Matt McElliot, emphasized The man and the woman performed a health. the stereotyped woman trying to catch the The piece asked the audience to look at waltz resembling a primitive mating •Tuna fish, because harvesting it leads stereotyped man. The piece used a slide themselves, as well as at society. The dance. But the dance did not result in the to the death of many dolphins. projector to show excerpts from the woman wore the proper clothes, ordered usual ending. •Burger King, because it encourages article, which details how to meet and the exotic drink and said the interesting Latin American cattle ranchers to raze impress the opposite sex. thing, to the unreceptive man. continued on page 4 rapidly deteriorating rain forests. CCCE also published a list of area "good guys" including Kinfolk Groceries Profs' work with glass fibers may mean and Shur Fine, because they sell organi- cally safe products. Kathy Cantwell, CCCE chairwoman, easier eye, heart surgery in the future said the group sends bouquets of flowers Jay Hatoff and Paula-Jeanne Mills The laser itself is called a carbon In purifying and strengthening the fibers to the good guys. To the bad guys they Two researchers at Alfred University are dioxide laser. the laser will be able to work at a higher send "brick bats." working on a more powerful glass fiber So far researchers have been able to wattage than present ones. The lasers used in that, when used in a surgical laser, can reach their designated wavelengths. The in surgery today only work at five watts. make an incision more accurately than a only problem is the crystal fiber burns up Varshneya's work is primarily to purify Inside scalpel. after a very short period of time, under half the raw materials while Lacourse's work is Dr. Aran Varshneya, professor of glass a second. to work on strengthening the fibers. Students & Credit Cards science and engineering, said "The laser If the fibers can be purified and strength- The crystal fibers used now are com- scalpel has a width of seven hundred ened, they can be used for many more posed of thallium bromoiodide. The main microns. A metal scalpel may have a applications that just light surgery. fibers that Varshneya and Lacourse are working with include arsenic, selenium, Population Trends width less than that but it has a flange that An example of future use is to combine •••••••• makes the incision much longer." a catheter tube with a bubble and a balloon sulfur, germanium, tellurium and anti- According to Dr. William Lacourse, on the end to expand an artery or vein, mony. professor of glass science and co-director loosening hardened atherosclerotic plaque The goal of the two AU researchers is to Spouses, Kids & College for the Glass Science Institute, "A good and calcium deposits. The laser could be come up with a fiber strong enough to example is doing surgery on the eye. You used to burn away the deposits that are warrant commercial production of the can use a laser instead of a metal scalpel impervious to arterial or veinal expansion. laser. for a more localized incisions." Another problem is the laser's mean-free To date, the researchers have not been tax 4-1 In order to make the incisions on the path-how far it is absorbed into the body. able to produce fibers which have losses of designated target, a light wavelength of The carbon dioxide laser wavelength transmission of the order of 1 dB/km 10.6 micrometers (in the infrared spec- (10.6 micrometers) has the property of which gives 80 percent transmission. Bits 'n Pieces trum) is needed. It burns the precise being absorbed extremely locally by the Current research and development has target without affecting surrounding or body tissue, thus the risk of unwanted only gotten to the loss level of lOdB/km background tissue. tissue perforation is reduced. continued on page 8 Editorial The Fiat Lux is printed on recyclable paper. When Abortion: the debate lies in women's done reading your copy, put it in an ACREP con- roles, not children's lives tainer marked "recyclable Contrary to the pro-life movement's insistence that their campaign their revered status as givers of life, because it allows women to of harassment is meant only to preserve children's lives, pro-life say some things are more important than motherhood. white paper." does not mean pro-children. Pro-life means pro-motherhood; pro At least pro-choice activists have the courage to admit that they life means women ought to be mothers first and individuals are self-interested. Pro-life activists would find little sympathy in Don't forget to fill out the second. the contention that women ought to be mothers first, careerists campus center survey you Kristin Luker, who first acknowledged a struggle between second, for this would smack too much of sexism. Thus, they women's competing identities in her book "Abortion and the invoke the premise that life begins at conception, painting women may have received this Politics of Motherhood," compiled telling profiles of the typical who seek abortions as cold-blooded murderers. week. Place it in one of pro-choice and pro-life activist; the profiles readily illustrate that a The "life at conception" premise is nothing more than a narrow the drop boxes or return it child's life per se is almost irrelevant to the debate. religious dictate that violates the humanity of women.