Nicholls State University - La Pirogue Yearbook (Thibodaux, LA)

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?igi?i 6 Electrical workers spent three days Cand nightsy to track down the cause of the power failure and fix it. After, it was decided to replace the cable. ' Newton Foote, building and mainte- nance supervisor, contacted the Univer- sal Electric Co. to fix the problem. Workers had to search every manhole on campus to find the blown cable. One point brought out was the power went out one day before the firm renting out refrigeratorsiwould have distributed them. Had the failure come the next day, several hundred stocked refrigerators would have been lost. The academic departments in Talbot Theater were also brought to a standstill. The art department was rushed when the power was restored, trying to meet the deadline of a National Ceramics The source of the off: the Thibodaux Power 81 Light generator system. The decision will involve the city, its workers, Louisiana Power 81 Light, and the silent sufferer: the utility payer. gulf up i l I . . Z T l N. 1 Council art show. ' Theelectric kilns were not working. Pat Hardesty, speech department head, had to delay scheduling speech therapy clinics. The psychology department was brought to a freeze because its offices contained no windows. By Saturday all power was restored and life .on campus returned to a some- what normal pace. Although the failure was not related to the municipal power plant, attention at the same time was being focused on the plant by the city and Louisiana Power 8 Light. LP8tL, the utility monopoly supplying power to the areas outside of the Thibo- daux city limits, offered to buy the plant. High fuel adjustment costs and rising costs of maintaining the plant made many supporters for the sale. Although critics said after the sale the city would be at the mercy of LP8tL rais- ing its rates, proponents claimed even an ' increase would be offset by the savings given the people of Thibodaux. While LP8tL stated it would raise its rates in the future, to offset building costs, no proposal was filed with the Pub- lic Service Commission, the body respon- sible for approving such an increase. One campus supporter had been Uni- versity President'Vernon Galliano, who estimated Nicholls would save S200,000 a year in utility bills. The Thibodaux City Council passed a motion putting the sale proposal before the public for a vote on August 14. If the sale was approved, no one knows if rates will stay the same or go up or down. , Looking like intertwined snakes or a desert tree, it's only the spliced cables at the source of the trouble, Circuit C the power failure. X19 l Not candle light, but stringed light bulbs had to be negotiated by George Wells of New Orleans as he made it through the dim line. Quick-cooked food replaced plan- ned meals for dorm students as light bulbs were strung for night meals. 'Q O 3 ' X 2 t, l Nb .3 A ts: 2, N ,- . - . A, 'AA 'Q V-3. Psa-has 'E i.. S1395- T' -. x i. Y. I 5. ,vw , , . wi -L+ -V- I . 1,-y,.--f r , '1 Cuenca Y V ,ff . 111 ' J' - . Fi? 11 I 3 I . .lgialiljl l j'..3iFiL?vv?, Wanna Shed Some Light, Plea J , W ,

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,rx Eid' 6655 iii? QE EQ 5 E EQ e 5 g ., T ., 'mtl . . 3+ ll g l S , F5 55 . V, 3 t 11 1 'fa 1 .gf . .,, -1 r Af , A by Brent Madere and Kevin Fambrough lt's been the butt of jokes and part of residing at Nicholls or the city of Thibo- daux, Power failures, Depending on whose opinion someone listens to, there are many causes for keeping a good supply of candles or flashlight batteries handy A generator system being overworked, poor-service, competition with the larger Louisiana Power 8 Light or the rubber in 'broke','ghave been the serious and .mo-recomical answers to the lack ot elec- 1fg'g'i ty:,,..Mi . . ,V .1 1 . Q il or dorms. It took three days to restore power, and the failure was not the fault of Thibodaux Power St Light. ' A cable on the C circuit supplying power to North and South Babington and Ellender dorms, Talbot Theater, Polk Library and the Acadia Hall cafeteria was the cause. Workers managed to restore power 4 p.m. Tuesday, but trouble developed again Wednesday leaving the whole cam- pus without power. Within 15 minutes workers restored power for all buildings except those on the C circuit. , if QQ -1-Q-1 1 4 V1-1? ' 'jf itii SOQe'W,hen the power-went out on the J , Monda afternoon x ' Even with the power out, windows allowed enough 1 A ,I - ,A ,OT!JaD U?ry-23' 'T was light for students to continue using Polk Library. 555 I m . V taken ,lTfTSTFldBJ by S't'lLldGVI1S'li'l Cla.SSirOOrTiS Instructors managed to give out assignments. jp 3.0-1 WannaiS'hed Some Light, Please? 5 X-,,,..s,, 3.x hp, ., .1 .. N It ' IAQ-'k '-L.'xi4 : if 3 If fr'-', I i, , -' 1 , , S'Wv Nm.-.tml H9 -iv. I K it , 4 . :avi W- 'rail' ii.l'1r-'1- ,w,,i,',s V-.ii 'V , ' T T. E'

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