Medical School Faces Possible Toxic Clean-Up
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... ~urin. ever. A : . Thurs., :· • Poitier : for his : FRIDAY, NoVEMBER a young . 'WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, WINSTON-SALEM, NQRTH CAROLINA 9, 1990 ngjobat : London. : Medical School Faces ·: 8 p.m. : .. , 8p.m.: ~ov.ll, · Possible Toxic Clean-up 1e Com- · : '( 10ropre- : . '..:. ograpbi" : Bill Glance, the director of publ\c infonnation af:!;l~w lrooklyn · AsSISTANT ARTS AND ElnnTAINMENJ' EotrOR man Gray, said the letter "did not ever use the ~ord · theater . 'cleanup."' . ·< ing per- . 11 The Bowman Gray School of Medicine could face a BowmanGrayofficialshiredaprivateengineeringfinn, 1tudents, costly cleanup if state agencies determine that medical Ebasco Services Inc. of Greensboro, which has studied :n under · waste buried in a rural dump site near the Forsyth- geological aspects of the site and taken numerous soil, person. Davidson county line has seeped into area well water. , vegetative and water samples in a five-month e~gineering Bowman Gray purchased the site, which covers about study of the site to be complete late this month, ahalf-acre offFriedberg Church Road, in the early 1960s, VanSwearingen said. and from 1964to 1980usedthethesitetoburychemical Early indications-of the study show that the leaking and low-level radioactive research ,and clinical wastedoesnotposeanimminentpublichazardorthreaten waste, well water. The site, called Friedberg Campus, is privately owned "The state identified five or six things that they said i:fiey and jointly operated by Bowman Gray, the North Caro- found. Not all the results are in, but the ones we have so.far lina Baptist Hospital and Forsyth Memorial Hospital, all indicate that we may not have all those thiQgs," of which operate under a single broad medical license. VanSwearingen said. , ·.. School and hospital officials closed the site 10 years Predictions Qf the cost of the cleanup are unavailable ago because it vias almost full and because changes in because no one knows what steps will have to be taken, if state waste regulations. any, to prevent the migration of hazardous waste froJ:D the In 1980, the Environmental Protection Agency enacted site. a number of chemical dumping laws in North Carolina, Possibilities depend on the extent of intervention nec includingoneagainstdumpingwasteintounlinedtrenches essary to prevent seepage. They range from the relatively like that on the Friedberg Campus. Although dumping is inexpensive proposition of covering the site with I! -mick still legal, those who wish'to dump must obtain special· · layerofimpenetrableconcretetoexcavatingandrem~~ipg pennits and go through several channels. the waste entirely from the site, said Sam Kho~~ a From the time the site was built until now, officials representative of Ebasco. · · · · from the state's-Division of Radiation Protection have If removal is required, there are no waste treatment inspected the site regularly, obtaining samples of veg- centers in the United States licensed to process bOth~ ta etation, soil and surface water adjacent to the site and dioactive and chemical waste. If there is one, no. one; at testlngthemforcontamination,saidFredVanSwearingen, Bowman Gray or in the radiation division knows:!j.~ut the director of Bowman Gray's health protection section it, said Dayne Brown, the director of the Division· of and a radiation safety officer. Radiation Protection of the North Carolina Departnlt!n( of To improve this monitoring process, the state asked Environment, Health and Natural Resources. · Bowman Gray to build five monitoring wells, which were When the site was built, no one knew about the dapg~I'l! completed in March 1988, VanSwearingen said. of chemical dumping, so Bowman Gray did not take: Accqrding to an article that appeared in Sunday's chemical waste seepage into consideration in planning the:· Winston-Salem Journal, the school received a letter in waste sites, Brown said. · · mid~OCtober 1939 stating, "The reported concentrations Although the government was cautious about radioac~ · oforganiccontaminantsrepresentapotentiaJlysignificant tivity and closely monitored for leakage, no one deteCted groundwater problem which requires your immediate the chemical problem untill980, when the Environm~ntal · :And the Winner is ... attention." Protection Agency asserted the new permit laws. Before : :A group of avid gamblers try out their hand at ~chuck-a-luck# at Theta Chi Casino Night, a VanSwearingen said the letter asked for a "plan to thattimechemicaldumpingwasalmosttotallyunrestijCted,: Brian Piccolo fundralser. access and deal with the problem" of potential migration Brown said. · of radiation. See Clean-up, Page 2 RepubliCan HeltnS Riete·s td VlCttlty With Large Voter Turnout · BY ERIC WILLIAMS tion and the federal budget dramainhisadvertisements, The election was also widely _viewed as OLD GOLD AND BLA"' REroRlER . as the most