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Duo’s fusion claim startles scientists
By RICK CALLAHAN
Skepticism and fascination were in equal supply in a stuffy, overcrowded room in the Lec
ture Hall last Tuesday as a physicist discussed his shocking claim that he has triggered nuclear fiision at room tempera
ture.
During his two-hour ap
pearance in Lecture Hall 102, B.
Stanley Pons o f the University o f Utah detailed how he and a colleague had produced what they claim is nuclear fusion through a relatively simple pro
cess that involves running an electrical current through metal rods immersed in a basin of water.
On March 28, Pons and Martin Fleischmann o f the Uni
versity o f Bs&thampton in Eng
land, created an uproar within the scientific community with their startling claim that they had achieved nuclear fiision.
Unlike fission, in which atoms are split to release energy, fii
sion involves joining the nuclei of hydrogen atoms to produce helium and tremendous amounts o f energy.
For years, scientists across the globe have tried without success to produce energy through nuclear fiision by superheating and accelerating hydrogen atoms. If Pons' and Fleis- chmann’s experiment is success
fully reproduced in the coming months, many scientists believe the pair are likely to receive the Nobel Prize for science. Vastly more important, however, could be the impact o f their discovery on the world’s dwindling energy reserves.
During his lecture, Pons said he and Fleischmann made their finding after repeated experi
ments had produced no reaction.
The procedure, which they first conceived o f in the early 1980s, involves using a basin of deuterium oxide, or “heavy water” (a form of water easily extracted from seawater antf which contains a deuterium isotope in place of the usual hydrogen atom) into which bars of palladium and platinum are submerged and exposed to an electrical current.
While what happened next See SCIENTISTS’, Page 4
Budget now to Bayh;
IUPUI projects included
By MICK McGRATH
Political gamesmanship may have played a part in the Indi
ana Senate’s- passage of the state budget bill on Tuesday, but the winner cquld belU PU I.
Included in Hotue Bill 1410 are provisions for funding for both the new library and the third phase of the Science, Engineering and Technology complex at IUPUI. Construction on SET Phase II is currently un
derway.
IUPUI Chancellor Gerald Bepko said he was happy the budget included the new library and SET Phase III, but the budget process is far from over.
“We don’t consider this a time o f triumph and celebration be
cause the process still has a long way to go,” said Bepko.
“We’re hopeful, we’re very hopeful,” he added.
Tuesday marked the first time in 57 years that the Senate passed a House budget bill without amending it. It is only the third time since 1932 that a budget bill has not gone to con
ference committee to be worked
out by members of both houses, said Ann M. Delaney, Bayh’s ex- „ ecutive assistant for legislation.
“I think that the House did its job in a perfectly responsible fashion ... and the Senate Re
publicans played politics with it,” said DeLaney,
Senate President Pro Tern Robert Garton, R-Columbus, said part of the thinking behind Republican support o f the bill was to force a response from Gov. Evan Bayh.
Bayh, a Democrat, has said he would not sign a budget bill that would require a tax increase, which HB 1410 could. The bill sets the state budget for the next two years at about $15 bil
lion.
The budget passed the Senate 34-16, with eight Democrats ig
noring requests from Bayh and Lt. Gov. Frank OTJannon that the Senate hold off on the bill until the state’s revenue forecast was issued. The forecast is ex
pected to be released Wednes
day.
All 26 Republican senators See BUDGET, Paga 21
Tha Medical Resaarch and Library Building's serias of pyramids adds a distinctive touch to tha IUPUI skyline. Tha building will house tha medical school’s
library, tha Department of Medical Genetics, labo
ratories and research facilities. (See story Page 5.) Photo by PAUL SUTTON
Parking rate increase likely
By DAVE CLARK
Parking fees will be the same for part- and full-time students next fall if a recommendation of the Parking Advisory Com
mittee is approved by the IU Board of Trustees.
With near unanimous agree
ment, the committee decided to recommend a fiat rate parking fee of $20 per semester for E permits.
Parking Services Director John*Nolte said that the fee in
crease was needed to fund paving of the parking lots around the Mary Coble Building
and the East Garage. Nolte estimated the cost o f paving at
$500 per parking space.
“We’re looking at paving the temporary gravel lots," Nolte said. Paving and painting lines could increase by 10 percent the capacity of each lot, he added.
Originally Nolte recommended a $14 per semester fiat rate fee.
However, committee members voted to recommend a $20 jper semester rate to increase revenues.
New construction, upkeep and improvement projects must have funding already available that is equal to *1.25 times the debt
service,” Nolte said, in order to obtain bonding approval. “That translates to a rate increase," he added.*
Committee member Bill Kuntz, a law student, ques
tioned the rate of the increase, which for part-time students would be a 122 percent jump from $9 to $20 per semester.
