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The Red and Black • Tuesday, April 17, 1990 • 3
Award-winning ‘Building Bombs’ film is
back: A look at SRP from the inside
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Once again, University students
will get a look at “Building Bombs,”
the documentary which was named
Best Environmental Film of 1990
and is now eligible to be nominated
for an Academy Award.
The film, which looks at the en
vironmental effects of the Sa
vannah River Plant, will be shown
tonight at 7 and 9 p.m. at the Uni
versity’s Tate Student Center the
ater.
When the University showed the
film in July, it drew such a large
crowd that people were turned
away at the door and another
showing was scheduled.
The nation’s only pioducer of
plutonium and tritium, two com-
mponents needed for making nu
clear warheads, the SRP is located
BUILDING
BOMBS
about 140 miles from Athens in
Aiken, S.C. In “Building Bombs,”
Atlanta residents Mark Mori and
Susan Robinson go inside the SRP
and around Aiken interviewing
current and former employees.
The film has played for audi
ences in Bombay, India, and Edin
burgh, Scotland and won the
Marjory Benton Peace Prize in
Brussels, Belgium. Mori said it
took five years to raise the $100,-
000 needed for the film. The film
was funded by contributions from
individuals and groups such as
Greenpeace, the United Methodist
Churcn, the Playboy Foundation
and R.E.M.
Bill Lawless, a former senior en
gineer for nuclear waste manage
ment at SRP, appears in the film
talking about his change of atti
tude about the plant. He resigned
in 1983, charging that the plant
had improperly disposed of nuclear
wastes.
Because of this mismanage
ment, he said, the plant has con
taminated the Tuskaloosa Aquifer
which provides drinking water for
parts of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
Lawless w&s present for the
film’s Aiken debut and said he wit
nessed a lot of tension in the air.
“Some were upset and wanted to
do something about it, but very few
did,” he said.
Lawless said “the veil of secre-
c/lnside the plant made it hard for
people to understand what was
really going on. ‘They tended to
take the word of the management.”
The plant covers 300 square
miles, employs about 15,000 people
and generates close to $1 billion a
year, Lawless said.
He thinks the film and the atten
tion it generated contributed at
least indirectly to the shutdown of
the plant’s reactors about two
years ago.
The reactors have been shut
down until checks are complete, he
said.
They captured on film what the
Department of Energy had only
spoken about in private,” he said.
At presstime, the SRP couldn’t
be reached for comment.
Sigma Chi lacks support for appeal to Knapp
Spring cleaning: Jeff Farr, a University physical plant em
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is done every half year.
Barnes’
proposal
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — State Sen. Roy
Barnes called on his rivals Monday
to join him in an agreement to
avoid negative advertising in
Georgia’s Democratic gubernato
rial contest, and to agree to meet in
six televised debates.
In proposing the ban on negative
campaign ads, Barnes told re
porters at the Capitol that the can
didates should agree to attack each
other only at news conferences and
during the six televised debates he
proposed. At such forums, he said,
candidates would be held account
able for their charges by reporters
or by each other.
Under questioning from re
porters, Barnes said he would not
unilaterally give up the option of
using negative ads, but would
agree to take that step if the other
two financial heavyweights in the
campaign —• Young and Miller —
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Staff Writer
University President Charles
Knapp heard oral appeals Monday
on behalf of Sigma Chi fraternity,
whose attempts to gamer letters of
support resulted in only one such
letter to Knapp’s office as of 3 p.m.
Monday.
Knapp’s office received a letter
from the Interfraternity Council
Friday, signed by the council’s ex
ecutive board.
“We’re not claiming they’re inno
cent,” Cale Conley, president of
IFC, said Monday. “Sigma Chi
made some errors in judgement.”
Conley said the council felt its
function was one of support for the
fraternity, but not necessarily its
actions.
He said the letter draws atten
tion to the good things the frater
nity has done in the past, like
charity work.
Ron Binder, adviser to fraterni
ties, said Sigma Chi President
Craig Beard sent a letter to all fra
ternity presidents and made an
oral appeal at Wednesday’s IFC
meeting asking for support.
But Binder said Beard gave
“very, very short notice” and there
fore could expect few, if any, letters
in response.
He said two factors working
against Beard were his late timing
and a lack of fraternity support.
Beard couldn’t be reached for
comment Monday.
Lane Koplon, president of Tau
Epsilon Phi, said he knew the IFC
had sent a letter, but he hadn’t
seen it.
He said he had read parts of
Beard’s letter, but not enough to
speak on Sigma Chi’s behalf.
“It could all happen to us,” Ko
plon said. “I would think that the
members of the individual fraterni
ties would want to back you up.”
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