important issues but that is not unique to his symbolic of much larger issues. _ to tl1e voters. Of the I 0 per campaign." "For the conservatives it was a do ·or die 'r Despite polis placing Republican Jesse cent of the voters who con Daily viewed the contro election .... It went far beyond the borders of Helms barely neck and neck with his chal sidered race to be the decid versy differently. North Carolina," said Pat Robertson, a'fonner lenger, Democrat Harvey Gantt, a large voter ing factor, half were black "When you look at the presidential hopeful and the host of the "700 turnout lifted him to victory. and half were white. facts, 49th in education, the Club." · ON" With 81 percent of the state's 2,416 pre Junior Frank Daily, the environment, the budget "We are supposed to be a progressive cincts reporting, Helms had 849,031 votes, president of (:ollege Demo .deficit, he obviously could state, but if Helms wins it shows we rul'v~ not LS or 54 percent, to Gantt's 736,664 votes, or46 crats, considered race an even not campaign on his come as far as we thought," said Thad Beyle, !Ill percent. more significant factor than record," Daily said. a political scientist at the University ofNorth , .... , Helms supporters say Tuesday's vote was determined by the polls. "He had to use negative Carolina at Chapel Hill. a triumph for their candidate, a practiti01~er "The swing vote of the campaigning, homophobia, Final analysis of the election returns indi AZA of conservative politics, because he turned white middle class deter abortion and race to have a cates that Gantt captured 39 percent of the i79) back a challenger supported by many liberal mined the outcome," Daily chance." white vote and 94 percent of the black _vote. organi-zations that were eager to eject Helms. said." Although polls showed The national media hyped The blue collar and rural votes swung the "Tilis victory is a vindication of his views," they favored Gantt, no matter how much troversial in the 10 days leading up to the the election as a clash between the Old South election for Helms. said junior Tim Lawrie, the president of they talk, when they get behind the curtain it election. Lawrie considered the issue to be and the New. In counties with high blue-collar ~;oncen College Republicans. "More so than others, is another matter entirely." the result of biased reporting by the media. "It shows the power of the press," Lawrie trations, he received 58 percent of Qle vote. this was an issues campaign.·~ The issue of negative campaigning and "Helms was unfairly represented by the said. "The press can seriously challenge an Helms also won the majority ofthe vote in An ABC News exit poll cited race, abor- intimidating tactics became especially con- press," Lawrie said. "There is an element of incumbent with strong support." Forsyth County for the first time. In dcast/ Lonise Bias Challenges Wake Forest Students with 'Message of Hope' '"" BY CHERRY CHEVY Bias said she sees young people suffering from Oto GOLD AND BLAcK REPORTER a lack of self-esteem and quoted the song "The Greatest Love of All": "Learning to love your Lonise P. Bias, the mother of late college self- it is the greatest love of all." basketball star Len Bias, delivered "A Message People should take responsibility for their of Hope" Tuesday in Wait Chapel. decisions because "all of us are role models," she Len Bias played basketball with the Univer said. "We have a responsibility to do the right sity ofMaryland before he overdo.sed on cocaine thing, ... whether we like it or not." and died June 19, 1986, two days after the Bias 011tlined six basic lies that cause young :up Boston Celtics drafted him. people· to make poor decisions every day. hour Bias said her mission is to help young people • "Ifi go out and get the most beautiful things, se make decisions about issues like alcohol and I'll be the eenter of the universe." ally drug use, self-love, family and sex. She said she Bias said there is an overemphasis on artificial, d bas been termed "abnormally enthusiastic," but ldemic outward appearances rather than on the inside. said, "If I seem out of control, it is only an While people dress beautifully, she said they attempt to reach you young people .... It is only may be empty inside. to bring you into reality." •"Ifljoin the right group, things will be easier Bias said she felt love for all the people in the in college." audience because God had multiplied the love She said young people must not confonn to the she had for her son. She did not make distinc negative habits of other people in order to be tions between black, Hispanic, Oriental or white, accepted. seeing everyone as only young people. "Life is not a cake walk," she said, emphasizing She said although she did not want to offend the necessity of devising a "game plan," realiz anyone with her beliefs, she cared "absolutely ing life's obstacles and finding a way around iJS: ·nothing about what any man thinks of me today.