1975_04 The Daily Collegian April 1975

              D*P»- of Special CollectloaaS
Blind
•        a as       S NIVE -    LJ l
ight fear, adjust to CSUF
.ft." 75
.-ave'8 of-
ee**aasj   nejj    m»
»va said that is addition
at  happened  toSw*"*aJ*lir r
vision   major,   als
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to   volunteer   reader a.   the   stu
re lon« you have been blind
vision   aad   ts   leg
•If roe
dents are given readers paid for
MS.*
was  the  me eager
ever  going   to  rnebt
te tan State Department of Vo-
ii traee
campus radio etatj
Marsha   Ml
rv Davis, gf, a social work
When he applied
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•The readers   ...
caster's    license
in her taa
lesson  or  teal    record  it on a
s. nool, hss been blind
reel to reel tape aad return.the
'la to the blind student so
that tm lessens can be taaresd.*
mum vision of 20  2t*                r^ct-
she ssld.
Handicapped    students
Often
In addition, there Is a disabled
students' library that kastnstru-
•TMs mesne thst a bbnd i •
tnvtnce instructors that
son   will   see   at  20 feet  »
Bjya
class,
■ BBtl   jrvd machines the BBWaWBta
ran use.
ally sighted person ran see
,-te^J4Bet.* SStd Hat.
I m mwm is net aance CBBBB,
ncs she is unable to nee the
ist rector demonstrate the dance
new.
andy Hargrave. who worka In
maiming! 1 etatetes coordt-
or's office, sstd tba Adaptive
waa a very positive
it   ta designed to  meat the
eds of taiiehrsgtpsrt stedsnts da-
m    <   '   •     class,"
Hargrave lost her algt
cancer  of the eye
I acta as
M  S   taMw^ir   the   student
and the instrecto
problem-
tered. la alao available.
Many studsnts sre st first
heattaat to become friends with
blind   students.   Hargrave   ssld.
If you're open and they can
see that yen want to be friendly,
pretty soon they'll reciprocate."
she aatd
Martin said that sometimes tt
msy take the  abide BBtaialii to
Ths women agreed that part
of the reason Is thst sighted stedsnts srs initially afraid of them
the disease
It Is still advancing, snd he ban
been lead by doctora that ha wtll
esperteace total sight loss te
IS to 20 years, te sstd.
•Some of the aide effecta are
night blindness. It takes about IS
miButns to make adjastmenM te
sudden c ha rare • In beta." he aatd.
One of the prstaems with par-
tial vision la being eaat
■ing   on   the   new   chalk-
hoards, ha said
•They have a lot of glare aaa)
the   white   chalk   fades   into   the
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•WE   Of>r*T   HAVE   MUCH problem  as   tone,  as  teachers
chance."-Mar she */ ■
Consequences of nuclear power plants discussed
\ idne Klug
eglan Staff Writer
Sabotage, war, natural disasters Bed human error are has
langers of nuclear power plante
discussed Wednesday during a
Prrjgrams in Fngltsh class by
three representatives of Project
Survival, a Bay Area coalition
nppoead to the aaa  of  nuclear
:< wer
•We're hers to mil vou that we
think nuclear power hss a lot of
langsrs," (art Mueller said.
"Our future la being affected . . .
The conclusion I have reached
is thai nuclear power haa
some very serious consciences."
Tne three representatives also
-xplained the objectives of thatr
Tganltstion and asked interested studsaia to enllet tn thetr
cause. Members plan to march
to Sscrsmstao May 21 with their
families sad present Gov. Ed-
Tond C. Brown. Jr and the Lner-
gy   Reaourcea Conservation aad
Development Commission with
a petition requesting the bosrd
prepare a full explanation of the
pros and cons of nuclear power
by jaa. 1. 1P74.
In a recent visit to Freano,
other members of the coalition
collected over 30.000 signatures
on the petition, more then twice
group Is drawing about 203people
•There  are pant tkousands of
people who warn to know what they
tlon   centers,   according  to  tha
film
Disposal of radioactive wnnte
•We're  utatag  about  an improved qua 1 try of life,' Mueller
ind  we're  talking   about
survival.'
According to Mueller, an informed public -would make the
decteton regarding use of nuclear
reectora stsce tt would effect
future generations aad weald ha
•traumatic in the extreme."
