The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, December 2, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 68 USPS 650-640
BEN RIOT EDIKansen stal
An old bathhouses was one of the items found in Potter Lake after Facilities Operations' workers drained eight feet of water from the lake last weekend. Thomas Anderson, director of Facilities Operations, said yesterday that the water was siphoned into a drainage sewer so a rock wall lining part of the lake could be repaired. Other items found in the lake included a pay telephone, a parking meter, a bicycle and a manhole cover. This is the first time the lake has been drained since 1958.
IBM dismisses copier chemical hazard
By DALE WETZEL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The IBM Copi II, a machine widely used on the KU campus, uses a chemical that recently has been discovered to cause genetic mutations in bacteria and rotent cells.
However, the levels of possible human exposure to the chemical, trinitrofluorone (TNF), are so small that they are "hygienically insignificant," according to E.L. Fairfield, IBM director of information at IBM headquarters in Armony, N.Y.
IBM reported last April that it had discovered the possibility of TNF as a mutagen. The environmental Protection Agency since has asked IBM to provide more data on the chemical, and the company is complying with the request, Fairfield said.
GOVERNMENT STUDIES DATING back to 1982 have established TNF as a suspect carcinogen, a possibility that still concerns the EPA, Fairfield University, and the FDA, exclusive proof of carcinogenic properties in TNF.
"The issue here is whether the users of the product containing the chemical are exposed to hazardous levels of that chemical." he said. "If you wear the copier, I don't believe there's any danger."
The coin-operated Copier IIs can be found in several campus buildings, including Watson Library and Green, Learned and Wescoe halls. According to Gene Puckett, KU purchasing
director, the machines are provided to the University on the terms of the state copier contract.
There are two places in the Copier II where TNF can be found. Approximately 45 grams are embedded in the copier photoconductor, a sheet of photo-sensitive material in the machine. Much smaller amounts also get into the machine's used toner reservoir. Puckett said.
According to the Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, published by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, TNF is highly toxic, rating 5 on a toxicity scale of 6. It takes only 47 milligrams of TNF to kill an average person.
However, there is almost no possibility that a attacker could have a fatal amount of TNF and arriving to Failed.
Only IBM maintenance employees normally come in contact with the photoconductor, Fairfield said, and they wear gloves for protection. The useon器 is put in a sealed plastic bag for disposal, and Fairfield said he treats civicmen wore gloves for handling that as well.
Of the 45 grams of TNF in the photoconductor, 99.7 percent of it remains in the photoconductor throughout the photoconductor's life, Fairfield said.
"The virgin toner, the toner that goes into the machine originally, contains no TNF and does not pose a danger to library employees handling it." he said.
makes the image on the paper. It is roughly comparable to pen ink."
SMALL AMOUNTS of TNF also have been found in the air surrounding the copier and on the copies themselves. Approximately fourteen-thousand TNF units that are TNF is fused onto a page by the copying process.
The toner is the substance that actually
"The TNF won't smear on the copies like newprint type. "Fairfield said. "You'd literally run into an oldsnap."
The amount of TNF in the air around the copier is approximately one-billionth of an ounce per cubic yard, Fairfield said. It is such a small amount that it can be measured by even the most advanced methods.
IBM has continued to test the chemical since the Copier II was introduced in 1970.
"We keep in close touch with the EPA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health," Fairfield said.
THERE HAVE been no employee complaints about TNF TO OSHA's area office in Wichita, according to Lionel Olson, senior OSHA industrial hygienist.
we "deal usually in gross exposures, nothing like them," we're talking with the NTN. "Oil exposure."
A sense of perspective on these matters is necessary. Fairfield said.
Past not remembered Mexican novelist says
"The chemical is hazardous, but human beings are just not exposed to it in significant enough amounts for it to harm anyone in any way," he said.
By VANESSA HERRON Staff Reporter
In the 1980s, Western nations should rediscover their pasts and learn to tolerate other cultures, Carlos Fuentes, a well-known Mexican novelist, said last night.
"We shall either know each other or destroy
each other," he said.
Fuentes, a diplomat and essayist who has written 10 novels, said Western society lost its ability to learn from the past as it rushed in the pursuit of technology and happiness.
FUENTES' LECTURE, the second in which Fuentes taught that a contained many references to philosophers and
He spoke in Woodruff Auditorium to an audience of about 300 people, mostly professors and researchers.
Fuentes, a native of Mexico, said that as European, Western and communist powers conquered Third World nations, they also debased themselves.
