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Volume 76
Senate votes for
temporary nuclear
storage near Las Vegas
James Gerstenzang
Times/Post New\r Sen ice
WASHINGTON-The Senate voted
Tuesday to establish a temporary
storage facility for nuclear waste
at Yucca Mountain, northwest of
Las Vegas.
But it failed for a second year
to muster enough votes to over-ride
an expected veto by President
Clinton.
The 65-34 vote, two shy of the
two-thirds needed to overcome a
veto if all 100 senators vote, keeps
open the vexing question of what
to do with the nation's scattered
piles of radioactive garbage.
33,000 tons in all.
The bill's supporters argue that
a central storage site would pro-vide
a safer repository than the
more than 100 individual sites in
41 states where the nuclear sludge
and other dangerous byproducts of
the nuclear energy generation
have been stored in cooling pools.
Opponents argue that storing
the waste in Nevada will require
carrying it on potentially risky rail
or highway trips through popu-lated
communities, and that estab-lishing
an interim site in Nevada
will inevitably lead to creating a
permanent facility there.
"The country that harnessed the
energy of the atom can't seem to
accomplish the basic task of stor-ing
and disposing of waste," Ma-jority
Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss.,
said as the Senate concluded three
days of sporadic debate Monday.
The temporary site would be
above ground. The government
has proposed constructing a per-manent
storage location in an un-derground
bunker in the same
area, but that proposal is mired in
controversy.
The Energy Department has
said four years of additional study
are needed before final decisions
can be made.
Many of the current storage
sites are in relatively populated
areas, including locations near
businesses, schools and homes in
growing neighborhoods.
The temporary site. 100 miles
from Las Vegas, is near a former
weapons testing range.
With sponsors garnering two
more votes than the 63 they re-ceived
when the measure came up
ast August. Sen. Larry Craig, R-daho,
said. "I think the votes are
wilding."
The measure now goes to the
House, where supporters said
work could be completed by late
summer. The House did not vote
on the bill last year.
The dispute stems from legis-lation,
passed in 1982, that gave
the Energy Department a deadline
of 1998 to take responsibility for
storing the nuclear waste products
generated by private electrical
power companies.
The waste is growing by about
2.000 tons annually.
See Waste, Page 2
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SGA cracks down on clubs
Chris Binkowski
Senior New t Writer
At Tuesday night's SGA meet-ing,
the second to last of the year,
President Brandon Mathis
strongly encouraged delegates to
attend the final meeting next
week.
In this week's meeting, several
important items uere discussed.
First, Mathis approved the bud
get for all hut three groups on cam-pus
asking for funding
The Associated Students of Psy-chology
were approved for over
$3,000 by the Assembly How-ever,
Mathis vetoed the group's
budget because S1,000 of that was
to go to paper presentations by
graduate students.
Mathis explained that other
sources exist inside and outside
the University specifically for this
need, and recommended that
$1000 be taken away. This motion
was tabled until next week so that
the group will have a chance to
respond.
Mathis also vetoed SALSA's
budget. He stated that he never re-ceived
the annual report concern-ing
the group, and a line item re-questing
$200 was not specified.
Mathis asked to see the group's
annual report and to get clarifica-tion
on the line item before ap-proving
the same amount of
money to them.
Debate arose over this One del-egate
pointed out that SALSA's
report not being in Mathis's hands
was the fault of the Assembly, not
the group.
SALSA, according to this del-egate,
should not be punished for
a mistake made by the Assembly.
Mathis countered by saying that a
2% cut in the Student Activities
budget, about which he received
no prior notice, will go into effect
next year.
According to Mathis, the ad-ministration
is closely scrutinizing
the budget of Student Activities
for next year.
Programs will be cut before the
administration either raises fees
again or cuts salaries.
Thus, he accepted no excuses
for SALSA's lack of a report.
Mathis emphasized that the Stu-dent
Government needs to justify
the group's budget or it will be cut.
This motion was also tabled
until next week, giving the group
a chance to respond
Mathis vetoed the Science Fic-tion/
Fantasy Federation's budget
as well because, according to the
group's annual report, the number
of members is "around 10."
Mathis said that $10,000 for a 10
person group is unacceptable.
The group responded and pre-sented
a new budget for $6,000.
This was approved by the Assem-bly,
and Mathis said he would pass
it.
In other business, a motion was
passed to dissolve two groups
from SGA due to nonattendance
of SGA meetings. Both Prime
Movers and the English Club were
dissolved by the Assembly.
The meeting concluded with re-minders
to delegates that the final
meeting of SGA is next week and
that two budgets need to be re-solved.
Let the Games Begin- Spring Fling 1997 Underway
Human Bowling in the Quad helped kick off Spring Fling, yesterday.
Diana CollinVI Hh CAROLINIAN
Family Lecture for Pride Week
Diana CoUhaWTHE CAROLINIAN
Dr. Thomas Fitzgerald gave a lecture, Not All Families are Straight, Tues-day
night, in the Jarrell I-ecture Hall. The lecture is part of Pride Week 97
sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Student Association.
