A .Sbestos Removal to Begin Sunday

CTHEMedford, MA 02155 TUFTS--Friday,- October 20,1989 DAILY1Vol XM, Number 32 KILN ME SOFTLY A.sbestos removal to begin Sunday reason we’re doing anything [in After the wet wrapping is by STEVEN FELDMAN those rooms] is because of the Senior Staff Writer completed, air anlpleS will be calls we’ve received from Stu- taken to insure that the asbestos An asbestos abatement proj- dents.” has been totally cleaned,Pitoniak ect will take place in the Eaton A one foot tear in a pipe, ex- said. Only after verifying that the Cafe and rooms 133 and 134 of posing asbestos, was found in the asbestos is completely covered the Eaton Hall basement this Eaton Cafe two weeks ago in an will the poly curt& beremoved. Saturday, according to Michele inspection by the Environmental According to Pitoniak only Pitoniak, environmental health Health and Safety Office. minor work will be done in the specialist for the Tufts Environ- While repairing the pipe, Bay two classrooms. In room 133, a mental Health and Safety Office. Insulation will hang a poly cur- small hole will be covered, and In an interview Thursday af- tain along the two walls in the an area where the pipe is con- ternoon, Pitoniak said that the dining section of the Eaton Cafe nected by a‘hanger to the ceiling project will last only one day and where the pipe runs, and then will be wet-wrapped. Pitoniak encompasses “repair only.” Bay wet-wrap the exposed area, Pi- stated that the hanger area was Insulation, a licensed and certi- toniak said. The curtain will par- “apparently never wrapped.” fied company able to perform tition off the asbesws project from In Room 134, a six-inch sec- asbestos work in Massachusetts, the remainder of the dining and tion of pipe which had been cov- will repair the areas. the food preparation sections of ered with duct tape which will be A “Safetygram” posted yes- the cafe. “The rest of the cafe wet-wrapped. Pitoniak called duct terday in the basement of Eaton won’t beaffectedatal1,”Pitoniak tape an “inappropriate material.” Hall stated that “strict environ- said. mental controls will be enforced by the Department of Environ- mental Health and Safety to pro- tect the building and occupants from potential asbestos exposure.” Further, the “Safetygram” stated that “the areas will be off- limits to all employees, students, and the public until air sampling data in those areas demonstrate that the areas are environmen- tally safe.” However, the notice also stated that the “use of rooms and hall- Crafts Center Treasurer Amy Holbrook by a kiln in Lewis Hall ways outside of the actual work zones is permissible.” According to Pitoniak, the . Crafts Center denied repairs inrooms 133 and 134 will be minor work which she charac- terized as “super small-scale funds for renovation repair.” The work in the Eaton also long-term health hazards Cafe is more significant, said by Pitoniak. “Basically, what we’re Contributing WIENERWriter caused by the kiln3 present loca- tion. She exdained ttiat Some of responding to is the one foot rip The Allocations Board of the the raw mGerials added to the .in the Eaton Cafe [pipe].” Tufts Community.Union Senate glazes used for pottery and ce- Pitoniak stated that the asbes- , .._ ._ -, - -. .._ . - .- .. has rejected the Crafts Center’s ramics are in dry powder form tos danger in the classrooms was Exposed asbestos in Eaton Hall, which will be removed beginning recentrequest fortheuseofbuffer andare “nothealthy to breathe.” “very insignificant... The only Sunday. funding to renovate a new room She added that alkough people in Lewis Hall for their kilns. The working with the glazes wear face Crafts Center claims that the masks and take all the proper Joe Swimmer: Like father, like son growing number of students us- precautions, others working in the ing the crafts facilities and the area are exposed to the dust par- TCUJ member recalls experiences in Cherokee nation threat of health hazards make the ticles that settle on the floor and new room necessary. in the air. now a lawyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. east Oklahomain acounty appro- Amy Halbrook, the treasurer Crafts Center Manager David by JOHN STONE “It was an interesting experi- priately named Cherokee. Chero- Contributing Writer of the Crafts Center, explained Abrevaya said that the pottery ence growing up in the middle of kee is one of about sixteen coun- that a new kiln room would oc- room becomes about ten degrees Joe Swimmer first created an Indian country. It is certainly not ties in the area which make up the cupy the former electrical room hotter when the kiln is fired, and impression last year on campus something that I wQuldever