The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
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Monday, April 5, 1971
Lyons Site Questioned
Geological Survey Asks Study of Nuclear Dump
By LAYNE CREASON Kansan Staff Writer
The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) k currently attempting to get Congress to appropriate funds for the development of a disposal site for radioactive wastes. Their proposed site is an abandoned salt mine near Lyons.
The Kansas Geological Survey believes that funds for the project should be deferred until additional studies are made by the AEC, William Hambleton, the survey's director.
said Friday.
If the nation is to experience a reduction in air pollution and still meet the mounting
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The development of the site is necessary because the demand for fuel in the United States has doubled in the last decade, according to the AEC.
This increased demand has significantly depleted the nation's supply of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas, and has resulted in the need for new technologies to harvest and greatly increase being pumped into the air.
Survey Director Criticizes Atomic Energy Commission
The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) has responded arrogantly to criticism of its plan to build an atomic waste depository at Lyons, Missouri, where the Kansas Geological Survey, said recently.
By LAYNE CREASON Kansan Staff Writer
"The staff of the AEC has treated our criticism as trivial or negligible and has given a half-effort in looking into the problems connected with the site." Hambleton said.
Hambleton said the technical staff that is doing research on the project was not to blame for the incomplete study. He said they would privately agree with the survey that certain problems should be more carefully studied before final selection of the site.
Hambleton and the staff of the survey have been locked in a controversy with the AEC since last summer when Hambleton repatreteed the Commission's "simplistic" manuscripts connected with the Lyon's site" in a court before the National Academy of Sciences.
"Our quarrel is with the administrative staff of the AEC. They have shown remarkably little interest in a proper study of the area and are apparently trying to public relations the problems out of existence," he said.
Claims by the AEC that the project will stimulate the economic growth of the area.
He said that the project was mainly a construction operation and that the peak of the activity would be over when that phase was completed.
needs for fuel during the next decade, it may have to rely increasingly on atomic power
"I think the AEC has sold the people of Lyons a bill of goods with regard to the economic aspects of this thing. They have encouraged the notion that the project will bring in related industry. This simply is not true," he said.
Hambleton said Boeing had done an extensive study on jobs that might be created by the company.
Governor Docking has said that the efforts by the AEC to minimize the problems that have been raised by the scientists of Kansas supported the fears of many that once funds could not be stopped for the site, the project could not be stopped. It was found to be unafraid, Hamilton said.
"Accordingly, Governor Docking instructed me to advise the committee that he recommended that funding of the project be included in a complete study of the site has been done," Harper said.
If further studies are not done, he said, the project could be stopped in two ways. The state could take the matter to court through a lawsuit. The project could be stopped by the United States Congress.
Whether Congress would stop it might depend on how much opposition was existent, but the Republican leader said
ATOMIC POWER PLANTS, unlike plants which use fossil fuels, discharge few pollutants into the air. They are capable of generating great amounts of energy without draining our natural resources. Their source is nuclear uranium 235, is relatively inexhaustible.
Currently, atomic power plants account for about 2 per cent of the nation's capacity to generate electricity. The AEC expects this to increase by 15 percent and to 50 per cent by the end of the century.
There are now 21 atomic power plants in operation throughout the nation. Another 54 are under construction and 38 are in the planning stages. The AEC predicts that by the year 2,000, 550 will generate half the nation's electricity.
Unfortunately, there are a number of hazards concomitant to the use of atomic power. One hazard is the disposal of radioactive wastes.
THERE ARE NOW 80 million gallons of liquid radioactive wastes and 200,000 cubic feet of solid radioactive waste being terminated. The remaining Falls, Idaho, Richland, Wash, and ABD, S.C.
The tanks are disintegrating because of the consuming heat generated by the radioactive wastes. Consequently, the AEC is pressed to find a site where wastes with a high radioactivity level can be permanently stored in isolation from the biological environment.
The location the AEC tentatively has chosen is an abandoned salt mine, 1,000 feet
The AEC has been conducting studies of radioactive waste disposal in conjunction with the National Academy of Sciences since 1955, two years before the first atomic energy plant for commercial use began operation in Shippingport, Pa.
THE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN that salt is the most suitable mineral for disposal of the wastes because it has high radiation shielding characteristics and would be inexpensive to mine. Furthermore, salt beds are located in areas in which few earthquakes occur, minimizing the chances for displacement of the wastes.
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Economy, Teacher Supply Cited
Education School Makes Changes
(Editor's note); this is the first of a series of articles on the School of Education at KU.
By CAROLYN ROTHERY Kansan Staff Writer
The School of Education has been pressured both from within and without, Dale P. Kirschner.
One of the biggest pressures the school faces is the increase in enrollment combined with declining enrolment.
