The Mail-Journal, Volume 19, Number 41, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 October 1982 — Page 5

Letters to the editor

In defense of Yale

(EDITOR'S NOTE. W our romorki on Yolo University of Now Hoven. Conn., written os port of o New England tour treatise, hod no other purpoto. It did serve to stir a mild "wroth" from former Wowosee High School football star ond groduato Mark Roitf. well remembered hero Mark Is now coaching ot Yolo. We wont to moke room for his full defense of Yolo, whose itudonts ore colled Ell for a reason we don't fully understand, so we ore making on exception to our 400 word letters rule.) Dear Editor: While reading the “Cruxin around ’Cuse” section of the October 6. 1982, Mail-Journal. I felt that your remarks upon your visit to Yale University to be quite unfair. Having lived in the greater New Haven area, and coaching at Yale for one year now, 1 feel that you could use some facts about Yale University. I agree with you that New Haven appears to be a rundown city, but what can you expect from a city that is the oldest American municipality, being founded in 1638. The city is an architects dream, and as well is teeming with energy, especially on the Yale campus Yale was founded in 1701, and was moved to the site it now stands in 1716. Yale has grown substantially since those days, and now houses 5,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students These 5,000 undergraduates are not all the smartest and richest young adults They are a diverse group of individuals who have intelligence, but more importantly are highly motivated. Yale admits annual freshman classes of 1,350. with no

S’ i- -SUNDAY, 5-9 PM -i •Adult* S 3 2S • Children 10 4 Under 2<X Time* Age I PIZZA - SAUD

Wawasee Boat Co. “Th< Ar—*i M—t ComylMtu Service D<iHirtfwnt M • Eull IF inter Storage Eacililies — All In Our then Buildings! (Limited Space Left) • Expert Wood Re finishing And Restoration • Complete Outboard And Inboard Engine Rebuilding And Service • Complete Parts Department Eor OM(.. Mercruiser & Johnson Motors • Glass Hull Buffing And Retaping And Gelcoat Repair J T : ' - fal Call Wauxisee Boat Co. Eor Whatever hour ZE | * Boat May Seed W hile Il's “Out Os Service" Hr t This Winter. Have -I Like-New Boat Waiting fe*• Eor hoar Next Spring. -ifeM -■ -* v • * Wawasee Ml Boat Co. g i Vorfh Shore ' *•/ K/ LakeWmnere I ] f J| . £1 _/ $ Al Harklrm Harbor • ' } -J ' t‘

regard to financial ability to pay. Yale endowments and federal aid allow all students who meet Yale’s admissions standards to attend. Al’mni rolls are impressive at most schools, but on a national instant recognition, Yale leads the way. A few recognizable Yale alums are: Eli Whitney, inventor; Samuel Morse, inventor; Noah Webster, author; Sinclair Lewis, author James Fenimore Cooper, author; Meryl Streep, actress; Richard Dreyfus, actor; Calvin Hill, pro football; Frank Shorter, Olympic marathoner; Robert Orr, Governor of Indiana; William Howard Taft, President; Gerald Ford, president; John C. Calhoun, Vice-President; George Bush, Vice-President; Garry Trudeau, cartoonist; Henry Winkler, actor; Daniel Travanti, actor; Walter Camp, inventor of football; Don Schollander, Olympic swimmer and William Proxmire, Senator of Wisconsin These are but a few Yale graduates who have gone to be recognized not only in the United States, but around the world for excellence in their area of endeavor Yale has produced more Olympians than any other university in the United States, and 1984 will again be no exception. Before the National Football League players went on strike, three players from last year’s team were on rosters, and six total are still active. Last year the track team had two AllAmericans. the fencing and crew teams won national championships Many other athletic achievements were reached by Yale students, and not a one received the first penny of an athletic scholarship. Why’ There are no athletic