That debasement is illustrated in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," he said.
Robinson Cruse, the first capitalist hero, was marooned on a god-forsaken island in the Third World.
TO SURVIVE, Crusoe conquered the island and Friday, a native he found there. In the process, Crusoe enslaved Friday and forced his culture on him, Fuentes said.
"In the end, the novel showed that the only thing that is more important than being a slave is freedom."
In today's world, conquering nations is much like Cruise conquering Friday. Colonized people are assured that happiness and peace await them in the future, he said.
But for the conquered people, that future never comes. Fuentes said.
He recited an imaginary dialogue between a conquered roan and his conqueror.
"We will be happy in the future," the conqueror said.
brucer of us said
"All of us?" the native asked.
"No, first the white men, the property owners, will be free."
lave a sacerdote.
"Perhaps, the conqueror said. 'Maybe.'
THE DIALOGUE was imaginary, but Foenites said the conqueror's attitude was evident when the United States interfered with Chilean sovereignty. The French tried to oblige Eastern European countries.
influence Eastern Europe. He said, "When conquering a people, he said, major powers try to force their culture and their distorted conception of time on those people."
"For those people, the time of paradise was in the past," he said. "But after the Enlightenment (in Western philosophy), paradise was in the future."
"The West has been obsessed with future and with infinite perfectability. They call the past irrational and barbarous."
ITS ABILITY to forget the past has made the West successful, Fuentes said, but it also has made possible Soviet concentration camps and the bombing of Hiroshima.
The bright future that the philosophers of the era brought to the institution has arrived, Fiesente said, and happiness has arrived.
"We have seen the future, and it doesn't work." he said.
man can only progress if he ceases to admire
thee. The man says, "he said," and "if he
sees that the true glory of God"
Western countries still can progress, Fuentes said, but they must progress by accepting other cultures and by remembering and learning from their own pasts.
Excessive heat in Lewis Hall damages residents' property
Staff Reporter
By RAY FORMANEK
A malfunctioning heating system caused a heat wave that swept through Lewis Hall during Thanksgiving break wilting plants, melting candles and killing fish.
The malfunction occurred sometime between Tuesday night, when the hall closed for last week's vacation, and Sunday afternoon, when the building reopened to allow Joe Willmon, assistant housing director.
The blowers on the heaters have all been turned off, which has made the temperature bearable, according to Geri Lamer, Olathe junior and resident assistant at Lewis.
"The windows are all open Sunday," she said yesterday. "Today the windows are closed and all the lights are off."
IF SUMMER IS NOW WILL MON SAID he first learned of the problem yesterday morning from a student desk worker at the hall.
He said he arrived at the hall about 8:30 to work for an employee who had called in sick.
"When I arrived, the desk worker and other students started telling me about how hot their rooms were." Willimon said.
TRACY STOVER, a Valley Center freshman who lives down the hall from Jennings, said she lost all her plants and her bedspread ruined by wax.
"I had a candle inside a glass," she said. When I came back from vacation, it was all lit up.
"The thermostat in the aquarium was at 120 degrees. I came in, she said." All the fish were moving.
Stover said the heat had spoiled about $15
for dinner. He her refrigerator and curied
posters on her wall
Residents said their rooms were so hot that candle wax had melted and spilled onto counters
"The refrigerator was on, but everything in the freezer was melted," she said.
"It was like the Bahamas in here," Lauren Jennings, a hall resident, said. "Candle wax was all over the place, and my stereo is ruined," she said.
Jennings, Prairie Village freshman, said the heat had evaporated three inches of water from her aquarium and killed all her fish.
Willmon then he placed sheets of paper at the hall desk for residents who suffered damage to their computers.
Communication problem for transfer students
See HEAT page 5
By PAT WEEMS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Valarie Horton, Kansas City, Kan., senior,
came to KU last year thinking she would transfer
61 credit hours. But she soon found out that only
49 hours would count toward her KU degree.
Horton said her Kansas City City Kansas Community Justice counselor told her all her answers.
"One thing that neither my counselor nor my adviser told me was that I would have to take a music theory placement test," she said. "That later proved to be one part of my trouble."
"Maybe if they had told me when I graduated, I could have brushed up on my theory. But I didn't know I had to take the test until I received information about the enrollment information two weeks before I enrolled."
HORTON SAID that might not have happened
when the checker into KU$ transfer program
procedures.
