Page 2-The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, November 3, 1987
State residents
By MELISSA RAMSDELL
Michigan residents support the
construction of the Superconducting
Super Collider in Michigan,
according to a study by the
University's Institute for Social
Research.
* Community support, in addition
to geological and economic factors,
is one of the criteria being considered
by the federal government in
selecting a site.
" "Federal officials are very leary of
attempting to begin major
construction projects where the local
community is very resistant. The
laical support may well be an
important consideration in picking
the winner," said John Mogk, head
of the team of experts chosen to
draft Michigan's Super Collider
proposal.
He said community protests
would reflect badly on the federal
government and could create
problems for future large-scale
projects like the Super Collider. ISR
researcher Micheal Traugott, co-
author of the study, said a site in
New York has already bee n
eliminated from the competition due
tq lack of local support.
The Super Collider propels
atomic particles around a 53-mile
kIng underground ring at speeds
approaching that of light. Th e
accelerator smashes the particles
tqgether at certain points along the
ring to break them into smaller
components. This will enable
scientists to examine whether
components of atoms exist at sizes
smfaller than previously discovered
and how they behave.
The Reagan Adminstration
provided $4 billion for the project
and it will be the largest research
facility of its type in the world. Last
March, Governor James Blanchard
submitted Michigan's two proposed
sites - at Dundee between Monroe
and Lenawee counties in South-
eastern Michigan and Stockbridge,
between Ann Arbor and Lansing -
to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Federal Government will
announce its choice in December,
1988.
Mogk said Michigan's chances
of being chosen to host the facility
are better than five to one.
The ISR's study concentrated on
three areas: the sentiments of
residents of the two sites about
having the Super Collider
constructed near their homes; the
statewide response of Michigan
citizens to the project; and possible
methods for more detailed study of
the project's social and
environmental effects.
The study found residents of both
Dundee and Stockbridge receptive to
the construction of the Super
Collider in their area. Local people
were in favor of the economic
benefits of such a large project and
the world attention which villagers
said would "put our town on the
map." The research facility would
attract scholars and tourists from
many different countries as well as
support
construction workers who will live
near the site stimulating new
demands for hotels, bars, restaurants
and other businesses.
Once in operation, the Super
Collider facility will employ 3,000
people, 20 percent of whom will be
scientists conducting research at
several above-ground campus
buildiigs located around the ring,
again creating a significant
economic impact on local towns.
Some local townspeople voiced
concerns about the relocation of
farmers and the large influx of
people to the area.
As a result of digging the 100
foot deep tunnel, buildings, homes
and farmlands will be torn down and
moved from the 5,000 acre site area.
Traugott said 1.6 million people live
within an hour of the site. Two
hundred families and fewer than 10
businesses would be affected,
Traugott said.
Farmers cultivating land within
the site would be relocated to other
lands and compensated by the state
for thier losses. After the
construction is finished, the land
will be returned to the farmers.
Farmland located on sections of the
site that will be permanently
occupied by the research campus
buildings willtbe bought from the
farmers by the Department of
Energy, co-author of the social
impact study Richard Stoffle said.
Farmers in Dundee said to ISR
researchers that the digging of the
Super Collider's tunnel would
disrupt the elaborate drainage
systemsaand turn the site into
swampland. Additional soil
problems could result from the
heavy construction machinery
causing the soil to compact and alter
the growth of crops.
As a result of these findings, the
state changed its proposal to use a
different method for digging the
Super Collider's ring by tunneling
underneath the surface rather than
digging a trench and refilling it with
dirt. The change would effectively
avoid drainage problems. Traugott
added that the state administration
will continue to be responsive to
community concerns throughout the
process. and will include local people
in the decision making process.
The study showed that local
townspeople also expressed fear
about the behavior of construction
crews and did not want the
construction camps too close to their
children.
Area administrators said they
would respond to increased security
needs by hiring larger police and
ambulance forces.
Additional concerns were raised in
both sites about possible noise
pollution and harmful side-effects
from any radiation the Super
Collider might generate. However,
the facility would be far enough
underground to prevent any such
accidents, Stoffle said.
Stoffle said that if Michigan is
chosen next December, the ISR team
will continue to address community
concerns and devise solutions to
problems raised by the local
governments and businesses in
response to the project. Traugott said
the state is interested in establishing.
a "good neighbor policy" with local
citizens.
