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  • March 25th, 2011 Our Take Contact your state _ and local government representatives i 1 i i j 4 BO you not like how the current budget situation is un- folding at Western Carolina University? Or do you not like -a current law that is being proposed in the North Carolina or United States legislatures? aes Whatever your current beefmay be, we encourage you to contact your state and local government representatives. To help you get a jump start, we have put many of the people you can contact below. Se: Bev Perdue Office of the Governor 20301 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-0301 _ "Phone: (919) 733-4240 - Fax: (919) 733-2120 ay US. Senator Richard Burr Asheville Federal Building . 151 Patton Avenue, Suite 204, Asheville, NC 28801 Phone: (828) 350-2437 - Fax: tee) 350-2439 a U: S. Sanaior Kay Hagan a 310 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27601. "Phone: (919) 856-4630 or toll free: 1-877-852- 9462, ; :U. S. House Representative Heath Shuler ! 422 Cannon House Building, Washington, DC 205 15 _ Phone: ee) 225-6401 - Fax: a 226-6422 NC Senator John Snow 6 W. Jones Street, Room 2111, Rleigh, NC 27601- 2808 Phone: 1?) 733-5875 - Email: John. Snow@ncleg. net A Representative R. Phillip has Ae NC House of Representatives 00 N. Salisbury Street, Room 639, Raleigh, NC 27603 Phone: OY) 715-3005 - Email: Phillip. ae et net NC Department of Administration: ritt Cobb, Secretary, NC Department of Administration 1301 Mail Service Center, Raleigh} NC 27699-1301 Phone: (919) 807-2425 - Fax: (919) 733-9571 North Carolina Department of Commerce Secretary of Commerce J. Keith Crisco - 4301 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4301 Phone: (919) 733-4151 NC Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Secretary Dee Freeman _ 1601 Mail Service Center, Raleigh NC 27699-1601 _ Phone: (919) 733-4984 - Fax (919) 715-3060 Justin Caudell, Editor-in-Chief 103 Old Student Union - Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723. , wc@emailweu.edu 828-227-2694 Katherine Duff Smith, Advisor 109A Old Student Union Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 smithk@email.wcu.edu 828-227-2195 | Lex Menz, News Editor cs Shelby Harrell, Arts and Entertainment Editor ie eee = Nathan Hunzaker, Lead Designer Lauren Gray, Staff Writer Ryan Alexander, Staff Writer Katelyn Cooper, Staff Writer Ryan Michaud, Staff Writer Mike Hill, Staff Writer | Cory Radosevic, Distribution APPLY NOW FOR Features Editor, Sports Editor, Webmaster The Western Carolinian P.0. Box 66 Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 - www.westerncarolinian.com ) PES ME RET Veer ChE ER SERA A SEE SOY Se SASS Ss WESTERN CAROLINIAN Is there | Cartoon something wrong with our network? this internet is / lemme look Dees taking 2 | forever to upload my pictures to > Facebook? Riis the YouTube are cl videos Im watching hoppy and the | internet radio if < near impossible to hear. Imagine how your activi- ties would be limited if you were completely dependent on public transportation to get around. Think about the frustrations you would have in seemingly simple activi- ties like buying groceries, meeting friends for coffee or arriving at doctors appoint- ments promptly. If youre an individual who does not have transportation limita- tions, you are likely to take such outings for granted. However, for some individ- -. uals in communities nation- wide, these struggles are a part of daily living. Tf you are dependent on public See this means that youre not nec- essarily in control of your schedule. Often, communities like those found in parts of Western North Carolina, public trans- port i$ limited to patrons who make appointments in advance because of a non- fixed route system. In other words, public transport is not regularly available. For example, you may be ready for public transport to pick you up at yom scheduled in rural, - Quotable Tm furious that our administration has so little connection with what the Writing _ Center does in Hunter 161 that they dis- mantle and rearrange the people involved as though they were Legos or Lincoln Logs. - Barbara Hardie on her being dismissed as Director of the Writing Center. Hmmm. Looks \, ike there is a, lot activity 9oing on. Something i is just eating all the bandwidth time so that you can arrive at your doctors appointment on time. However, due to frequent delays, such public transport may arrive later than your scheduled appointment, causing you to be late for your doctors visit. Such a situation could result in can- cellation of medically neces- sary appointments or even incurred fees.for not show- ing up. Considerations about is- sues with public transporta- tion have been brought to our attention during our ser- vice to people with disabili- Letter to the Editor: Public Transportation - Dear Editor, ties in need of speech and language therapies