Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 4-3-1979 The Guardian, April 3, 1979 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1979). The Guardian, April 3, 1979. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. weather thought Strong easterly winds will briog radiation from Harrisburg. Penn- No one was sylvania to the Dayton area. Scientists warn people to not drink milk, ro eipect an increase thinking today. in birth defects and a lack of hair, FALL-OUT and death. The Daily Gardenia If it happened today, it's news to us April Kplus 2), 1979 issue forth ' Vol. ^Aqt. Dayton, Ohio Rain keeps WSU open Bv CHUCK STEVENS UNIVERSITY President Robert simply don't have the equipment Gardenia Managing Editor Kegerreis was vacationing on his for removing mass amounts of Executive Director of Campus yacht and was unavailable for tain," he said. He went on 10 note Planning and Operations Robert comment. that it would have been better to Francis recommended that Assistant Director of Security close school during the duration Wright State remain open today Carl Sims and Assistant Director of the storm and then "long despite the heavy rainstorm hov- of Parking Eddie Cooper told the enough for the ground to absorb ering over the area. Gardenia that they felt it might the excess rain." have been more logical to close The rain storm, which has been the school temporarily than to go Sints and Cooper, along with deluging the globe day and night to the expense of dispensing employees from Plant Main- for the past ten days, is expected several thousand lifejackets. tenance. have been working on a to continue at that same severity mysterious wooden structure out for at least a month more. While Sims indicated that he expected in the parking lot for the past few all other institutions in this area problems with security because days. Sims said he got the idea (worldwide conditions are un- the water had shorted out most of from voices ho heard while sleep- known due fo a cease in com- the alarms on the campus. He ing, and that the structure is munications) have been forced to also noted that his department is related to the rain phenomenon. close due to the flooding, or have hav'ng trouble responding to closed voluntarily, Francis said he calls. He elaborated by saying Cooper also refused to elab- had rowed over the local roads that some of his officers are "just orate on the problem, saying only and found them to be "generally not very good swimmers." that »he project had to be done by passible." He noted however, Friday. Sources said that blue- that his recommendation did in- COOPER ADDED that the prints for the structure indicated A student arddenUBt scrapea her purse against the latest art clude issuing lifejackets to ail problems his department is facing several dozen rooms made for two work at a recent art exhibition. Gardenia file photo University-related personnel. are ail but insurmountable. "We occupants only. WSU pulls a 'Harrisburg' Nuclear materials accidently dumped in Miliett day. Fairbora and Yellow Springs." By JOSEPH ROSSI restroom in protective clothing million people. The spokesman Murray denied thet the calling would not say where these refu- Special from tie L.A. Tribune AN UNCONTROLLED nuclear carrying plungers. in of ihe NRC meant that a gees should go. although he did The second nuclear accident reaction started, releasing large Murray's denial was strongly nuclear accident had occurred. mention something about Nome, within a week has officials of the amounts of radioactivity, most in criticized by a NRC spokesman "We had been reading about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission the form of radioactive methane. who said that by denying the Alaska. plumbing work they had been (NRC) planning for a large-scale The formation of this volatile reports, Murray was endangering doing at the Three-Mile Island QUESTIONS concerning what evacuation of the suburbs of gas has hampered attempts to a large number of people in reactor and just wondered if they 15 pounds of weapons grade Dayton. remove the plutonium from the Dayton's eastern suburbs, where could help us out," he insisted. plutonium were doing on the NRC officials were called to the toilet, since a large bubble of the university is located. Murray said that classes would campus went unanswered. campus of Wright State Universi- methane has taken form above THE NRC SPOKESMAN also not be cancelled today because no Wright State s nuclear materi- ty, five miles east of Dayton. the reaction and can be ignited by criticized Murray for not contact- danger to students exists. als har,U»ng facility is designed to Monday when large amounts of the slightest spark. ing the agency earlier. If univer- bundle substances used in bio- radioactivity were found escaping NFC officials said they are sity officials had made the notifica- "I THINK everybody is over logical research with low, harm- from a restroom in one of the periodically venting the gas in tion as soon as they knew of the reacting about this. Hasn't any- less levels of radioactivity. campus buildings. MiUett Hall. sin all quantities to avoid en- problem, he said, much of the body ever smelled a fart before?" dangering the rest of Ohio. An employee on the loading methane would not have been Murray queried. dock said the package containing formed. THE AREA ABOUND the rest- the plutonium was delivered Sun- ACCORDING TO these officials room, located nesi to the nuclear "We could have used a snake The NRC spokesman then said day when the shipping depart- steps are now being taken to have materials receiving are*, was and just reamed those pipes that 15,000 Greene County resi- ment was closed. quickly sealed off by University all pregnant women and small clean. We can't do that now dents died after the release of Police as attempts were made to children evacuated from within a because of the spark hazard," the Methane, "1 don't want to cause "WE SAW ST when we came to five-mile radius of the campus. completely ascertain the cause of spokesman explained. a panic, but If we don't get this work and didn't know what to do Vice-President for Administra- the radioactivity. "One spark now and it's good- plutonium out of this teiiet we're with it, so 1 guess somebody tive Affairs John Murray denied Initial reports are sketchy, but bye, Dayton!" he added. going to have a very serious ditched (it) into the toilet." the all reports of high levels of radio- It seems that IS pounds of "Right now there are fatal problem. I think we should evacu- employee said, weapons grade plutonium were activity in University buildings levels of radiation where we are ate every person within 20 miles accidentally flushed down a toilet. and said the problem was nothing standing and this radioactivity is of the site immediately," the "1 guess if he knew all thai The plutonium then formed a more than simple plumbing prob- spreading. This morning we had spokesman said. other junk had been dumped into critical mass when it mixed with lems. Hi* declined to comment on to vent large amounta of radioac- it (the toilet), he would have put it radioactive urine and stool sam- why service department em- tive methane to try to cool down This would entail the move- into the dumpster ." ples deposited there earlier in the ployees were seen entering the the plutonium and wiped out ment of at least 750,000 io one 2 DAILY GAIDWOA Apr. J, 1*79 Intoxicated carp create havoc on Quad By SCOOPTHORNTON nearby students, throwing them they were on the level." victims (an apparent tactic to hide just really shook up" and the rest Guardian Staff Writer into the moat with cries of "how This latest development on the their true identities) the fish then were either bruised or received III an apparently bizarre role do you like it?" Allyn Hall moat appears to be an swiftly moved toward the parking lacerations from the fishes' fins, reversal late yesterday, si* man- One witness. Ginger Baker, a uprising by the carp. In the lot where they had originally according to a hospital spokes- sized intoxicated carp wearing sophomore power volleyball ma- October 20 issue of the Daily entered and disappeared. One man. fraternity pledge beanies at- jor, elaborated. "These cats were Gardenia, it was reported that at witness (who has asked not to be tacked several students in the sure messed up - they smelled least 18 carp had been found in named) claimed he spotted the Fairborn Police are now inves- quad and threw them face down like an entree at a Chinese the moat and that at the printing culprits leaving at a high rate of tigating the attack and are keep- in the Allyn Hall moat. restaurant, you know - heavy fish of the article there had been speed in a blue Chevy pickup with ing their investigation Top Secret The carp appeared on campus smell but that cheap wine sroma. "four casualties." This, however, a gun rack. until they can provide more facts.