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Andrew J. Kahn '81, DSOC vice president, said last night the organization is backing Sullivan "because he is the most responsive to the problem of Harvard's invasion of Cambridge." Sullivan's support of rent control and his opposition to the conversion of apartments into condominiums are also important factors, Kahn added...
They knew they had a problem last May. Down in Barnwell, South Carolina, local residents and state officials decreed that enough was enough. And they closed down the only radioactive waste disposal site in the East equipped to handle the sludge that university labs were sending their way. Closed it down, that is, to everybody but South Carolina and its neighboring states. Then the word floated up through the tobacco fields and hit Cambridge like Three Mile Island hit the folks at Babcock and Wilcox. One official in the Northeast called down to once-amiable Barnwell and tried...
...teeth, opened its wallet up wide and started to ship the radioactive waste out to Hanford, Washington. Days later, a committee of officials from all sectors of the University sat down to consider the situation. If anything concrete emerged from the session, it was a feeling that the problem would get worse before it got better...
Last May's shutdown is only symptomatic of Harvard's most pressing waste disposal problem: low-level radioactive wastes. University labs produce all sorts of radioactive by-products--from chemicals to contaminated papers to glassware and animals used in experiments. In the medical area alone, says Coddington, labs and research experiments are producing more than 1000 gallons of toluene, a frequently used chemical that is both radioactive and highly flammable after experimentation. Each year, the labs must also dispose of more than four and a half million vials which come in contact with toluene...
...were in real good position and I was feeling pretty good about the race when they went into that loop," McCurdy said immediately after the meet. "The only problem was that when the runners started emerging from the forest I didn't see any big H's for quite awhile. I no longer felt quite so confident," he added...