Volume 10 Issue 15 The February 26,1986 Morris Weekly Student Newspaper of the university of Minnesota-Morris Citizens Band Together At Public Hearing By: Toni Meszaros Numerous staunch opponents to There will be more hearings in Min­ a nuclear waste repository site near nesota in March. One will be held in : Morris trudged through the snow, Morris on March 24. This hearing is n^^^JJFK J^ -I braving the wind and cold to attend to provide additional information the public briefing about the cur­ about the report. The Department rent situation on Wednesday, Feb­ of Energy will answer questions about ruary 19, For such a blustery even­ the reason the Department of Energy ing, a good-sized crowd was present. is selecting sites for nuclear waste The walls of the Morris High school repository sites. In 1982 Congress auditorium were lined with people passed the Nuclear Waste Policy and a long line was formed to acquire Act. This act authorizes the Depart­ the numerous pamphlets distributed ment of Energy to site and construct before the presentation. a single repository and to site a second repository. The second site rail Overall public opinion was ex­ pressed by a slogan on one of the will not be selected until 1998 and would require a separate congres­ posters in the auditorium. It stated, sional action for construction. Ches­ "Minnesota is the wrong state."The burger continually stressed that these air was charged with hostility towards steps taken now are strictly prelimi­ the representatives from the De­ nary. The screening process starts After the twenty preliminary sites Department of Energy will issue a partment of Energy. Rick Chesburger with selection of 235crystalline rock the Department of En- final area recommendation report presented the report for the De­ bodies. From these 20 preliminary ergy has to ssue a draft area recom- and respond to comments by the partment of Energy, Other special­ candidateareas there will be selected mendation report, hence, the pur- summer of 1986. The formal notifi­ ists there to answer questions were 12 proposed potentially acceptable pose for bis meeting. The De- cation of potentially acceptable sites two environmental specialists, one sites which will be chosen and field partment of Energy will do a literature will also occur this summer. Of the geologist, and an attorney. work will be done on them. The site near Morris is one o! the 20 prelimi­ review on he results of the selec- 20 preliminary sites, eight are located The official reason the meeting nary candidate areas. It will be con­ tion process. They will also take into in Minnesota; three of these 20 was held was to present the "Brief­ sidered for a potential site only if considerat on the feedback from ing on the Draft Area Recommenda­ one of the 12 potentially acceptable states, Ind an tribal governments. tion Report." The public has ninety and public comments on the draft days to comment on the report. area recorr mendation report. The MITDean Infante To Speak At UMM Thursday, February 27 -URel MORRIS — The Dean of the Uni­ its implications for the liberal arts. versity of Minnesota Institute of Born in Italy, the son of a physi­ Technology, Dr. Ettore (lames) cian, Infante lived with his family in Infante, will speak on "Science and Venezuela until 1954. when he came Technology: Expectations, Context to the United States to attend the and Trends" at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, University of Texas at Austin, where February 27, in Edson Auditorium, he received his B.A. degree in His lecture is for the annual Dean's mathematics in 1958, and his B.S. in Convocation, which launches annual I Engin ing in 1959. academic program planning by He went his Ph.D. in Theoretical Mechanii in 1962. He "The convocation is a way of then joined the UT-Ai celebrating the importance of the of applie ' liberal arts and of helping students athematics, where he served until to think ahead to their future lives 1965. His next position was on the and careers," notes UMM Vice faculty at Brown University, where Chancellor Academic Affairs and he worked his way up from assistant Dean Bettinna Blake. The public is professor to full professor and even­ invited to attend the presentation, tually became the director of the which is sponsored by the Campus applied mathematics program. In Activities Council, the Division of 1981, on leave from Brown Univer- Science and Mathematics, the Pre­ Infai •rved ; sidential Scholar's Group and the Director of Mathematical nd Dean's Office. Computer Sciences for the Natii Science Foundation. He contin "I will attempt to present some r of Mathen views of the expectations of our il Scie : theFoundatio society towards science and tech­ e Dean of the