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Despite the staff's blustering, the issue is not simply that protesters should be responsible for the illegal acts they commit. Like the protesters, we should all look to a higher authority than Clark's rules for what is truly right. --John A. Cloud, Jacques E.C. Hymans and Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Nuclear power. The words conjure first the hellish explosion at Chernobyl that spewed a radioactive cloud across the Ukraine and Europe five years ago this week, poisoning crops, spawning bizarre mutant livestock, killing dozens of people and exposing millions more to dangerous fallout. Then the words summon up Three Mile Island (shown here) and the threat of a meltdown that spread panic across Pennsylvania's rolling countryside seven years earlier. From these grew the alarming television programs, the doomsday books, the terrifying movies, even the jokes (What's served on rice and glows in the dark? Chicken Kiev). Could...
...crossing the border into Kuwait is like getting a preview of the apocalypse. In the distance greasy smoke spurts from torched oil wells, sending up dozens of black funnels that look like infernal tornadoes. Overhead the plumes merge to form a charcoal cloud that blocks out the sun. Flakes of white ash tumble from the sky like dry, malignant snow. "Some days are so dark," says a photographer who is covering the fires, "I have to use a flashlight at nine in the morning...
...lies for 35 years added to the human and environmental cost. In a country where nuclear accidents had never been reported, the pressure to cover up the monumental disaster at Chernobyl was enormous. Plant managers misinformed government officials, insisting that the reactor was intact. Even as the radioactive cloud was spreading over thousands of square miles of Europe, Soviet bureaucrats were still denying the accident. At the same time, Moscow bosses quashed early requests by Chernobyl officials to evacuate the area, dooming many compatriots...
...Cloud's fellow students who volunteered to take the time to serve on the committee do have "time for ideals" as well as the sensitivity to keep the relative ranking of candidates a private matter. However, just as Cloud is absolutely wrong in suggesting that our committee was unfair, he is absolutely right that Winthrop needs a diverse tutorial staff. This is a major concern of the house staff and the students. As it happens, we still have openings for non-resident tutors for next year and welcome applications. Greg Mobley Resident Tutor in Religion Winthrop House