THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90. No.22
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1 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, September 25, 1979
Consumer crusader
Kansas Union Ballroom, Nader's speech, titled "Energy Monopoles versus Energy Consumers," suggested the need for alternatives to nuclear power.
Ralph Nader, longtime consumer advocate, spoke to a packed house last night at the
Nader plugs energy alternatives
Staff Reporter
A predominantly student crowd packed into the Kansas Union ballroom last night and shouted, "You're not advocate Advocate Nader made humorous stabs at members of the John Birch Society and voiced his support of solar energy as an answer to America's energy woes.
Nader's speech, sponsored by the KU Political Forums Committee, was titled, "Energy Monopoles versus Energy Consumers."
"The anti-nuclear movement is making way for the development of solar energy," Nader said. "After all, Columbus discovered America using solar power."
Nader said in a press conference before the speech that a rally he attended Sunday in New York signaled the increased on-
position to nuclear power. The anti-nuclear raily attracted 200,000 people.
Nuclear power will be an issue that presidential candidates in the 180th election will not be able to ignore, Nader said. There are no promises to make it an issue, he added.
HOWEVER, HE said that he did not support candidates, but instead supported positions.
At the beginning of the lecture, members of the John Birch Society who had distributed anti-Nader literature at enlightenment gather came on the stage at the event of Nader.
Nadier asked the members if they believed in Birch Society contentions that former President Dwight E. Dienseman was a communist conspirator. The crowd turned their attention to the three student Birch society members were silenced by Nader's barge.
"You know what's going to happen to you if you get your picture taken with me?" he joked.
In a pre-speech interview, Nader said that members of the society usually would not stand when he requested that they come forward.
IN HIS LECTURE, Nader said that nuclear power must be stopped before a catastrophe occurred.
"The more we find out, the more we conclude that nuclear power is utterly too expensive, hazardous and unreliable," he said.
The nuclear energy industry, Nader said, was essentially a "one bite of the apple" industry. The first catastrophe will pit an end to it, he predicted.
As a result, he said, the United States should stop use of nuclear energy and begin developing alternative energy sources, particularly solar power.
Neder noted that solar power's basic supply was "free" and that it was not subject to the forces of a cartel.
ALSO. NADER suggested energy conservation as a means of phasing out the use of nuclear power.
Nadier said he realized that energy efficiency was not very glamorous, but he added that conservation was the first step in toward the replacement of nuclear energy.
Throughout his lecture, Nader repeated the importance of international cooperation in national emergency policies. He said citizens should unite against the nuclear industry because "we are not alone."
"Every citizen has a right to say how far technology is going to go in affecting his genetic inheritance," he said. "It's a matter of self defense."
Evaluation program needs money, personnel
Bv DAVE LEWIS
Staff Reporter
An increase in revenue and personnel is needed to make the student evaluation of KU instructors a more fair process, Evelyn G. Burke's curriculum and instruction, said yesterday.
Swartz said about 40 percent of KU's curators were evaluation and the instructors were surveyed in question survey that systematically measured a student's "personal evaluation skills."
"Most faculty members welcome student feedback," Swartz said. "It's a way to improve as a teacher. I want to perceive and understand." She added that we had a better instrument to do it with.
"Teaching is our number one priority. If
we take this seriously, then we need additional resources available in terms of money and people to work on the instrumentation."
"IN PART, THE SURVEY really evaluates personal style, and in a sense, popularity," Swartz said. "The ultimate assessment of a student's ability in the field when the students get out into the field."
Phill McKnight, director of curriculum and instruction, said it would not cost the University a great deal of money to make the surveys more fair.
Swartz said the survey was not always fair.
ALTHOUGH PROFESSORS are not required to conduct the survey, an instructor needs the survey for promotions, teacher needs incentives, sabbatical leaves and tenure.
McKnight said he could appoint professors from the department of psychology and the School of Education to help make a better survey.
McKnight said he would prefer the survey be administered to students of all instructors.
"I think it should be mandatory because good teachers are being punished," McKnight said. "Good teachers, who want to teach, are being compared to each other."
Swartz said she also was concerned with the proposed publication of evaluation results.
The results of the survey could be published in the manual upon the instructor's request, according to Tim Trump, chairman of the committee.
nesday recommending that the Senate reinstate the publication of the Student Course Evaluation Manual.
The Student Senate Academic Affairs Committee passed a resolution last Wed.
Trump said the committee would consider whether to use the C & I survey results in future years.
"The biggest advantage of the publication be that the students would know little about how to behave before they enrolled." Trump said. "They also would know about the quality of the curriculum."
Trump said although the Senate could make its own survey, it would be practical to use the C & I survey if it were improved.
