University Daily Kansan, November 1. 1983
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Cornfield site retains appeal for mall plans
By the Kansan StaIt
Plans for a "cornfield shopping mall" in Lawrence are still on the drawer board and haven't been discarded, the discussion has not solved in the discussions said yesterday.
Joanne Grisham, part owner of property along Kansas Highway 59 that be considered as the building site, said she and her were still interested in the property.
Gritsham, Shawnee, and her brother, Richard Armstrong, Baldwin, own 61 acres south of Armstrong Road where developers want to build the mall.
Grisham said that several developers had been in contact with her recently and were interested in buying the land. She was also the one who said that plans were all tentative.
But if those plans materialize, she said, the mall would be large enough to draw people living between Kansas City and Topeka.
The mall is not a new idea, she said. Developers have been interested in the land for several years, and two years ago the project was proposed to the Lawrence City Commission. A Cleveland developer — Jacobs, Vissonsi, Jacobs — asked the commission to rezone the property.
"It would be a major mall situation," Grisham said. "Those are the kind of people we have been talking to."
However, the plans were stalled in March when the commission refused to change the zoning to permit commercial use.
Plans for a possible mall along Highway 59 are of interest to city officials because of the downtown redevelopment issue, she said.
ON CAMPUS
JERRY BAILEY, assistant dean in the School of Education, will answer questions on the five-year program at 7 p.m. in 3 Bailey Hall.
"EDUCATION IN JAPAN," a speech by Hidetoshi.Ki, professor of Gakushu University in Tokyo, and Mr. Yamaguchi, a Council Room of the Kansas Union.
TODAY
ROBERT TOMASEK, professor of political science, will speak on "Deterioration of Relations between Costa Rica and the Sandinsistas and the impact of the United States" at therm. in the Council Room of the Union.
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN Fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 1116 Indiana St.
CAMPUS CRUSADE for Christ will meet at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
KU SWORD and Shield will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
TAU SIGMA Dance Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Dance Studio 242 in Robinson Center.
CHAMPIONS! will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
THE JAYHAWK Singers will present 'A Salute to American Music' at 7:30 p.m. in Hashinger Hall Theatre.
ECKANKER WILL discuss "The Most Ancient Religious Teaching" at 7:30 p.m. in the Governors Room of the Union.
"MARKETING YOURSELF," a workshop by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, will be held on Thursday at the Regionalist Room of the Union.
PRE-PHYSICAL Therapy Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Watkins hall with the Wilson will discuss academic requirements in physical therapy.
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By LAURE JONES Staff Reporter
Cadaver fumes force students to use masks in lab
ing assistant for one of the labs. "I've been involved at various governance levels of the University, and I have never been so impressed with the cooperation and support we have received."
"I don't like the situation at all. It is annoying," said Teresa Watkins. Topeka junior, "it is hard to breathe with an on and they are uncomfortable.
Although the masks were given to students free this semester, Watkins is concerned that future students might have to pay for the masks.
LAST FALL, THE Med Center increased the potency of its embalming fluid to kill mold that has been present in the room. The cadavers during the last two years.
"The fumes make my eyes water and my throat burn. After I leave the lab, I vomit."
"The course is already so expensive as it is," she said. "I've paid $20 for two atlasses, $11 for a dissection kit and $15 for the mask he could cost an additional $20."
Students seen walking around campus lately with gas masks in hands are not preparing for an air pollution alert because the campus is going to a human anatomy lab instead.
Now the Med Center might be forced to resume the old, weaker preservation method because the fall shipment of cadavers for anatomy classes at Snow Hall contains levels of chemicals that are known to irritate the skin, sore throats and headaches.
Cadavers for anatomy classes are shipped from the university of Kansas to various U.S. locations.
In the past few weeks, some students and teachers' assistants in Anatomy 101 have resorted to wearing half-mask respirators to filter out chemical fluids produced by embalming fluids that are used to preserve cadavers.
The embalming fluid contains three times more formaldehyde and phenol than it has in years past. Doris Belote, a professor of biological sciences, said last week.
"We'll just have to return to the old method of embalming and see what happens." Belote said. "You get rid of the problem and you have another one."
REACTION AMONG STUDENTS who work in the lab is varied.
the reported health symptoms." Porter said, "I could not determine the eight-hour, time-weighted average exposure in the lab."
"Students appreciate the possible danger and the actions the University is taking," said Rebecca Pyles, a teach
In the meantime, the department is working with Facilities Operations to improve the ventilation system in the lab. A complete remodeling is not necessary, because the division of biological sciences is scheduled to move in July 1985.
Although students and TAs are not under any apparent danger, the division of biological sciences decided that it needed to respond to safety concerns. Experts were notified to analyze lab air concentration samples at Snow Hall, said Gunther Schlagen, chairman of the division of biological sciences.
INSUFFICIENT DATA makes the evaluation "like applying apples to oneself."
IN ANALYZING CHEMICAL concentrations in 605 Snow Hall, Randy
LAURA BURNS, Prairie Village junior, said that the fumes from the embalming fluids were not irritating her in the lab.
'Until more is known about the long-term effects of exposure to both low and high concentrations of formaldehyde, I would advise any facility to work in as low concentrations as possible," he said.
Michael Parhomek, environmental engineer for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka, conducted additional analyses. The University expects to receive his report in the next two weeks.
"I have not ever worn the mask," she
said. "I can't say if they are
uncomfortable.
'The fumes make my eyes water and my throat burn. After I leave the lab, my nose runs for an hour afterwards.'
— Teresa Watkins,
Topeka junior
"Though I did find a measurable content in the atmosphere that causes
Porter said his analysis was incomplete because the recommended allowable exposure by OSHA is calculated over an eight-hour working day. A grab sample measures just one particular sample for a 15-minute exposure, which then must be averaged over an eight-hour day.
Porter, industrial hygienist and assistant director of safety at the Med Center, use a MiraTan-1A portable gas air conditioner to obtain samples of air volumes.
The "grab-analyzer" isolates the sample of air, and the contents are then compared to standards set by the safety and Health Administration.
"I might expect some problems when we open the abdominal region. You can expect some problems anytime you go in." The answer is going to be much stronger."
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