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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY F ebruary 8, 2000 • Volume 126 THE • Number 28 Review Online Non-Profit Org. www. review. udel.edu U.S. Postage Paid ewark. DE Permit o. 26 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 FREE Fume hoods Drug-related arrest cause some made at at Alpha to breathe Epsilon Pi house BY ADRIA!\ BACOLO could not comment on any further Sruclenr AJ]airs £clirar detail of the inve tigation. uneasily An arrest for a drug-rela ted Alpha E psi io n P i President c harge was made at the Alpha Lonnie Co hn said the police, who Epsilon P i fratern i ty ho use on had a search warrant, arriveo BY KYLEBELZ Wyoming Road Saturday night. Neu·.\· Ft!atures Editor around 9:1 5-9:30 p. m., and caught Executive Vice President David E. everyone by surprise. Hazardous chemicals produced by researchers Hollowell said. "For me and my entire executive and students in university laboratories are, for th e Hol lowel l , w h o read from a board this comes a a total surprise. most pan, simply sucked out of the room by fume statement by Public Safety, said he We had no knowledge," he said. hood that contain no filtering apparatus, officials could not confirm whether it was a Cohn, who was upstairs when said. fraternity member who was the p ol ice entered , aid they This allows carcinogens, mutagens-chemicals arrested. but he aid it would presented a warrant upon entry and that cause birth defects when pregnant women are appear to be. had the hallway cleared. exposed to them- and ozone-depleting substances Newark Police entered to search '·I was upstairs when it -to escape into the atmosphere unhindered by a a student's room inside the hou e. occurred," he said. " I heard the filtering system. he said. hallway was cleared. All the doors In 1998, the last year the data was released from P ublic Safety Director Lawrence were closed. They served a warrant Occupational Health and Safety at the university, T hornton did confirm that someone upon entry _ It was served to the the amount of pollutants released included 4.0 I tons ­ had been arrested but would not resident. T his is what I believe of volatile organic compounds and 4.70 tons of release a name, adding that Newark [happened]." sulfur dioxide, whi ch the Environmental Protection THE REVI EW/ Mike Louie Police were han dling t he Cohn, who would not reveal the Agency includes on its list of extremely hazardous Although unfiltered emissions escape through hoods, the level of emissions is investigation. identity o f the person arrested, said substances. still below environmental regulation levels, university officials said. Newark Police refused to he suspects t he p erso n is a However, these emissions do not violate any comment on the ca e , sayi ng that fraternity member. environmental regulations because they fall be l o~ the acid with a powerful base. to the rules, even in a research environment that releasing details would hinder their Calm said he needed to stress standards that would require additional precautions C he micals used in labs for undergraduate may be unsupervised. continuing investigation. that this incident is an individual said Dave L evandoski, the assistant director of teaching are typicall y hiss dangerous than those As was evident by an inspection held last week. Roland Smith, vice president for mat ter and d oes not ref lect the Occupational Health and Safety. used in experi ments conducted solely for research. individuals do not always follow proper procedure. student l i fe , said he had also rraternity as a whole. "The majority of our hoods don' t go through a Levandoski aid. Both have safety precautions The inspection of university fac ilities found five received the Public Safety letter He said Alpha Epsilon Pi does scrubber system, and they don' t have fi lters ," he designed to limit toxic emissions. violations of the proper procedure for the di sposal confirming a n a rrest. He said he not condone illegal activit y. said. "But we follow all guidelines for the hoods." While other universities, like the Massachusetts of hazardous waste. For special cases, he said, extra precautions must Institute of Technology. utilize HEPA Filters in EPA representatives. along with an inspector be taken. For example , Levandoski said, when many of their fume hoods used by researchers, the from a state agency, discovered fi ve containers perchloric acid is exhausted. it can