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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 28, 1993
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What Freon does . . .
Freon, the main chemical used for refrigeration, contains chlorine, which is harmful to the ozone layer. Chlorine changes the ozone into oxygen, robbing the ozone of its ability to protect the earth from ultraviolet rays.
What UV radiation does
Causes skin cancer
Harms small sea creatures:
plankton, fish larvae, shrimp
Produces cataracts
Degrades synthetics used in buildings, paints, packaging
Suppresses immune system's efficiency
Reduces crop productivity
name: Kansan staff research / Knight-Ridder Tribune
Reduces crop productivity because many plants are sensitive to UV rays
New fountains to be CFC-free
Change required by Clean Air Act's ban on refrigerants
By Will Lewis Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The department of student housing has gotten a head start in complying with regulations set by the federal Clean Air Act.
To comply with the act, which will ban the production of refrigerants containing chlorofluorocarbons by the end of 1965, the department has been dealing with broken-down water fountains by either getting rid of them or by replacing them with old porcelain models.
The water fountains being replaced use Freon, a brand name for some CFCs, as the refrigerator in their water-cooling systems.
"We're kind of in the in-between area now with the new technology and the problematic thing of not wanting to replace the fountain that will be obsolete in a few years," said Ken Stoner, director of the student housing department. "We're just doing kind of a phase-out right now."
About 12 fountains in residence halls have been either replaced or removed
Michael Scott, communications program officer at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. said Fred caused global warming when it was not sealed correctly in refrigeration units.
"Freon is one name for the categories of chemicals that escape our atmosphere, go to the stratosphere and destroy the ozone layer," he said. "Freon is a contributor to that problem and that's why our continuous restrictions on refrigerants are designed to solve the problem or at least ameliorate it."
But even regulating the usage of these chemicals will not eliminate them, Scott said.
"We will not rid this nation, let alone this world, of the ozone depleters," he said.
The use of Freon could be reduced by using alternate systems, Scott said. Although it would not be as cold, he said, cool water could be pumped from underground water lines without using any kind of refrigerating device.
"Theoretically, it could be some thing as simple as that." he said.
Scott said the goal was not to completely eliminate Freon.
"It isn't really technically accurate to say we are trying to eliminate it," he said. "In fact, we are not eliminating it. What we are doing is restricting the use of it in a very stringent way. All people who deal with refrigerants are going to have to learn how to deal with these chemicals."
Stoner said the department of student housing had installed an air conditioning unit in the new Daisy Hill Dining Commons that did not release CFCs.
Some other residence halls have units that use refrigerants other than Freon, he said.
Presentation insults to educate
Speaker deceives audience on race to address 'isms'
By Tracl Carl Special to the Kansan
Dan Carver / KANSAN
At the beginning of last night's presentation, "Black White and Gray: A New Look at Color," at the Kansas Union, the tall, white man told the 40 people in the audience that their silence would mean they agreed with his statements.
And they didn't keep quiet for long. Not when the man, introduced as Robert Smith, told an African-American woman to keep her ideas on prejudice quiet because he already knew what "colored" people thought.
"Are you serious?" one man from the audience asked Smith.
Smith said he was serious. His goal, he said, was to "vividly demonstrate stereotyping and prejudice in action." And, fifteen minutes into the program, he had achieved that by insulting most of the audience with prejudiced, stereotypical remarks.
Their reactions: laughter, anger, disbelief.
And these reactions forced Smith to leave.
After he left, the audience divided into four groups to discuss what had happened.
They talked about how to deal with attitudes like those of Smith. And they came up with solutions like education, confrontation and
Theodore Paynter explains how to overcome stereotypical attitudes. Paynter delivered a speech titled "Black, White and Gray; A New Look at Color" to about 40 people last night at the Kansas Union. reactions that modeled appropriate how we all lose from the 'isms," to get people to act.
Then Smith walked back in. But this time he explained that despite his pale skin, he was of African-American decent and that his name was not Robert Smith, but the Theodore Paynther.
The first half of the speech and the group discussions had been an exercise in managing diversity and working with personal prejudice, he said.
"By pushing all the buttons here today, hopefully, I demonstrated
how we all lose from the "isms," Paynter said, referring to concepts like sexism and racism.
Payanther, a former associate professor at Kent University, now conducts seminars for businesses, universities and government agencies on human relations and, he said, identifying what "most of us don't know that we don't know."
to get people to understand that there is a problem that needs to be worked on. 'Pammy said to
Paynter said he started working against prejudice when his family, which is African American, was confronted with bigotry.
"I wasn't role playing. I was role taking," he said, referring to his attitudes at the beginning of his presentation. "That means those stereotypes aren't mine, but those are stereotypes I grew up with."
"The most difficult problem I deal with today and I dealt with in 1968 is
Daughters to join work force for a day
By James J. Reece Kansan staff writer
Across the nation today, girls ages 1 to 15, will be joining the work force. But it's no relapse to an era before child labor laws. Instead, today is the first "Take Our Daughters to Work Day," the brainchild of the Ms. Foundation for Women of New York City.
The nationwide program promotes parents or adult friends taking daughters to work to boost the children's interest in professions, said Elliot Thomson, assistant to the producer of the event.
"All you have to do is turn on the television," Thomson said. "You name it, it will be everywhere."
He said the event was a national campaign to build young women's self-esteem by exposing them to a wide variety of career opportunities. The idea was conceived by Ms. Foundation president Marie Wilson, and vice-president Nell Merlino.
Thomson said the idea was born last year, but interest in the campaign kicked in two months ago, and the foundation has been receiving about 500 calls a day about the event since then.
"Between one-half million and one million have been projected as participating," Thomson said. "But we suspect it may be a lot more."
thought taking young girls to preview jobs would be a good way to increase their self-esteem.
Sandra Albrecht, director of the KU women's studies program, said she
She said a 1900 survey by the American Association of University Women showed that self-esteem of children of both sexes was about the same until the age of 12, when boys moved ahead of girls. The survey asked children aged 9 to 12 personal questions about their self esteem, such as whether they liked themselves or wanted to be someone else.
Albrecht said the survey correlated the difference in self-esteem levels to the different treatment children of each sex received from their teachers.
"The survey shows little girls aren't being shown the same attention and are really being short-changed." Albrecht said.
Albrecht said the special day would give girls a chance to see a work environment they may not otherwise aspire to see.
Jennette Johnson, assistant to the executive vice chancellor, said the opportunity for KU faculty and staff members to bring their daughters to work was at the discretion of each department.
"It's a good idea," Johnson said. "And, insofar as it's appropriate in an individual situation, it should be encouraged."
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