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COLLEGE BULLETIN • MARCH 1989 ( It@ jJlt@~ j@ff ~1'O)171i1rrOlfii) when she was here. In those times we have found comfor!. Of len, members of the Houghton com munlty have felt ou r distress and consoled us w1th their pily and sympathy. We thank you for that. I speak for her fTlends, also. when I say that Beaver's life Is a grE!/jler influence upon us than her death. Her persislen l allempts to make lis more hOliest and more carlng did not end at her funeral College Bulletin She knows how much farther we hi,ive yet to go, (USPS 252·220) however, and we often Imilglne her urging us on. II March 1989 Vol. LXI No.2 helpsl I speak for myself when I s~y thai !'I vein of sorrow Editor runs throughout everything In my life since her Dean Liddick death . As I feel her loss in rnor~ areas the sorrow In creases · yet I live, I love, 1 enjoy most everything I Editorial Assistant enjoyed before. I have found some "Integration" Cynth ia Ma chamer through the events surrounding her death. That Is. whlle many occasions In life used to be sweet, ilnd Sports m2.lll y others used to be bilter: tlearly ~II of them are Wf/fiam Greenway now biller-sweet. that Is Integration of a sort. I can live Ihls way, and as long as I do, Beaver will live on Editoria l Consultant as well. Richart! Wing I am 51111 ambivalent though , I recall some lines from a poem by Edna 5 1. Vincent MUl3Y : Houghton M/lleu Is the magllzlne of Hough "Down, ton College. Houghton, NY. Second Class Down, Postage Paid at Houghton, NY 14744·9989, Down, Postml'lster. send form 3579 to Houghton InlO the grave . College, Houghton, NY 14744·9989. Milieu I know. 1$ published for alumni and friends of the. col· BUll do not approve," lege fi ve times yearly, In January, March, And then also I remember a conversallon [ had June, October and December. with Rich Perkins when we were talking about pray Letters. alumni news, unsolicited manu Ing to God. Rich posed the question (without ran scripts. lind black and while photos are cor), "You mean pray to the One who didn't heal welcomed for possible Induslon In the maga Beav although I asked constantly? Pray to that zine , Address these lind changes of addnas5 to One? That's the One?" As we sa t there weepIng, I the magazine In care of the editor at the ad· heard myself say, " Yes, that's the One." I have dress above. Written permsslon Is required to come to believe those words. and my losl con re:produce Houghton Milieu In whole or In part. fid ence In life ha s been replaced with hope. Houghton College admits students of any And so, Beaver's death continues 10 reverberate through our lives, have had no Irouble at all rac(! l color end national Of ethnic origin. the We college does " 01 discriminate on these bases, realiZing thai, " The Lord giveth : and the Lord l or on the basis of sex In any co ll ege-lI d ~ taketh . ' By His grace, and by the luminous exam ministered program. ple of Beaver's life, we lif e finding the ability to say as well, " Blessed be the name of the Lord." Brian Sayers (F) INSIDE: Whatever Happened to Atoms for Peace? / A Nation Bent on CASTtNG HIE FIRST DEAD CAT? Self·destructlon/ Three Months of Dear Editor: Dump Thoughts/Rural Life and Had a group of American students and faculty In Nuclear En ergy/ A S lice of Frosh a foreign nallon engaged In anything like the type of supercilious pu l-down of their host n~lIon Indulged Students J oi n Habitat for Humanity In by your Canadian respondents ("Houghton's Alumni In Action/ Hig hlander Sports CMi'ldlan Connec ti on, Milieu , JMlIary, 1989), I Campus News/ Carousel am sure that those "Ugly AmerIcans" wou ld have been burled In the dead cats thrown Ci t them. Bul Canadian's Seem Immune to such censure: "Amprlcllt1 students Ireat colle9c as em experience . CMadlans are here for an educ~lIon . " "Americans LETTERS arc notoriously !g n or~nl." " All1erlc~ns lire super ficially morc friendly than Canadians." "Canada's IN MEMORY OF BEAVER academic slllndards are higher thnn those in the U.S." Indeed , Dear Editor: While I won't Impose upon your limited space to Beaver Perkins died about a year ago now (Feb. delll with these assertIons, I might Inquire, as an 25, 1988) . 