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Building's closing
unfair to students
Russell House University Union is closed on
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renovations prompted the closing. Work-study
funds, which usually cover 80 percent of RHUU
student salaries, weren't available this summer.
The cafeteria and Union Station are closed for
renovations.
RHUU Director Dennis Pruitt said he believed
the weekend closing was the most efficient way
to operate within his budget.
Pruitt's judgment may be good, but students
lose in this situation.
The Russell House provides a home-awayfrom-home
atmosphere. Students can relax and
study in the various lounges or watch television.
The Cinematic Arts Committee presents movies
at a low cost to students in the Russell House
Theater, and the gameroom offers pool tables
and pinball machines. Students wishing to meet
a friend and drink a beer go to the Golden Spur.
But summer students are being denied access
to this haven. In fact, students wanting to meet a
friend in a bar have to leave campus because the
Spur is closed for the summer.
In Prilitt's u'hrds "this ic real cqh ciliiofmn "
The Russell House University Union is supposed
to serve students. Instead, services are being
curtailed. Even mail, if not picked up by 5:30
p.m. Friday, will sit locked in RHUU until
Monday.
While students realize the university feels
economic pressure, school officials should understand
the importance of Russell House.
School is more than going to classes. The
Russell House helps provide a well-rounded
environment for students. And the weekend is
when students have the most time to enjoy
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Russell House officials should try to devise a
way to keep the building open on weekends
without jeopardizing services for the fall and
spring semesters. At least, students should be
aule to retrieve mail on weekends.
Verdict indicates
weakness in law
More than a year ago, John W. Hinckley Jr.
shot President Ronald Reagan and three other
men. The nation was able to see film of the
crime.
Monday night, Hinckley's jury found him not
guilty by reason of insanity. It was not a quick
decision ;the jury deliberated for nearly 25 hours.
Was it the correct decision? A situation now
exists where Hinckley could be released in 50
days. While this is not likely to happen, one
cannot help feeling Hinckley "got away" with
shooting the president. And one has to wonder
how many others accused of murder or attempted
murder will use insanity as a defense.
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innocent of a crime millions saw him commit on
television, it is time to take a look at the laws and
ask, "What's wrong?"
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Energy choic
Editor:
i ne June 9 Gamecock ran
an editorial by Dr. Oswald F.
Schuette justifying the expansion
of nuclear power in
the United States.
I would first question Dr.
Schuette's determination
that our options for
producing electricity must
be narrowed to coal and/or
nuclear power.
I accept Dr. Schuette's
concern about the supply of
oil, and, coupling that
concern with the many
political and economic
problems of continued
dependence on oil, I feel that
we must indeed move away
from oil. However, the
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of oil currently being used by
the United States for the
production of electricity
should not be a major factor
in either causing oil shortages
or promoting the
dangers of dependence on
imported oil.
NATURAL GAS supplies
are uncertain at best, but the
efficiency, cleanliness and
availability of natural gas
should be enough to enpmiratfp
us to iisp this
resource to its fullest, at
least until supplies dwindle
sometime during the first
half of the 21st century.
To argue that "solar
energy is too diffuse" would
seem to lead nowhere. The
practical application of solar
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energy in existing homes
and buildings proves its
effectiveness and safety, and
hints at its potential for
filling a significant portion of
our electrical energy needs.
One of the advantages of
solar energy, indeed, is that
it is diffuse Hnmpnwnprc
are freed from monthly
utility bills. The hardware
for solar energy production
can be manufactured and
sold by small businesses,
thus increasing competition
over price and quality. And
solar energy has perhaps the
greatest chance for survival
in a marketplace free from
unfair competition and
government subsidv.
DK. SCHUETTE also
ignores the potential of a
vast array of alternative
energy sources and conma
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geothermal, hydroelectric,
biomass, wood,
cogeneration, and others).
Perhaps none of these can be
the single answer to our
electrical needs, and
perhaps we do not need a
single answer. The contribution
of a collection of
options offers the chance to
fulfill our energy needs
without limiting ourselves to
any single energy source.
Dr. Schuette would move
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reliance on nuclear power
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coal. Indeed, coal is unacceptable,
but what of the
problems of nuclear power?
It is not argued that
nuclear fuel and waste are of
themselves safe, merely that
they have, in the past, been
handled safely. Radiation
exposure to plant workers
may or may not have
already inflected harm. We
are unlikely to be certain
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