The fiat rate was attractive to many of the committee members because of the uncertainty of fairly pro-rating a fee based on the amount of time a full-time versus part-time student would be parking on campus.
See PARKING, Page 21
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Campus police arrest Riley Hospital robbery suspect
Indiaria University Police arrested a suspect March 31 in connection with the Feb. 25 rob
bery of several people in the Riley Hospital li
brary.
The perpetrator, who wore a black trash bag over hia head, robbed several visitors of money and stole a video cassette recorder.
The suspect, Maurice Harris, 37, 5900 block of Westlake Drive, was an employee of the Laboratory Animal Resource Center which has two rooms on Riley's third floor, near the fourth fluorJd>rary where the robberies occurred.
The robber forced a hospital librarian into an office where he robbed her of some change. He then took $4 from the mother o f a leukemia patient, and took $30 from another parent. The robber then forced a librarian to unhook a VCR, which he took. After ordering everyone down on the floor, the robber fled.
Hnrris was identified as a suspect by IUPD from a composite drawing made from a witness description o f a man walking into the fourth floor children’s library before the robbery.
The suspect was described as a black male, about 6 feet tall, weighing about 200 pounds,
between 35 to 40 years old, with black hair, a mustache and freckles.
“We were getting tips from people who saw the composite drawing in the paper and from Crime Stoppers," said Diane Sweeney, Indiana University Police detective. Harris was original
ly arrested for an outstanding warrant for con
tempt of court and later identified by police as matching the drawing, Sweeney said.
Police found the trash bags they suspect were used during the robbery in a nearby bathroom.
Using fingerprints lifted from those bags, police found that H a m s’ fingerprints matched.
After police told him o f the fingerprint match, Harris reportedly admitted to police that he committed the robbery to pay attorney fees in a divorce that he was going through.
The charges against Harris are three counts of robbery and seven counts of confinement, all class B felonies.
Harris pleaded not guilty to the charges last Monday in Marion County Superior Court and is being held in the Marion County Jail on
$150,000 bond
IU drug testing center, six others, lose Olympic sanction
The Indiana University Medical Center's Sports Medicine I laboratory has lost its Interna
tional Olympic Committee approval rating, The Indianapolis Star reported in its early Saturday edition.
A total o f seven labs were removed from the IOC’s approval list. Labe in Moscow, Calgary, Helsinki and Rome were also removed. Labe in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and Magglingen, Switzer
land, were removed after asking not to be kept
on the list.
Prince Alexandre de Merode, chairman o f the IOC medical commission, disclosed Friday that the suspensions had gone into effect at the be
ginning o f Friday and continue through May, the Star reported.
Reasons given for the seven suspensions in
cluded "some small mistakes,’* and mistakes of
“an administrative nature." The exact reasons for the IU lab's suspension were not given.
University Theatre has end of the season ‘Ladyhouse Blues’
"Ladyhouse Blues* will be the final University Theatre play of the season, April 14-15 and April 21-22, in the Mary Cable Building, 525 N.
Blackford St. Professor Edgar J. Webb, director of the theatre, will direct the last play o f the season.
The story takes place near the end o f World War I in the St. Louis kitchen of the Madden
women and deals with the family's loss, as a result of the war, of the only remaining man in the household and the psychological changes in near post-war America.
Tickets are $3.50 for students and people over 65 years old, $4.50 for staff and faculty and $6 for others. For ticket and performance informa
tion call 274-2094.
Former governor will speak on economic future of Indiana
Persons interested in the economic future of Indiana in the next century may be interested in hearing one of Indiana’s former governors speak on the subject.
On Wednesday, former Gov. Robert Orr will speak on “ Our Third Century will be an Asian
Century," at noon in Room 116 o f the School of Law building.
All are invited to attend the presentation which will focus on trade and business in Indi
ana. The speech is sponsored by the Wendell L.
Willkie Society o f International Law, at IUPU1.
First bumper-prize winner found in anniversary contest
This week’s IUPUI 20th Anniversary Bumper Sticker Contest prize, a membership to the Na
tional Institute for Fitness and Sport for the re
mainder o f 1989, goes to the driver o f a gold two-door Toyota with license plate number
55B7806. The winner needs to contact Joan Dalton, coordinator o f the IUPUI 20th Anniver
sary Celebration, at 274-3800 to set up a time when ownership o f the car can be confirmed and the prize awarded.
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Linds Bond will address the topic T h e Rhythm of the Women’s Movsmsnt,” s discussion on women’s music from 11:50 s.m. to 1 p m in Cavanaugh 001D. For information, call Linda Haas at 274 7364
s s s
Auditions for the Nsw York Street Singers, ths IUPUI show choir, will bs held today and tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. in Mary Cabls 016. Call Darrell Bailey for information, 274-4000.
a s s
Wilton Melhorn of the Department of Earth and Atmoepheric Sciences will address the topic: "Travel* in the Loet World: A Search for Diamonds in Vsnezauslsan Guyana," at 4 p.m. in Cavanaugh 435.
