Miami Hurricane, February 07, 1978

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There can be no cultural change between the l nited States and the Soviet government until all Russian Jews have their basic human rights, and unless Sharansky is released, there can detente with the barbaric Soviet governmenl
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By JOSHUA DANN
Humean* Staff Writar
A small demonstration by the Jewish Defense League (JDL) took place in front of the Student Union Thursday in protest of the March 27 concert at Gusman Hall featuring Soviet cellist Daneil Saffrin. The JDL was marching against the imprisonment of Anatoly Sharansky, a Soviet Jew awaiting trial for espionage.
According to JDL spokesman Carin Gottlieb. Sharansky is charged with being a CIA operative, a charge that has been proven false.
"His only guilt is that he is a Jew, and since he has no voice, we must be his voice.” Gottlieb said
The JDL believes the Saffrin con-
cert to be a Soviet political ploy.
"The Soviet Union isn’t interested in raising the cultural level of the United States, nor are they interested in promoting world peace. Their task is political,” Gottlieb said: "They want to destroy the psychological hostilities built up over the years of Cold War and to give the image of being a warmly peaceful nation.
"There can be no cultural exchange between the United States and the Soviet government until all Russian Jews have their basic human rights. Until and unless Sharansky is released, there can be no detente with the barbaric Soviet government and their cultural ’shock troops.’”
The JDL met with James Progris, concert manager of Gusman Hall, in an effort to cancel the performance, but the concert will go on as scheduled.
Progris said that he conferred with JDL representatives for more than two hours.
“I recognize their position," Progris said, "and I can understand it. But I believe that art transcends political barriers.
“There is also the fact that art is part of the maintaining of academic principles, and this performance is just as valid, just as important and has just as much right to go on as would any political speaker."
Progris also said that he had an obligation to the subscribers of Gus-
man Hall. "We have a committment to those members who paid for and
are expecting Saffrin’s performance," Progris said.
"Just the fact that UM has invited a Soviet artist to perform on its campus is a bloodstain on its record,” Gottlieb said
Concerning Progris’ statements, JDL member Dan Gottlieb said that he felt that Progris’ committments to his subscribers were not as strong
as the JDL’s committment to Soviet
Jewry.
"We are doing more for academic principles, by bringing Soviet oppression into the public eye. Obviously. Mr. Progris feels that academic principles are more important than basic human rights,” Gottlieb said.
La crosse learn reveals dilemma
By FERNANDO ZULUETA
Murncan* Staff Writar
“It’s just frustrating." Marc DeSimone, player and coach of the UM lacrosse team, explained the dilemma of the badly underfunded unit.
"We don’t have enough money to pull us through this season," DeSimone said.
Ever popular in the northern states, lacrosse is rapidly gaining a steadfast adherence around the rest of the nation as well. Twenty-odd devotees make up UM’s unit.
"It’s a pity,” DeSimone explained, "this year we can boast of having a really competitive team.
Robin Knipp. one of the team’s members, explained the disconcerting situation plaguing this year's unit. "Our main problem this season is that we’re underfunded.
"We were given a grand total of $300 by the Student Activity Kee Allocation Committee (SAFACV’ Knipp said, "and $65 of this we never even saw because it went to pay past dues."
Knipp is confident that his team is competitive in all aspects with other Florida units. "Undoubtedly, we have the potential to beat any team in the state,” Knipp said
DeSimone is especially worried about this upcoming weekend "We have two games scheduled in Tampa this weekend. There are 24 players on our team and we have to stay Saturday night at Tampa. With
$39 in the bank, I think it will be difficult.” DeSimone said, "and the guys just don’t have enough money to pay all the expenses themselve^.”
DeSimone makes the case that the student activities fee which he and the other players pay each semester amounts to a considerably larger sum than that which the lacrosse unit has been allocated. “We pay all that money for student activities and then we get so little of it back,” he said.
The lacrosse unit also lacks a considerable amount of game equipment. "Most of the gear is either the guys’ or left over from previous seasons," Knipp said.
"When we change players during a competition we have to stop the whole game so that the guys can change helmets because we don’t have enough for everyone. It’s a farce!” DeSimone said.
Remarkably the players are not visibly bitter over the situation, “all I'd like to see us get is enough money to pay off a few of the upcoming expenses. Otherwise, it’s almost impossible for us to absorb the costs,” DeSimone said.
Although the team lost its first two games of the season. Robin Knipp remains effusive over his unit's potential for success. Indeed, however, it was ironic that he should comment, “It’s true we lost the first two. but there's no doubt about it. We're still in the money!”
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Miami Hurricane JAYNE KAMIN
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Fight for nuclear safeguards is brought to campus
By IVONNE ROVIRA
N.wi Editor
Student representatives for the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. (CNR) will be collecting signatures today through Thursday in the Student Union Breezeway for a petition to be sent to state and local legislatures concerning the popularizing of the use of solar energy and the phasing out of the use of nuclear energy.
Members of the national board of directors include four Nobel Prize laureates, Linus Pauling, professor of chemistry at Stanford University; Harold Urey, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of California at San Diego; George Wald, professor of biology at Harvard University and James Watson, professor of biology, also of Harvard University (of Watson and Crick fame).
Also affiliated with the organization are John Fdsall. professor of biochemistry at Harvard: Paul Ehrlich, professor of biologj at Stanford and Jack Lemmon
The organization urges public dis-
closure on many nuclear energy issues and public education on all of
these issues.
