Word: sheldon
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Though air currents could bring some radioactivity to North America, U.S. Government sources expressed little worry. "We don't expect any significant health effects in the United States," said Sheldon Meyers, acting director of the Environmental Protection Agency's office of radiation programs. Still, the U.S. is taking no chances. The EPA increased its measurement of airborne particulates from twice a week to daily in order to spot fallout quickly...
...conversion of 73 year-old Sheldon Hall--which was recently recognized by the National Register of Historical Places as a significant building--had been postponed during the fall of 1984 due to a controversial bidding procedure as well as "just a lot of unnecessary red tape," President Virginia Radley told The Oswegonian, the campus newspaper...
Unused since the fall of 1983 because of an overabundance of building space, Sheldon Hall had been financially burdensome to the college, costing an estimated $75,000 annually in heating bills...
However, William King, a developer and lifetime Oswego resident who lives opposite Sheldon Hall, believes there are better uses for the building, such as apartments for older or married students. "I don't believe the administration served the best interests of the college or the community," he said...
...university's president, Dr. Sheldon Hackney, is particularly interested in social service and expressed a desire that the CWSP be expanded to allow more community service work in an article he recently wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Higher education can and should enhance its role of service to the nation," wrote Hackney. "The tools of this enhancement--service payback and an expanded work-study program--are by no means the only approaches, but they can help remove some of the critical financial and institutional barriers that preclude wide-scale public service by current college students and recent graduates...