Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point of no return, was there more than the expected chorus of protest as legal desegregation became a fact. White parents in the tiny (pop. 8,000) Forrest County community of Petal reacted angrily to a plan for busing their children. When a school official tried to explain the program, they borrowed a line from antiwar protesters and stormed out, chanting, "Hell no, we won't go." In Hattiesburg, 1,000 white parents paraded in a bone-chilling drizzle as schools there desegregated. Almost everywhere else, opening day was quiet...
Some federal commissions have made notable contributions to American life. The Government's current program to combat crime, for example, drew many of its provisions from the 1967 Crime Commission report. The draft lottery that went into effect last month stems from a recommendation of a presidential commission appointed to study the Selective Service System. Yet for every commission that succeeds in its objectives, there are probably twice as many that fail. Despite its exhaustive investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, the Warren Commission failed to dispel suspicions that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the only man involved...
...Federal Radiation Council warns that "any radiation exposure involves some risk," and critics of the reactor program contend that any risk is too much as long as alternate power sources exist. Says Johns Hopkins Professor Edward P. Radford Jr., a specialist in the biological effects of radiation: "Until a year ago, I was one of those who felt that any problems associated with nuclear power could be solved." Now Radford is not so sure. He is not alone. Last month two scientists at the AEC's Livermore Radiation Laboratory reported that current radiation standards may be responsible...
...Along with radiation, critics of the reactor program are alarmed about the effects of thermal pollution on marine life. The problem is that nuclear plants use cool water from rivers and bays, then return it hot. All steam-generated plants require cooling water-as do many other basic industries-but reactors can use as much as 35% more water because they use heat less efficiently than plants fueled by coal or oil. Heat decreases the dissolved oxygen content in the water, makes existing pollutants more toxic, disturbs the reproduction cycle of fish and spurs the growth of noxious blue-green...
Thirty-seven MOT courses were introduced this fall, and students signed up for them eagerly. There will be two dozen more in the spring. A student-faculty committee oversees the program...