Nuclear shelters 'wouldn't do any good'
The nuclear fallout shelters beneath
the residence halls have fallen to
waste.
Were the terrible effects of television s
"The Day After" to become reality.
University students would have no place
to hide.
The 20-year-old system of nuclear
fallout shelters buried beneath the
residence halls have fallen to waste. Pro
visions that were intended to sustain life
in the event of a nuclear holocaust are
gone. Library books, dust, and dark,
empty space have taken their place.
"The shelters are there but the stored
materials have been removed," says
Physical Plant Coordinator William
Bryant. "At some point the federal
government decided that fallout shelters
wouldn't do any good."
Under the original plan, two makeshift
hospitals and three to four fallout
shelters in the basement of each dor
mitory area were linked together by the
network of tunnels that connects the
residence halls. But even when they
were fully stocked, the shelters could
only have lodged a fraction of the
University community, Bryant says.
"They were never intended to hold
everybody. Probably, at most, I'd say
2,500 to 3,000 people could be
accomodated."
All that remain now are the empty
rooms, a few of which are still scattered
with some leftover provisions: crackers
and jellies, water drums, medical
supplies.
"They are used for library .and dor
mitory storage for the most part," says
Physical Plant Director Harold Babcock.
Photos by Steve Crowell
The original system of shelters were
hooked together with underground
tunnels.
The morning after 'The Day After'
From the Associated Press
After weeks of hot debate, TV viewers
Sunday saw for themselves “The Day
After,” and Secretary of State George
Shultz said the ABC movie depicting a_
nuclear attack on Kansas City is “not the
future at all."
"The film is a vivid and dramatic protrayal
of the fact that nuclear war is simply not ac
ceptable," Shultz said in an interview on
ABC immediately following the broadcast.
The policy of the United States "for
decades now," has been “based on the idea
that we simply do not accept a nuclear war,
and we've been successful in preventing
it."
The only reason the United States has
nuclear weapons, Shultz added, "is to see
to it that they aren't used." And he said the
destructive capability of the U.S. nuclear
arsenal has been reduced by 70 percent
since the 1960s.
"In addition to having this policy of
balance and deterrent, we have a policy of
reduction," he said. “In President Reagan's
efforts to deal with this problem, reduction
of nuclear weapons has been at the top of
its list."
Many of the expected 75 million viewers
gathered in churches and homes to watch
"The Day After," a $7 million, 2 and one
quarter hour movie that shows residents of
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the Kansas City area dying instantly oy ir
radiation, others in nearby Lawrence, Kan.,
dying slowly by radiation poisoning, and a
resulting society ruled by rifles and fear.
ABC-TV in New York said it received 1,075
telephone calls immediately after the
broadcast. ABC spokesman David Horowitz
said 662 callers "expressed support" for the
broadcast, 393 gave "negative views," and
the remainder asked for information about
followup programs.
Psychiatrists set up hot lines to help
viewers handle the specter of nuclear war.
Anti-nuclear groups scheduled candelight
vigils in Kansas City and Lawrence after the
movie, and planned rallies and public
meetings in dozens of cities throughout the
week.
Many teachers planned to discuss the
show and feelings about nuclear war with
their classes Monday morning.
ABC executives called it "the most impor
tant movie we or anyone else have ever
made" and it came against the backdrop of
a debate in Europe over whether U.S.
nuclear missiles should be stationed in
West Germany.
The movie "points out a crying need for a
renewed emphasis on civil defense," said
Patrick Breheny, regional director of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency in
Kansas City. He also said free government
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tained by writing FEMA.
In the movie, a Missouri family that Hides
out in the basement for several weeks
seems to avoid much of the radiation from
the nuclear strike on Kansas City. However,
at the end of the movie, a message on the
screen says the results of a full nuclear
strike would likely be much worse than
those depicted in "The Day After."
After seeing the film, Dr. Howard
Bauchner, a staff pediatrician at Boston City
Hospital, said he was "struck by what
would be everyone's impotence, especially
medicine, after the event."
For weeks, the movie has been a bat
tlefield for groups favoring disarmament
and those favoring deterrence.
Anti-nuclear groups, hoping the film
would galvanize support for their cause, en
couraged Americans to watch it, but warn
ed them not to watch it alone. Many school
officials recommended that children under
12 not watch the film and those 12 to 17
watch it only with their parents.
Conservative groups complained that the
movie was a blatant political statement in
favor of nuclear disarmament. Young
Americans for Freedom picketed ABC's cor
porate headquarters in New York City on
Sunday, protesting "the biased nature of
the film."
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Group aids
pre-lawyers
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
Pre law students now have a resource
group to help them apply for law school,
learn what admission counselors look for in
applicants and catch a glimpse of on-the
job experience, the group co-chair says.
It's a way of getting people together,"
says Pre-Law Student Association co-chair
Bruce Carey.
Tonight the association is sponsoring a
talk by Ted Kulongoski, Eugene lawyer and
a 1982 democratic gubernatorial candidate.
Kulongoski will speak on the connection
between a political career and a
legal career at 7 p.m. in the EMU Dad's
Room.
"Law students are all over campus," says
Carey, a pre-law senior.
Unlike business majors, who have a com
mon base in Gilbert Hall, Carey says pre law
students had no way of getting together.
Now, through the association, student can
talk about the "hottest law schools in the
country," and obtain resume-building
skills, Carey says.
Senate President Ed Fadeley will speak for
the association about Oregon politics on
January 16.
With an office in 164 Oregon Hall, the
association provides peer advising for
students, as well as an updated catalog
library of law schools in the country and a
file of letters from University graduates
now in law school, Carey says.
Currently, the association sets up
meetings with administrators to discuss
pre law curriculum at the University, Carey
says.
Pre law students have access to the pro
fessional legal world through the associa
tion's preceptorship program, which in
volves three to five local lawyers and six to
ten students per term, he says.
"We want people to know what the
association can offer in all its potential,"
Carey says.
"The main objective of our program is to
assist students in getting accepted to the
graduate law school of their choosing and
attaining a career in legal services," he says.
Carey says the association will contact the
350 University undergraduates studying
pre law by mail.
Reagan could get help
from 'The Day After'
WASHINGTON (AP)— The government's
top arms control official said Sunday that
the television movie "The Day After" may
increase support for Pres. Ronald Reagan's
nuclear strategy if viewers have grasped the
real point of the telecast.
Kenneth Adelman, director of the U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,
said the movie should remind everyone
that it's useless to worry about the day after
a nuclear conflict.
"I think the more important subject in
any consideration of this topic is the day
before, and how can we manage the day
before so that there is no nuclear war," said
Adelman, who spoke on the NBC-TV pro
gram "Meet the Press."
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