scholarships in the Ivy League. Athletes go through the same admissions procedure as all other applicants, and go to Yale paying what their family can afford to contribute. Believe me, there is no “dumb jock" syndrome at Yale University. In your editorial/article, you referred to the area of New Haven in which Yale is situated as "rundown" and "Downtown”, an impressive use of alliteration, but somewhat uninformmed. The architecture of New Haven is at the same time beautiful and diverse, as diverse as the times and the people who built it. Urban architecture by its nature, differs in form and function from suburban, and your much-lauded rural architecture, and it can not be compared under the same set of criteria. New Haven’s buildings range in style and time of origin from the early 18th century colonial churches on the Green and Yale’s own Connecticut Hall (one time dormitory of Nathan Hale) to the many modern structures designed by some of the world s greatest architects. Yales undergraduate housing, called the residential colleges, revives the gothic style of the 15th century, and are probably the structures you inaccurately referred to as the “law buildings.” To call New Haven “rundown” is to call a grand old lady "decrepid ” The residential college system

Supporting a 'Bad Cause'?

Dear Editor: Since most of us have second thoughts on poison in pills and what-not, owing to the recent Tylenol Scare. Halloween Tricksters quite likely in some areas will resort to soliciting funds for UNICEF instead of carrying their little bag for candy and fruit from house to house down yonder streets. We ought to explain to these

-J Indiana 'Brain Drain'

Dear Editor: In all of the heated arguments about jobs in this Senate campaign, only Congressman Floyd Fithian has been talking about the real answer to job loss — education Indiana continues to lose its best and brightest to other states —a “Brain Drain" — because we are not keeping our work force trained in areas which will attract new businesses. On the state level. Governor Orr somehow believes that qualified teachers will remain teaching for substandard salaries. On the national level.

Court news

COUNTY COURT The following area residents of Kosciusko County have had fines assessed and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court, Jim Jarrett, judge: Public intoxication — William Walter Feshchenko, Syracuse. $56

exists in only four universities in the world. Harvard, Yale are in the United States, and Oxford and Cambridge in England. At Yale, this system divides the undergraduate body randomly into twelve separate communities of 400-450 members, thus offering the advantages of two worlds: the resources of a major university as well as the intimacy of a small college environment. Although students mix freely from college to college, each one is a selfsufficient community. Along with having its own dining hall, library and social rooms, each college provides for the diversified interests of its residents. The wide range of extracurricular activities available include; a intramural sports program, drama socities, musical groups, and a social activity committee. An unaware passer-by could easily overlook the unique beauty of each of the twelve college courtyards tucked inside the ornate Gothic buildings. This is where many social interactions take place among the residents in a friendly. home-like setting It is necessary to spend time and be submerged in the midst of this Yale community to fully understand and appreciate what the residential system as well as all of Yale has to offer. Sincerely, Mark Reiff Wawasee High School, 1974

innocent youngsters that this United Nations Fund too often is given to Communists and revolutionists. This has been proven true in so many instances. Let’s be very careful to whom we give! We must not bolster up bad causes! All too often that's the case. Clayton Mock 712 N. Huntington St. Syracuse

Senator Lugar and his Republican colleagues have ignored the need for student loans and vocational education. How else do these officials think we are going to get jobs in a high technology economy? Indiana and the United States are going to be places where full employment is a dream of the past unless we begin to realize that education means new business. Fithian is the only one who has that straight. Sincerely Rose Nifong Indianapolis

Illegal consumption — Steven Alan Keim, Syracuse, $Bl MARRIAGE LICENSES Hepler-Arnett Todd Willard Hepler, 23. r 5 Syracuse and Vickie Lynn Arnett. 22, r9box 195, Warsaw Lovendahl-Lawmaster David L. Lovendahl. 34, Randleman. N.C.. and Nancy M. Lawmaster, 23.1700 Jenny Lane. Warsaw

The Mail-Journal Employee Lloyd Coy Lk>yd Coy has worked for The Papers Incorporated for some 40 years, beginning back in 1942 when he and another youth helped “Mr. Baumgartner move into his building by hauling a scales down the street in a wagon ' While still in school, he began his tenure of employment At first he was clean-up boy, graduating to more detailed work as he grew older He entered the Air Force in 1951, returning to work in 1955 Like others in the shop at that time, he learned all the steps of the printing business. He was soon operating the linotype, developing photographs, makmg-up pages and running the press. Today he is in charge of the plant's commercial printing department Bom in Chicago. Lloyd moved with his family to Milford while an infant.

