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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Fall 11-14-1984 Maine Campus November 14 1984 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus November 14 1984" (1984). Maine Campus Archives. 1633. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/1633 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. the daily be a major con- e is stressing this Wednesday, November 14, 1984 Maine at Orono student newspaper since 1875 s. The Bears were vol. XCV no. L The University of ,ur in five major percentage, free bounding, fouls turnovers (least Zero funding proposal defeated by Senate in the eye and say by Rick Lasses to look these clubs receive any money" Staff Writer 'your club doesn't Steve Ritzi, student government presi- been informed on The General Student Senate Tuesday dent, said clubs have basis" they may not defeated 31-2 a resolution which would a "purely informal year. have funded clubs and organizations $O receive funds this to the clubs, they were for the 1984-85 school year. "In all fairness for funds but they Passage of the resolution would have told they could apply they would not receive meant there would be no money were to plan that said. "By passing available to clubs from student govern- any funds," Ritzi are not saying you are ment this year. this resolution you finds itself in dire The resolution was passed Nov. 7 by turning on a club that the Executive Budgetary Committee of financial straits." in favor of denying student government 3-2. David Webster, Ritzi said he was year so the money could be off-campus senator and a member of the funding this the future. EBC, said by denying the clubs funding, invested for clubs) places a burden the GSS was looking for someone on "(Not funding year, it places a burden whom to pin student government's on the clubs this this year ... but $28,000 deficit of last spring. on student government ensure a responsi- "I think we're looking for a scapegoat in the long run it will mechanism for these clubs here," Webster said. "We're trying to ble funding Ritzi said. "Student say 'Hey, if we didn't fund clubs S14,000 in the future," not turn its back on the $15,000 last year, we wouldn't have a government will or of this cam- deficit this yea?" clubs and organizations Webster said he thought the EBC had pus." Labbe, graduate student a responsibility to tell clubs why they Rodney though the GSS must weren't going to motive any money. senator, said even of the surplus funds, —This resolution in effect says there's approve allocation still be allocated. no clubs on this campus worthy of it would believe that this surplus is go- studies as unseen subject.(Yaks - receiving funds this year," Webster "I don't This Boxer appears regal and alert as he over from one semester said. "I don't intend to give away the ing to be carried ti photo) SENATE page 2) store, but I think we have an obligation (see If (Fermi photo) may. end Friday to again shoot for ex- h of the categories, ing to try to encapsulate the ceiling un- capsulation is to minimize human keep is a leak, through seals into the int stats should til money was available to remove it ... posure to asbestos." Asbestos is a by Sue Swift library," he said. nning. as long as it was encapsulated, the ceil- naturally occurring mineral that easily even Staff writer The blowers which exhaust air outside h those goals or ing would present no harm," he said. separates into fibers that can lead to on the the library, collect all fibers in the air, no lung disease, 's a reflection asbestos cleanup on Fogler According to Science News 16/20/811 asbestosis, a noncancerous gives us The matter what they may be, said Nelson. other organs. aid. That third floor should be com- "Encapsulation involves covering or cancers of the lung and of the Library's Edward Logue, a chemist with the for at the end end of this week, said asbestos-containing material with either said eventually all areas in pleted by the Sawyer Environmental Recovery Facili- Garwood ose goals we should director of engineering a sealant that penetrates and hardens the contain asbestos UMO's assistant ty Inc., said, "Page Hill Corp. has the library which of the league." material or a bridging sealant that pro- will be encapsulated services Tuesday. brought in 28 cubic yards of asbestos building materials said, "Work on the tectively coats the material to prevent Donald 0. Nelson from the university's library. or removed. -floor section of the original fiber release_ third "Page Hill Corp. disposes of the fibers "The ceilings that contain asbestos which includes both men's and "Like removal of asbestos-containing building by a wetting and double-bagging pro- are not really harmful unless they restrooms, the Learning material or the construction of barriers fibers women's cess, and this facility buries the asbestos with," Nelson said. and a room designated such as drop ceilings, the purpose of en- are tampered Materials Center, in an area covered by state permits," education programs should pus for library he said. After the asbestos is transported asbestos danger by the end be free of any to the landfill site, state-regulated per- " of this week. mits and records are drawn up that tions assistant university. Sam S. Garwood, designate where and how much asbestos the Page Hill Corp. of librarian, said was dumped, Nelson said. in contracted to remove Winterport was "We (UMO Engineering Services the library. asbestos from Dept.) get a copy of these records to was difficult to put an He said it verify that material got from the univer- Lion the project because estimated cost on to the disposal site, and all other the insurance sity "some money came from information," he said. fire in the LMC necessary individuals covering this summer's "The Page Hill Corp. has had to test funds came from a library can learn room, some and retest the air for asbestos content for others from an engineering fast-paced budget and the duration of the cleanup; they have budget." to submit a final report on the cleanup the asbestos was put into Nelson said of the area," Nelson said. and removed from the bags, sealed "The air quality of the designated Ming skills, by the Page Hill Corp. library premises areas has to meet state regulations for to the Sawyer En- vaphics will and transported asbestos before they can say the space is Recovery Facilities 'Inc in vironmental free of asbestos fibers to allow anyone H am pden. to enter that space," he said. two blowers located in the In addition, "The asbestos is contained in the ceil- time block for library education area designated ing material which was popular in couraged to contain filters that act as a programs building construction in the early 1940s, final cleanser for the fiber-contaminated built, because it alert- when the library was sign on the door of the learning Materials Center, Nelson said. Nelson Asbestos caution be Ice rooms, was considered fireproof," of asbestos that lies within. That danger will "The blowers exhaust the air by put- ing passersby to the danger the building said. at the end of the week. (Whiting photo) ting a negative pressure in occurred, we were go- gone if there "Before the fire so that asbestos fibers won't leak, 2 The Daily Maine Campus. Wednesday, November 14, 1984. United Way money drive at UMO 44 percent behind of drives." Lucy said. Because =MI by Douglas Watts departments are 150 percent above con- it is hard to tell if student Writer what we expected," Thibault this, Staff will reach the goal set said. tributions them. Lucy said student con- r With about one week to go, the "I don't think university for Sandinistas tributions are usually spread UMO fund-raising drive for the employees are ungenerous," she thoughout the year, while with a United Way of Penobscot Valley said, "Many of them have either pledge drive the money can be col- remains 44 percent behind its goal, contributed outside the university of time. Soviei in a smaller amount the United Way's manager of data or contributed to an individual lected said the United Way has in- processing said Tuesday. charity instead of the United Way Lucy WASHINGTON (AI its goal for students to George Temple said the univer- as a whole" creased introduction of high-pt about $7,500. Last year, students sity's goal is $58,380 and $34,684 helicopter gunships inti Thibault said most of the money contributed $6,813. Lucy said there has been turned in thus far. The have turned the three-ye donated by university employees possibility that pledge cards 1984 drive ends Thursday, Nov. 22. is a decisively in favor of comes from pledge card drives. sent to on-campus students. Temple said one reason for the low will be government, according ask each student "We send a card to every non- "We'll probably and Nicaraguan rebel amount is because not all of the Lucy asking for a to contribute a dollar," donations have been counted.