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VOLUME FIFTY NUMBER EIGHT OCTOBER 3, 1985 COLLEGES. ON TAP THE "LIBERATION" OF GRENADA'S The second anniversary of the liberation of Grenada will be noted on campuses nationwide with "The Lessons of Grenada Week" Oct. 21-26. The American Opportunity Foundation, which is coordinating the events, says that students and faculty from more than 1,000 campuses in the U.S. and abroad are organizing rallies, teach-ins and debates. ALUMNI UNHAPPY Some Alumni are unhappy with Tuskegee Institute's name change to Tuskegee University. The alumni are collecting signatures on a letter demanding restoration of the school's former name because, they say, the new name will be "detrimental." Tuskegee's president, however, says the change is meant to reflect the compexity of the school's programs and enhance enrollment. A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS: The president of the Ohio Student Association paid hi* $633 instructional fee at Kent State U. with eight $50 bills, three $20 bills and 33 ones to protest the 98% increase in tuition since 1979. STAYING IN THE US. This is the intent of an increasing number of foreign doctoral holders, particularly those in engineering and computer science. TACKLED FOR A LOSS Several members of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team will have to pay for damages they inflicted on a dormitory at California Lutheran College, where the team was staying during its pre-season practices. ART R US About 800 peices of art from the Ohio State U. Gallery's $10 million permanent collection are available to OSU faculty, staff and students on a rental basis. The gallery director says the rental program reflects his philosophy that "the collection should be seen, and not locked away in a vault." TV ADS DON'T REACH COLLEGIANS Kodak will toura free multi-media showfrom the Los Angeles Museum of Rock Art called "Rock and Roll Time Tunnel" to 80 campuses nationwide. PSI UPSILON FRATERNITY The Psi Upsilon Fraternity at the U. of Wisconsin is sponsoring a fund-raiser for the Women's Transit Authority, a free night-time transportation service for women. WTA has received support from the government, the university and women'sgroups. Psi Upsilon's help is the first from a fraternity. NEWS MEDIA MOSTLY POSITIVE The news media is mostly positive in its coverage of fraternities, according to a study by the National Interfraternity Conference. NIC says the study results "contradict the opinion of most alumni and undergraduate fraternity members that the news media is anti-fraternity." STUDYING IS A WASTE OF TIME Studying is a waste of time if it's good grades you're after, according toa recently concluded study at Pennsylvania State U. Ten years of research by two sociologists found that class attendance had a much higher correlation to good grades than time spent studying, which showed very little relationship to high marks. YOUTHFUL IDEALISM The new president of N.O.W. hasannouncedthe launching of a new campaign to organize young women and men as activists for women's rights. "I don't believe the young today are any less idealistic than the young of yesterday," she says. ROCK AGAINST RACISM Rock Against Racism was the theme of a free concert featuring political music at Cornell U. Sponsored by the Progressive Youth Network, the program was dedicated to "all right-wing fascists everywhere without whose provocation this would not have been necessary INDEX Arts & Entertainment Classifieds. ._. . Comics ...... Features Perspectives . . Sports p. 10 P- p. p. P- 12 11 2,3 4,5 p. 8 WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA LIKELY TO BE SELECTED FOR NUCLEAR WASTE DEPOSIT by J. Dan Pitillo Solid, highly radioactive wastes being generated by nuclear reactors, from such sources as defense production, electric generation plants, and naval propulsion units, have been designated by Congress to be stored in rocks deep within the ground during the next few decades, starting in 1991. This is a product of the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA). The NWPA requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to recommend to the President at least three sites for repositories. The first repository has been recommended to be placed in Texas, Washington, or Nevada. The second repository is to be selected from crystalline rock, with three additional sites to be chosen from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or northern Georgia. The decision for the three sites is to be made by mid or late November. "Although students who live in Cullowhee 9 months out of the year are considered non-residents, they are equally subject to exposure to radiation placed in the area." ARTISTS CONCEPT OF A REPOSITORY IN CRYSTALLINE ROCK A site for the repository would contain a surface facility surrounded by a controlled buffer that extends about 6.2 miles from the edge of the underground storage area. The underground storage area would be a network of tunnels 1000 feet below the ground surface where steel canisters of the spent fuel would be entombed after about 50 years in solid concrete and rubble. Theoretically, these deposits would.sit quietly for the next 100,000 years while the radioactivity decayed to harmless byproducts. The process of site selection is complex. The first series of evaluations involve the region to area screening followed by area to site screening and finally site selection. The criteria for the first screening (region to area) include the following disqualifications: 1) federal protected lands, 2) certain components of the national forest lands, 3) state-protected lands, and 4) highly populated areas. The remaining screening variables (area to site) include the following: 1) proposed federal- protected lands, 2) national forest lands, 3) state forest lands, 4) designated critical habitat of endangered and threatened species, 5) wetlands, 6) surface body waters, and 7) population density. The state of North Carolina was invited to respond to the drafts of the disqualifications and screening variables provided by DOE and chose to seek the assistance of the NC Academy of Science. The Academy constituted a panel on which I served, and in March, this past spring, we made our report to the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development. Among the questions the panel raised were those dealing