There are now almost 60 nuclear power plants in operation in the United States, according to Richard Rhodes, an Atlantic contributor and Guggenheim fellow. According to the Atomic Energy Commission (AFC), there will be 1,000 by the yeur 2000
Abbey Rosenstock, a local organizer for the non-profit organization. pointed out what his group sees as the downfalls of nuclear energy Each step of the nuclear fuel cycle has some dangerous element or elements to it.
The nuclear fuel cycle begins with the mining of uranium. This mining exposes the mine workers' bones and lungs to high doses of radiation Also, much of the uranium ore waste, which is of no use in nuclear reactions, still remains radioactive indefinitely. Despite this, much of this waste is used to build houses and buildings after the uranium mill is no longer in operation, the committee's pamphlet reads.
The mined uranium is combined with flourine and sent to one of the three enrichment plants in the United States where the proportion of LI-235 in the substance is increased The AFC has announced that it will be giving up its monopoly on these plants, each of which costs $2 billion in construction along, and will allow private industries to build such enrichment plants. The CNR said it is very likely that the costs of enriching uranium will go up at that time
The enriched uranium is packed into rods for use in reactor cores, from which some of the uranium may be released into plant waste
streams.
In the nuclear reactor, the fission of atoms causes the heat that generates electricity. The reactor causes thermal pollution, high radiation exposure among plant workers and routine radiation emmissions
The reactor also produces plutonium. one of the most deadly toxins known to man. Plutonium has a half-life of over 24.000, which means that in 24.000 years the plutonium will still have over half the radioactivity it now has
“Nuclear power involves a special time-scale." Lemmon wrote in an Oct. 24. 1977. newsletter. "Radioactive poisons are not biodegradable. They must be kept isolated from the ■ environment until they decay according to their own internal structures. The long-term radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants will have to be guarded for 1,000 to 100.000 years or longer."
Nuclear wastes in liquid form are very hot and very radioactive. Although these wastes are not to reenter the environment, over 100.000 gallons have already seeped into the ground, according to Rosenstock
The most feared accident of all is a loss of the coolant that keeps down the temperature that is allowed to rise only enough to create electricity. The Rasmussen Report, directed by Norman Rasmussen, professor of nuclear engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in conjunction with the Nuclear Regulato-
ry Commission, predicted that a loss of coolant accident would probably result in at least 3.300 deaths. 45.000 early illnesses and property damage of $¡24 billion.
Fortunately, the Rasmussen Report calculates the possibility of this occurence as being one in a billion. "You are more likely to die by meteorite. earthquake, hurricane, tornado, toxic gas. explosion, fire, airplane crash, fall or automobile crash than by nuclear accident, according to the Rasmussen Report." Rhodes said.
Despite the Rasmussen Report's
Bv MARIE BETANCOURT
Ht/rrlcan* Stall Writar
Monday afternoon at the Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) Senate Meeting, a student suggested that one of the possible reasons for the tuition increase is fiscal mismanagement due to the fact that the budget is not done by computer.
“It is not correct that the budget is not computerized," said Dr. George Huxel, director of budgeting and auditing
“A budget cannot possibly be made up by a computer. It must be first drawn up and then punched into the computer, which then keeps
optimism, many renowned scientists have disagreed with its findings. including Barry Commoner, professor of biology at Washington University; George Kistiakowsky, professor of physical chemisty at Harvard and an explosives expert; and the CNR.
"This figure (the Rasmussen Report’s figure of there having been "almost 2.000 reactor-years of experience with no nuclear accidents affecting the public') is totally misleading because the issue is not whether light-water-cooled and moderate reactors are generally
all the Information for future reference."
Huxel said that calculations and projections from statistical data are made on the computer, but the budget is actually drawn up at the Budget Committee meetings.
There are three major sections represented at the meetings, one prepared by Dr John Green, executive vice president of administration and finance; one by Dr. Clyde Wingfield. executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, and one by Dr. Emmanuel Papper, vice president of the Medical School. Each unit prepares their budget requests and presents them at the
safe,” Kistiakowsky said. "What is at issue is the safety of very large light-water reactors built commercially after competitive bidding. To get the ‘almost 2.000’ figure, the older, small power reactors were included and also about 1,500 reactor-years of naval ship reactors."
Even Rasmussen himself admits the optimism of his committee's report. "Probably one of the most serious issues that interventionists (critics of nuclear power) can raise today with good statistics to back their case, is that the nuclear power See page 3
meetings. Distribution of the projected revenue is decided by priority needs. After it has been approved by President Henry King Stanford, the budget plan is then punched into the computer.
"The computer system is not totally automated, in the sense that a daily readout is not available,” said William Searcy, director of computer services.
The University computer is run at an annual fixed price by Systems and Computer Technology Corp. The University is gradually replacing their financial reporting systems and most of their existing student systems with Financial Managing Serv ices (FMS) and Integrated Student Information System (ISIS).
FMS will provide a more efficient and integrated system, allowing for a daily readout and a cut in personnel.
ISIS will keep records of the students from the time of admissions to graduation
"There is a definite need for improvement, “ said Huxel, "but the budget problems are not due to errors in making up the budget.”
"The two major causes are 1) a short fall in unrestricted gifts to the University, and 2) a 4 per cent drop in enrollment.”
^Hurricane to publish special,	^
"loveable" delight next Tuesday
For lovers and singles. The Miami Hurricane announces a special Valentine issue next Tuesday.
Spend a day with someone you love as well as with your campus newspaper.
Look for special articles and features about love.
And, of course, coverage of upcoming Carni Gras, things to do, places to go.
Mrs. G.'s column will also take on a different, but loveable look!
Computer budget scrutinized