T U ESD A Y
The Andros Society welcomes all returning older students to join them for lunch-time conversation and fellowship in Cavanaugh 001D from 11:30 a.m . to 12:45 p.m. Bring your own lunch. Call Gene McCormick at 885-1059 for information.
s e e
The Univesity Writing Center will sponsor ths workshop "Posi- - tivsly Punctuational," to give students a review on using punctua
tion more confidently and effectively.
W EDN ESDAY
The IUPUI Spanish Club will sponsor s conversation hour from 4 to 5 p.m. in the southwest comer o f the University Place Hotel food court. Call 274-8957 for information.
a s s
Ths University Gay/Lesbian Alliance will sponsor a program focusing on discrimination in tha work environment. An Indianapo
lis attorney will speak and offer legal advice on the matter beginning at 7:30 p.m. at 3754 N. Illinois Street. Call 253-2497 for information,
a e e
The Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship will present Direct Ac
cess in concert from 11:30 s.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Library Mall.
THURSDA Y
Nancy Johnson will address the topic "Women and the Economy,”
from 11:30 s.m. to 1 p.m. in Cavanaugh 001D. For information call Linda Haas, 274-7384.
a s s
The Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship will present Adam's Brother in concert from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Library Mall.
s e e
Lee Giles, news director for WISH-TV News 8, will address ths Organizational Communication Association and Open Channel at 7 p.m. in Cavanaugh 507.
FR ID A Y
United Parcel Service will conduct on-campus recruiting for package handler positions. Salary starts at 88 an hour. Students must be registered in the JOBS program and must sign up for an interview in the Student Employment office in Business's PEA 2003.
s e e
The Muslim Students Association will meet at 5:30 p.m. in Krannert B68.
a s s
Army ROTC will visit ths War Museum. All students enrolled in Military Science classes are eligible. Interested students should see their instructor. Call M^jor Georgs Clausen at 274-2691 for more information.
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On Saturday, all students enrolled in Military Science classes are invited to the annual Army ROTC canoe trip down the West Fork of White River. Interested cadets should eee their instructor. Call M^jor George Clausen at 274-2691 for more information.
e e e
First Data Resources will be recruiting on-campus for CRT Long Distance Operators on Friday, April 21. Flexible part-time hours are available. Students must bs registered in the JOBS Program to sign up for an interview. Visit the Student Employment Program in Buai- ness/SPEA 2006 for information. %
e e e
Anyone interested in trying out for the Pep Band should contact the band’s director, Douglas Smith, at 274-4000 for information.
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Candidate petitions draw Student Senate anger
By JEFFREY DeHERDT
The Student Senate elections aren’t over yet, and the Senate is already thinking about chang
ing the rules for next year’s elec
tions.
T h e petitioning system just doesn’t work," said Student Gov
ernment Vice President Robert Fong at Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting.^
Fong said because IUPUI is a commuter campus, it was dif
ficult for candidates for presi
dent, vice president and control
ler to get the 608 signatures re
quired this year.
“We all know that the apathy on .this campus is pretty bad,"
said Fong.
T h e idea (of petitioning) was to get students to participate in the elections," said Fong. Fong drew up suggestions to be sent to the Election Committee to im
prove the process next year on the campus. Among the sugges
tions was the elimination o f the petitioning process.
The Student Government Con
stitution requires that candi- / dates for president, tace presi-
; dent and controller collect signa
tures from 2.5 percent o f the student body. Candidates for senator and senator at large must present signatures from .5 percent o f the student body.
"It’s a silly requirement, not even that many people vote,"
said Joni Murray, School o f Lib
eral Arts senator.
Last spring, candidates were required to have 566 signatures to run for an executive office (president, vice president, and controller) or 113 signatures to run for a senate seat.
This year, because o f an in
crease in student enrollment those candidates for executive offices must collect 608 signa
tures and senatorial candidates must get 122.
"A person may get 608 signa
tures, but will probably be voted in by 200," said Senator-at- Large William Schilling.
Candidates and polling sites for the Student Government elections ^
President Kimberly Wright Senator at Large (Vote for Three)
Bryan Ciyou Benjamin Crosson
Jeffrey Ganote Kris Reible /Cynthia Walker School of Education
Greer Leise
School of Engineering/Technology Chris Wadelton School of Science
David Benz
Voting locations and tim es
April 10 & 11
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
A'
4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
at
U niversity Main library Krannert Building, 38th St.