with incomplete or incorrect information. While the concept of utilizing the states' chosen crystalline rock bodies rather than other types of rocks was not a point for our questioning, the panel never-the-less questioned the logic of emplacing these high level wastes in rock bodies probably highlyfractured (byfaults), subject to additional faulting, and in a region of the highest rainfall in the east. Secondly, the selection of western North Carolina would place the repository at the top of the Atlantic and Gulf watersheds, where any leaks during the next 100,000 years would contaminate water supplies anywhere below. Some specific questions were raised by the panel. Among them were the disqualification of research areas such as Bent Creek and Coweeta oon't on page 9 Greeks Join Forces to Combat African Famine On October 10, 11, and 12, for the first time in the history of college Greek systems, everyfraternity and sorority on every campus in the nation will have the chance to unite in a single, nationwide, Greek fundraising event. United Fraternities and Sororities Against African Famine have Set $5 million as their goal to help aid thefamine victims of East Africa. While the type of fundraising event used is left up to the individual chapters, the donations of 500,000 active members, and 5 million alumni, will be channeled en massto Ethiopia through mercy Corps International. "Ethiopia is no longer in the headlines like it used to be, but unfortunately there is still a famine says Steve McCarley, president and founder of UFSAF. McCarley traveled to Ethiopia and the Sudan with the directors of Mercy Corps, and reports that: "After a careful study, we found that the most important aid we can provide is in the area of trucks, water drilling equipment and medical supplies. This is where the bulk of the money we raise will go." Not surprisingly, McCarley differs with the popular image of today's collegians as shallow, self- centered corporate climbers, and sees this three- day event as a chance to dispell that myth. "Our primary goal is to provide direct famine relief... But we would also like to change the image of future professionals and prove to the world that we are not only concerned with our own personal successes, we are concerned with our fellow man. "Leadership and caring are an integral part of the fraternal code. We hope other groups of young adults will see our work realize that they can make a difference, and begin their own projects to relieve suffering and change the world for the better." For more information on activities and donations write: United Fraternities and Sororities Against Famine, Arizona State U., 601 Alpha Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; or call 602/965-9881. WCU TOPS MILLION DOLLAR MARK IN PRIVATE FUNDRAISING Mr. Yang Bang shun. Chinese Scholar visiting from Hunnan U.. (photographed during an interview with the WESTERN CAROLINIAN Regina McDaniels For the first time in its history, Western Carolina University topped the million dollar mark in private fund raising. James E. Dooley, Vice Chancellor for Development and Special Services, reported that during the 1984-85 fiscal year, $1,109,485 was raised from private sources. The WCU Development Foundation approved an allocation of $154,453 from unrestricted funds to be used in the following areas for 1984-85: academic scholarships, special projects, and support of development activities. The officers of the Foundation board for 1985-86 are: Chairman, Ed Allman of Winston-Salem; Vice- President, Sam Wiggins of Waynesville; and Treasurer, William F. Petterson of Cullowhee. Chancellor Myron Coulter is President, James E. Dooley is Executive Secretary, and C. Joseph Carter, Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs, is the controller. Other foundation activities that were discussed at the board meeting included: l)An increase in foundation/endowment assets to $3,099,090-a 15% increase. 2)The awarding of more than $300,000 in student scholarships. 3)The receipt of $225,458 to support athletic programs. Board members are Jack Abbott of Canton, Elsie E. Brown of Cullowhee, Emeline Foster of Lake Placid, Florida, Donald C. Gladieux of of Flat Rock, Stephen G. Gwaltney of Statesville, James E. Hooper of Falls Church, Virginia, Wallace Hyde of Asheville, Adelio Montanari of Miami, Reg Moody of Sylva, Linda Rader of Gastonia, Turner Rogers of Weaverville, and Frank Todd of Hendersonville. Dear Chancellor and Mrs. Coulter: How are you? How much I am missing you all! I am well aware that seven months' stay in America is not enough time to understand your beautiful country. But I want to express my appreciation for what has been a marvelous experience during my sojourn there. Living on the campus of WCU in the beautiful small town of Cullowhee was a pri velege to me. It gave me a view of America, which might not be afforded to those who live in Washington, DC or New York. After all New York, is not America any more than Shanghai is China. The courtesy, consideration and friendliness which have been extended to me almost daily are precious and lasting. To my regret I have not traveled much of America, nevertheless, it is the American people who captured my heart -- friendly, sincere, warm, industrious and unsophisticated. I have been welcomed into your home and the homes of many American friends and have struck very deep friendship with all of them, upon which I am still looking back nostagically. I hope I would be able to come back to Asheville, the beautiful city, to Cullowhee, to the dear campus of WCU some day. But no matter what, I will never lose what I have been given there. My thanks to all my American friends for showing me every meticulous consideration, for their unlimited, unstinted loving care. I would be immensely thankful if this humble letter of gratitude should find its way into a corner of "Western Carolinian" as a sincere confession of my thanks to all my dear friends on the campus. Thank you!! Yours respectfully, Yang Bangshun August 29, 1985 I am impatiently looking forward to seeing you in the mountain city and at my humble home.

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1985-10-03
  • Date digitized: 2019-02-28
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  • Pages: 12 pages
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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