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Monday
MSC CAMERA: will meet at 7 p.m. Check the monitor in
Rudder Tower for location.
LIBERAL ARTS SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 301 Rud
der.
ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS AND FREE-THINKERS SO
CIETY: will conduct an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. in
333B Zachry.
SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will conduct a mandatory meeting at
8 p.m. in 200 Heldenfels.
Tuesday
AMERICAN ETHNIC COALITION: will conduct a panel
discussion on “Why Should English be the Official Lan
guage?” at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
MSC GREAT ISSUES: David G. Eller, Gary Mauro and Dr.
Steve H. Murdock will discuss the economics of Texas agri
culture at 3:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder.
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: Dr. Dave Oli-
phant will speak on “Texas Poetry: A Double Feature” at 2
p.m. in 204C Sterling C. Evans Liorary.
SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS: Bob Ver
nier will speak on statistical data analysis at 7 p.m. in 209
HECC.
TRI BETA BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Thane Wibbels will
speak at 7 p.m. in 105 Heldenfels.
PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM: Zhu Ximmin of Fudan
University in Shanghai, China, will speak on “Contempo
rary Chinese Philosophy” at 3:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: Jim Kubiab will speak on
foaling at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg.
POLITICAL FORUM: will sponsor speakers from 11 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. in the lounge of the Memorial Student Center.
TAMU NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN: will
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p.m. in 404 Rudder.
ART FILM SOCIETY: will show “Mickey One” at 8 p.m. in
the auditorium of the Langford Architecture Center.
SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will conduct a mandatory meeting
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COWBOYS FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7 a.m. at The Kettle.
STUDENT COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN:
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WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS INC.: will meet and
elect officers at 12:15 p.m. in 215 Reed McDonald.
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at 5 p.m. Friday in 110 YMCA Building.
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Physician: Effects
from Chernobyl
not yet realized
By Melanie Perkins
Staff Writer
An Austin physician told a group
of about three dozen people gath
ered at the College Station Commu
nity Center Friday evening that the
gravest consequences of Chernobyl
have yet to come.
Dr. Wes Wallace, founder and
chairman of the Austin chapter of
Physicians for Social Responsibility,
spoke on the Chernobyl nuclear di
saster as seen through the eyes of a
physician.
The Chernobyl nuclear power
plant suffered an explosion and sub
sequent radiation leak on April 26,
1986. Wallace blamed the disaster
on an unauthorized experiment in
volving an intentional override of
multiple safety systems, and said it
was similar to the experiment that
led to the 1979 Three-Mile Island
accident in Pennsylvania.
Wallace called the disaster “the
most significant nuclear event in his
tory since the bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.”
“Chernobyl is a real double-edged
sword,” he said. “It’s a terrible tra
gedy, but on the other hand, we’re
going to learn a lot about radiation
from it.”
On a recent visit to the Soviet
Union, Wallace was able to examine
and interview victims of the Cherno
byl disaster.
He described radiation sickness as
being somewhat like AIDS — the
body’s ability to produce white blood
cells is damaged to a large degree.
Without white blood cells, the body
is unable to fight even the simplest
infections, and those exposed can
easily become victims of common
diseases.
Physicians can try to protect vic
tims of radiation sickness from infec
tion by predicting which kinds might
strike, he said. But in acute cases,
people don’t recover. Most die after
their immune systems cease to func
tion. The severity of the case de
pends on the amount of radiation a
victim is exposed to and the victim’s
tolerance to it.
Wallace compared the relative
safety of small levels of radiation
most are exposed to throughout
their lives — like X-rays — to the
massive doses required to cause ill
ness. About 450 rads of radiation is
generally accepted as the mean le
thal dose, he said. Half of 100
healthy adults exposed to this
amount would die. In comparison,
the average chest X-ray uses only
about 12 millirads of radiation.
“(Chernobyl is) a terrible
tragedy, but . . . we’re
going to learn a lot about
radiation from it. ”
— Dr. Wes Wallace
Wallace said the number of deaths
directly linked to the accident pale in
comparison to the projected deaths
from resulting cancer. Much of the
data has been manipulated, he said,
but estimates range from 5,000 to
200,000 deaths. No one will be sure
for at least a generation, he added.
The world needs to learn two les
sons from Chernobyl, Wallace said,
the first about nuclear weapons and
the second about man’s inability to
control them and other technolo-
gies.
While in the Soviet Union, a top
member of the Soviet Academy of
Medical Sciences told Wallace that
caring for just 300 people had over
whelmed the Soviet health care sys
tem. One nuclear device of 100 me
gatons would create 300,000 such
casualties. “What then?” he asked.
“We know it is true,” Wallace said.
“We know in this country and the
Soviet citizens I talked to know, that
if we continue to build and have nu
clear weapons, we will someday use
them. I will remind you that there
has never been a weapon that has
not been used on a substantial scale.”
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