"Most students assume the adviser knows everything. Maybe if my adviser or counselor had told me, I would have been prepared to lose some credit hours, my time and money," she added.
Horton also said she never saw KU's equivency, which could have saved her four long hours.
The placement test lost Horton eight music theory hours. She also lost four hours of music history, a course her adviser, Glenn Trent, had said she shouldn't have any trouble transferring.
She lost even more time when she was
sometimes in piano in inpoa to a freshman
after her music audition.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN community
colleges and the University is not the problem.
Transfer program communication is.
"The articulation is there, but the problem is the students to take advantage of what we offer," said Alton Davies, president of Kansas City Kansas Community Junior College.
"We work hard to get the information out to the students, but it is difficult because 99 percent of them are illiterate."
"Every time a new community college catalog comes out, the courses are re-evaluated and sheets are made up and preemptly sent out," said a graduate evaluator of the office of admissions and records.
"The transfer information is readily available to students," Walker said. "All they have to do is
ASK.
KCK and 25 other Kansas community colleges receive a sheet listing their courses and the KU equivalents every year.
Jen Walker, the KCK juice transfer counselor,
agreed with Davies.
Henley has found that problems sometimes arise when a student changes majors or decides to try for a double major and assumes the courses will transfer.
The only way the counseling office learns that a student is planning to transfer is when the student comes in and talks with a counselor, Walker said.
IF AN EQUIVALENCY sheet is not available at the school, then the student or an administrator can write KU and get one from the office of admissions and records.
Individual school sheets also are made up and sent to the schools, she said.
"If the student doesn't make the effort, the team will be planning to go to KU or anywhere else," Walker said.
The counseling office asks students with 40 or more hours about their graduation or transfer plans in October of each year.
"If the student doesn't come in, communication problems begin because the counselors have no way of knowing whether the students need help or questions answered," she
SEVERAL OFFICIALS from Kansas community colleges said there were sure to be communication lapses between counselors and some students, but all thought their programs adequately served the needs of transfer students.
Johnson County Community College has eight full-time counselors, and there is little reason for lack of communication between students and counselors. Norberg, JCCC articulation coordinator.
all JCCC counselors and department heads receive the equivalency sheets.
"Department heads are given the sheets so that when they change or revise courses, they are kept aware of what four-year schools are doing," she said.
They also have a section on transferring procedures in the school orientation booklet, a workshop on choosing a four-year school and weekly visits from area college counselors.
One student now attending KU said she had no problems transferring credit hours here.
"I liked going to my counselors, because they were so friendly and went on," said Kay Brenner. Lenga each took a photo.
ALLEN COUNTY Community Junior College in Iola and Coffeyville Community Junior College in Coffeyville have advising programs similar to KCK's.
The school's small enrollment helps counselors and advisers know each student's plans, said Hugh Haire, dean of students at Allen County Community Junior College.
"For the number of students we have, our advising program has been pretty effective for the
"There really is no communication lapse between students and the advisers, because in working with fewer than 20 kids, most of the time we need and if they will be transferring," Haire said.
Allen County's enrolment is 420 full-time students. About 40 faculty members advise.
"There are times when we have some dissatisfied students who come back from KU with grips about a class not transferring, but that rarely happens," he said.
Similar programs also are offered at KCK juco.
FOUR-YEAR SCHOOL representatives come to campus in the spring, so students have the chance to learn about transferring if they want it. The campus at Coffeville Community Junior College.
KCJ Juco also has a college day program for transfer students in the fall.
See COLLEGES page 5
"But again, students have to find out if, or take their biology 101 class they plan on taking will transfer."
Teachers advise the students during each adhere before the sheets are given to each adhere before.
Community college transfer students
See COLLEGEES page 5
"Often an adviser forgets his manual, but I have one and can usually be located during enrolment," Walker said. "Sheets for each student are printed up then because of the enormous cost."
Kansan positions now available
Completed applications for business and editorial staff positions on the spring 1981 Kansan are due at noon today in 105 Flint Hall.
Application forms are available in 105 Flint, at the Student Senate office in 105B of the Kansas Union and at the office of student affairs in 220 Strong Hall.
Weather
It will be mostly cloudy and unseasonably cold today, with a high only around 29, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be from the northwest at 15 mph and will shift to the southeast by this afternoon.
Cloudiness should continue through tonight, with a low of 24. Winds will be southerly at 10-15 mph.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and milder, with a high between 42 and 45.