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t i i Page 10 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 16. 1981 Features Plants improve technology, increase jobs College-sponsored industries are valuable United Press International NEW YORK — The university- sponsored industrial park looks like a wave of the future in America. Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti tute of Troy, N.Y., the oldest de gree-granting engineering school in the English-speaking world. * » * MANOR EAST 3 MANOR EAST MALL 823-8300 It's Dock! 7:30 9:50 THE FORCE WILL BE WITH YOU FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY twwiiieirvCooturv fo> r> DOLBY STEREO ©1977 IUCASFHM t,JD - TV^NneiMCENTp^v PO) ForgcJ by a god. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a King. ■ ' . . ■■■. ■ • ' 4.i ^ b - s 'c ! k • ^ TV'. ' f C'T ^ ' ESTRICTED Thru WARNER 8R0S O A Warner Cominunicaltons Company SISSY SPACEK in “COAL MINORS DAUGHTERS” Friday and Saturday Midnight: “Flash Gordon 99 and Chevy Chase in 66 Caddyshack 99 WATSfCUUb X IX) CW Aflfhc 20? . ^ /Political (7/ F&UJtKI PcftTiAue-s- *4} John Boorman's "EXCAL1BUR" Nigel Terry-Helen Mirren Nicholas ClayCherie Lunghi-Paul Geoffrey ,nj Nicol Williamson Executive Producers Edgar F. Gross,„,i Herbert A. Eisenstein Directed Produced tv John Boorman 7l10 Screenplay k Rospo Pallenberg .,r,j John Boorman q ./i c Adapted from Malory's Le Morte Darthur h Rospo Pallenberg has just announced such a ven ture. President George M. Low said RPI will contribute 1,200 acres in North Greenbush near the RPI campus and $3 million cash to build roads, sewers and other necessary improvements to get the park started. RPI’s primary interest is to pro vide large-scale practical experi- : ence opportunities under adv- . anced industrial working condi- [ tions for its faculty, its 4,300 | undergraduates and 1,300 gradu- | ate students. Ultimately the park ! may provide income for the col lege, but Low told United Press International that would be far in the future. It could, however, bring an ulti- ... a marriage of high er education and indus try” probably is the first essential to a good long-range industrial park program. mate payroll of $100 million a year to the Troy-Albany area, jobs for 9,000 persons, annual production s?MSC AGGIE CINEMA? % ffOSHYiSUCKLE HtQSE For 20years he's been singing to the country fbe litSfhg his own love songs. WILLIE NELSON DYAN GANNON AMY IRVING FRI. & SAT. APRIL 17 & APRIL 18 8:00 P.M. RUDDER THEATRE PREVIEWED AT TEXAS A&M (fctrrrinrtn -rruiiiin TERROR TRAIN FRI. & SAT. APRIL 17 & APRIL 18 MIDNIGHT RUDDER THEATRE More Entertaining Than Humanly Possible! G v G: As*ociat«d FHirt Diatributkm SUN. APRIL 19 7:30 P.M. RUDDER THEATRE Cc*U? T£e PUtL GPAKUA I (SOAlb OOX> at a TOvoki MerrwdG- / l -tr> ME 1 / TO yAE\J 7L MSC POLITICAL FORUM invites you to attend a 'Town Meeting with Congressman PHIL GRAMM Representative from the 6th district , •• v> ^ 'v ki €\.v r : APRIL 20; 1981 1205p.m. 701 RUDDER of $200 million of goods and ser vices and more than $5 million a year in state and local tax re venues. The college-sponsored indust rial park is not original with RPI. Low said much of the inspiration came from Stanford’s success with its Silicon Valley developments, Princeton’s Forrestal Center, the University of Utah’s magnificent industrial park, the Route 128 de velopments around Boston associ ated with MIT, University Re search Park near Charlotte, N.C. and Research Triangle near Raleigh, N.C “The fundamental object from RPI’s standpoint is to enhance teaching and research opportuni ties and let faculty and students become more familiar with the real world of manufacturing and high technology industry,” he said. This would appear to be a more modern approach to what the Uni versity of Cincinnati and Antioch College set off nearly 60 years ago when they went into co-op educa tion with students alternating time between the campus and jobs in factories or offices. Low predicted college- sponsored industrial parks will in crease. He said he understood the University of Rochester and the state university at Stony Brook, Long Island, are planning parks and there are others in the works around the country. He said while the parks involve some financial risk to a college or university, they are thoroughly justified by the need of colleges, industry and the nation for more rapid and diversified technologic al progress. In a study of industrial parks last LaValle concluded that “at riage of higher education and: dustry” probably is the first®: Though industrial parks involve some financial risk to a college or uni versity, they are thor oughly justified by the need of colleges, indus try and the nation for more rapid and diver sified technological progress. The part-time jobs hi students and increasei employment opporfa nities for graduates an valuable to the college! along with the e\ panded research and teaching opportunities, tial to a good long-range industa park program. The permanence of the facii and goals of a university or s gineering college as contrast! with what may be shifting goals; individual industrial companies an important reason for tl year for Gov. Hugh Carey and the New York legislature a committee headed by State Sen. Kenneth P. But the committee said