as part . of our graduate studies. Our > hope is to raise awareness of these difficulties and to in- - - still consideration to fellow professionals serving these individuals. | Furthermore, we wish to increase the re- liability. of public transpor- tation arrivals which may reduce the daily struggles - caused by delays in sched- ule. _- Amanda Dugan - Amanda Holliday - Emily Riddle Nuclear power still a good option al Thomas, Columnist In the 1979 movie The China Syndrome, reporter Kimberly Wells (played by Jane Fonda) witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant and then uncovers a plot to keep it a secret in _ order to protect the power companys billion-dollar investment. The film was . a gift to the political left, which at the time opposed the pursuit of nuclear ener- gy to reduce our addiction to foreign oil. In some lib- eral circles, that opposition remains:strong. The- film, along with real-life accidents such as Three Mile Island (also in 1979), in which no one was killed, and Chernobyl a (1986), which, according to the World Nuclear Associa- tion, killed two Chernobyl plant workers on the night of the accident, and a fur- ther 28 people within a few - weeks, as a result of acute radiation : poisoning, ac- count for much of our mod- ern thinking about all things nuclear. Other films, like Dr. Strangelove, Fail- Safe and On the Beach along with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which ended World War II and launched the Cold War with the Soviet Union in which mutual assured de- 1 struction (MAD) and civil defense drills became the norm make us nervous about what the unrestrained power of the atom can do. The nuclear reactors at Japans Fukushima Dai- ichi nuclear plant were damaged by the tsunami, not the. earthquake, and not by faulty construction or worker error, as was the case at Chernobyl and to a lesser extent Three Mile Island. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has significantly tightened standards since those inci- dents, but no regulation or safety precaution can offer a 100 percent guarantee against an accident or natu- ral disaster. Politicians tend to over- react to such things and stoke public fear. The oth- erwise cautious and prin- cipled German Chancellor Angela Merkel quickly an- nounced plans to shut down seven of her countrys nu- clear power plants pending a safety review. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a proponent of nuclear energy, told mem- _ bers of a House subcom- mittee on Tuesday . that, The American people should have full confidence that the United States has rigorous safety regulations in place to ensure that our nuclear power is generated safely and responsibly. He faces off against nuclear en- ~ etgy opponents, including Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., who was recently quoted as saying, We have to lis- ten to what is happening in Japan and protect ourselves and our people. Run for the hills! Chicken Little lives! The Houston Chronicle quoted Peter Cardillo, chief market economist for Ava-_ lon Partners,-a brokerage house in New York: Its a situation where you sell | (your stocks now), and you ask questions later, thus indulging in self-fulfilling prophecy as Japanese and American markets dipped. The Obama administra- tion continues to stonewall ' when it comes to explor- ing for new sources of oil in or near American terri- tory. (It has approved just two deepwater drilling sites since the BP oil spill in the Gulf, which, contrary to doomsday predictions, did not foul beaches for a decade or cripple the sea- food industry, which seems to have recovered well in plenty of time for the sum- mer vacation rush.) Too many politicians continue to oppose coal ' explora- tion, an American: natural resource. Without advances in nuclear energy, the Unit- ed States will continue to . face not only the petroleum price equivalent of mood swings, but also deepen our dependency on foreign _ oil, a dependence that will ultimately lead to a host of domestic and international problems. Cooler heads must prevail and conclusions avoided until a full assess- ment of the Japan disaster is known. Science can- not prevent earthquakes or tsunamis, but that does not keep people from want- ing to live near the shore. Scientists and engineers have made great progress in addressing safety issues raised by Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, but again, nothing is foolproof or there would be no traffic ac- cidents or airplane crashes. And we still drive and fly, ~ dont we? We need clean. energy that can be developed. on our own territory. Nuclear power, in conjunction with the discovery of more oil and the use of coal, natu- ral gas, bio fuels, wind and solar power, offers the best - option for the foreseeable future. i ae (Cal Thomas is a col- umnist for Tribune Media Services.) !
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