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By JILL GERBER
State and National Editor
NEW HILL About 20
members of the Carolina Coali
tion for Alternatives to Shearon
Harris protested at the Wake
County nuclear plant Monday in
connection with a visit here by
Lando Zech, U.S. Nuclear Reg
ulatory Commission chairman.
After posting anti-nuclear
banners along the mile-long
entrance way to the plant, CASH
members lined up near the
guarded gateway, hoping to see
Zech as he drove in for his official
tour. Protesters held orange and
black signs reading "Radiation
Kills" and "You're Playing With
My Life."
Campus CASH member Larry
Lancaster said he was protesting
the Harris plant because he grew
up near a company that made
cooling towers. This made him
concerned about a nuclear plant
35 miles southeast of Chapel Hill,
he said.
"It's not nearly as safe as they
try to make it out to be," he said.
"They're ruining health and the
environment. This is the only way
to let them know how we feel
about it."
Group member Jeff Reichard
also said he was concerned with
the proximity of the plant, which
will contain radioactive fuel by
early 1987.
"Everything I've heard about
. . . (the Harris plant) has led me
to believe that it's not something
I want around here," he said. "I'm
not willing to have it around
here."
Cheryl Phillips, a CASH
member from Pittsboro, said
many did not realize the dangers
of the plant. "It's a man-made
structure, and there will be acci
dents," she said. "People in
Chapel Hill don't realize how
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By JEANNIE FARIS
Staff Writer
NEW HILL The chairman of
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com
mission said he had favorable
impressions of the Shearon Harris
Nuclear Power Plant after touring
the facilities Monday afternoon.
Retired Adm. Lando Zech
toured the plant, located about 35
miles southeast of Chapel Hill, with
Carolina Power & Light Co.
officials and members of the Coa
lition for Alternatives to Shearon
Harris.
Officials want to end downtown
By TERESA KRIEGSMAN
Staff Writer
Although most students have
recovered from the events of Aug.
31, UNC administrators, town offi
cials and the Chapel Hill police have
not forgotten the Franklin Street
fracas.
In a meeting last week, both
university and town officials agreed
the Franklin Street incident broke
valued traditions.
"This University and this town
have a long-standing tradition of free
expression of support and dissent,"
Boulton said Monday. "But we want
Fate of Old East and
By RACHEL ORR
Staff Writer
The future of Old East and Old
West Residence Halls depends on an
eight-member task force finalized
this week, said Wayne T. Kuncl,
director of University Housing.
The residence halls are slated for
renovation based on an architectural
evaluation completed this summer.
The formation of the task force is
the first step in deciding what will
be done with the historic
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Hairris
close they are to it. Power is not
needed from this plant. People
just need to conserve."
Don Whittier, a campus
CASH member from Chapel Hill,
said he had seen protest surge at
the onset of the plant's construc
tion and die out until the Cher
nobyl incident in July. Carolina
Power & Light Co. first
announced plans for the $3.6
billion plant in April 1971.
"People say that since the plant
is 90 percent complete, protest
isn't worth it," he said.
Phillips agreed, saying, "People
lose interest after a while, which
is what the power companies
want."
Campus CASH co-chairman
Mark Reichard said that Zech, as
a nuclear engineer and admiral
who served on a nuclear subma
rine, should be the most skeptical
of nuclear power.
"How can someone do this who
knows the background of nuclear
power?" he asked. "The more you
can find about the plant, the more
you're out here (protesting)."
In response to the protesters'
claims, a CP&L spokesman said
there was not much point in
arguing because federal agencies
were already confirming the
plant's soundness.
"We've said time and time
again that we believe the plant is
contructed safely," spokesman
Roger Hannah said. "There's not
much we can say.
"We are currently awaiting a
low-power license. We will load
fuel and begin low-power testing
. . . when the NRC is satisifed."
Zech's visit came after an NRC
order in Washington Thursday
asked CASH to show why a
second full-scale evacuation drill
is needed at the plant. CP&L
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"This has been a very interesting
and informative day for me here
to visit the Sharon Harris plant,"
he said at a press conference after
the tour. "The visit was very
valuable to me and helpful."
Zech has served on the NRC for
two years and was named chairman
two months ago. He said that he
came only to view the plant,
constructed by CP&L, and would
not comment on any controversy
surrounding its licensing.
"I have come here to form my
own impressions," he said. "I
to avoid protests fraught with danger
to human beings and property."
Attending the meeting were:
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor and
dean of student affairs; Frederic
Schroeder, assistant vice chancellor
and dean of students; Robert Sher
man, director of security services;
David Taylor, Chapel Hill town
manager; Ronald Secrist, assistant
town manager; and Herman Stone,
, chief of Chapel Hill police.
Secrist said the fracas did not
follow the community tradition of
peaceful demonstrations. "The blat
ant display of anger and defiance of
dormitories.
The two dormitories were last
renovated in 1923. Old West was
built in 1 823, and Old East, the oldest
residence hall at a public university
in the United States, was built in
1774.
Originally, the University's prop
osal for the buildings' usage was due
to the architects Sept. 15, but the
date has been extended, Kuncl said,
citing insufficient time to organize
a task force that could adequately
are sleeping two
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Tuesday, September 16, 1986
Freshman Campus CASH member
wanted to see first hand the man
agement of the plant and especially
to talk to the operators.
"The intervenors did allow me
to look at the plant and ask
questions and look around as I
wanted to. That's what I came
down to do today."
Summarizing what he found
good about the plant, he said it was
clean, quiet and the operators
appeared to be dedicated to their
work.
"I thought the plant looked very
clean at this stage of construction,"
laws is not in the tradition of the
campus of the town and cannot be
condoned or tolerated," he said.