Gains reported
on weapons treaty
College Bound Sisters
program offers incentives for girls
from Staff Reports
The College Bound Sisters
(CBS) program, a new initiative
aimed at preventing adolescent
pregnancies while providing
money for college, is recruiting
females ages 12-16
The program focuses on girls
who have sisters who have had a
baby before age 18. The program's
purpose is to prevent the girls from
becoming pregnant like their older
sisters. CBS is based in the School
of Nursing at UNCG.
Through meetings and activi-ties,
the program will encourage
the girls to avoid pregnancy,
graduate from high school and go
to college.
Participants will meet on cam
pus once a week for one and a halt
hours. Girls ages 12 to 14 will be
in one group, and IS-and 16-year-olds
will be in a second group
Monthly meetings also will be-held
with parents of the partici-pants
to discuss issues related to
parenting adolescent girls.
The program puts $7 a week
into a college fund for each par-ticipant
who remains nonpregnant
and attends the meetings The
money will be released to the par-ticipants
once they enroll in either
a two-year or four-year college.
For each meeting they attend.
members also receive $5 stipends
for transportation expenses.
To be eligible for the program,
girls must be between the ages of
12 and 16. have never been preg-nant,
want to attend college, and
have a sister who had a baby be-fore
age 18. For information about
becoming a participant or helping
with the program, call the CBS
office at 334 5010, extension 519.
The CBS program is funded by
a five-year. $179,605 grant from
the N.C. Department of Environ-ment.
Health and Natural Re-sources
and by a SI5.000 grant
from the March of Dimes. Dr.
Hazel N Brown and Dr. Rebecca
B Saunders. associate professors
in the UNCG School of Nursing,
are co-directors of the project.
Roy Gutman
Times/Post New T Sen ice
WASHINGTON-The White
House said Tuesday it has nar-rowed
the gap with Senate Repub-licans
over the new chemical
weapons convention, but officials
said the outcome is still up in the
air the vote may not occur until
the last possible minute.
The convention banning poison
gas and other chemicals, negoti-ated
by former President Bush,
goes into effect April 29 with or
without U.S. ratification.
Failure to ratify by then will
subject the United States to sanc-tions
and exclude U.S. experts
from helping draft terms to verify
future compliance, officials said.
The outcome of the vote itself
was still in doubt Tuesday, offi-cials
said, with a great deal hang-ing
on the position of Senate Ma-jority
Leader Trent Lott. R-Miss.
Democratic support is fairly solid,
bin Republicans are divided, with
ISA holds annual festival Sunday
from Staff Reports
The International Student Asso-ciation
(ISA) has been working
hard to organize the 15th annual
International Festival, which will
be held this Sunday. April 20th.
from 12 p.m to 7 p.m. on College
Avenue.
Other organizations sponsoring
the festival include the Residence
Hall Association and CAB
Among the featured attractions.
there will be African. French.
Panamanian, and Hawaiian/
Polynesian dancers The Nco-
Black Society Gospel Choir, a
congo group sponsored by
SALSA, and Truth and Rights
Reggae, sponsored by Minority
Student Affairs, will also be per-forming.
There will also he a Zeta Phi
Beta step show and performances
by Been Caught Steelin". a steel
drum band.
Other attractions include a
See Festival, Page 3
Lawyers Brought In For Questioning
Diana ( olliiWTlIK CAROLINIAN
Haywond Barnes was one of the young local Greensboro lawyers in the
Kirkland Room, Tuesday, answering questions ofUNCG students interested
in law. The evnt was put together by Donald J. Faxole, a professor of law at
UNCG.
about a third favoring the conven-tion,
a third opposed, and a third
waiting to see how Lott votes.
White House officials said.
"We have to have it by the time
the Senate goes out next Thursday
(April 24)," said a White House
official involved in the negotia-tions.
If the convention receives the
needed two-thirds majority, it will
still be "extremely tight" to turn
over the needed documentation at
the United Nations by midnight
April 28, a White House official
said.
Lott was reported close to
agreement Tuesday with Minority
Leader Tom Daschle, DSD., on
opening debate April 23 with a
vote April 24.
Officials said negotiations be-tween
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C,
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, and Sen. Joseph
Biden, D-Del, the ranking Demo-crat,
had narrowed the
administration's specific differ-ences
with Republican leaders
from 32 to two issues of substance.
Lott has made clear that his own
decision rests on the outcome of
these two questions of detail, of-ficials
said.
One relates to an assurance that
U.S. military forces could use tear
gas for riot control if needed, and
the second to a requirement for
some form of search warrants in
the event of a suspected violation.
The White House official in-volved
in the talks, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said the
administration is prepared to of-fer
language that it believes will
satisfy both concerns.
Beyond these points, there are
four Republican demands the ad-ministration
views as "killer" is-sues.
An example is the insistence by
Helms and fellow conservative
John Kyi. R-Ariz.. that the United
States not join the treaty until
rogue regimes such as Libya and
North Korea ratify'.
Meanwhile, conservative Re
publicans led by Kyi plan to in
See Treaty, Page 3
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