1 speak for her friends when 1 say that erstwhile professor of history In the Ontario system since that awful lime we have been unoa-ble to rm the void which her death left In our lives. We hoa-ve tried! of higher ed uca tion (the unlversllles of Waterloo Sometimes we have been desperate and we have lind Guelph, as well <!IS Niagara Christian College) , despaired . Olher times, remembering her calm and what Canadian university even equals, say . M.1.T .. her love for us, we have fell even closer to her thzm (continued on page 18) 2l Mllleu - March 1989 Whatever happened to "Atoms for Peace?" by Brt:nda Hariman Brown UCLEAR POWER Is not a new the federal government's mandate In disposal. Such areas Include federal and N issue-nor is the issue of its waste. 1985 that each slate must either build a state protected lands, Indian reserva But the ongoing arguments and debates storage plant for its own waste, or co tions, areas with primary aquifers, and about radioactive waste came charging operate with another state in constructing areas with a populatlon density of more into Allegany County on December 20, a common site. New York opted for its than 1,000 persons per square mile. 1988, when New York Slale's Low-Level own waste facility . The state faces a 1993 2. Screening of the remaining areas to Radioactive Waste Siting Commission federal deadline to have the plant opened identify ten candidate areas with the announced Houghton College's home and accepting waste currently shipped to greatest potential to host the waste facili· turf as one of ten areas In New York be Barnwell, S.C. In 1987, Governor ty. Some factors considered were ground ing considered for a "low-level radioac Cuomo appointed five members as the movement, depth of geologie unit , sur· tive waste facility," "Siting Commission," responsible for face water quality and extent, precipita Five possible locations for the plant in screening and selecting one or more si tes tion , low population densities, and prox Allegany County are the townships of for the waste facility. According to the imity to waste generators. Allen, Granger, Ward, West Almond, Siting Commission's report, this process 3. Detailed screening of the candidate and the eastern side of Caneadea-all involves these four steps: areas including on-site observation to within an estimated 25 miles from 1. Statewide screening to eliminate narrow the ten sites to eight. Houghton, the latter within four miles. large areas prohibited by law or regula 4. limited on-site studies of remaining The whole siling process siems from tion for low· level radioactive waste potential sites to eliminate any that have Milieu - Match 198913 ..., apparent " fatal flaws." Four sites from the The statement reso lved that " the ad waste into th e environment. A recently eight will be selected . ministration of Houghton College 'lrges surfaced concern is that the Siting Com As of las I December, the Commission its fa culty, staff. and sludents to resist, at mission neglected to acknowledge th e has completed steps one and two. The every turn. any and all efforts by the State Genesee Ri ver as a high-yield ground ten candidate areas, which collectively of New York to locate said radioa ctive water aquifer in it s consideration of the encompass 1,125 square miles (2 per waste facllily within the boundaries of ten potential sites. cent of State's area), are th e counties of Allegany County" Despi te these concerns , the Siting Allegany, Cayuga, North and South Since the announcement of the poten Commission designa ted Allegany County Chenango, Clinton, Cortland, Mont tial waste si tes, popular opposition has as a good choice to host th e radloaclive gomery, Orange/ Ulster, Oswego, and been organized and articulate. One argll waste fa ci lity. It concluded that the Washington. The facility itself requires ment against the waste site has been that geologic co nditions in th e area (d iscussed one square mile, if the waste were distributed proportion in step 2) are highly favorable for above Now the Siling Commission has held ately according to production (Orange ground/ below-ground disposa l methods, public mee tings In all ten of the candidate County prod uces 68 percent of the state's although it acknowledged that this area Is areas in which the Commission presented radioac tivity) Allegany County would hilly and prese nts some potential for ero sion, and also that there are a number of their in tentions and received questions receive none ; t oo~ All ega ny Countls reforestation lands. Both factors will be from concerned citizens. This summer, distance from the producer sit es Increases the Commission will select the eight th e risks of accidents In the co mmunities considered as on-site screening begins potential sites and announce conceptual through which th e waste is transported. and the selec tion process narrowS.