Herron School of Art Union Building
In the spring o f 1988, candi
date petitions were due about the time o f registration for sum
mer sessions, which made it easier for candidates to gather signatures from the students standing in line. This year, sum
mer registKation didn't start un
til after the deadline for peti
tions.
Some senators, including School o f Education Senator Rebecca Rhussow and Schilling, did not collect the required num
ber o f signatures to run in this year’s election. Another senator was not aware of the deadline for the signatures. _______
In other business, the Senate discussed scholarships and mas
cots.
The Philanthropy Committee, a subcommittee o f the Com
muter Affairs Committee before Wednesday’s meeting, has begun receiving donations for what the government hopes will become "a scholarship which is awarded to the one student who is most philanthropic," said Glenda Smith, Student Govern
ment president
The Senate voted Wednesday to make the Philanthropy Sub
com m ittee a full committee.
Bl rne government is working to
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channel the donations through the IU Foundation because of ita experience with fund raising, said Smith.<4W« will work vpth the Foundation because we don’t want to step on toes,” Smith said.
"W# cmked (potential donors) . for up to $500 per donation,”
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“we cannot be sure how much we are going to get during this first year (of scholarships) ”
The scholarship winner will be chosen by some group other than the Senate.
The Senate’s efforts to produce a mascot for IUPUI's sports teams have been momentarily stalled.
Senator Kent Weldy, chairman of the Mascot Committee, met with Athletic Director Bob Lovell, Associate Dean of Stu
dent Affairs Richard Slocum, Director o f Student Activities Mike Wagoner, Athletics Ad
visory Committee Chairman Hugh W olf and Noel Duerden, from IUPUI 'Publication Ser
vices, in late March to discuss the Senate's mascot contest.
.. "Out of 56 recommendations they chose the Metro-men or the Metro-women as the best choice,” said Smith.
Wagoner and W olf said of the
meeting that there was really no agreement on what the mascot should or should not be.
Smith and the rest of the Senate seemed unhappy with the decision, pointing out the difficulty o f pleasing both the administration and faculty of the university and the students. •
“We can’t use Metro-men and Metro-women, we vfemld have to use Metro-person,“ said Fong.
Student Senate Controller Dana Treadwell said he under
stands what the university is trying to do with the image of
"metro."
T h e y don’t want to indicate it as a bus. TTiat’s what people think of, but not what it means,"
said Treadwell. "It means ur
ban, metropolitan."
"There are hundreds of things that you could pick up to identify with the city," said Treadwell.
Many of th« senators pointed out that other university mas
cots have little or no relation to the name of the schools' teams.
Treadwell suggested that With the new Indianapolis Zoo nearby for ideas, T h e re are 100 end one animals to use."
"We do not have a mutually agreeable entry that everyone likes," said Smith.
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Scientists’ initial disbelief greets fusion discovery
Continued from Pag# 1 remains debatable. Pons said he believes the electrical current broke the deuterium free from the heavy water and that those atomic particles then attached themselves to the palladium, fusing and producing energy.
Pons said the key to the success of the ftision experiments — many of which extended over several days' time — lies in the lattice-like structure of the bar of palladium.
"That's really all there is to it,"
said Pons, noting that it was his son who actually made the ini
tial discovery of the fusion pro
cess. During a visit to the Uni
versity of Utah laboratory, he noticed that his father’s latest basin of heavy water was steam
ing, presumably as a result of the nuclear reaction.
Because Pons and Fleis- chmann made their announce
ment without simultaneously presenting a scientific paper to back up their claims — a stan
dard procedure in the scientific community —- many scientists initially expressed disbelief that the physicists had produced a
"cold" nuclear reaction.
Following Pons' address, several observers said his speech had cleared up numerous questions they had about the fti
sion process the pair have laid claim to.
They agreed, however, that many questions remain.
"1 certainly learned a great deal," said Robert M. Pearlstein, professor and chairman of the physics department here.
Pearlstein says Pons' descrip
tion of his process doesn't ap
pear to violate any law of physics, but noted that even Pons is unsure how it works.
“Over the years there have been a number of claims of star
tling new energy sources, but theyVe all turned out to be noth
ing at all once you look at them,"
said Pearlstein. "I don't think this falls into that category, but then again it's not totally proven yet."
If Pons' claims turn out to be true, said Pearlstein, the techni
que will require years of work and refinement before it can be commercially applied and offer a cheap, alternative source of en
ergy-
During the last three decades, Pearlstein noted, nearly two dozen countries have invested
billions of dollars in developing technologies they hoped could produce nuclear ftision. Two of those approaches involve heat
ing hydrogen isotopes to mil
lions of degrees Fahrenheit — conditions which fuel the sun and other stars.
One technique calls for creat
ing "high temperature plasma"
— a gas which has been stripped of its electrons — and holding it in place with an intense mag
netic field long enough for fusion to occur.