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The agreement the University and
the GEO reached following a strike
threat last spring left TAs in a better
financial position than ever before,
according to John D'Arms, Dean of
the Graduate School. Other forms of
aid are preferable to TAships, said
D'Arms, but sources of nonteaching
funding have not improved.
Economics Chair Richard Porter,
said the limit, "might hurt our
ability to teach 201 and 202 sections.
We need every TA in good standing."
Though the GEO agrees that
teaching assistantships are not the
best means of financial aid, they
contend that the rule should not be
implemented until nonteaching
funding is available.
Demetriades said, "How are
departments going to get a Ph.D.
student out in five years without
giving students nonteaching financial
support? Who is going to come up
with the money?"
If the GEO decides to sue the
University they must file the suit
before Dec. 25. The first step the
GEO will take if they decide not to
file a suit is to form a fact-finding
alliance with Rackham Student
Government to build a case against
the "blind implementation of the
rule," said Demetriades.
Compiled from Associated Press reports
China names new premier
BEIJING - Premier Zhao Ziyang took over as chief of the Commu-
nist Party yesterday in a major leadership reshuffle that brought younger,
reform-minded pragmatists to power in China.
The new line-up is the result of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's plan
to replace an aging party leadership with new officials willing to continue
his market-oriented reforms and open-door policy.
Deng stepped down from three top party posts Sunday at the conclu-
sion of the 13th Communist Party Congress, but he was reappointed
chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission, ensuring that he
will play a major role in China's political futute.
Gorbachev calls for restraint in
drive to modernize Soviet Union
MOSCOW - Mikhail Gorbachev accused his Kremlin critics yester-
day of being either too timid or too impatient about the pace of reform,
and advised "revolutionary self-restraint" in the drive to modernize the
Soviet Union.
The Soviet leader said Josef Stalin committed "enormous and unfor-
givable" crimes and announced resumption of a campaign to rehabilitate
the dictator's victims. He also praised the communist state's second
leader, however, for collectivizing agriculture and industrializing the
country.
Gorbachev's nationally televised speech, which lasted two hours and
41 minutes, was part of the 70th anniversary observance of the 1917 re-
volution that brought the comunists to power.
Gorbachev's programs aim at improving the quliaty of life by stream-
lining bureaucracy.
Direct talks with Nicaragua
can bring peace, official says
DETROIT - The United States could help a Central American peace
plan succeed by negotiating directly with Nicaragua's government, former
ambassador Sol Linowitz said yesterday.
Secretary of State George Schultz has said talks with the Sandinista
government could occur when the time is right, said Linowitz, co-chair-
man of Inter-American Dialogue, a group of North American and Central
American leaders.
Thursday marks the scheduled implementation of the main provisions
of the peace plan drafted by President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica and sig-
ned in August by Arias and the presidents of Nicaragua, El Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras.
The plan set a 90-day deadline, ending Thursday, for ceasefires.
Black infant death rate rises
LANSING - Michigan's high infant mortality rate continued un-
changed in 1986, although the rate among blacks worsened when com-
pared to the death rate of white babies, the state health director said yes-
terday.
"The gap between black and white infant deaths is a tragedy - an in-
dictment against our society," said Gloria Smith, who is leavng Jan. 1 to
head Wayne State University's college of nursing.
According to the Department of Public Health, Michigan's infant
mortality rate for 1986 remained at 11.4 deaths per 1000 live births, the
same as for 1985.
The white infant mortality rate decreased from 9.3 deaths per1000 live
deaths to 9 deaths, reaching the U.S. Surgeon General's goal. But the
black infant mortality rate rose from 22.5 deaths per 1000 births to 23
deaths.
EXTRAS
Jet grounded for lack of funds
PHILADELPHIA - The Franklin Institute science museum says
lots of people would take its offer of a free Boeing 707 if it weren't for
one little catch.
The 70-ton aircraft must be towed away, and the towing fee would
likely reach $250,000, officials said.
The jet exhibit must be moved by January, when the museum will
begin constructing a $41 million addition on the grounds where the
plane is parked. The grounds closed Sunday.
The 152-foot-long jet flew 51,175 hours and once carried Queen
Elizabeth II before British Airways gave it to the museum in 1975.
"Everyone says they would love to have the airplane, but nobody
has been able to come up with the money to move it," said John
McDevitt, the institute's director of operations.
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