Many decisions have already
been made tor ths public by default, he said.
•We jaat eaat trust the mem-
nocrats," said Doug M
another Project Survival member
aad  former crew member on a
nuclear submsrins. He eatd tba
The representatives showed a
• red outlining the hsstc
problems involved ia waste disposal and transportation They
discussed further problems snd
ves to nuclear power In
a ojawatlon and snewer session
which followed.
The film, * Energy The Unclear Alternative," discusaedtas
dangers of fallu-es la nectear
coostag systems. The reactor,
which heats the water needed to
 tarn and gene rate alec
trt«
the film. There Is currently no
adequate plan for permanent dta-
poeal of psntesaum. oaa of the
moot tostc materials
msn and tba msia week
of nuclear flsatoa
ptotonium haa a half Ufa
of 24,500 years. It must be stored
for half a million years before It
decays, according to Dr. Kathy
Pering, a geochemtst and mem-
her of Project Survival
•One one-thousandth of agram
(of plutoatum) would kill you la a
couple of days,'
, billion
ers. If released ln the
likely   to  occur  tasa  s  natural
dtaaster    Several  power   plants
•aaeanj     ■      It      -ng   <   sv.ten
sre so slantWrani, he aald, that
utility com pen lee SW*j*BUtlod naa-
saga of the Price Anderson Act.
which limits thetr liability la
case Of a catastrophe The ttmtts.
he addad. are well below actual
■stfstas of rlamnga, awd ladi-
ratas the tack of faitk power
compnniea kava ta unclear reectora.
They   know   4
stor wtll melt. Tte
not   be reversed and could load
to radioactive material escaping
could  carry  tt tasarde popals-
Space pfiofograpfiy expert to speak
on 'Earth as viewed from Space'
1 W    l rederwood, a na-
< nown speaker and writer
*< epsee photography, wlU pre-
lontechatcaj  lecture  at
" ' ursdey   at   8
-derwood has titled
• s viewed
-e Applications of pho-
From   Manned   Space
"ood   aatd.   "Using  tba
•e  can  see  that weak,
man eons la oaa area can change
«   " Mies sway.
• hove'the earth on
vldtng maa
need to ce
lems."
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hWj  atr.pt-:
SUB
-BSj
krWBtej   'e'-hrxiiogy 1i vision ofthe
Natlenai   Aeror
Administration hesdswartered st
/she   Lyndon   B    Johns or,   Specs
Csteer  to  Hou»
-   Department   of
E   - Sajgggjkyj and n'asa    his vm
BB is being sponsored by
P   Department of Geog-
The talk is open to the public
large. However, seating
Ited
■few-aa Bnwsa -pwanu] bwsbT. a t*r
msswnt  saSBujaal  a j stew la de-
veloped by the Atomic ftaergy
Commission (ABC).
The AEC considered axrUdttying the waste sad damptng It Into
a salt mine tn Kenans, but canceled It when local gnophyslcista
showed Stem the mine waa annate. Other geophyelcista claim
tbla method of disposal is unsafe
because the earth may change in
half a million yeara.
If atomic waste were dumped in
SS, theftlrr. explai ned, the
eater castas* would decay within
a taw moatha snd ths pint uta am
would be absorbed by the salt.
The mines would have to be
guarded  until  taa  mete rial de-
Snlt mtaas are deslrsble, Pering explained because they have
no water
Another danger of nuclear reactors, discussed during ths
question sad answer session, una
the pr
McGla
Mueller aald utilities were
pressured tato bulldtng nuclear
eaeksn w, -he kM . eaaat tea
sffort ta eliminate the guilt that
resulted from United St MBS use
of the atomic bomb dariag World
The AEC waa originally com
posed of tedlvtduala who worked
on the tfssntatten Project (the
secret dstmlnwmant af the atomic
bomb), and they hoped to promote pee no Pal oaa of atomic power to oven
pecta.
Probtoma
said, because Congress gs** tae
ABC power to both develop snd
promote peaceful use of the atom
This has been partially resolved
by a recent spttt of ths A.SC tato
Ths  I
pea
tors also BHBaiona4
tag   danger
of   .abotage    which
Paring
aatd.    waned    create  a
•iimulla
as     breech    of    taa
ending
taa plant - and re-
leaee radioactive gasss tale Ska
air
Acctrh
ware alao poem bee
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