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‘Tide is turning’
Nuclear power fight looking up
A nuclear power opponent said Thursday he believes the
tide is turning in the fight against nuclear power plant construction
in the Pacific Northwest.
John Bartels, a candidate in the May 23 election to represent
Wards 4 and 5 on the Eugene Water and Electric Board con
ducted a seminar on nuclear power in the Northwest at part of
Earth Week in the EMU. Bartels has been active in the nuclear
power controversy, both as a journalist and as an energy adviser
to Jim Weaver, Fourth District congressman.
"Even though we’ve been up against the wall on this thing for
10 years, my feeling is that people are beginning to understand
what is going on and we re starting to turn this whole thing
around," Bartels said. "I feel more confident about beating the rap
than I ever have before.”
In his talk, Bartels outlined the history of hydroelectric dam
construction in the Northwest and the private utilities decision to
turn to nuclear plants to supplement future power needs in 1967.
He said Portland General Electric, the major stockholder in
the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant at Rainier, is in a financial crisis
because of its decision to build Trojan. If nuclear construction is
continued, he said, “it would bankrupt the Northwest.”
Bartels contended the region s future power needs could be
met by measures other than nuclear power. These include
energy conservation methods for meeting peak power demand:
the development and financial support of so-called exotic
methods of power generation such as solar power and the use of
"pump storage" at the hydroelectric dams already in existence.
Pump storage uses reverse turbines to'pump water back above
the dams at night when the demand is low for use during day
when demand is much greater.
“We won't need thermonuclear power at all if we develop our
pump storage potential,” Bartels said.
Bartels envisions a bleak future if the private utilities such as
PGE and Pacific Power and Light continue to be charged with
supplying a large share of the region’s power.
“We must make Oregon a public power state,” he said. "The
answer is to skip the private utilities and go to a public power
system throughout the Northwest."
He said although the power companies have said ther
monuclear power would help keep power rates low, this conten
tion hasn't proved to be correct. He said PGE’s rates have dou
bled in the past five years because of costs incurred by Trojan,
and said it is projected their rates will double again in the next five
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Joy Jacobson from Portland will
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College apoints dept heads
The University College of Arts
and Sciences has appointed four
department heads to new three
year terms.
Donald Van Houten and Robert
Fagot have been reappointed as
heads of the departments of
sociology and psychology, re
spectively.
Robert Lang was named head
of the history department and
Ronald Sherriffs was named de
partment head of speech.
Van Houten, 42, has been at the
University since 1968. He has
served as head of the Department
of Sociology since 1975.
He has been doing research on
complex organizations for a
number of years and he is cur
IFC pleases BSU
Black Student Union (BSU)
members were pleased Tuesday
night after the Incidental Fee
Committee (IFC) awarded them
$9,599.55, almost all of the figure
they requested.
The program was given about a
three percent increase this year.
Last year they received
$6,757.57. The only stipulation
the IFC made was that two films
the BSU sponsors next year be
put on a "pay-back” plan. The
group will pay the IFC about 75
percent of the admission charged
at the film.
Both the EMU Board and the
Women's Resource and Referral
Service were granted the total
amount asked. The IFC gave the
EMU Board $1,614.
Women’s Resource and Refer
ral obtained $3,471.60. About
$500 under "special events" will
be put on reserve. The group must
present plans for the events be
fore the IFC grants approval.
The Repertory's Dancer's
budget was cut about $100 Tues
day night. The group received
$3,375, which is an increase of 6.3
percent over last year. The $100
was subtracted from the dancer's
guest artist request.
rently writing a theoretical work on
bureaucracies
Robert Fagot, 56, has been at
the University since 1956 and he
has served as department head
for psychology since 1968. Before
coming to the University, Fagot
served as a meteorologist with the
U S. Naval Reserve in Kodiak,
Ala.
Fagot has published in a
number of professional journals
and he is now doing research in
the area of perception.
Ronald Sheriffs, 45, has been
at the University since 1965. He
has been the director of the
speech department's telecom
munications area since 1967.
In 1964, Sherriffs served as act
ing director of the Division of
Broadcast Services and managed
the radio station at the Texas
Technological College. Sherriffs
is doing research on violence in
media and public responsibility
concerning media.
Robert Lang, 45, has been at
the University since 1964. He
served as acting head of history
from 1976 to 1977.
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