4The Tar Heel Thursday, June 5, 1986
Hassel says summer goverpmeiit to research issimes
By JO FLEISCHER
Staff Writer
Student Government will be oper
ating this summer, but its efforts will
be largely informal and will concen
trate on researching the issues that
will affect students in the upcoming
school year, said Student Body
President Bryan Hassel.
Hassel said he would be meeting
with members of the Student Govern
ment staff who are still on campus
to discuss the upcoming issues and
would allow the staff members to do
research in areas of interest to them.
They will be developing programs
designed to meet the needs of stu
dents next year, he said.
The Issue of the University's
divestment from South Africa will
not be dealt with by the student
government directly this summer, but
research will be done to examine the
problem, Hassel said.
We haven't been doing a real good
job at answering , the Board of
Trustees' arguments, so we will get
ready to make a real solid presen
tation directly addressing their argu
ments before we get arrested or start
making any more noise about it on
campus," he said.
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There will also be an effort to set
up some sort of student food service
board which will study the food
service from the students' perspective
and make recommendations to stu
dent leaders, Hassel said. There is a
Food Service Advisory Committee,
but it is not made up entirely of
students and it seems to focus mainly
on business and contractual matters.
The success of Hands Across
America has prompted Hassel to
create a similar event on campus to
tackle the needs of relief groups in
the nearby community.
"It's obviously a crucial concern,
and it's an issue that everybody could
get involved in and feel good about
not devisive like the apartheid
issue," he said.
Students under 21 won't be able
to drink on campus from the first
day of class, although the state law
doesn't go into affect until two weeks
later, the rules governing drinking on
campus will remain largely
unchanged, Hassel said. Alcohol
permits will have to be obtained from
the director of housing for any
drinking at dorm functions, but
Hassel does not expect this to be a
problem. "If you're getting a permit
for a party for the floor you live on,
and you're asking for ten kegs for
only four people who are over 21 it
just wont be approved, but that's not
just University policy, that's the law."
Student Government is also plan
ning events that will put proposed
cuts in Federal assistance to students
at the forefront of peoples' minds,
he said. UNC will be part of a larger
national lobbying effort opposing the
cuts, which are practically inevitable
under Gramm-Rudman, and letter
writing campaigns to U.S- congress
men will be organized to try to check
the extent of the cuts.
Student Government is also creat
ing a group called Carolina Contact
which will encourage minority stu
dents who have been accepted at
UNC to enroll here instead of at
another school.
Holding candidate forums for
U.S. Senate and Congress are also
in the plans for the upcoming year.
Efforts are being made to get students
certified as voter registrars to get a
large number of students registered
to vote in the November elections,
Hassel said.
Chernobyl officials plan to restart
2 of 4 nuclear reactors by October
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW Officials in charge
of cleaning up the site of the Cher
nobyl nuclear disaster plan to start
up two of the power plant's four
reactors in October, local Commu
nist Party official Alexander Doma
nyuk said Monday.
Domanyuk, party head in Prioyat,
the town adjoining the Chernobyl
plant, said the government commis
sion investigating the April 26
accident in the plant's No. 4 reactor
wanted to get reactors No. 1 and No.
2 going in October. Speaking in an
interview on the national television
evening news, Domanyuk did not say
when the No. 3 reactor might be
operating again.
Reactors No. 1 and No. 2, shut
down immediately after the accident,
are in a separate building from No.
4. Soviet media accounts said the
roof of the No. 3 reactor was
damaged by fire, but that the third
reactor itself was intact.
Domanyuk gave no indication that
the estimated 25,000 residents of
Pripyat, who are among 92,000
people evacuated from an 18-mile
zone around the Chernobyl plant,
would be returning home when the
two reactors start up in the fall.
No new information emerged on
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the casuality toll from the Ukrainian
disaster which killed at least 23
people, including two workers killed
on the spot.
Dr. Robert Gale, a U.S. bone
marrow specialist helping care for
Chernobyl radiation victims in Mos
cow, arranged to go to Kiev Monday
to check on patients hospitalized
there and discuss long-term medical
care and case follow-ups. At least 299
people were hospitalized immediately
after the accident. Kiev is 80 miles
from the disaster site.
Site scientist Valery Legasov said
Monday that lessons must be drawn
from the Chernobyl nuclear accident,
including the need for better skills
in dealing with sophisticated
technology.
Legasov, deputy director of the
Soviet Union's Atomic Energy Insti
tute, said in an interview with the
Communist Party newspaper Pravda
that the emergency work during the
disaster was done correctly, even
though it was impossible to foresee
the gravity of the disaster.
Legasov said trouble-free opera
tion of nuclear power plants depends
on the qualifications and skills of
work crews. His remarks seemed to
imply some criticism of the Cher
nobyl staff.
He added that the needs are even
more acute in nuclear plants.
In Geneva, the head of the Inter
national Atomic Energy Agency said
Monday that the Chernobyl disaster
set back the industry, but will not
halt expansion of nuclear power.
Hans Blix, IAEA director general,
also said Chernobyl would lead to
better internationl cooperation gua
ranteeing high safety standards.
He told the opening session of an
international conference on atomic
energy that following the disaster,
estimates on the nuclear share of
electricity production in the next
decade may fall.
But nuclear power is not a luxury
we can drop like a garment," said
Blix, who visited the Soviet disaster
area immediately after the accident.
"Rather, it is a reality we shall
continue to live with," Blix said. "The
Bhopal disaster did not stop the
chemical industry, it is indispensible.
And the Challenger catastrophe is
not stopping the U.S. shuttle pro
gram. Nuclear power responds to
very real needs and will also not be
stopped."