nology, of the context within which titute of Technology. the scientific and technological communities operate, and of the The broad base of knowledge trends and directions in academic Infante has gained during his aca- and industrial science and technol­ ogy," explains Infante. He will offer offers a perspective that is of special insights into how this relates to the value to those who are in the pro­ Institute of Technology, and to edu­ cess of pursuing their undergradu­ cation, with particular attention to ate programs. February 26, 1986 Weekly Accused of Sabotage Dear Editor: We are writing to alert the campus assuming that these titles would be Editorial to the Morris Weekly's censorship acceptable. Not only is "Mrs." inap­ of our recent editorials on abortion. propriate in both cases, but we Thefirstsuchoccurrencewasinour found the reference quite offensive. joint article (January 29) when the The use of "Mrs." describes a The Weekly Errors Again word"male"wasinsertedinalistof characterists which render children (a man) and denies less desirable for adoption. The her existence as a person in her own Typographical errors and misun­ columns. Then we proofread each condition of being male, however, right. Note that there is no corres­ derstandings in proofreading are article twice to correct visable errors s not a deficit in our society (in fact, ponding term for a married male; in unfortunately common problems in typing. We send these corrections t is an asset) and thus does not share fact, there is iust one male title that the Weekly must deal with in back to Campus Printing and they n the adoption problems which (Mr.) which is used irrespective of arise as a result of being female, large numbers each week. This is to type them correctly. My point in marital status. We find the actions of older, non-white, or handicapped. be expected since so many people relaying this boring and tedious the Weekly inexcusableand believe must handle each word of printed procedure to you is not to make you Although this alteration sacrificed we deserve a public apology. material in order to release it to be feel sorry for us here at the Weekly, the meaning of a particular point, Ms. Whitney Thompson and printed. However.westrivetomake but to gain some sort of understand­ we passed it over as being a possible Ms. Nancy Jardin thes ntoo audie ing as to how "screw ups" take oversight on the Weekly's part. place. Wetake full responsibilityfor A Public Apology by checking and double checking in the letter of February 19, statis­ the original copy to make sure that our actions, and we apologize to Editors Note: The staff of the anyone who has been embarrassed tical evidence vital to an argument nothing has been altered. The comparing the safety of current Weekly apologizes to Ms. Whitney Weekly still manages to "screw up" byo takes. birth practices to abortion was Thompson and Ms. Nancy Jardin. sometimes, though. The wrong time We are doing our best to see that The Morris Weekly needs your printed incorrectly. This diluted the slot for the Cougar Bypass' Hay­ argument, making it appear (falla­ this does not happen in the future. maker Night and multiple errors in support as readers, customers, and as writers. If you would like to insure ciously) that Cesarean sections are Explanations: The word 'male' Whitney Thompson's letters last that your articles, letters, etc., are safer than vaginal births. The actual was inserted by our proofreaders. I week are two good — or I should say printed correctly, you are certainly maternal death rate for c-section is don't know why. The number '111' bad — examples. invited to layout on Tuesday nights 111 per 100,000, compared to an was sent over to typesetting. Unfor­ When we receive articles and let­ from 6-8 p.m. to view your work overall rate of 11.8 per 100,000 tunately, a 'V was lost in typesetting ters, our secretaries type them after before it goes to the presses. Oth­ (which we can expect to be on the and not picked up as an error by our they have been edited. We then erwise, we will sincerely continue to rise due to the drastic increase in the proofreaders, who did not have in bring them to Campus Printing and try to stop these errors and restore number of Cesarean*) and 1 per their possession a copy of the origi­ Duplicating to be typeset into your faith in us. 100,000 for abortion. nal letter with which to refer. The 'Mrs.' was changed to a 'Mr,' by our Finally, it became quite obvious editors as we thought an error had that deliberate changes were being occurred in referring to the gender made as one issue addressed in the of the writer. In this case the Weekly letter to Dan Smith was utterly sab­ missed the sarcasm and decided to Weekly ffl@c§(gli otaged.