Another process employs
"laser ftision," in which several gigantic lasers are focused on a
tiny glass psllet filled with hydrogen oxide long enough to force it to implode and yield nuclear ftision.
Yet another techniaue involves the use of a “tokomak," a nuclear accelerator originally developed by Soviet scientists which can produce "muons,"
atomic particles that can assist in the fusion process. At IU- Bloomington, one such facility
— known as the IU cyclotron — has been in operation for several years.
While all three approaches have yielded encouraging results, none have resulted in
nuclear ftision, says Pearlstein.
"Now, suddenly along comes professor Pons with something that can be set up in a typical chemistry lab," he said. T>us could be a major revolution; an inexpensive way to create ener
gy. People thought that ftision power was maybe 60 years off, but if this is true, we could see it in only a few years .... It could have a major impact on our economy."
John Cameron, director of the IU cyclotron facility in Bloomington, and Jerry Whitehead, an IU-Bloomington electrochemist, are both at
tempting to reproduce Pons’ ex
periment, but Pearlstein says no one an the IUPUI campus has similar plans.
Pons* appearance, which drew journalist
Boston, h been scheduled far in advance of the March 28 fti
sion announcement, said Frank Schultz a professor of chemistry.
Schultz noted that Pons was as
sisted in his work by Mark Andsrson, a post-doctoral rs- hie undergraduate studies in chemistry at IU-Bloomington before earning a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin.
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Research building gives library more book room
By W HITNEY HKTZEL Tha new Medical Research and Library Building might bring new meaning to the word study far students, faculty and staff of the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing.
Distinguished by its glass pyramids on each of its five floors, the building should be oc
cupied by summer. The date for moving everything over to the new building has been set for mid-June, said Pam Perry, director oit public and media re
lations for the 1U School of Med
icine.
By bringing together a state- of-the-art library, laboratories and facilities for research, the new building offers one central place for students, faculty and staff to come for study and re- The building, which has been in the planning for a long time, coot $34.1 million. The Indiana General Assembly gave $20 mil
lion to the school for the project by offering bonds approved for the university to sell. The uni
versity was responsible for rais
ing the remaining $14.1 million, which came in from private donations, Perry said.
“The money was raised in a very unique fashion,” Perry said. Krannsrt Charitabla Trust, the Lilly Endowment and the
Kresge
suable donations, and the facul
ty of the IU School of Medicine
“even set up a campaign to raise
$1 million,” Perry said.
The faculty raised the million and kept going, eventually bringing in $3 million, said Perry.
For those who have studied at the present medical library, the new building, just north of Indi
ana University Hospital, should be a refreshi ng change.
“It’s about time. We have come close to our limit in the old li
brary as far as space goes,” said Dana McDonald, director of the School of Medicine’s library. *It has taken a long time, but the new library offers not only ade
quate space, but beauty and iso
lation for library users.”
Centered in the middle of the Medical Center grounds, and connected by an elevated walk
way to University Hospital, the library will be accessible to many doctors and nurses that othsrwise didn't have the time to come to the present library.
Perry said.
The new library is on the first three floors of ths east/west wing of the research building, and is designed so that users can sit at carrels or lounge in chairs that face out at the campus through the ascending glass towers.
l>iree times the site of the present medical library, the new library takes up 40 percent of the new research building The shelves for books and periodicals in the library, if lined up in a row, would stretch for 10 miles.
Perry said.
The current 1C,000 square feet medical library is among the smallest in nation. At 50,000 square feet, the new library is about average when compared to libraries at similar medical schools. Seating capacity will in
crease from 100 seats in the preaent library to 550 seats in the new library.
Built 30 years ago, the old li
brary is not carpeted and pro
vides little space for comfortable study, McDonald said.
"The new library has stronger floors for the collection and mors slectrical hookups for com
puters,” she said. T h e only thing students might miss from the old library is bringing in food and drink.”
Because the old library had no carpet, and ‘ didn't have much to harm,” food and drinks wars al
lowed, McDonald said.
Ths History of Medicine Li
brary will occupy its own room on the third floor of the new building. The room is 1,000 square feet with built-in book
cases and furniture for meetii and study, McDonald said.
will also have an exhibit area for showing the history of medicine
"We hope the study of the his
tory of medicine will come alive again,” she said. ”It is a romantic and exciting subject and now there is an entire room dedicated to its purpose "
The IU School of Medians, the second largest medical srhonl in the country behind the Univer sity of Illinois-Chicago's, has been known across the nation for its research Now the new Medical Research and Library Building will bring together dif
ferent departments under one roof.
‘ It will be like having a single campus in one building,” said Dr Ting Kai Li, associate dean for research at the IU School of Medicine “Not only does the new building represent an in
crease in space, it alen provides more resources for the depart mente that will have offices over there.”
