University Daily Kansan, January 27, 1981
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With a majority of committee members in favor of the death penalty, Lucero conceded that speaking at the hearing may have been a "waste of time."
But he said that while the senators might have already decided on the issue, opponents of the bill had been successful in "carrying on a dialogue with the press."
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"I would certainly prefer it if the bill came back to my committee," Branson said, "but as long there is a favorable climate in the district to commit the committee, then it doesn't really matter to me."
She said she thought the bill would make it onto the house floor, but she feared the strength of conservative legislators. Branson said that already conservatives had argued that the bill was an infringement on private rights.
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Residence hall space begins to fill Monday
The Office of Residential Programs is expecting the usual clamor next Tuesday morning when it will begin accepting residence hall contracts for the 1981-82 term.
"We always have lines of students at 8:30 in the morning waiting for single rooms, and other students wanting highest priority." A note, assistant ORP director, said yesterday.
Residence hall contracts will be available to returning students Monday. Contracts and deposits will be accepted beginning at 8:30 a.m. On Friday, contracts will increase by 10 percent, or $150, next year.
Deposits range from $187 to $298 for a
single room, or for a single
room, depending on the residence held.
A returning resident has the privilege of keeping his current room if the contract is returned by Feb. 13, Denke said. The priority was to return the room once else has requested the room by that time.
After Feb. 20, contracts will be processed according to the date received. Denke expects about 40 percent of the current residents to return.
"I urge students to get their contracts in early to make sure they get a room," Denke
Each semester the demand for rooms exceeds the spaces available. Students who are required to be housed in temporary rooms, such as sewing ironing rooms, until a permanent room opens.
At the beginning of this semester, 69 men were living in temporary rooms in McColum, JRP, Oliver and Hashinger residence halls. The office reported 18 men remained in temporary rooms last week. There were no women in temporary housing this year.
The increased cost probably won't decrease the demand for rooms, Denke said.
"The residence halls are still a good deal compared to off-campus housing," he said. "In the last two years, we were one of the few to comply with the president's voluntary (wage and price) guidelines, and we were hurt."
The residence hall double occupancy费 increased from $1,497 to $1,647 a year. The rate for a single room increased from $2,277 to $2,487.
Last year's rent increase was 9.5 percent.
This year's original request was for a 12 percent increase, but was reduced to 10 percent more being approved by the Board of Regents.
In October, during contract negotiations, the Association of University Residence Hall's contract committee increased the hall discretionary fund from $11.50 to $15 a contract. The fund covers social, educational and cultural expenses at each hall.
KU prof sees solution in space-bound waste
Each hall's academic resource center fund was increased from $5 to $6.50 a contract to pay for student hourly help, maintenance and the increased cost of books and periodicals.
By ANNIKAN NILSSON
Staff Reporter
Regardless of nuclear power's future, researchers must find safe final disposal sites for the roughly 2,300 metric tons of high level radioactive wastes already existing.
A KU aerospace professor thins space may be the answer for disposing of the waste, which has accumulated since 1943 in the form of spent fuel and nuclear waste at nuclear reactor sites around the country.
roward Smith, professor of aerospace engineering, said recently that launching the high-level waste into space was a feasible solution to the storage problem.
"The best way to get rid of the stuff is to boost it out in space," he said.
SMITH CITED a recent study from the Department of Energy and the office of Nuclear Waste Isolation that suggested sending nuclear waste into orbit around the sun. A space shuttle would shoot the capsule of waste into orbit and the shuttle would return, according to the study.
Earlier studies have suggested launching the waste out of the solar system or into the sun, where it would be incinerated. However, Smith and Gough (1983) found that Johnson would require less energy and would be as safe.
He said the waste would orbit for at least 1 million years.
Launching the radioactive material into space is not foolproof, but according to Smith, the major hazards are when the material is still on the ground.
"Mercury hasn't come down yet," he said.
"I worry as much about a railroad car overturning," he said.
THE SPENT RADIOACTIVE fuel rods would first travel by truck or train to a processing plant, where the high-level waste would be separated from the low- and medium-level waste. After processing, the material would be shipped to the launch site.
"There are all kinds of tests that show this won't come apart the way it is包装." Smith
Smith said the waste would be packed in a special container in the shuttle so it would not fall.
He said although the technical obstacles were minor, large capital investment was required before radioactive waste could be sent into a solar orbit.
"It's a big problem and it's going to take big money," he said.
THE COST would probably be passed on to the consumer.
"A five percent increase in the cost of elec-
tric fuel," she said, sending fuel rods without
refining them. "Smith's investment is good."
Smith said he gathered the information on nuclear waste disposal because he was concerned that people did not know enough about the alternatives.
"If the information was brought to the attention of the decision makers, sending nuclear waste into space would have a 50-50 chance of getting funded," he said.
If funding came through, Smith said, radioactive waste could be launched by 1990.
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