■I Touch T —h d i %?rI\JLL>IxJLI N I 413 South Huntingtcft 1457-47531 Syracuse I' For The Difference You'll Enjoy

A simple thermosiphoning solar water heater

The researchers at THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS recently found out that it’s entirely possible to build an effective solar water heater that doesn’t require a simple watt of electricity to get its liquid from one place to another. We’ve designed a collector that works quite well using the old theory of "what goes up must come down”! MOTHER’S water-heating setup circulates through the courtesy of an everyday physical phenomenon: Heated fluids rise because their lower density (in comparison to the same substances when they’re cooler) reduces the influence of the force of gravity per unit of volume. Hence, Circulation occurs when cold water in the system falls from the storage tank (which sits about two feet above the top of the collector) ... at the same time, water inside the suncatcher is heated and tends to rise . . . back toward the storage tank. The imbalance in densities (and therefore in gravitational attraction) forms a complete convective loop. Because the "pump” of the thermosiphon arrangement is the heat of the sun itself, the intensity of that radiation regulates the volume of flow through the pipes. In fact, when the sun stops, shining on the collector, the system is effectively shut off. Though the concept of thermosiphoning is elegantly simple, there are a few basic rules to follow when designing such a collector. First, the convective loop will work properly only if the bottom of the storage tank is at least a foot and a half above the top of the collector. This drop (called “head”) is necessary to build pressure in the system and to help prevent backflow at night. Furthermore, the connections to the storage tank need to be properly located in a convectiveloop solar hot water setup. The cold line from the storage tank to the collector should exit at the bottom of the tank, and the hot

Weather Wisdom El Axizia, Libya, holds If you’re a sun worthe world record for high shipper. Key West, temperature. The mer- Florida, beckons you. It cury hit 136°F on Sept, boasts the highest averZl3 1922. age annual temperature — in the U.S.-78.2 6 F. Si If you don’t like to ' shovel snow, stay away from the Paradise Ranger If you like rain. Station in Washington. Cherrapunji, India, is for According to Figgie Inyou. It holds the record ternational’s Therfor the most rainfall mometer Corporation of in. 12 months. . .1,042 America, 1,122 inches inches. fell in one season.

r J He and his wife, Marjorie, reside at Waubee I Lake and have two children. Stewart and Kim; I and one grandchild, Nathaniel. |

(») l X 4 X 41*. W/3-l/r RADIUS AT EACH ENO HOT WATER _COLD WATER INLET OUTLET X 7 I 1/I*-DIAMETER 5?" LONG HArtO COPPER TURES / XX, > 14) 1/F-TM/4* COPPER TEES r.ra.xJ \ \ (It)3/4*-DIAM|TER. « GLAZING \ / I HARO COPPER TWtS (TBHIO. B X 3/4* BRASS WOOD SCREWV / [ \ TMt 1/rx 41* X4R-PITWOOD ' / \ / \ IXEX4B* 3/4*BQLYiSOCTANURATE INSULATION. CUT TO FIT 'S-1/t*XS-1/{~ ABSORBER PLATES PAINTED BLACK