Men's liberation is coming of age
Early in 1973, when campus unrest about violence was nearly dead, when saddened she wrote a letter to her roommates for places on students' feet, Lawrence "Bopper" Doyon was trying to start a movement.
Denton, then a KU senior, was sowing the seeds for a men's liberation movement on campus through an awareness group and Student Union Activities Free University.
Deyton has said the group's purpose was to help men realize that they had negative sexual stereotypes to overcome just as women did.
Deyton estimated at the time that nine m regularly attended the group's meetings.
But today, Tom Dougherty, organizer of
"It's definitely a late-blooming movement," Dougherty, Garnett special student, said recently. "It's about 15 years behind the woman's movement."
the Feminist's Coition, a men's support group at KU, said that at least 50 women in Lawrence participates in more than one-third of which have existed more than six months.
BARRABIA BLOOM, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource and Career Center, estimated that women's awareness groups were in full swing by the late 1960s.
Bloomed said she thought it was more difficult for men to organize support groups than it was for women because men were not taught to look to other men for support.
"When a man needs support, he is accustomed to seeking out women for it—
going to mother. Men have been brought up to believe that it is unmanly to seek emotional support from other men," she said.
Although the men's movement in Lawrence is still growing, it has lagged behind the rest of the nation.
Bloom said men often could not develop intimate friendships because they were afraid of being called homosexuals
IN 1970, WARREN Farrell, professor of political science at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania National Organization for Women task force, was already organizing men's conference.
He was giving lectures and writing articles to make man question the stereotypes he thought were forced on them: The
breadwinner, the "macho-man," the Tarzan image and the idea that men need to be detached and unemotionable.
Farrell conducted a male beauty contest at the Kansas Union last year to show what being seen as a sex object was like.
In 1970, Men Against Cool, a men's awareness group, protested the image of the American male conveyed by Playboy magazine.
THEN IN 1971, Brother magazine, a California men's liberation paper, made its debut in Berkeley coffee houses and on city street corners.
By 1972, newspapers printed stories about men working as telephone operators, flight attendants, nurses and other jobs traditionally held by females.
See MEN page two
Senator calls SALT inadequate; proposes stronger arms treaty
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
Jen. Sack G竿, R-U吥, said last night that the SALT II treaty would not control weapons, but instead would allow the Soviet triple its amount of nuclear weapons.
Garn was in Lawrence to speak to members of former Sen. James Pearson's class, "The United States in the World Affairs". About 140 people attended the third in a series of classes designed to teach the Strategic Armies Limitations Talks.
"No one wants nuclear war," Garn said.
"But I would like an arms control treaty that really reduces arms."
Garn said he opposed the treaty for three years. He said it would give the United States weapons, it would give the Soviet Union a defense advantage over the United States, and the Soviet Union's adherence to the treaty would be less effective.
The only reduction of Soviet weapons under the treaty would be of weapon launchers, he said. The Soviet Union's 2,500 nuclear war systems would have to be cut to 2,250.
BUT THE TREATY would allow other nuclear warheads to be increased, Garn said
In 1969, when negotiations for SALT began, the Soviet Union had 1,000 nuclear reactors. It had also 1,500 reactors, that figure increased to 5,000 and the new number allowed the Soviet to triple its production.
"I question the logic and sincerity of the administration when they report that someone is afraid," he said. "If really want them to control arms, you freeze. You don't build any more and you don't let anyone get away."
"This may be our last chance for really stopping the arms race. Do we stop it by allowing mass increases?"
Garn said the treaty allowed such vast increases that the Soviet union might not be able to produce as many weapons as allowed.
THE TREATY would allow the Soviet Union more explosive power in one 1S-18 missile than the United States has in all of its nuclear warheads, he said.
The United States now has Minuteman 3 missiles that are more accurate than any Soviet missile. But to counter the U.S. advance, the Soviets have bigger, more powerful SS-18 missiles.
They have 308 SS-18 missiles, each with 10 warheads. One missile can carry the
equivalent of 10 million tons of TNT, Garn said.
"I am staggered by our ability to collect intelligent data," he said. "But there's a difference in collecting and verifying data to ensure that we are abiding by the treaty."
But the Soviets set goals and do not back off from them, he said.
Since SALT negotiations began, the Soviet Union has spent $105 billion on strategic arms, he said, which is 35 to 40 percent more than the United States spent.
Garn said the Soviet Union would be able to make the SS-18 missiles more accurate within a few years and would have a clear advantage over the United States.
The United States disarmed, he said, but at the same time, the Soviet Union was building up weapons and developing new technology.
The United States should be tough in negotiations, he said, because the Soviets "would respect a little strength."
"WE WOULD HAVE to physically destroy some of those bombs so as not to exceed the limit." he said.
Of each dollar spent for defense in the United States, 55 cents is used to attract an all-volunteer army.
