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MAR .1 2 1981, 'Champagne' tickles noses-are bubbles pure? ° BY MARY KIRWAN Laboratories, only one-third of the larger profits for the dealer, Ogden says. Both drugs change the electrical im­ Staff Writer average 100 cocaine samples the drug The most common cutting agents us­ pulses of the heart which can produce ir­ Although cocaine costs more than research center receives monthly are ed, according to research, are the same regular heart beats. four times the price of gold, it has unadulterated. synthetic local anesthetics that replaced recently become one of the most.popular The remaining two-thirds of cocaine cocaine in medicaluseage. These drugs Procaine (novocaine) is another com· recreational drugs on the market. But tested is cut and contains an average of are usually not hazardous if snorted but mon anesthetic cut. Like benzocaine and the "champagne of drugs" in many only 25 percent pure cocaine, says can be dangerous if injected. lidocaine, procaine looks and tastes like cases may be of a rotten vintage as the Ogden. Anesthetics used for cocaine cutting cocaine and is not water soluable. Odgen says that fat-soluable cutting agents · use of adulterants has also increased. Since cocaine is an · expensive drug such lidocaine and benzocaine can cause have a tendency to clog the veins if in­ Today, the cleanest cocaine available (costing from $70-to-$140 a gram and heart damage or cardiac arrest if in­ jected. is about 98 percent pure. According to $1,800-to-$2,400 an ounce) the addition jected into the blood stream, according David Ogden of Pharm Chem of cheaper substitutes can mean much to pharmacists at General Hospital. Please· see page 4 Mustang. Daily Wednesday, March 11, 1981 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Volume45, No. 74 Sample from leaking light 98% PCB BY RALPH THOMAS leaked from a ballast onto .the floor of a bathroom in cinogen. Students in Santa Lucia Hall who may have StaffWriter Santa Lucia Half. It was given to Van Acker by come in contact with the chemical are concerned about A sample of the leakage from a fluorescent light students in that dorm and then to the California Oc­ its possible effect on them, said Mike Flaherty, a resi- ballast in a dorm bathroom has been tested and found cupational Safety and Health Administration. Van dent there. ,., to be 98 percent PCB, according to Cal Poly Health and Acker said he has recrived "verbal confirmation" that According to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry, if a Safety OfficerDon Van Acker. the sample was 98 percent PCB. substance contains more than one milligram of PCB in The sample was a portion of the substance which Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) is a known car- a cubic meter, protective gear should be worn in its handling. PCB, a tar-like, nonsoluable chemical, concen­ trates in the liver, pancreas and body fat. Flaherty said as many as 40 students may have been exposed to the PCB. He estimated that "most of the three ounces" of he substance contained in the ballast leaked onto the floor. "God, we don't even know," what the affect on the students' health will be, commented Flaherty. In a report releaseed Tuesday, Executive Dean Doug Gerard said the university has started a four-part pro­ gram to guard against any future ballast leadage pro­ blems. Actions to be taken, according to the report, include: -Survey and replacement of ballasts in residence halls and areas where food is being prepared or eaten; -Establishment of precedures for priority response of defective ballasts; -Counseling and other asssistance for students with specific concerns that they may have come in contact with a toxic chemical, and; -Periodic tests of samples taken from replaced ballasts tq determine whether or not toxic material has leaked from them. The report said the university is in compliance with state and federal environmental health directives. Pre- 1977 ballasts which contain PCB were not banned by any agencies in their safety bulletins, the report said. Cal Poly's campus has about 22,000 pre-1977 ballasts which would cost approximately $600,000 to replace, according to the report. "It's unfortunate it happened the way it did," said Gerard, during an interview at which Flaherty was pre­ sent. Flaherty expressed to Gerard his concern about the hazards he and other students faced. Flaherty claimed the amount of substance may have been in excess of 10,000 times the amount at which protective clothing is recommended. Please see page 4 Mustang Dallv,-PeggyGruenberg The UU Plaza at night-sodium lights should soon brighten up the dark spots. Student gets reward A Cal Poly student was honored Monday for his assistance in the apprehension and conviction of a burglar. U U to installoutside lights for satety Alan C. Bettencourt, a mechanical engineering stu­ BY ROBIN LEWIS proached. Plant Operations