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Students still represented on city council
By MARY MAY
The abolition of the Student Government Association last
month by a student referendum does not necessarily mean
students will lose their representative to the Athens City Council,
but the question is still up in the air
Joan Dawson, who has served as a non-voting member of the
council since 1976, will continue to serve in that capacity until the
future of th«* is settled sometime this summer
Dawson's job is to let the council know what students are
thinking and tell students what is going on at council meetings
"I act as a kind of go-between for students and city council.”
Dawson said
Whether the students will continue to have a "go-between” is
jp to the Dean of Student Affairs Dwight Douglas
“There is no domino effect here For example, the student
judiciary is continuing.” Douglas said.
Though Dawson has no vote on council issues, she thinks her
Gas bubble a
false danger,
N-o£ficials say
WASHINGTON < l PI >—The
hydrogen bubble inside the
Three Mile Island reactor
vessel was never the danger
officials at the Nuclear Regu
latory Commission thought it
was at the time, one of them
said Tuesday.
"There was no explosive
potential for that bubble.”
according to NRC safety
systems director Roger Matt
son.
Mattson told UPI the reason
for the mistake was that “we
unfortunately asked the tech
nical people the wrong ques
tion in the course of trying to
determine the hazard of thxt
bubble.”
Mattson and other NRC
officials had previously said
that contrary to earlv reports
from the scene in the days
immediately following the
March 28 mishap, there was no
real threat of an explosion that
could have broken through the
vessel or the containment
structure and spread radiation
into the air.
Water is composed of hydro
gen and oxygen, but in certain
combinations it can be explo
sive NRC officials feared soon
after the accident that in the
process of decomposing what
Mattson termed "the bubble of
fame.” the t’.vo elements would
combine to blow the reactor
vessel apart.
In posing the question to the
technical staff. Mattson said,
"we asked at what oxygen
level could it explode. We
didn't ask them whether
oxygen could be generated in
that situation.
"When it became clear to us
24 hours later that you could
have no oxygen generated
during radiolysis decomposi
tion in an intense radiation
field, panic over the bubble
was already aflit in the land
and that was an unfortunate
affair.
"What we found out was. in
substance, you could not
generate oxygen with radioly
sis with the sort of hydrogen
overpressure" that was being
pumped into the vessel.
"1 think it's fairly clear tha
there was a hydrogen bubble,
and as a consequence of
hydrogen overpressure it was
not possible to generate oxygen
and therefore not possible to
generate an explosive mixture
of hydrogen and oxygen, and
therefore there was no poten
tial for the kind of damage
people were worried about the
first of April.”
job is an important one "Students are a pretty nebulous group,
and this makes it difficult to represent them.” she said.
"However, they do generate income for Athens and have
influence on the city council.”
Council member Hugh Hale says having a student present at
meetings is "an excellent idea.”
"It has been most helpful having Joan on the council.” he said.
Dawson says her main duty on the council is to find out what is
going on and tell students about it. She acts as both a PR person
and a lobbyist, she explained.
"When the Athens Transit System was first started. I was very
involved with that.” Dawson said. Having student input on the
council was very important when ATS was an issue, she added.
She still thinks representation is a good idea, though no major
issues directly concerning the students have come up before the
council lately. "You’ve got the capacity if something does come
up.” she said.
Dawson cited two major problems for student representation
on the city council now that SGA is abolished.
One is the question of whether or not the student representative
has the same legitimacy now that the main body of student
government is gone.
There is also the problem of whom to appoint now there is no
SGA. said Dawson. "You no longer have that pool of people to
choose from.” she said Dawson was appointed by SGA president
Rob Hancock, who was the first student representative on the
city council when he initiated the program in 1976
Dawson remarked that she knows of only one other college.
Auburn, which has a student on its city council. "I think their
program was started after ours, so this really is the pilot
program.” she added.
Dean Douglas agrees the student position on the city council
has been good because it gives the city first-hand feedback from
the students "The city council is very much aware of student
influence." said the Dean.
Douglas also remarked that students, who are already
represented on the council by virtue of living in Athens, get a
kind of "double representation" by having a student on the
council.
"There is a winding down of SGA right now." said the dean
“We’ll have the summer to think of several possibilities for
student input to the council. Until then, we’ll ask the incumbent
to serve.”
Pool closing delayed by mayor’s vote
By SUSAN M. TURNER
Staff writer
Mayor Upshaw Bentley
broke a tie vote during the
Athens City Council meeting
Tuesday in order to delay the
controversial closing of the
Rocksprings swimming pool,
located off Baxter Street
The Streets, Parks and
Recreation Committee of the
Council had decided to go
ahead with the closing of the
pool when council member
John Taylor brought up a
substitute recommendation to
delay closing until the residents
of the area could be properly
notified.
‘ We haven't approached
these citizens on the problem.
We need to give them the
opportunity to address the
committee about the situa
tion." said Taylor.
The pool, which was sched
uled to open on June 8. had its
opening suspended due to the
cost per person to use the
facilities. According to the
Council committee, the recom
mendation was made to
consider closing any swimming
pool when the cost per person
exceeds $5.00.
Chairman of the Committee.
Bryan Craft, explained that
during the 1978 season, the pool
averaged only 11 swimmers
per day. “It would only cost
the city more money to hold
the motion of closing the pool
and delay actiori,” he said.
"We seem to keep spending
more and more There comes a
time when we need to quit all
this spending.” Craft added
But according to Council
member Taylor. "There are
other factors involved in this
matter. You just can’t let the
cost factor alone rule over
these important recreational
facilities.”
After stormy discussion, a
vote was taken to conclude
whether to delay action. It was
the mayor's tie-breaking vote
that decided to forego the
closing of the pool for the next
30 days so that the situation
could be studied further and
residents properly notified
Grady 5 s birthday a time for awards
The journalism school will present new
scholarships to incoming freshmen and honor
the scholastic achievements of journalism
students Friday, the birthday of Henry W.
Grady, according to Ed Lynch, chairman of the
scholarship awards committee.
Various clubs such as the University Ad
Club and Sigma Delta Chi will also pay
recognition to their superior journalism
students, Lynch said.
Graduating seniors, juniors and honor
students with the highest scholastic average
will receive awards. Students who have
obtained scholarships and those students who
will receive scholarships will also be honored.
"We felt it would be better to gather all
students who deserve recognition at the same
time, instead of doing it piecemeal." Lynch
said
"The event was started 10 years ago when
Dean (Scott) Cutlip of the journalism school
decided an activity was needed to recognize
outstanding student work." he said. For the
tenth anniversary "we would like to make it an
unusually festive occasion." he added
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