Page 8 University Daily Kansan, January 22, 1981
Computer center a model energy-saver
By ALVIN REID Staff Reporter
Students aren't the only ones consuming alcohol this winter. So is the Computer Services Facility.
Five 20-ton air conditioners in the computer room heat an alcohol solution called ethylene glycol. The solution is piped into the building's duct work when heat is needed. In a few cases, the duct works outside dry coolers. If the air conditioning units fail there is an auxiliary heating system.
"This is a very energy-efficient building, as none of the heat generation systems in Jerry Johnson, director of information systems, said yesterday.
"Of the buildings constructed on campus in the last five years this is the most energy-efficient."
Besides its unique heating system, the facility has other energy saving characteristics.
The building is divided into eight-
hour and 24-hour occupancy zones. Heating and cooling is automatically shut off at 5 p.m. in the eight-hour zone and service zones are constantly serviced.
"Our zone system eliminates the threat of heating areas that are unoccupied," Magnuson said. "One of the biggest wastes of energy in any building is heating rooms with no one in them."
The facility itself has added room and sidewall insulation.
The building also conserves energy by using fluorescent lighting. Light fixtures adjacent to windows can reduce the amount of lightッチches to save energy during the day.
Several universities have expressed interest in the design of the facility, according to Magnuson. He said representatives of Rice University would also visit the University today to survey the computer building design. Rice is interested in building a similar computer facility.
Jerry Magnuson, Director of Information Systems, reveals the air conditioning units in the computer room to the cealating heat system of the Academic Computer Services Facility which help make the facility energy efficient. The floors of the building are raised off the floor bases to allow room for wires and pipes.
Nominations for the Office of Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, will close on January 23, 1981. We solicite nominations, especially from the students and faculty of the University.
Nominations should be forwarded to John S. Brushwood, Chairman, Academic Affairs Search Committee in care of Jeannette A. Johnson, Office of the Executive Vice-Chancellor, 231 Strong Hall.
A complete position description can also be obtained at the above address.
John S. Brushwood for the Search Committee.
Officials meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 22 at 7:00 p.m.
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FDA to scrutinize caffeine
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Emily Coke cans surround the desk. The student in nervous, anxious and has a migraine headache. Instead of studying more, he takes two aspirin and
Staff Reporter
Gateway to a great way of life
He has just taken the caffeine equivalent of two cans of cola. Many headache remedies contain caffeine.
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed regulations requiring studies on the safety of caffeine and the safety of caffeine and sale of caffeine-free colas.
The proposal also would remove caffeine from the FDA's list of substances generally recognized as safe, and instead use fluoride until safety studies were completed.
Caffeine colas are still going to be sold, Bill Grigg, an FDA official in Maryland said.
"One of our concerns is labeling the coa products," he said. "In some colas, caffeine is a natural ingredient, but in others it is added."
One proposed regulation would make use of caffeine as an added ingredient in soft drinks and foods conditional on the consumption, heading of research on caffeine's effects.
Most people know there is cafeine in coffee or tea, especially since actor Robert Young has been advising his friends on a television commercial to
What consumers may not realize is that caffee is used in cold and headache remedies and in some frozen dairy products, gelatins and puddings.
The amount of caffeine varies, depending upon the product, brand or how it is prepared. For example, percolated coffee has 39 to 168 milligrams of caffeine in a five-ounce cup, according to FDA figures. Instant coffee has 29 to 117 milligrams of caffeine.
use a decaffeinated coffee.
Even decaffeinated coffee will give the drinker a mild dose of the drug with two to five milligrams.
Tea has eight to 91 milligrams, with 27 as the median, and cola soft drinks have about 65 milligrams of caffeine.
The use of caffeine may not start with the small child slipping his Dr. Pepper, but before he is born.Caffeine enters the body through the gastrointestinal and crosses the placenta to the fetus.
In September 1980, the FDA warned pregnant women to watch their consumption of foods and drugs containing caffeine.
The department's tests showed caffeine use could cause birth defects in rat fetuses whose mothers were fed caffeine equivalent to a human being's consumption of 12 to 24 cups of strong coffee.
Even at a low dosage level, about two cups a day, bone abnormalities occurred.
WHAT'S GOING ON IN KANSAS NURSING HOMES?
"I took nine students in and we had nine different patients. The patients were living in urine or in faces; and there is no mattress on pads there, so it just run up all on these people, and it's in their hair and under their toenails and between their toes." (Official Transcript of the Hillary Tompa Administrative Hearing, January, 1980)
“Collectively, as well as individually, these problems were not outside the range of reasonable normality for a skilled nursing care operation." The 1980 certification which is currently under consideration should be issued without delay or谴责. *Hearing Health and Environment, January, 1980*
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