UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, January 11, 1995
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Pool water gets too hot for swimmers
By Kelle Tompkins
Kensan staff writer
One of Robinson Center's pools could have been the world's largest hot tub Sunday when 192,000 gallons of water heated up to 115 degrees.
A steam valve that failed to close caused the pool to continue heating, said Michael Miller, facilities operations assistant director of mechanical systems and utilities. The water temperature rose from its normal balmy 86 degrees to the sweaty 115 degrees sometime between Saturday and Sunday morning.
"The lifeguard called in that it was too hot," said George Lottes, amatics director at Robinson's Pool.
The heat could be felt just walking onto the pool deck, Lottes said. Typical problems such as cracked pipes and leaking filter springs have occurred before, but this was the first hot water worry.
Although the valve problem was not discovered until Sunday morning, temperatures on Saturday were 90 to 95 degrees. The problem was corrected Sunday morning soon after it was discovered, but the cool-down took longer.
The staff opened the windows and ran cold water into the pool, creating a fog across the water early Monday morning. The pool was closed to swimmers Sunday and Monday, but by Monday afternoon the temperature was down to 93 degrees. However, the room still felt like a sauna.
"Pool temperatures in the high 80s are therapeutic," said Janice Young, pool manager. "The high 90s is hot tub temperature. A person could get skin burns beyond that."
Temperatures were back to normal at the pool yesterday, Lottes said.
Shorter hours of daylight could cause depression
by Brian Vandervilet
Kansan staff writer
For many students, the winter season is filled with snowflakes, holidays and college basketball. But for others, winter is no wonderland at all.
The shorter hours of daylight can bring a
winter depression known by psychologists and psychiatrists as Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD.
"SAD is a kind of depression associated with a decrease in the hours of light a person receives," said Joyce Davidson, a psychologist at the KU Counseling and Psychological Services. "People in northern latitudes, such as in Kansas, can be affected."
The characteristics of a person suffering from the disorder may
depression because it remits in the spring
depression because it remits in the spring. Cromwell said a treatment for the disorder known as light therapy had been supported by recent studies. Light therapy is currently offered at the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, 336 Missouri St. According to the center's records, 35 people have received light therapy treatment.
include weight increase, depression, a craving for carbohydrates and a need for prolonged hours of sleep.
Rue Cromwell, professor of clinical psychology, said that much still was unknown about the disorder but that most studies indicated young adult women were the most susceptible to the disorder. The disorder can be distinguished from normal
Brent Menninger Mental psychiatrist
at the health center since early November.
"We use a bright fluorescent light that produces 10,000 lux," said Brent Meninger, a mental psychiatrist who works at the health center and who has prescribed light therapy. He compared that number to the sun, which produces about 100,000 lux.
For $20 a month,
patients are given a card
that allows them to
enter the light therapy
room. Patients sit about
18 inches from the light
for a period of 30 to 45 minutes a day. Light must hit the retinas, but it is not necessary for patients to stare at the light. Menninger said that patients usually read magazines during the treatment. The light source resembles a broad desk lamp. This lamp, however, produces an intense diffuse light without heat and costs about $200.
Tania Schmierer, Lansing freshman,
lived in Eagle River, Alaska, for four years. She said that she had friends there who suffered from the disorder because during the winter, the sun often would not rise until 10 a.m.
Her friends were given fluorescent lights to place above their beds. The lights relieved the symptoms of the disorder. Schmierer said that she had never experienced any problems with the disorder.
"I'm kind of a gloomy person," she said. "Iliked the darkness a lot be
Psychiatrist Brent Menninger recommends light therapy treatment for people suffering from winter depression.
ter than all the sunlight."
Menninger said that light therapy was theorized to work by controlling the amount of the hormone melatonin.
"One of the theories about why people get winter depression is that their melatonin never gets turned off," he said. "One of the things that turns off melatonin is bright light."
Menninger said that if patients could be affected by light therapy, improvement
usually occurred within three to five days.
I remain urged to give any. "It's a relative that people begin to feel better," he said. "They have more energy, and they feel like their old selves."
Menninger said that although the light therapy treatment was effective, the best treatment was actual sunlight. Patients usually end their treatment around March when daylight hours begin to increase and the winter season comes to an end.
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