Besides the library, the De
partment of Medical Genetics is the only department that is moving in its entirety The genetics department will occupy the second and third floors of the research wing of the new building, said Joe C. Christian, professor and chairman of the department.
"Right now our faculty have to
run up and down the stairs sometimes to get from their of flees to other uffrres in the de
partment.* said an assistant in Christian ‘ In the new building, the office* will all be on two floors and the library will be conveniently nearby *
The new building turned out to be a good recruiting tool as well
*lt allowed the department u>
recruit better faculty for molecular genetics, which is a rapidly growing field.” Christian said
Although only one department is moving in its entirety, mast of the departments in the School of Medicine will have laboratory, office and conference mom spare in the new building The Depart ment of Pediatrics will remain in Riley Hospital, Perry said
On almost every floor the labs are across from the offices and conference rooms.
Underground tunnels connect the Medical Research Center and Library Building to other Medical Center buildings
Dedication of the building will be on Saturday, May 20, as a part of the annual IU School of Medicine Alumni Day An open house for faculty, staff and stu dents of the schools of medicine and nursing will be on May 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p m
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OPINION
P a g e 6 A p ri l 10, 1989
Reader not convinced of fee benefits
T o the E d itor:
After reading the article in the March 20 Sagamore regarding the technology fee to be paid by the student a number o f times to insure I had a good understand
ing o f the new technology fee, I am /neither convinced o f v the benefits the student will receive, nor the necessity o f the fee.
The article does provide evi
dence that the fee would be able to enhance the faculty, ad
ministrators and the media cen
ters.
But is there a demand for the quantity of equipment to be in
stalled and used? The need for a computer in every professor's of
fice is questionable. Many professors today own their own computers for research and class preparation.
I have a question for the media: How beneficial is the new equipment, compared to the old? As a student, the little uee of media equipment in the class
room that I have seen does not
justify the purchase of new high- tech equipment.
The only benefit for the stu
dent expressed in the article is the possibility o f additional com
puter clusters. One problem with that is, if they perform like the present clusters, there are obvious reasons not to induce a larger headache on the student who does attempt to use the computers today.
The administrators have set the fee to be $25 in the upcom
ing fall semester. Where did this figure come from? The article' does not give an estimated cost of obtaining and operating this new computer system, so why
$26 per semester?
IUPUI has approximately 25,000 students who attend the school. A fee of $26 per student,
per semester, at four semesters per year including summer, adds up to approximately $2.5 million collected the first year.
By the year 1993, the year the new computer cluster will be ac
cessible to the student, a collec
tion of around $7.5 million will have been collected.
I agree the school does need to enhance its present technology.
At the eame time, I, being a member of the student body and subject of this ftiture fee, re- quest the administrators supply m oiPftjlfffcte information and a cost analysis to prove the neces
sity o f the burden to be incurred by the student.
Cinda Sm ith S op h om ore
E d itor's N ote: According to a university spokesman, no final decisions have been made regarding the amount o f a tech
nology fee and how it w ill be as
sessed.
Parking rates increase should be^wo-stage plan
F oit.TMi 1MS-SS school year, ful-tim s students paid $18 per semester to park, and part-time students paid IS per semester for the same privilege.
The university Parking Advisory Committee has recom
mended an increase in parking rates and achange to one flat rate for aU students.
They argue that part-time students may work on campus or may spend long hours studying and researching In the University Library. Part-time students pay half the parking rate but do not necessarily park for half as tong on campus.
At a recent meeting the committee also recommended a large increase in parking rates in order to quiQjkly raise needed capital to begin construction on three proposed parking ga
rages. The university must have 125 percent of one year's loan payment in hand before the state will grant bonding authority and construction can begin.
Lack of parking spaces and poor parking conditions have plagued the campus for the past 20 years. Adding spaces and improving the lots are necessary steps that require increased parking rates. The concept of a flat parking rate is also sound.
The committee has combined the two plans into an ill- advised hybrid, however.
Th ey will recommend to the IU Board of Trustees that the rate be set at $20 per semester for all students next year. That amounts to an 11 percent Increase for ful-time students and a 122 percent Increase for part-time students.
According to the committee s formula, half of the students are part-time and h a l are ful-tim e. The equal dlstrtxjttop makes It easy to calculate a slightly higher rate for full-time students and a slightly tower rate for part-time students.
A fee increase from $9 to $15 would be a 66 percent increase for part-time students. An equal $6 lump from $18 to
$24 would be a 33 percent increase for ful-time students. The burden of an increase would be more fairly distributed, and the parking services would raise a healthy building fund.
