European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday september 13, 1977 dorm Rafy Day is Here colleges say Cambridge mass. A the Day appears to be passing when College Stu t dents shun the life of the dorm rat for the Independence and adventure of off Campus apartments and houses. Educators say More and More students Are returning to Campus housing because it is cheaper safer Chummie and be cause there s no longer As much of a stigma attached to them. The Boston metropolitan area with a total population of about 2.7 million is packed with a dozen colleges and More than 100,000 students. Educators Here feel a local trend reflects National attitudes. And they see the local trend As the end of a rebellion. They Are no longer rebelling against the idea of living on Campus says Michael Behnke Dean of admissions at Tufts University one of several major institutions suddenly caught without enough space to meet the demand for University accommodation. Over the past five to 10 years students said. I want to go off on my own. I Don t want to be part of that group that s Over. Students really seem to want to be part of Campus  London feted Alf Landon blows out the  candles on his 90th birthday cake during a party for him at Landon Junior High school in Topeka. The former governor of Kansas and 1936 presidential candidate and his wife Center were Given 15 cheers by the Junior High school pupils and also a portrait of Landon. Up says Carter took big risk sen. Baker criticizes treaty extravaganza Washington a Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker said monday that president Carter May have Over played his hand with the Senate by staging last week s International extravaganza around the signing of the Panama canal treaties. I think the president took a big risk by holding that spectacular Here Baker said. I personally would have preferred that the Senate have More Advance notice on what was in the  he noted that Only five of the Senate s 38 republicans were present at the gathering of More than  dozen latin american leaders where Carter and Panama Mili tary ruler Gen. Omar Torrijos signed the treaties that will turn the canal Over to Panama in 2000. At the time of the event Baker said he had Only just received a copy of the Docu ments but had not had a Chance to read them. The latest poll on Senate attitudes toward the treaties was published during the weekend by . News and world report. It found the Senate split about three ways among those who favor them those who oppose them and those who Are undecided. The treaties must be ratified by a  thirds vote of the Senate and the foreign relations committee has scheduled hear Ings starting sept. 26. While Senate majority Leader Robert Byrd has ruled out a ratification vote before next year. Baker said he expected the hearings might extend beyond con Gress final adjournment scheduled for mid october. As minority Leader Baker s position on the treaties could prove critical to Republican support or the Lack of it for the trea ties. He said he has a head count of his own among republicans but does not want to make the figures Public. He said he did not know How the democrats were lined up on the Issue now. To House an overflow of 350 students Tufts has rented  floors in a Cambridge Chain hotel  Miles from its Medford Campus and across the Street from har Vard University. Boston College temporarily is housing 94 freshmen in 47 double rooms with color television in a skyscraper motor inn three Miles from its Boston Campus. The hotels ordinarily charge $33 to $36 nightly for the rooms but neither school wants to discuss precise costs. However Tufts figures housing its Campus overflow will Cost $200,000 a year until new residential buildings Are completed. Boston University with 600 More to House this year than last bought an 82-unit apartment hotel in Midtown Boston. The school is renting 25 apartments in another private building to upperclassmen. Massachusetts Institute of technology with about 80 More freshmen than expected in a class of 1,080, has for the first time opened a transient dormitory. Random Hall to freshmen. Harvard reported its Campus housing chock Block full with 1,600 freshmen and about 4,600 upper class students. Finally they re getting around to the realization that it May Cost less on Campus said University housing office Susan loth. Expense is a major Factor turning Stu dents Back to Campus said Robert als Worth Boston University s housing offi cer. I suspect several factors he said there Are Security concerns especially the Young ladies. On Campus you become part of a Well organized Community it better for the social  rates for room and Board on Campus Range from $2,500 for nine months at har Vard to about $1,700 at Boston College in Cambridge a traditional off Campus Haven apartments Are virtually impossible for students to rent reported David Allen an agent for a realty firm which manages a dozen buildings near major schools. Allen hardly is one to mourn the Chang ing pattern of student life. Students Are a ruination of a building he said. For most tenants an apartment is their Home. But students put their mat Tress Down on the floor. And they go Home for  court tells firm to pay $3 million to 2 sex aides san Antonio Tex. Up a District court jury monday found that Southwest Bell Telephone co. Lib eled and slandered  of its former employees and ordered the company to pay them $3 million. Southwest Bell said it will Appeal. The jurors voted 10-2 to award $1.5 Mil lion to James h. Ashley Bell s former commercial manager in san Antonio and the same amount to Oleta Gravitt Dixon the widow of company vice president . Gravitt who committed suicide in Dallas on oct. 17, 1974, at the height of company investigation of the  men. The verdict however exonerated Bell s Parent company american Telephone and Telegraph of any wrongdoing in the investigation. The verdict found that southwestern Bell lib eled and slandered the executives by inquiring into their alleged sexual promiscuity voucher activities and associations with a printing firm which Bell Law yers contended represented a conflict of interest. . Todd vice president and general manager of Bell s san Antonio operations said the company would Appeal the Deci Sion and blamed the verdict on publicity. The $3 million was considerably less than the $29 million originally sought in the three year old suit. Atomic waste disposal Outlook is pessimistic Washington up a congressional report said monday that even if All nuclear activities were halted the . Would be faced with a major radioactive waste disposal problem because of waste accumulated for decades. The 73-Page report by the general accounting office was submitted to Congress at the opening of seven Days of hearings by a House government operations subcommittee on nuclear Energy costs. Chairman Leo j. Ryan d-calif., said the Cost Issue becomes of major importance when you try to figure out the real expenses of radioactive waste disposal and How much Money will be required to close Down a Plant and make the site Safe for the  Ryan said thousands of tons of waste Best Sellers up publishers weekly fiction the Thorn Birds Colleen Mccu Lough the crash of Paul e. 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He said numerous studies have been made yet each study seems to generate another study but no permanent storage method or  the Gao report presented by Monte Canfield director of its Energy and Miner als division said 71 million Gallons of High level waste is temporarily stored in steel tanks at  facilities the Hanford facility in Richland Wash. 50 million and the Savannah River facility in Aiken . 21 million. Even if All activities which generate radioactive waste were stopped today the United states still would be faced with a major radioactive waste disposal prob Lem the report said. The report noted that the Energy re search and development administration is exploring alternatives for Long term Stor age including storage in deep geological Rock formations. It said Erda was seek ing seven Sites in widely separated parts of the country but was running into difficulties because of Public and political opposition. Erda Hopes for  facilities by 1985, and four More Between 1987 and 1991. The Gao said the timetable was Overly optimistic and that such an unrealistic schedule could further decrease the pub Lic s Confidence in the. Waste manage ment