Stone said the incident was unfair
to the town!
"I hope thereH never be another
such incident," he said. "The town
doesn't deserve it."
Secrist said he would meet with
civic leaders and Franklin Street
merchants Wednesday to hear their
views on the incident. Boulton said
he plans to meet with student leaders
to get their reactions.
Both Boulton and Secrist agreed
that the difference between protest
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review renovation proposals.
With the help of Gordon H.
Rutherford, director of University
Planning, the task force will deter
mine a new timetable for submitting
a proposal, Kuncl said.
The only proposal so far, submit
ted by Gillian T. Cell, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences,
reserves Old East and Old West for
outstanding seniors. But Kuncl said
the task force would be considering
other proposals as well.
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he said. "My experience has been
that as you look behind things and
around things, you can tell whether
people really care' about their,
work."
When asked if he is a pro
industry NRC chairman, Zech said
he is pro-American and pro
nuclear, but not pro-industry. "I
don't consider myself pro-industry
. . . but I do think our country
needs energy and I think we need
nuclear energy," he said.
But when asked about a letter
sent by N.C. Attorney General
takeovers
and celebrations needed to be con
sidered. Secrist said he did not know
whether future celebrations could be
held on Franklin Street.
"We have to distinguish between
two different types of activities," he
said. "We need to find the proper
and best way to celebrate our
university's success."
Boulton said a meeting is sche
duled in mid-October between uni
versity and town officials, student
representatives, merchants and the
media to discuss and plan ways to
avoid similar incidents.
Proposals for the halls' usage can
be submitted to members of the task
force or to the housing department,
Kuncl said.
Vice chancellor Donald Boulton,
STOW Area Director Sharon
McMillen, Student Body President
Bryan Hassel, Residence Hall Asso
ciation President Ray Jones, STOW
Area Governor Elizabeth Larschan,
former Old East President Roy
Greene, Kuncl and Cell compose the
task force.
Lacy Thornburg to the NRC about
the need for full-scale drills before
the licensing of nuclear plants, Zech
said only that the NRC had
received the letter and was consid
ering it. He also, refused to com
ment on petitions protesting the
opening of the plant and allega
tions of welding defects.
Sherwood Smith, chairman of
CP&L, said he expected the Shea
ron Harris plant to receive its
license within three or four weeks
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More women leaders
needed, students say
By JEAN LUTES
Assistant University Editor
To increase the ratio of women
in leadership roles on UNC's
campus, women need more sup
port from each other and more
confidence in their leadership
abilities, student leaders said
Monday night during "Women
and Leadership," a forum spon
sored by the Campus Y Women's
Forum.
"The main issue about women
in leadership positions on campus
is (that) they are few and far
between," Student Congress
Speaker Jaye Sitton told about
30 people in the Campus Y
lounge. "Especially when you
consider that our student body is
over 60 percent female and most
of the name positions on this
campus are filled by men.
"We have a Student Congress
and there are 18 men and three
women," she said.
Black Student Movement Pres
ident Camille Roddy, Carolina
Union President Jeannie Mit
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WASHINGTON President
Reagan Monday ordered the heads
of each government agency to
establish mandatory drug-testing
programs for "employees in sensitive
positions" and endorsed a House
passed measure that provides the
death penalty for some drug-related
offenses. -
"This is the federal government's
way of just saying no to drugs," the
president said, taking a line from his
wife as he signed an executive order
and sent his own legislative package
to Congress, which is rushing tp
enact new measures to combat drug
abuse before the November
elections. . ;
One day after joining his wife,
Nancy, in exhorting Americans to
"rise up together in defiance against
this cancer of drugs," Reagan pro
posed legislation and administrative
steps that would add nearly $900
million in additional resources to
combat drug abuse, bringing the cost
of all federal anti-drug programs to
$3.2 billion for the fiscal year
beginning Oct. 1.
The House has approved a $2
billion package of anti-drug mea
sures, including establishment of the
death penalty for some drug-related
crimes and assignment of a bigger
role for the military in combating
. the flow of illegal drugs into the
country.
Reversing his position as
announced by a spokesman last
week, Reagan endorsed the provi
sion in the House bill providing for
the death penalty "for those who
intentionally cause death, while
committing an offense" under what
is known as the "drug kingpin" law.
Spokesman Larry Speakes has
said Reagan favored use of the death
penalty for some drug-related crimes
but would not propose it in order
to avoid controversy that could
block adoption of his other
proposals.
The bill Reagan submitted today
would also increase the maximum
prison term for large-scale drug
trafficking to life for a second offense
and broaden the scope of existing
legislation to include the sale of
cocaine and marijuana.
Announcing his commitment to a
"drug-free federal workplace," Rea
gan said, "The use of illegal drugs
by current or prospective federal
employees will not be tolerated."
He said those caught using drugs
will be subject to penalties ranging
from private reprimands to suspen
sion. Federal employees in sensitive
positions, as defined by their agency
heads, "will not be permitted to
remain on duty" if they are found
to use illegal drugs.
chell, and Student Body President
Bryan Hassel also spoke in the
presentation, moderated by
Cindy Wolf, director of the North
Carolina Fellows Program and
Leadership Development.
Although there should be more
women in leadership positions on
campus, their numbers are some
times underestimated because
people only look at big-name
positions, Roddy said.
"I think women are heavily
involved in organizations," she
said. "There are different aspects
of leadership besides being pres
ident of an organization. I don't
think women give themselves
enough credit."
Mitchell said that before
women can be accepted as lead
ers, they need to change their
attitudes about themselves. "Bar
riers are within the women them
selves," she said, and some
women are afraid to go into
leadership positions.
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