return must enter near the top. The cold line, however, shouldn’t be placed in such away that its effective head will be less than that of the hot water return. Because thermosiphon systems rely on (relatively) weak convective forces to provide their circulation, they need to be built with generously sized tubing to reduce pipe friction. Depending on the distance between the collector and the storage tank, then, the pipes should be at least %” in diameter, and 1" would be preferable. (All pipes must be thoroughly and 1 equally insulated.) In addition, the feed and return lines should be pitched evenly from the collector to the tank (without any significant dips that could catch air bubbles). Finally, if you’re going to construct a collector similar to the one in this article, either the unit should have its headers built in at a slight angle, or the entire collector must be titled (about 5* of rise toward the hot water outlet side should work out well). The box we constructed at MOTHER’S research center is 41” wide and 48" high. The collector frame is made from a half-sheet of Mi” CDX plywood . . . a half-sheet of %’’ polyisocyanurate insulation . . . a 2x4xß’ cut in two. with the ends of each piece trimmed to a 34” radius and 4” holes drilled on SX”

Wed., October 27,1982 —THE MAIL-JOURNAL

centers down its length ... a 4-foot-square piece of fiberglassreinforced .plastic glazing ... a Ix2xß’ to be divided into side pieces to which the glazing can be screwed . . . foil tape . . . and miscellaneous screws. We plumbed the unit with seven 52" lengths of 4” copper tubing, and connected those tubes to 52”long 4” headers. To demonstrate the use of conventional plumbing fittings in collector building,, we cut the 4” pipes into approximately 5” sections and sweated the array together, using 4” to 4” copper tees. However, for those folks who have access to a drill press and V-blocks, a more economical approach would be to bore holes in the headers to accommodate the 4” tubes, and then solder the full-length tubes together . . . rather than to purchase 14 tees. Either 54”x54” sheets of 0.010"-thick copper (about 12 square feet altogether) ... or, doubled-up like-sized sections of 0.010”-thick aluminum printing plates, for a total of about 24 square feet) can be used for heatabsorber plates. In either case.

Re-Elect Sheriff Rovenstine Please Vote ■ Nov. 2 For f DEDICATION I SERVICE I COOPERATION * EXPERIENCE " X? I*4 1 I JUk For Tour Vote Paid For By Rovvutui* For Shentt. Doug Hotter TroMurot, 1823 RoMmoat. Wanaw Vote November 2nd —I 1 V J MARY FRY SUE ANN JUDY PRADO 4 Years MITCHELL UYaars Experience 6'4 Years Experience Experience In Order To Continue To Serve You We Need Your Support RE-ELECT - DICK MITCHELL Tippecanoe Township Trustee/Assessor Paid Far Dy Che* MHchaU. «. 1 Warsaw. Ind 44580

STOCK UP NOW FOR 1983 25% « REFILL LEDGER SHEETS FOR POST BINDERS. SHEET SIZES AVAILABLE (Some Are By Boorum And Pease) 5-2 10-24 647 40 10-6 < 15-20 648-40 10 8 30-14 682-40 10-10 30 20 883-13 10-10A G-10-20 N2D 10-16 G-30-10 Buy By The Sheet Or By Tbt Box White Supply List*! LAKELAND OFFICE SUPPLY 103 E. Main Phone 457-3666

the plates should have grooves pressed into them (using the fin press described in free Reprint No. 1101 . . . see ordering information below), but the copper is sweated to the 4” tubes, while the aluminum sheets are sandwiched around them and then simply stapled together. The simpler, less expensive aluminum sandwich system (used printing plates are frequently available free from offset printers) performs almost as well as does the most costly, more difficult-to-construct, soldered-copper setup. In fact, the unit equipped with printing plates produces a temperature rise that’s within a degree of the increase accomplished by the more conventional collector! For FREE additional information on solar water heaters and on THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine, send your name and address and ask for Reprint No. 1611: “A Portable Solar Water Heater”. Mail to Doing MORE ... With LESS!, P.O. Box 70, Hendersonville, N.C. 28791. or in care of this paper. Copyright TW2 THE AAOTHER EARTH NEWS. Inc.

5