University Daily Kansan, April 12, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 11
Laser could produce inexpensive energy
By United Press International
LIVERMORE, Calif. - Officials yesterday dedicated the world's most powerful laser, a technological wonder that could lead to a cheap, safe way of making electricity.
Scientists hailed the giant laser capable of delivering up to 120 trillion watts of energy — about 200 times the nation's present electricity-generating capacity — at ceremonies at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the country's largest research facilities for designing nuclear weapons.
Should the laser help them succeed in harnessing nuclear fusion, they said. it could open the supply of inexpensive, clean power.
Proponents of developing fusion as an alternative energy source say the fuel for fusion, heavy hydrogen, is readily available to all nations from a universal resource: water.
On the other hand, the laser housed in Livermore's $176 million Nova facility could be used to improve thermonuclear bombs by mimicking certain reactions in a controlled laboratory setting. It also could be used in research for the "Star Wars" defense program.
Researchers will begin their experiments in six weeks, employing the laser's intense beam of light in an attempt to weld the nuclei of hydrogen atoms and release bursts of energy at temperatures exceeding those at the sun's center.
"Once we crack the problem of fusion, we have an assured source of energy for as long as you want to think about it," said John Emmett, associate director for lasers at Livermore.
Under the guidance of more than 50 computers, a pulse of laser light is split into 10 parts, which race along separate 500-foot long, bright blue tubes toward an aluminum "oven" containing a pellet of fusion fuel smaller than a grain of sand.
Teachers lose jobs over symbols
By United Press International
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- Three teachers at a prestigious private elementary school who used bagel symbols to identify applition from Jewish students will lose jobs when the school year ends.
The symbols were discovered by an eight-member committee appointed by the Cranbrook Educational Community to investigate charges of discrimination against Jewish children.
the committee said the symbols were used only during the 1981-82 school year and only by three teachers responsible for admitting students to the junior kindergarten class at the Brookside School.
In a report released Wednesday.
Cranbrook Educational Community operates three schools in the affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Brookside, Kingswood and Cranbrook the committee found no evidence of discrimination at the other two schools.
The teachers told investigators they used the symbols not to discriminate against Jewish applicants, but to divide Jewish students
more evenly between morning and afternoon sessions.
Lillian Bauder, president of the Cranbrook Educational Community, said the teachers responsible for the symbols would be dismissed.
The three teachers who selected applicants for the junior kindergarten class later marked some applications of 3- and 4-year-olds with two concentric circles representing bagels, the report said.
Bauer said the symbols designated children the teachers believed to be their last names and in some cases the nursery schools they had attended.
Skinheads invade San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — The Haight-Ashbury district, once the haven of flower children and hippies, has been invaded by a band of super-patriotic head-shaven thugs who are terrorizing merchants and residents.
They call themselves "skinheads" and say they are "guardians of freedom."
the Park Station received almost daily complaints from merchants who said the skinheads hung out in the streets and intimidated customers.
"They're obnoxious people with no
reasons. Opp said, 'They're a
public nuisance.'
Police Officer Herman Popp said
The gang members, who wear leather jackets and combat boots, make no secret of their attitude.
By United Press International
nists, Anarchists, Hippys (sic) and Homosexuals."
A flier recently appeared in the area addressed to "Punks. Commu-
"We the skinheads will not tolerate your spreading of unwanted disease both mental and physical," the flier said. "We are jailed because we use every method at our disposal to protect the decent people of this country from your unAmerican (sic), subversive, left wing mind poison. So beware enemys (sic) of the flag! Your days are numbered."
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