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The scaffolding platforms crashed to the ground at midafternoon Saturday as a storm whipped the area with wind that the National Weather Service said gusted to 58 mph. Broken glass still littered the streets around the 100-story Hancock building, the city's third-tallest building, which anchors the north end of the city's busy Michigan Avenue shopping district. He said he and dozens of Still-dangling sections of broken scaffolding suspended by cables from the top of the building had been secured on yesterday as crews worked to board up windows shattered as the platforms blew against the glass. The scaffolding was "swaying around like a cat toy," said Jerome Manansala, who works at a dell inside the Hancock building. "In recent months that's just been the spirit," he said. "There's a paranoia around, but along with the paranoia, there's a sense of responsibility." City building officials said they wanted to know whether the two scaffolding systems, which had been left in place almost halfway up the building, was properly secured at the time of the accident. A city ordinance requires scaffolding systems to be locked in position when not in use. The subcontractor operating the scaffolding for the maintenance project, Prime Scaffold of Bensonville, was investigating, president Kenneth Ringstad told the Sun-Times. One of the three women killed by the falling debris was Nanatta Cameron, 39, of Chicago, who was identified by her family, the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said yesterday. The names of the other two victims were not released. Eight people were injured. Labor disputes smolder on campus The Associated Press Columbia University teaching assistants vote this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers. Resident assistants at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have already agreed to unionize. At the University of Illinois, graduate employees plan to strike next month — their second walkout this school year. And Harvard janitors recently won a 16 percent raise, partly due to their alliance with students. Labor causes are heating up American campuses. While administrators say they are taking the trend in stride, they are also fighting organizing efforts. The latest developments include last week's vote at UMass, believed to be the first time an undergraduate group has formed a collective bargaining unit. The resident assistants, or RAs, act as supervisors and advisers in the dormitories and want a raise in their annual $5,000 compensation package. "We've never seen the rush to organize like we've seen in the last five years," said Jamie Horwitz of the American Federation of Teachers, which represents 125,000 college faculty and staff. He ticked off a dozen new bargaining units, from the University of Vermont to two-year Palomar College in California. "A lot of that has to do with full-time faculty seeing threats from the increasing use of part-time faculty, and part-time faculty saying 'I can't live on this wage,' or 'I want more job security.'" he said. On more than two dozen campuses, student activists are joining the national "living wage" movement to improve pay for workers who maintain their dorms, cook their food and guard their quadrangles. "You see this glaring divide between those who have, and those who don't have," said Ben Speight, a 20-year-old sophomore at Valdosta State University in Georgia. Study moderate drinking has health benefits The Associated Press CHICAGO — Women who have a few alcoholic drinks a week have an almost 15 percent lower chance of developing high blood pressure than teetotalers, new research shows. However, the study also found that consuming more than about 1 1/2 drinks daily increases the high blood pressure risk by 30 percent compared with nondrinkers. The increased risk was associated equally with wine, beer and hard liquor. The reduced risk among light drinkers appeared strongest with beer, though more research is needed to clarify whether the type of drink really makes a difference, said the authors, led by Dr. Ravi Thadhani of Harvard University Medical School. The findings are based on 70,891 people, ages 25 to 42, who participated in the Nurses' Health Study, which tracked thousands of female nurses for a variety of studies. Smaller studies have found similar findings in older women, and other studies have suggested that light or moderate drinking may reduce men's and women's risk of heart disease. But experts caution that drinking has been linked to other health risks in women, including breast cancer and birth defects. Exercise and reducing salt intake are other ways to control blood pressure, and Thadhani said women should be wary of interpreting the findings to conclude that it's a good idea to start drinking. "Whether a woman wants to initiate alcohol to reduce her risk" of high blood pressure "is certainly a personal decision," he said. The study is in today's issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. A Chicago-area cardiologist, Dr. Mary Ann Malloy, said the benefits linked with light drinking also may reflect a generally healthy lifestyle among people who choose to drink sensibly. The study also found that isolated binge drinking — downing more than 10 1/2 drinks over three or fewer days — did not increase the risk of high blood pressure. The National Institutes of Health funded the research. 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