University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 11, 1991
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Jule Denesha/Special to the KANSAN
Condom cents
Candyce Waitley, registered nurse and health educator at Watkins Memorial Health Center, displays a condom packaged in a decorative coin container. Waitley explained various forms of contraception and new trends in designer condom packaging. She stressed the importance of communication in relationships to help avoid the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Waitley spoke yesterday at the Wellness Center in Robinson Center.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Government auditors will look over research programs at a handful of universities to see if they have charged taxpayers for luxury items, such as antiques, and have nothing to do with their work.
Feds expand list of schools to undergo research audits
Federal officials Tuesday added nine universities to the list of those to be audited to see whether they have billed the government the same way
The additional institutions were announced on the same day that Harvard University said it would drop $50,000 in research billings to the government from its medical school. Those charges included $1,100 to help pay for a retirement reception for a dean
Auditors estimated that similar questionable expenses would amount to about $1,000, and the rest of the withdrawn charges would be the result of incorrect bookkeeping and other mistakes
charges on its own, before an audit begun last week by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
They are Rutgers University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Washing State College, and the University of Southern California and the University of Pittsburgh.
Harvard said it found the over
Investigators from the Department of Health and Human Services have begun reviews at two of the nine schools, Duke University and Emory University, said Judy Holtz, a representative for the department's staff.
Last week, the department said audits had begun at Yale University, the university of Pennsylvania, the University and Dartmouth College.
part of a beefed up plan by the HIS inspector general's office to assure that schools are not charging the government inappropriately for their overhead costs associated with federally financed projects.
Seven other schools have been notified that their audits would begin over the next two to three weeks, she said.
The schools were selected because they were among the largest recipients of federal grants, Inspector General Richard Kusserow has said. Some were selected because they charge higher than-average overhead rates, while some already had paid for them. The schools selected because investigators wanted a geographical cross section of schools, he said.
About 20 schools may be audited as
In Stanford's case, the university billed the government for expenses related to a $1,200 antique commode. a $10,000 set of donated silverware and a university-owned shopping center. A General Accounting Office auditors.
University officials withdrew about $700,000 in billings for most of the questionable expenses.
Peruvian inmates take meals over freedom
The Associated Press
Life behind bars in a Peruvian jail is tough, but freedom, apparently, is even worse.
ment official said yesterday
After an earthquake toppled the walls of their jungle prison April 4, TM inmates at the San Cristobal penitentiary were taken into custody where they were fed, a government.
"The prisoners themselves are going to rebuild the walls," said Miriam Solano, representative for the National Penitentiary Institute.
The quake that hit the prison in Moyobamba, 400 miles north of Lima, measured 6.2 on the Richter scale. It was one of three quakes in
the area over the past week that left 38 people dead and thousands homeless.
Solano said the inmates include leftist guerrillas and common criminals. The prison has no electricity or running water, and prisoners fetch water from a nearby river, the Lima daily El Comercio reported.
New results cause EPA to examine dioxin risk
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday that it would review the risks of dioxin, long considered one of the most toxic substances, partly because of new studies that suggest small amounts are less dangerous to humans than previously thought.
Dioxin, an unwanted byproduct of certain chemical reactions, has contaminated some weed and insect killers, including the herbicide Agent Orange used extensively in Vietnam. It also is produced in tiny amounts by most paper mills that use chlorine bleaches.
Dioxin appears to be the most powerful cancer-causing agent ever tested in lab rodents. The latest studies have suggested that exposure to small amounts of dioxin may not be associated with a substantial cancer risk in humans, but large amounts might be.
Red Cavayne, president of the American Paper Institute, the principal trade association of the paper industry, said pulp and paper products reeled current dosimeters standards for a new type of evolving science that has come out."
But Robert Adler, a senior staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said his group had pressed for a reassessment of the risks because it thought the EPA had disregarded丁丵's toll on ecosystems and had underestimated human dxposure. For example, Adler stressed that statistics for how much fish the average U.S. citizen consumes.
"We applaud the EPA for undertaking what I sure will be a rigorous review." Cavaney said.
"We don't want to see any presumption that this review will weaken dioxin standards, when there is considerable evidence that the standards are too weak." Adler said. In a letter directing Erich Bretthauer, assistant administrator for research and development, to lead the new, year-long dioxin study, EPA Administrator William Reilly said the agency had to be careful not to prejudge the results.
Dioxin accumulates in the bodies of fish swimming in rivers and lakes that may have extremely small concentrations of the chemical.
"There has been much speculation about the effect of these new developments on our revised dosin risk assessment," Rely said. "Some have suggested a new level of concern. Others may result in estimates of increased risk."
In a related but separate action, Reilly also asked a group of senior agency managers to consider what the reassessment might mean for current regulations involving dioxin, cleanup, hazardous waste sites, discharge permits under the Clean Water Act and enforcement cases.
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