these entific equipment, library fee ties, pools of graduate stink and a labor pool of undergratk- wanting part-time jobs alsoareb portant. m These rr Sociencc month o Barrier project planned to avert London flooding Co ini United Press International LONDON — London lives under the constant threat of a jKggfr ' tUESB'AVfl'— AtL GOING APE” (PG) ITONY DANZA — DANNY DEVITT0 7:35, 9:30 ffiffiMlJl]84b-b/14 “THIEF” (R) JAMES CAAN TUESDAY WELD ooooooooooooooo Campus Theatre Now Showing flood that could rank among the worst civil catastrophes of the cen tury. ‘‘It is not a question of if there will be a flood, but of when,” said Bill Cook, the engineer in charge of a flood emergency room oper ated by London’s metropolitan council. A tidal surge could put up to 45 square miles of the most densely populated parts of the city under as much as 18 feet of water. Thousands of lives would be en dangered. The material cost would be astronomical. To avert the threat, the council is racing to complete an awe inspiring barrier across the River Thames downstream beyond Greenwich. It is the biggest civil engineering project in Europe. The barrier, which with the raising of river banks costs $1.4 billion at 1980 prices, is scheduled to go into operation at the end of next year. Low-lying London has been prone to flooding for centuries. Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary in 1663: “There was last night the greatest tide that ever was re membered in England to have been in this River, all Whitehall having been drowned.” There have been on average four floods a century. In statistical terms, London is living on bor rowed time. High water in the Thames rises by an average 30 inches a century, for a variety of reasons. The economic consequence^ a serious flood are almost imp® ble to calculate. It could destroy the city's abili) to compete as a sophisticate financial center. Transportafe would be knocked out, perhapsfo months. More than 250,(K( homes, stores, factories air offices would be endangered b mud and sewage. Aging sewers would ciatl under the strain. The city cot remain inundated for many da; Electricity, gas and telepbs would be affected over an a«i much greater than the capital 1 self. United WASHIN Knauer, ci presidents Reagan, s; issues have i overwhelm i tion. “The wh try is ‘Let’s regulations are cost eft “There is little doubt that lit severe flooding of London cod be the greatest natural dirali this country is likely to expenes and a catastrophe for the capital?, the scale of the (1666) Great Fr: of London,” the London coum warns. “Indeed, many feel London would never fully recow from the blow.” In an attempt to minimize Is of life, an ad campaign adviseste sidents and workers whattodoli flood is expected. War-time sires would wail an alert as muchasfes hours in advance. “The wi country sure thi tions tl forth £ tive. ’ I actly wl tration Virginh sumer £ idents 1 Carter. Engineer Cook has Telex mfr sages all ready to set in motions whole train of emergency actions The barrier, spanning a 531 yard stretch of the Thames, shodd end the flood threat for good. The whole of Britain is tilting on the earth’s crust, so the southeast ern part of the country where Lon don is situated is lower than it used to be. London itself is sinking on its bed of clay. It consists of 10 steel gatesfe when raised to keep sea wain from coming into the river, ft stand the height of a five-sto? building above the river bed. The North Sea is higher be cause the polar ice cap has melted. Tides are running faster. The average water level of the Thames is 9 inches higher since flooding took 300 lives along the East Coast and the Thames es tuary in 1953. Four rising gates in the cente of the river each span 200 feet aai weigh 3,200 tons. When not use, they recess into concrett bases set into the river bed.The! are flanked by two 900-ton risite' gates and four gates that would!* lowered into place. The river banks have been raised and strengthened enough to contain ordinary high tides. COSTUME CONTEST: \With two 6 month passes j )awarded each visit to wln-( f^nersll OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Sometimes, however, a trough of low air pressure can create a tidal surge in the North Sea. Usually such surges peter out in Scandinavia, but they can be pushed down towards the Thames estuary by northerly winds. A large surge on top of a high tide would be likely to burst the river defenses. The hydraulic machinery move the gates is set on slf shaped piers and covered by less steel canopies that resembk billowing sails. They will p the capital with a spectacular riv? entrance that the London count- hopes will become a tourist attri tion. “Nothing quite like this h ever been attempted before, ”» Peter Bosworth, a city engines “We are scratching the frontier technology.” exactly wha doing,” Kn “During everyone — put a lot ofc the books women, These ar “Now traveling found th have sue the fact t that hits better u works. “Then that infla £ OPTION PASSES FOR THE 1981-82 MSC I JTOWN HALL SEASON OF EVENTS ARE! J NOW ON SALE! * * jE MSC Town Hall announces that once again Option Passes will be on sale ^ in the MSC Box Office. The price per each Option Pass will be $10.00. ^ ^ For more information, please call the MSC Box Office at 845-2916. * * * *