Lack of automotive knowledge Professor a "bundle of energy" can be expensive and timely/ during lectures/Page 5 (§ Page 3 TCU DAILY SKIFF Vol. 85, No. 44 FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1985 Fort Worth, Texas Overloaded plug blamed in fire ing was the drapery the girls had up in As of now, Arvin said, he has not students unplug all appliances when Earnest L. Perry the room and mistook it lor the blinds. heard of plans to remove the blinds not in use. They said the only electric- SjdffReporter from the residence halls. al appliance that should be plugged in "We try to net the students to briny Associate Dean ol Students Don at all times is the refrigerator, Since lilt' gutted a third-floor soror- drapery that is flame resistant so il Mills said the lire probably occurred "The temptation is so strong lor the ity house room last Thursday, many something like this happens, the lire when an electrical pint;, nicknamed girls to overload the circuits, Tri- TCU residents have complained that won't spread as last," Arvin said. an "octopus pint;, overloaded the Delt Beth Eakman said. "We've got the Venetian blinds provided In the However. Cindy McKinney, one of electrical circuit in the room. so many more electrical appliances university arc not (lame resistant. the residents whose room burned, We're pretty well satisfied that the now than when these buildings were According to university officials, said there were no drapes in the fire started around the plug near the built," she said. the blinds placed in residence hall room. She also said that the fire was refrigerator," Mills said. "That's Mills said there are only three or rooms are not made ol flammable started by the refrigerator, not by a where the hottest part ol the lire was. four plugs in each room in the resi- material. plug. Mills said except lor McKinney and dence halls now. but they are looking "As far as I know, the blinds are "There is a plug behind my room- her roommate, Andrea Ward, all the into the leasiblity ol placing more out- made ot metal and the material which mate's bed and by my dresser. My other nirls affected on the ball will be lets in students' rooms. holds them together is flame resis- roommate's bed was line. Mine was back in their rooms Monday. The "There will be a major renovation The damage that an electrical fire is capable of is apparent in this picture of taut," Jack An in. coordinator of hous- gone and things were black on my room the fire took place in will not be going on in Jarvis this summer. If we the Tri-Delt room that caught fire Thursday, April 11. PHOTO BY AMY tag, said. dresser, but some cards were still ready for occupancy until next fall, can place new outlets in the rooms. HUYMb "What people may have seen burn- there. ' Mckinnev said. Administration officials suggest that we will, Mills said. Energy Week begins with debate over Comanche Peak formation concerning nuclear power. Fort Worth-Dallas metroplex, million has actually stretched to an "Secondly, the original cost esti- "It's clear that the project was Donald Graves He began with the national outlook 'Hie debate, however, was not ab- unexpected $4.5 billion in produc- mate given in 1972 included a general started with wide-eyed optimism and skill Reporter lor nuclear power and the growing out Comanche Peak's site, nor was it tion, and the plant was still unfinished inflation rate factor of 5.5 percent unrealistic expectations, Bolt/ said. number ol nuclear power plants in the about its safety measures or. for that in January 1985. "They didn't have the foggiest notion Comanche Peak: Is what we save United States, and narrowed his matter, nuclear power s advantages or based on energy trends at that time," ol what a real finalized cost of Com- worth what we lose? scope to Texas and Comanche Peak disadvantages. Bolt/ and the orga- "Today, the amount ol time to con- Sewell said. "The actual inflation rate anche Peak would be." nization he represented are con- struct a unclear power plant in the more than doubled that amount in This question was the subject of de- The operations capacity for all nuc- "In 1972. we announced plans to cerned about the amount ol taxpayers United States has changed Irom the one year, and presently nearly tripled bate Tuesday night as Energy Week lear plants in 1983 was 55 percent. build Comanche Peak. Sewell said. dollars funding a "dream plant. 