European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 28, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 shivering but fascinated residents of towering Waves breaking on the medi Marseille France turn out to watch Terrane an coast. The Force behind the majesty of the mistral Breakers is what the French Call the mistral a cold dry Northern wind that sweeps across Southern France this time of the year every year. Campus germ project Amherst mass. A a Quaker group want Amherst to Challenge . Defense department funded anthrax research at the University of Massachusetts maintaining it could be used in germ War fare. We Are committed to eradicating the research from the Campus said John Bonifaz who Heads the Effort by the local chapter of the american friends service committee. Anthrax is an infectious disease contracted by wild and domesticated animals especially cattle and sheep. It is caused by a bacterium and can retransmitted to people. The Amherst town health Board has scheduled Public hearing thursday on the group s claim that the 23-year-old research project poses a health threat not Only to Amherst but the nation As a whole because of its possible military uses Sai Amherst health director Bettye Anderson Frederic. The chief scientist on the research project Curtisb. Thome has maintained that his work on the Basic Structure of the bacterium is aimed at finding vaccine for the disease. For the past nine years his work has been financed by Grants totalling about $ 1 million from the defense department under its biological defens research project said James Langley assistant vice Chancellor for University relations and development. Before that it was funded by the National institutes of health he said. Diana Stein a member of the health Board who has questioned the Board s involvement in the Dis Pute said that because the unclassified research i being openly published it could help All countries find an anthrax vaccine eventually rendering ineffective any biological weapons using the bacteria. The University which has been pressured by the Quaker group to dump the research had not commented on the Issue until late last week when Chancellor Joseph Duffey strongly defended Thome s work. As a Public institution we will respond to responsible questions or concerns but we do not in tend to modify policies in response to threats or demands Duffey said. As Long As the scope methods and results of research Are fully and freely disseminated we will protect the right of our faculty to conduct research of their own choosing. Unfortunately two very distinct issues have been presented As one concern by the american friends service committee Duffey said. The first the Issue of Public safety can be dealt with simply and straightforwardly. The anthrax research con ducted at the University poses no danger to the health or safety of the researcher the University Orthe local Community. Professor Thorne has con ducted this research for 23 years without a single incident or safety  Duffey said the second Issue of whether the University should conduct research supported by the defense department should be discussed on it sown merits and not in the context of an Effort to frighten people with unfounded allegations about threats to Public health and without imputing false motives to the University or professor  he said a variety of research including some very Basic scientific investigation is currently being funded by the defense department. Our policies in this area Are guided by action taken by the faculty Senate and the University s Board of trustees he said. Those policies do no prohibit members from the faculty from undertaking research so Long As the scope methods and re sults can be fully and freely disclosed. We intend to abide by and defend this  homeless project sending students to the streets Ila it film Olivir a \ \ a Ortii of it a a a  a to _ to. _ Dayton Ohio a a group of University students plans to get a first hand look at life through the eyes of the homeless spending a night on Cam pus streets and queuing up in soup Kitchen lines for bread and Broth. The program is the brainchild of Sis ter Nancy Bramlage coordinator of the University of Dayton s office of Justice peace and Community out reach. What we want to do is first of Al raise the awareness of students that there is the growing problem in the United states with the homeless an also give them a Little bit of an experience of what it must be like even Toa tiny extent to be homeless Bram Lage said. She said the program which i scheduled to begin thursday is also designed to encourage students to lobby for More affordable housing. Students in the program will been courage not to return to their houses or residence Halls for 24 hours and to sleep on the Campus Plaza. The next Day they will be expected to take their belongings with them to classes. Breakfast will consist of Coffee an stale bread. The lunch soup line will offer bread vegetable soup and water. The alternative to sleeping on the Plaza will be attendance at hourly prayer vigils in the Chapel All nigh Long she said. Bramlage said she came up with the idea after students showed a Strong in Terest in the hunger Issue. Enrolment at the Catholic univer sity is 6,500. I think the fact that families Are homeless is just a real serious problem for society she said. If we re going to allow that what s that going to do to the fabric of society William Faith director of the Ohio coalition for the homeless said methinks the cause is Noble but the Stu dents need to understand that they Are sleeping outside by Choice. It s not terribly different than win ter camping Faith said. People that Are out there on the streets Are out there because they have no other options and they have no other  they re doing it night after night after  about 140,000 ohioans took part i assistance programs for the homeless last year and in Columbus request for emergency shelters for families have quadrupled since 1987, Faith said