A flat rate could be Implemented In 1990-91 in the second of a two-stage plan. An average of our proposed parking rates Is $19.50. The habitual rate increase would probably set the rate a title above that amount, but a two-step plan would keep the part-time students from being slapped In one te l swoop w lh a rate that has been more than doubled.
Give the part-time students a break. The need for in
creased parking funds Is obviously Justified, but the Increase should be more gradual and evenly distributed.
— Th# Ed itorial B oard
Cam p us In q u iry What is the biggest challenge facing the Medical Center?
ROBERT FRIBLEY
Junior
Secondary Education
“Giving quality medical care at a price the common pereon can afford.”
JAMES MILLER -
Patient transportation
University Hospital T h a t ’s definitely a challenge - the transplant program. They should get better as they go on and learn more about it.”RAY SPIELMAN
Technician
Renal Department
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“I think it probably is keeping up with the technology of change, keeping people trained and keeping the cost of care down so it won’t be that only the rich can have it.”
CHRISTINE LEE
Phlebotomist
. C linical P athologyT h e nursing shortage is num
ber one. I would say they need to put more emphasis on pa
tient care. Right now it is at a lax. Everybody is overworked and underpayed.*
MIKE HENRY
Junior
Medicine“(Developing) an AIDS vac
cine. There’s research going on here for AIDS, bu11 don’t know what area it’s in.”
April 10.1989 The SAGAMORE
OPINION / Page 7Good old days weren’t all that good in retrospect
Talk about foaling apacUl. Thoro I waa Tuesday night, a 91.60 small, toxic soft drink in hand, ritting in Loaws Collage Park theater for a private screening of -1 9 6 9 -
Okay, it wasn't really a private screen
ing. Tnen again, nobody else was there.
A friend once told ms how he was the only one in the theater for a movie, but that was for “King Kong Lives *
This was retrospective 1960s hippy- trip py history I was watching. I figured a few Deadheads or the ilk would show.
Maybe that shmild’ve told me some
thing about the movie.
I went not because I'm a neo-hippie who wanted to see what it was like in the good ol’ days, but because I was bom in 1969. I wondered how moviedom would chronicle the year when I made my grand entrance into this life.
Fd like to share with you some of the fascinating discoveries I made at this movie. This isn’t a review, really - al
though I recommend that no one pay to see "1969.”
Since I’m the only one in town who’s seen M1969” (except possibly for stray rel
atives o f the cast and crew), 111 share a few thoughts I had on the movie, its his
torical perspective, and, if I get around to it, what happens to those half-ticket stubs when they're dropped in the bot
tomless wastebasket.
WHAT I LIKED ABOUT “1969"
1. The scene where Marietta Hartley removes all ths food from her refrigerator, then throws the stuff violently to the floor.
2. They played snippets of groovy ’60s songs, just liks in the "Freedom Rock” al
bum commercial.
3. Be patient, Fm thinking.
I'm trying to be positive. Fm trying to be open-minded. But if T 969 " tied up every loose end it created, it would take until 1973 to finish.
Actually, there is plenty to like about this film. For the horny, there’s a scene of male and female frontal nudity. For the bloodthirsty, there’s a scene where campus cops attack students with the subtlety o f the German SS. And for those
WHAT I DISLIKED ABOUT "1M8” 1. They didn't go to Woodstock.
2. Those wacky guys from the
"Freedom Rock” commercial weren't in the movie.
3. You mean aside from the insipid dialogue and implausible plot?
people who want to see Robert Downey Jr (who appears in every movie released this year) having a bad trip in his un
derwear, there’s that, too.
The best line in the movie: Kiefer Sutherland on having dinner with the frontal nudity folk - T h ere were naked people giving us free food!”
I wonder what he would’ve said had they made him pay for it.
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1 should add that this movie dredges up every '60s cliche. You know, someone hiw a brother who goes off to Vietnam Of course, he dies. They drive around in a psychedelic Volkswagen bus Yeah, there’s a campus demonstration. And everyone speaks in flowing philosophical and political speech.
I lost count of the times someone said
“groovy," “trip,” or ended sentences with
"man," and "But you just don’t under standr
Unfortunately, this movie proves the 1960s already have taken on a "good ol’
days” atmosphere to many who were there
This was apparent at an anti-racism rally I attended at IU- Bloomington About 400 people sort of milled around, not really knowing what to do, while the administration (the enemy) told us what greAt people we were for showing up
Huh? Weren't they supposed to hate us for this?
Meanwhile, ‘60s veterans were chuck lmg amongst themselves, laughing at the HOs kids who couldn’t figure out how to run a protest.
"1 remember that march in ’68 blah blah blah .*
WHAT SURPRISED ME ABOUT
"1969"
1. Kiefer Sutherland had trouble get
ting a date
2. Bruce Dern didn't.
3. Nothing else in the plot, that's for sure.
However, as a person who enured the world near the final busier of the '60s, the most important question is, what did I learn? What can we learn from this movie that would make us betUr under
stand an important time in American history?