trade- western branch of the Cherokee for Lewis Hall’s old heating sys- that the firing releases fumes of while campaigning for a fresh- in for anyone else’s experiences. nation. The nation, which is di- tem and would reduce space water vapor and hydrated miner- nan seat in the Tufts Community Indian country, though it may not vided into eastern and western constraints and the airborne health als, making it very unpleasant to Union Senate, which he won. This be the most glamorous place in nations, is one of the largest In- hazards caused by materials used work there. year, he continued to do what he the world, which it is not, is fasci- dian tribes, second only to the in the kilns. According to SenateTreasurer joes best, namely, campaigning, nating and it also gives you a Navajo. The new room will provide Ross Ginsberg, ALBO’s main and he was recently elected to the different perspective. “Because of that, my fatha more space for pottery and ce- reason for refusing to fund the TCU Judiciary. was in the limelight quite a bit ramics, since the two kilns cur- project is that Lewis Hall, where “Ever since I was young, I and therefore I got to be in the rently take up much space in the the Crafts Center is located, is a have always wanted to be in an limelight quite a bit. It was inter, pottery room, she said. electedposition.I think my brand see CRAFTS, page 3 esting but then? were always prob, Halbrook said that there are of politics works, because I don’t lems with ‘people who dislika try to exclude anyone, I try to him, who were politically avers Head of Charles to be held Sunday include everyone,” he said. Yet to him, or who did not care for hi: bY SCOTT DAMELIN Charles Regatta, the largest single- there is more to Joe Swimmer brand of politics.” I Daily Editorial Board day rowing event of its kind in the than just politics and campaign- Swimmer went to public schoa The 25th Annual Head of the world, is scheduled to begin at ing. through seventh grade with maid] 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 22. Swimmer grew up as the son Native American students in tht Over 3500 rowers from hundreds of the chief of the Cherokee In- town of Tahlequah, which hc 1 Inside of colleges and universities will dian nation, and that childhood described as “not-overwhelmingl: participate in this internationally that has given him strong convic- white.” Havoc on the Hill ............ P-5 known event. tions and a wealth of interesting “It was a great childhood, In which Brei Thorn ponders the Bans against unauthorized experiences. though, growing up in the middle expensiveness of things, but buys them vendors, alcohol, tents, camping Swimmer’s father was chief of a whole different minority, a anyway. and open fires will be strictly of theCherokeenationfrom 1975 minority which does not exist in Photo by Nathalre Desbiez enforced, according to a memo- to 1986. He was the first native most of the world. It gave you a Jazz Page ........................ P.7 TCUJ member Joe Swimmer Which is actually the Blues Pagqtoo, randum from the Metropolitan American to head the Bureau of different sense, a totally different but I suppose it ail goes together some- District Commission. Indian Affairs, the primary liai- “Sometimes it was like grow- concept of the world,” he said. how ... Parking near the Regatta will son between the federal govern- ing up in a Third World country. “There’s not too many people in be severely limited, and the MIX ment and the Indian tribes. H$ Some places in the Cherokee this country who can say they are Sports ...................... pp.9-11 recommends that spectators take father occupied an elected psi- nation actually did not have run- the son of an Indian chief. Men’sand women’s soccerandtennis the Red Line to Harvard Square tion andresigned in the middleof ning water... they still used out- “Usually that brings up im- win, football looks to break a jinx, and or the Green Line to the Boston his third term, when Reagan houses,” he said. [Geoff and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. University East or West stops. stermed down from office. He is Swimmer grew up in north- see SWIMMER, page 12 Friday, October 20,1989 page two THE TUFI’S DAILY 1 back the next week in a strip that I tential for a “self-serving analy- depicted a person picking his nose sis,” it seems insipid to blame while reading a copy of the Source efforts aimed at securing basic THETUFTS DAILY with the headline “White like human rights and recognition for Stephen Clay Letters me.” No matter how irrespon- less-privileged members of the Editor-in-Chief sible or unfounded this illustra- Tufts community.

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