Scannell said there were two reasons for the shortage of positions. He said the number of students attending schools had leveled off in the past few years, and the economy has been in such bad shape that school systems have tried strategies that were not educationally appropriate. The need for new teachers has been reduced Scannell said, because of curriculum cut
Dale P. Scannell
backs and classroom crowding.
discusses education
Requirements for obtaining a teaching certificate are being debated throughout the state. Scannell said the requirements could be improved, but this did not necessarily mean raising the required number of hours but, rather, requiring more relevant to subjects.
Scannell said the faculty committee had recommended that the test be dropped. The committee thought that it was wrong to require an emphasis of study for each student and that there were other courses as good as Western Civilization. The second change was the extension of the student-teaching period from a 40-credit semester to a said the change would be put into effect as soon as possible. Some students are already teaching on a one-mester basis.
KANSAS TEACHING requirements are about average compared to other states, he said, but the state leads the nation in the field of public schools that hold masters degrees.
Two changes have been made in the past year within the school. The first was the removal of the Western Civilization Comprehension examination as a requirement for graduation.
Change is the name of the game everyday in the different clinics the School of Education develops developmental skills clinic is a service offered by who wishes to improve his reading ability or study methods. The school also operates an educational clinic and a speech and hearing center.
THE NEW PROGRAM will include student-teaching in the classroom, seminars about the class situation and a study of psychological principles and techniques. Scannell said the longer student-teaching period would help the distance between the students and the practice teacher.
Scannell said a cut in the University's budget by the state legislature could force the school to drop the reading and studies skills required for students to those with higher grade point averages.
THE GREATEST CHANGES in education are in the curricula. In education courses a student learns how to give tests, how to teach, and generally how to be a good teacher.
This involves change, because the school of
education is fighting a battle with the odds stacked against it. The battle is one against the preformed notions students bring with them, and it can be modified to modify some of the ideas but not enough.
The biggest problems a new teacher faces when he take his first job are disciplinary. Making the transition from student to teacher is also difficult. Scannell said these problems have been the teachers' having a good conception of what he needs to do and having the skill to bring this about.
TESTING METHODS have been only slightly modified, Scannell, who holds a doctorate degree in measurements and statistics, said.
Too many teachers have put too much emphasis on facts, he said, and have made their exams look backward rather than at the future use of a skill. Good teaching and testing should stress intangible skills rather than tangible facts. Scannell said.
Individually prescribed instruction with progress carefully monitored assignments made according to advancement pace may be required of the nurses of the near future in the public schools.
New trends in education have centered on the subject matter in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades. Scannell said the subjects were designed to help their influences on the behavior of people.
All learning does not have to be immediately relevant, Scannell said. Some background knowledge should be provided, he said, because without background facts students would have no basis to build upon and their progress would be hindered.
"PROGRESS HAS TO BE measured, and there has to be some way to describe it," he said.
Scannell said he was not in favor of dropping grading systems.
The School of Education has begun a student advisory board made up of about 13 students. Scannell said the board could serve as an instructor in teaching the students and the faculty, as an influence on the policies and procedures of the school and as a mechanism to obtain students' reactions to changes. The student board should be a representative of the students in the school, be said.
He said the board has made progress even though it is new.
Artist's Conception of the Atomic Waste Dump
opposed by the Kansas Geological Survey
Communication Is Aim of Senate
By JAN KESSINGER
and
MATT BEGERT
Kansan Staff Writers
Following an orientation dinner Sunday night, the Student Senate met in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union for a regular business meeting.
David Miller, student body president,
presented the proposed 1971-72 budget to the
Senate. It was then referred to the Finance
Committee for final approval and mendations.
He included an appropriation of $180,000 to the athletic department because of the results of the recent student fee recommendations.
Miller recommended that the Finance and Auditing Committee hold public hearings this week concerning the budget. Groups will be held a committee next week to justify their allocations.
Miller said that preparing the budget was
County Vote On Tuesday
Polling places will open at 3 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Voters will use the same polling place for all county elections. Information about polling places may be obtained from either the City Clark's office or the County Clerk's office. Only one election issue will effect all county voters. That issue is whether 16-year-olds will be allowed to vote in state elections.
Douglas County voters will go to the polls Tuesday to decide the outcome of four special questions and for races for mayor, city council and four seats on the city commission.
Other special questions include a proposed one-half cent city sales tax hike to finance 26 additional police officers and 15 more firemen.
"the most difficult thing I've had to do with money since I've been here"
Gary Jacobs, representing the Committee board, announced the appointment of Mr. Jacobs to serve as Chair.
R. L. "Puff" Bailey introduced an amendment to the Senate Code which would change the composition of StudEx. After discussion the Senate floor the amendment passed. The Senate approved the amendment to student body and the treasurer of the Senate ex-officio members of the Student Executive Committee. Members of StudEx, as stated in the student body, the student body, the Student Senate members on the University Senate Executive Council, the chairman of the Senate standing committees and one student senator appointee to the subject and to the approval of the Senate.