react with metals University of Delaware relies on a '"closed loop holding between quantities between one quart to within the hood, causing an unstable compound to process.'' Levandoski said. two gallons in volume. which were not labeled with We're Baaaack! fonn. Known also as prudent laboratory process. this a date. T his omission makes it im possible to Use of this acid is restricted to a facility in procedure either prevents or mi nimizes the adverse detennine if the stored hazardous waste was stored Lam0nt Du Pont Lab that has a ~ 1-- ,..,wc: tn ri nse the effects o f t: h.!;r,icals by e nfo rcing ru les like longer than the legal limit of 90 days. chemical to a des ignate~ disposal area. The hood in "making s ure containers are capped '" a nd by The cause of the violation was attributed to this lab treats the perchloric acid thro ugh a emphasizing the importance of limiti ng their use. "scrubbing process," whi ch involves neutralizing B ut this relies on the experimenter acting according ee UD pageA9 Study: 500,000 students have guns is allowed to have a weapon o f " We hav e h ad i ncidences ,.__,ft------- ------------------·-----·-··----""- where a student t h reatened .l any kind on campus. In ·thewGrosslu:Urs Brooks said this policy applies another individual with a knife." to students who live off campus he said . "We' re concerned abo ut Part One ofFour: when t hey are o n u nivers i ty weapons, but we don't have many } I Examining the reality property. j udic ia l cases concern ing I "Even if a student has a gun in weapo ns. It's usually two or three I of guns on campuses ; the car and the car is on university per year, and they usually involve nationwide pro pe rty , that is prohibited ," he knives." said. Brooks said there have only Viola tio ns of this po licy, he been 41 incidences during the last BY SUSAN STOCK School of Public Health, said the said , m ay res u lt in s u spe nsion th ree school year s i n volvi ng Manal!ing N~"·s Editor 3.5 percent of stude nts surveyed from the university. dange rous instruments, deadly Approximately ha lf a millio n w h o said they have g uns are However, Brooks said he feels weapons or explosives. students at four-year American pote ntially very da ngerous. most students at the university see K athr y n G o ldman . associate colleges have a working fi rearm " If s t ud e nts bring a g un to no reason to possess a gun. dean of students, said so far this at school, ac cording t o a July colle ge - e ven if they th in k " A n y form of violence is a school year there h ave been no 19 9 9 study b y three Harvard they' re protecting themselves ­ concern of ours,'" he said, "but I inc idences involving dan gerous professors. Howe ver, Uni versity the y' r e act u a l ly impe ri l in g have n ' t seen a n y dram atic instrum ents, deadly weapons o r o f Delaware official s said gun themselves or others." he said. increases in violent behavior over explosives. possession by students in Newark U niversity of De laware D ean the years:· U ni versity Police Capt. James THE REVIEW/ Mike Louie is minimal. of S tud e nts T imothy F . B rooks Yet there a re sti ll s ituations F latley said there is a lways the Freshman Kate Donovan j oined thousands of other students Dr. Arthur Miller. the senior said the university' s policy about in volvi n g weap ons eac h year. in moving back to campus Sunday. resea rch assistant at the Harvard weapons is simple - no student Brooks said. see GUNS page A l l Greek Coordinator Gore wins Del. primary BY ANDREA N. BOYLE too keen on the idea that the 'T he synergy of a double primary ready for new start NmimwVSwte NeH'S Etliror candidate stayed away." Bayard would boost turnout on both sides," Inside the s tate Democratic said ... o they stayed away from the Bayard said. headquarters in Newport Saturday poll _-- Brenda Mayrack, vice president of night. a small crowd forn1ed chanting Both Gore and Bradley signed a the C o llege Democrat aid the BY ADRIAN BACOLO wi th laying such a strong "Gore. Gore. Gore1" pledge to New H amp hire stating candidates· failures to pay visits to Srudcnr AjJair' Eclirnr foundation_ Although the man they cheered they woul d not v is it any tate the tate were di heanening. F o r t he new Greek Affai rs " There' s a lo t of potenti al for. Vice President AI Gore, swept holding their primary within a week ··Delaware wa not given a lot of coordinator, C hristine Cappe llo.

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