Were the protesUrs truly committed?
Has this canng continued'’ Was it all just an excuse for music? Is it possible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze’’
THINGS I DID LEARN FROM -1969"
1. Every movie set in the 1960s re
quires a character who wears the same kind of hat Dennis Hopper wore in "Easy R ider"
2. U-turns are legal at the Canadian border.
3. Kiefer Sutherland sure looks a lot like Donald Sutherland. They must be relaUd.
4. (And most important) A moratorium should be declared on making any more
"gee, weren’t the ’60s neat" movies
All things Hoosierful: Cheese toasties, euchre, basketball
Hoosiers are a curious breed.
We know who we are, and we know what we want. And we know what we don’t want.
We don’t want to be reminded that ths word Hoosisr means "dirty person, tramp," for instance.
We do revel in open spaces and her
bicide commercials, persimmon pudding and laiy pronunciation.
How many times have you heard some
one say "In-din-apolis”? My hometown is pronounced “Hunnington" by its natives.
Some Hoosiers call bell peppers mangoes. Why? Why not? In northern In
diana you can find something called a -cheese toastie” on menus. The rest of ths country calls it a grilled cheese sand
wich.
Another candidate for entry in what we like to call T h e Hoosier Dictionary":
Yar.
Hoosier A: Fm goin’ to a movie ta-night.
Hoosier B: Yar?
Get the picture?
Not being a native Hoosier, my hus
band says basketball mania and her
bicide commercials really stick out in his mind as uniquely Hoosier. In his hometown in Virginia (Williamsburg, where our country had ita inauspicious beginnings), they couldn't get 50 people to watch a high school basketball game on a Friday night
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I can’t imagine it.
He said they also know that someone, somewhere, grows the food they e a t but television commercials don't target farm
ers there. Herbicide# are something they hear about on Nightline rather than something they see plugged in a 30- second spot between Barney Miller reruns.
While he didn’t mention it, I imagine my husband was also shocked by our lack o f historical knowledge. People out East remember names and places and dates more easily because they have often visited the historical sites.
Speaking of Easterners, I happen to think Hoosiers have just the right amount o f social skills.
I’ve met people from New Jersey and New York who don’t soften the rough edges o f their criticisms. They don't build you up, then let you down easy. TTiey lay it on the line bluntly. I know I am generalizing, and Fm not saying these are not nice, considerate people. TTieir manner is just less formal than ours.
For formality at its peak though, you have to go to the South. I know some Southerners who complain privately that relatives are coming to visit for a month, but who wouldn't dare just say no. Why, that’s not the polite thing to do. What if Aunt Elizabeth got her feelings hurt?
As far as Tm concerned, the kind of for
mality where manners are just dripping off people’s fingertips is too stifling.
TTiank goodness Hoosiers have better sense. All together now: "Fm sorry, but we are really busy right now. A month is too long for you to stay, but we’d love to see how much we can pack into a weekend visit.”
Hoosiers do tend to be a bit conserva
tive. Ws tend to vote Republican and or
der our steaks well-done, or as Larry Bird would say, “m in t ”
A woman doesn’t really seem ladylike unless she’s wearing a dress, and a kid who is athletic is better to have than one who is talented in art or music — at least in the Hoosier mentality.
Hoosiers want to think they are more sophisticated than their farming cousins in Iowa and Kansas. They probably aren't.
They get some of their biggest laughs out of making fun o f Kentuckians.
Hoosiers think the best of everything lies north of the Ohio River.
Hoosiers really corns into their own
when someone pulls out a deck of cards Euchre’s the game, and it seems no one born outside the state line grew up play
ing it. But once they get the hang of lefts and rights, Hoosier-come-lateltes tend to fall in love with the pastime.
As long as you’re really trying to succeed, Hoosiers are pretty tolerant.
They’ve supported the Indiana Pacers and the Indianapolis Colts through some pretty lean years, not to mention the loyalty they’ve shown to extraordinarily average coaches such as Lee Corso.
The loyalty they show to winning teams and coaches, on the other hand, is phenomenal. Has Bobby Knight ever done anything wrong in a Hoosier’s eyes?
(Only if the Hooeier in question is a Pur
due fan.)
Mos^Tioosiers like dnve-in movies and restaurants where a carhop brings their hot dogs and root beer to the car window They like bargain matinees and depart
ment store sales, but they also like to in
dulge themselves on the things most im
portant to them: Basketball hoops and schnapps.
In the final analysis, Hoosiers are indi
viduals with a wide range of per sonabties and tastes living within a com mon geographical border Each is unique But, you've got to admit, nobody loves basketball as much as we Hoosiers do.