Three resolutions concerning the April 29 ROTC tri-service review were scheduled for presentation at the meeting. During discussion of the first of the resolutions, Gary Jacob moved to refer all three pieces of legislation to committee. The Senate voted to approve the resolution sponsored by Mike Farrer, Kansas City, KS.; Ben Wright, Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee for consolidation and recommendation at the next meeting.
A resolution censoring Vern Miller was killed, and a bill calling for an investigation into the residence hall situation, sponsored by the Piedmont town, Mm. Junior, was given its first reading.
Steve Hix, Overland Park sophomore, announced that space had been made available in the University Daily Kansan for dissemination of information written by Dr. Hix and that this would provide better communication between the Senate and the student body.
Before the meeting administration leaders of the University of Kansas discussed their relations with the University and the Student Senate at the Senate orientation dinner.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr speaking to student senators, vicechancellors of the University and the deans of men and women, said that the Student Senate had a great deal of authority and responsibility and that the Senate had the opportunity and challenge to shape the completion of the humanities building and the decision made on the student activity fee as events brought about by the Senate.
Comments by other administrative officials proceeded Chalmer's statement.
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S. Viets Push Back Drive Against Hilltop Fire Base
SAGON (UPI) - South Vietnamese troops repelled a fresh North Vietnam victory Sunday against a Central Highlands hutton, a city in the heart of a mountain last week but recaptured a day later.
The South Vietnamese High Command is Sampon and 280 Communists were killed in a battle with the North.
But UPT correspondent Robert E. Sullivan, said officer in the field had not idea how many the officers were.
Lt. CalleyVerdict 'Opaque Nuremberg Attorney Says
NEW YORK (UPI)—An authority on international and criminal law who served as a prosecutor at the Nuremburg War Trials and Sunday that, while the acquittal of L. William L. Calley Jr would have been attested in a court decision, murder was "onsome as well as harsh."
Telford Taylor, a retired brigade general who now is a professor of law at Columbia University, said the court martial of Calley for the alleged My La maz案 illustrated deep and urgent need for a dispassionate tough inquiry into our conduct of the war."
"Hather it was a symptom of disease, and the disease itself was the product of our decision to fight guerrillas with massive fire power brought to bear on the ground and from the air." The author's force that enormous civilian casualties and the reduction of millions to a miserable
"My Lai may have been unique in its size and quality, but it was not an abberation." Teford said in an article written for Life magazine.
Taylor said Calkley's trial was "a practical, legal and moral necessity and, given the uncontroverted evidence, his acquital would have been a disaster."
Describing the verdict of premedicated murder, carrying a mandatory sentence of death or life imprisonment, as "opaque as well as harsh," Taylor asked.
"The first conclusion is insupportable," Taylor said, "the second ignominious, and the ambiguity is itself a grave defect in the judgment rendered. I inevitably, it will be said on all sides, if for various and contradictory reasons, that Galley has been made a scapegoat."
"Did the jurors disbelieve or choose to disregard the voluminous testimony that Callery's platoon had been ordered or encouraged by what they had observed in the courtroom? Did they hold the instruent responsibility for the ans and shortcomings of his superiors?"
one South Vietnamese soldier was killed and nine were wounded in the Sunday battle.
A second fight Sunday a quarter-mile north of Fire Base 6 left 22 Commanders dead, South Vietnamese High Command spokesmen reported.
The U.S. Command today reported fresh fighting about 80 miles east of Fire Base 6. American paratroopers were being attacked, the command registers for the third day in a row.
U. S. spokesman said that in the latest attack, a band of Communist commandos fought their way into a base of the 173rd Airborne Brigade near An Khe, 240 miles away, two before retreating, apparently without casualties.
U.S. officers and a full division of North
Vietnam troops, about 8,000 men, is in the
country.
They also reported that Communist gunners shot down two U.S. helicopters. One came down near the ancient imperial capital of Hue, 390 miles north of Saigon, wounding one American. But near the Mekong Delta provincial capital of Phu Vinh, they shot down four American crewmen and nine South Vietnam soldiers on board the helicopter.
Up to 15 rockets slammed into the huge U.S. air base near Da Nang early Monday, officials reported, but the rockets caused no casualties or damage.
Near the shrinking Khe Sanh base, U.S. security forces in tanks and armed cars were attacked by a North Vietnamese squad of six men, spokesmen said. One American was killed and one wounded. Two Communists died in the short skirmish.
In the Tan Canh-Fire Base 6 area, UFP's Sailvan was told, North Vietnam Army Gen. Hoang Minh Thao had crossed over from the coast to the sea and took personal command of the Commander of the Commandist drive.