Garn said that even if the two nations had spent the same amount of money for general defense, the Soviet Union would have spent more than the United States' less of its money had to be paid on personnel.
GARN SAID THAT after World War II, the United States "could have ruled the world" if it wanted, because it was by far the most powerful nation in the world.
Garn said that despite the amount of photographic and technological equipment the United States had to survey the Soviet Union, he didn't verify whether the Ulysses was being tested.
Under the new treaty the United States would have to limit its bombs to 420, Garn said, and would have to include the B-52 moth-balled in the deserts of Arizona.
Garn said the United States was using the wrong philosophy in negotiating the treaty with the Soviets. "We go in with a spirit of compromise."
For example, he said, in each SS-18 missile, the treaty allows 10 independent warheads. But there would be no way of deploying the 300 missiles with hold 10 or 23 warheads inside.
At the same time, the Soviet Union spends 25 cents for personnel out of each dollar spent for defense. Garn said.
Nuclear storage focus of debate
By KATE POUND Staff Reporter
Americans have been told to about the safety of nuclear energy by the United Nations. A study by freeland Kansas journalist told about 30 KU students and faculty members
"No one in Kansas knew that the wastes were there," he said. "The government lied to us."
The waste materials are no longer stored in the mines.
McDowell said, "The American people have been told that the experts know what they are doing with nuclear energy. That is bull."
THREE KU PROFESSORS and researchers in nuclear physics also spoke at the meeting.
McDowell was one of six speakers at a public meeting on nuclear waste storage in Kansas, held in the Kansas Union yesterday afternoon.
McDowell also said that in 1965 the government stationed a mine to waste矿泉水 and abandoned salt mines. Lyons, Kau, although nuclear scientists were unsure of the矿ines safety for nuclear use.
Russel Mussel, professor of engineering, said that McDowell was unduly concerned about the safety of nuclear energy and had exaggerated its dangers.
According to Mesher, used nuclear fuel stored in places like salt mines could not begin chain reactions of nuclear fission, as McDowell said they could.
"It is not possible for it to create a nuclear fission," Messer said. "The nuclear fuel are spent, used up, and the energy just is not there for fission."
Eric Kirchandel, a program manager for federal transportation research, also opposed the use and transportation of nuclear materials in Kansas.
"One gets the idea that all is not perfect in the field," he said.
Yellow cake, Shaw said, is a relatively harmless ore that contains little radioactivity. The dangers of yellow cake are similar to those of lead, which is toxic only if eaten, he said.
Kirkendall said that numerous accidents involving the vehicle have been transported but occurred, including the spillage of 22 barrels of yellow cake, a low-grade uranium ore, near Wichita Falls.
ED SHAH, PROFESSOR of biophysics,
ed Kirkendall's objections to the transportation of radioactive materials were first reported in 1957 and materials brought into Kansas emil little radiation and are needed for research at the University of Kansas and nuclear medicine
"WE TRANSPORT through the state materials that are far more toxic than yellow cake," he said.
Gisela Dresshoff, assistant professor of physics, said storing radioactive wastes in salt mills was safe, although McCowell raised questions about the practice.
According to Dreschhoff, West Germany stored low and intermediate level radioactive wastes in salt mines and had no problems with leakage of radioactivity.
However, Dreschhoff said, the German mine differed from the Lyons mines because its salt was very dry and noncursive and because the German mine
Hidden holes left from oil drilling in the 1930s may allow water to leep into the Lyons mines, she said, and these uncharted holes are difficult to locate and seal.
ACCORDING TO McDowell, the federal government wants to use the Lyons mines for radioactive waste storage because it may leak about any other possible storage site.
"The government is experimenting and, frankly, I don't want Kansas to be the guinea pig," he said.
Kirkendall said an accident involving nuclear materials or wastes in Kansas could cause a radiation poisoning and cardiac-pulmonary failure are possible results of a nuclear accident.
A major accident involving a typical truckload of material brought into the state could cause one immediate fatality, 150 others. The injury was caused by cardio-pulmonary failure, be said.
HOWEVER, SHAW said, radiation caused very little cancer. More than 80 percent of all cancer is linked to environmental factors, he said. Cigarette smoking and cancer-causing chemicals in products used in heating are more dangerous than radioactive materials, he said.
"Chemical carcinogens are far more effective than radiation in causing cancer," Shaw said.
The sixth speaker at the meeting was Tony Gogel, from the United States Geological Survey. Gogel spoke briefly about his studies around the Lyons salt mine area.
A brief question-and-answer period followed the discussion, which was organized by James Mendahl, 1298 Ohio. The Lawrence Sierra Club, the KU Education Technology Collective and Radioactive Free Kansas all sponsored the meeting.