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...torrential rains had greatly swollen the Lagunilla River, which was already choked with mudslides from the volcano's tentative stirrings in September. At that time geologists from the surrounding federal department of Tolima had expressed concern about the dangers from the dammed-up river. At first the departmental governor, Eduardo Alzate García, said that "there are no immediate risks." Two days later he changed his mind. The geologists declared the region at the base of the volcano a local emergency area, and Alzate planned to have the water buildup drained through an escape canal. Work on that project...
Said Herd, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Nevado del Ruiz volcano: "The Colombians were sincerely trying to respond to the hazard." Agreed Luis Eduardo Jaramillo, an INGEOMINAS spokesman: "We warned the people living in the area that something could happen. We gave them instructions about what to do if it blew up." Yet in their report the Italians criticized the Colombian precautions as "absolutely inadequate...
...EDUARDO E. SANTACANA
...Staff writer Eduardo E. Santacana can be reached at esantac@fas.harvard.edu...
...have been predominantly white females. "We have to be careful that in the scramble for prestige we don't lose our most important focus--open access," says Richard Romano, director of the Institute for Community College Research at SUNY/ Broome Community College in Binghamton, N.Y. But Miami Dade president Eduardo Padrón argues that "it is unfair to restrict community colleges to that traditional role and allow only the four-year colleges or research universities to teach more élite students." Having these more ambitious scholars on campus, he says, creates a "motivational role model" for the rest...