1972 estimate ol six years to 12 to 14 the original estimate.' Started here at TCU with a lace-to- The lifetime capacity factor for all "Nuclear power offered a technically years." Sewell said. face confrontation. plants was 58.8 percent. There is a lot feasible, environmentally clean and In 1972. the typical elapsed time Sewell continued to support the ol fluctuation, Bolt/, said. The guest speakers were Dave economical source ol energy. period lor constructing a nuclear pow- One of the first problems Com- high cost of construction by explain- Bolt/, vivv president ol Citizen s er plant in the United States was ab- anche Peak encountered was an infla- ing that inflation also raised the cost of "I can't quantify what Comanche Association lor Sound Energy, ol Dal- Comanche Peak Steam Electric out six years. Sewell said. tionary explosion that began in 1973. major equipment and service con- Peak will cost or the scale of repay- las, and Kirby Sewell ot Texas Electric Station is located about lour and one- During this time the oil embargo tracts associated with Comanche ment. Boltz said. "The worst thing (Company. hall miles northwest of (Men Rose in Bolt/ countered by stating tacts and occurred and the project staggered Peak Finally, he said high interest that could happen is a Three Mile Is- The first part of Sewell's presenta- Somervell County. The site is approx- figures that indicated the six-year plan through a period of high construction rates on money borrowed also esca- land incident, in which case all would tion was a refresher of background in- imately fifty miles southwest ot the proposed in August 1972 to cost $779 cost. Sewell said. lated construction costs. be lost." WORLD MONITOR Israelis pay silent tribute to Holocaust victims TEL AVIV, Israel (AP!- Rush-hour ance officially began Wednesday Memorial that reconciliation between consistent support ol the Jewish state. World traffic froze and people halted in mid- night with commemorative cere- two peoples who fought each other ill But the)' cannot pass over in silence stride, heads bowed, at the wail of monies lor Holocaust survivors. World War II was legitimate, but the President's readiness to bury the Two Soviets expelled from Britain sirens signaling a two-minute silent "there is no reconciliation with the hatchet not only with today's Ger- tribute Thursday to the six million "We say today to those who took past, with wickedness, with the mans hut with yesterday's Nazis." LONDON (API- The Foreign Office announced Thursday that Jewish victims ol the Na/i Holocaust. part in the deleat of the Nazi beast devil." two Soviets, a diplomat and an employee of the Soviet airline Aerof- that it is their duty too to remember Following a storm of criticism in the lot, were being expelled, apparently for alleged espionage activities. Prominent Israelis, angered at and to remind, to educate and to make Knesset Speaker Shloino I lillel told United States and other countries of The Soviet Embassy issued a statement protesting what it termed President Reagan's plans to visit a sure that this monstrous occurrence (he Israeli Parliament Wednesday Reagan's plans to lay a wreath at Bit- Britain's "provocative measure." It said Soviet personnel in Britain West German cemetery in May never happens again, said Foreign that Reagan's decision "resembles a berg ceinetary in West Germany, the "are engaged in performing their duties to promote bilateral rela- where members of Hitler's SS storm- Minister Yitzhak Shamir at a com- contribution, albeit an unwitting one. White House this week sent two staff tions." troopers are buried, declared the memorative Tel Aviv rally Wednes- to the process of forgetting the Holo- members to West Germany to search The Foreign Office said in a statement that Soviet Ambassador Holocaust must not be forgotten. day night, when the annual Holocaust caust. for a monument to Na/i victims that Viktor I. Popov was called in Thursday and informed that the two Reagan could visit. Traffic in Israels cities resembled a Day observance began. men must leave within seven days. The English-language Jerusalem They were identified as Capt. Oleg Alexandrovieb Lot, assistant frozen tableau at 8 a.m. as drivers Although Shamir did not name Post said in an editorial that the com- West German government officials naval attache at the Soviet Embassy, and Yyachcslav Anatolyevich halted in the middle of the street, get- Reagan, aides who distributed the memoration was a chance "to reaffirm confirmed Wednesday that the site of Grigorov, a member ol Aerollot's London staff. ting out of their cars to stand at atten- text ol the speech pointed to the re- the resolve not to allow the memory of the former Bergen-Belson concentra- The reason given in a statement for the expulsions was the tradi- tion at the whine ol the sirens. Pedes- mark as indirect criticism of Reagan. the six million ... to be expunged.