for recommendations and dent, was presented a certificate of appreciation from Staff Writer estimates for installation. Willis said the lamps Plant District Attorney Christopher Money and a $500 check The University Union will install high-pressure Operations has chosen to put up around campus ''look fromthe San Luis ObispoCounty Farm Bureau. sodium lamps to light dangerously dark areas around too commercial" for use around the union. According to Peter Dunan, Victim Witness Coor· the outside of the building, to discourage possible at­ He also said Plant Operations wanted to replace all dinator, Bettencourt provided information to the San tacks on students, UU governing board member Cathy the lamps around the Union with high-pressure sodium Luis Obispo Police that led to the arrest and conviction White said last week. lamps as supplemental lighting," he said. "We never of William Oliver last July. Oliver was charged with the talked about eliminating all the lamps." theft of valuable property from the apartment of "No one's been attacked yet," she said, "but we like another student. to make sure nothing like that could happen." Supplemental lighting is needed near the El Corral bookstore, along the stairway over the Burger Bar, and Bettencourt overheard Oliver talking about the White, who chairs the UUBG Building Expansion under the balconey around Chumash Auditorium, stolden propertyin a parking lot and took the suspect's and Improvement Committee, said the high-pressure Willis said. In all, nine lamps will be installed, eleven license number. Oliver admitted to the theft when ap­ sodium lamps were chosen for their electricalefficiency. less than Plant Operations wantedto put in. proached by police detectives and took them to the Ed Naretto, director of Cal Poly Plant Operations, said Willis has not yet received any bids for the lamps and stolen property. in January that a 150-watt high-pressure sodium bulb installation, but said Plant Operations had estimated "Our ability to bring violators of the law to justice is gives off 33 percent more light than a 250-watt in­ their 20 lamps and installation would cost the UU dependent upon persons such as Mr. Bettencourt, who candescent lamp. "That's a 33 percent increase in light around $5,000. "We want less than half of those," he recognizedthat everyone has a mutual obligation in the in a hundred-watt decrease" of electricaluse, he said. said. apprehension and punishment of violators," said UU director Joe Willis, who is now searching for a It is important, said Willis, that he chose lamps "that Dunan. supplier and installer of the lamps, said aesthetics is an we'll be happy with in the years to come." District Attorney Money said without Bettencourt's impor:tant fac r in t e choice. " ere are certain help, Oliver would not have been arrested or convicted. t;o � . , , � "No one who is not happy (with the lamps) in the things that can t besacrificed., he said; future won't know the UUBG voted on the selection, In presenting the Farm Bureau check, that group's Before going to outside suppliers, the Union ap· they'll lookto management." president, Paul Madonna, expressed appreciation for Bettencourt's help. Page2 Mustang Dally Wednesday,March 11, 1981 CIA launches spying study Watt decision angers Congress WASHINGTON (AP)-lnterior Secretary James G. LANGLEY, VA. (AP)-A top official of the Central Newsline Watt faced angry members of the California congres­ Intelligence Agency said Tuesday a "changing world" sional delegation Tuesday over the issue of oil drilling · has prompted the Reagan administration to explore off the state's northern coast, but he promised little ex­ whether to rescind some limits to CIA spying within cept to listen. the United States. The delegation askedWatt for the meeting to express The administration has lauched an intensive study of Poland holds military exercises their dismay over his decision to reconsider the issue of legal and other barriers to intelligence operations to see WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The Soviet Union and selling drilling rights to four environmentally sensitive if some can be removed by the summer to combat ter­ areas of the northern California coast. rorism, deputy CIA director Bobby R. Inman said at a Poland Tue!lday announcedjoint Warsaw Pact military exercises will begin in Poland later this month. The an­ CecilAndrus, interior secretary during the Carter ad­ rare public briefingat CIA headquarters. ministration, ruled last year that the oil and natural gas The surve is know to include consideration of expan­ nouncement followed a one-hour strike in Lodz,the first . r that might beproduced from the tracts was insufficient ding uthor1ty for the CIA to use break-ins, physical major work stoppage in more than a month in this Com­ � munist nation beset by economic and labortroubles.

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