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WI" 44, /11,10 hi A,ri.l,t111713 Bunsen burner suspected in engineering explosion Chemicals, mixed and capped were wearing protective goggles. campus investigations unit, said too tightly in a glass flask may have Greg Wixom of the University expanded due to a heat reaction According to Ron Montgomery, Police. causing last Wednesday's explosion environmental safety officer, the in the materials science lab of the class was taught by Guna "The investigation will attempt Engineering Building. Selvadura. The experiment the to determine the specific details of "What probably happened, was students were working had been how the accident occured and to find the chemicals expanded due to a done for seven years without any a means of prevention against future heat reaction, which occurs when problems he said. accidents," he said. certain chemicals are mixed together, and burst the flask," said The inquiry into the cause of the Wixom said the investigation Robert Johnk, associate dean of accident is being conducted by the should be concluded this week. engineering. A routine investigation is con- tinuing into the specific cause of the rates will rise explosion which injured fctur Dorm students and a lab assistant. A glass flask the solution was kept in exploded, showering the five seven percent for fall with glass and acid. Captain William O'Neill of the San Jose Fire Department said blame put on inflation Wednesday that the explosion was By J.S. Whaley Commons has been forced to cut out probably caused by the chemicals SJSU dormitory rates will in- items to reduce costs. Even with the being accidentally overheated by a crease 7 percent for the fall 1979 cuts, the Dining Commons has been bunsen burner. semester, according to Bill spending more than it takes in each Notes from a San Jose Fire Schooler, manager of Auxiliary month. Department public information Enterprises. A Spartan Daily article March 8 officer also stated a burner may Schooler cited inflation as the mentioned problems the Dining have been the cause, but also said reason for the increase. The new Commons staff has been having some type of blower or dryer could rates have been approved and are trying to make ends meet due to the have been involved. final. double digit inflation rate. 11101111k,.. According to Johnk, however, a The cost of a dormitory room The increase in room rates is Ton, Van Dyke re-evaluation of what happened photo by and 15 meals a week from the Dining needed to offset the rising utility Phillip Habib determined that the explosion was Commons for one year will be $1,589, costs, Schooler said. "A little over 25 not cuase by a spark, as was earlier an increase of $119 from this year's percent of the dormitory budget speculated by O'Neill. rate. Rooms plus 19 meals a week goes to utility costs." Middle East 'vital' to U.S. Daniel Dimich, Eugene Shimoto will cost $1,791, an increase of $129. When the utility companies and lab assistant Margie Auston The dormitory room rates are raise their rates, the dormitory costs were injured and given first aid comprised of two distinct parts, the go up, he explained. treatment at the scene. They were room and the board. Other causes for the room later taken to the health center for Starting this fall, the yearly inrease include the rising price of Diplomat backs U.S policy shock and further treatment for room rate will be $816, an increase of water supply and maintenance of By Stephen Cohudas majortiy of his speech, however. A diplomat-in -residence at minor cuts. $49. the buildings. term used to Stanford University, Habib has been "We have the lowest rates in the "Vital" is the The presence of a strong U.S. Kenneth Jackson, 20, and The yearly board rate will in- advisor to several presidents CSUC system this year," Schooler describe United States oil interests military force is the keystone of a a close Michael Fortanis, 20, were also crease $60 for the 15-meal plan to in thc Persian Gulf region by Philip and was actively involved in sid, "and when the results come in foreign policy aimed at containing treated at the scene and taken to San $768, and $75 for the 19-meal plan to Habib, former U.S. under-Secretary negotiations to recognize the think we will be the lowest next "the major threat" to world Jose Hospital. $975, according to Ed Zant, general of State. People's Republic of China. year." peace,the Soviet Union, Habib said. All five were realeased within manager of Spartan Shops. This is was invited to speak at SJSU Habib gave the emphatic He three hours. an increase of almost 8 percent. Schooler and SJSU Housing of a two-day conference on response as an indirect answer to He doesn't see the People's as part Direetor Cordell Roland are working Republic of China international leadership and None suffered acid burns The increase in board rates is the question of whether the U.S. "going capitalist" on an idea that could cut the rates. although joint awareness sponsored by ther In- because they were hustled into a necessary because food costs are up would consider military intervention operations between They wil probably present the idea oil American firms and the Chinese ternational Council of Santa Clara cold shower immediately and no eye approximately 10 to 11 percent, in the Middle East to protect to dormitory students next year to government are underway. Valley. injuries were sustained because all Schooler said, and the Dining interests. find out their opinion. Addressing a dozen represent- tives him foreign countries and The plan is to see how much their gusts, Habib spoke for more money would be saved by allowing than an hour on Amercica's Academic Senate to vote on measures the students to eat only at the Dining changing foreign policy in Morris Commons, Schooler said. Students Dailey Auditorium Thursday night. who now live in the dormitories can Admittedly uncritical of U.S. eat at the Student Union or the foreign policy, he said Congress, the that will increase degree requirements bakery, as well as the Dining media, special interest groups and Commons. By Chuck Henrikson for an upper division written English determined yet. weight- to applicants for admission the public are participating in This practice costs the Dining Three Curriculum Committee requirement, which was written to The committee is recom- who have completed certain high shaping "national interests"abroad. Commons money because the staff recommendations, if aecepted by satisfy a CSUC board of trustees mending that the senate adopt as school courses. "Foreign policy is no longer there plans to feed a :.ertain number the Academic Senate this afternoon, mandate, would require the writintg policy the following list of high developed in an elite environment," of persons each day. If the dor- could make obtaining a college workshop be taken before the school courses that applicants for Habib said. "It is no longer an The list of recommended mitory students were restricted to degree more difficult than it is now. student completes 90 units. admission "should" have, and that executive prerogative." courses is similar to the proposed eating only at the Dining t'ommons, One of the resolutions is a The 90-unit cut off and the threat the university "give special con- Habib warned the audience SJSU policy list. the staff would know exactly how revised version of an upper division of probation that accompanied it in sideration" to applicants who have against the consequence of failure" ..:urrent CSUC admission many students to plan for, and would English graduation requirement the original proposal were disputed completed: in the Middle East. He faulted the requirements for high school save money. Palestinian's for obstructing a peace that the senate debated earlier and by several senators and have been graduates are based on high school the impact of which would "come referred back to the committee. tempered somewhat on the revised Three years of English, with grade point average and SAT and On the other hand. according to home to everyday American life." The second resolution recom- proposal by giving the academic emphasis on reading and writing ACT scores. The actual courses Schooler, different locations for a He said the Carter ad- mends specific coursework to be vice president discretionary powers skills; taken though are not considered. meal provide a change of pace for ministration has been reluctant to taken in high school prior to ad- in enforcing the policy. those who must eat at the Dining Three years of one foreign involve American military forces in mission to the university. Under the requirement, Commons all the time. No one language: Curriculum Committee the internal affairs of other nations The last one is a sense of the students must complete six units of wants to eat in the same place all the Two years of mathematics; Chairman Ted Norton said that an but conceded the sale of F-15 fighter senate resolution asking the lower division English composition time," Sehooler said. Two years of science, with applicant's high school (IPA may be bombers to the Shah of Iran was a chancellor of the CSUC system and prior to the upper division workshop. laboratory experience; based on "water polo, macrame and Schooler plans to have an form of direct support. the statewide Academic Senate to Courses would be offered, or driver's education classes." estimate of possible savings to show Habib blasted former CIA agent revise the CSUC admissions designated by every department Three years of social science, to the students next semester.

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