Technician North Carolina State University’s Student Newspaper Since 1920 A Volume LXV. Number42 Wednesday. December 7, 1983 Raleigh. North Carolina Phone 737-2411 /2412 2’ Crack in Lee dorm poses problem Tl- Medlh began replacing windows within the itself. and the cost was billed to Ken weeks later the same workmen StaffWriter first week ofschool. Moser Co. Ken Moser admitted that returned and. after seeing the A crack in Lee dorm has left in its Most of the blinds and old windows his workers were too slow. although window still broken. said that their wake drafty. blindless windows and were placed on the breezeways to be he complained of a lack of availability company did not know about it. irate residents. out ofthe way. ofmaterials. Moser at first denied knowledge of “I was sick and tired of it." said The contractor did not complete Before Physical Plant took action. the window. but when confronted Amy Lynn Pritchard. a freshman in the job. which included caulking residents tried to have repairs ef- with Carpenter's story replied “no social work and resident of Lee windows and replacing partitions fected. comment." Dormitory. that separate adjacent rooms at the Laura Gotcher. and April A separate problem involves'the According to Mike McGough of windows. Pergerson, residents of Lee. often fate of the old blinds. Most of the Physical Plant. the crack has been in Besidents' complaints to RAs tried to receive action from Ken blinds were removed and placed on the building since at least 1967 - produced little results. Boham and Bill Guy of the Housing the breezeways during window re only three years after its construc- Some students said that their RAs Department. eventually contacting placement. tion. explained that the window replace Charles Haywood ofStudent Affairs. These blinds have since disap- The crack is a separation of Lee ment was a contracted job and that Gotcher's father called Housing "at reared- along an expansion joint due to the little could be done by submitting least 10" times but received no The only person questioned who uneven settlingofthe building. work requests. Others said that their action. knows anything about the blinds is Glenn Ervin of Physical Plant said RAs did submit requests but re According to Gotcher. about a Paul Carpenter. that "there is no reasonable cost- ceived noaction. week ago Boham warned her not to Carpenter said that three uniden- effective way to stop the settle- The RAs questioned declined to talk to Haywood about housing tified men who looked like students ment." However. he said. “structural comment. echoing the view of Resi- problems. Gotcher said that “(Bohami picked up the blinds and carried failureis notexpected." dence Life that they are not de was justreally rude.“ them off. When Carpenter ques- Prior to this semester. Physical partmental spokesmen. Paul Carpenter said that the tioned them they replied “we’re Plant contracted Ken Moser Co. to Contracting for the windows was contractors "said that they had going to burn them." ' replace the old windows which had handled through the Physical Plant. broken a window upstairs." which On Oct. 19. Purchasing contracted become loose during the settlement. According to McGough. the Physical was installed in his room. the Dize Awning and Tent Company Residents said that the contractor Plant had to make some repairs According to Carpenter. about five to install new blinds. According to Miriam Tripp of Purchasing. no deadline was put on the order. and .U"? Columbia becomes longest space voyage the delay in its completion is due to the unusual size of the blinds. Upon 5m? Photo by 83o Thomas contacting Dize last week. Tripp was Lee Dorm has had problems with drafts because a crack that has been assured ofa Dec. 19 installation date. present since 1967. The crack was caused by settlingofthe structure. Meanwhile. some residents in Lee Space shuttle begins eighth day have had to live without any covering Despite efforts by the numerous dence Hall Contract offers some SPACE CENTER. Houston (UPI) —— umbia's cargo — the 33.684-pound clude a surprising finding of swamp overtheir windows. departments. many residents of Lee insight into the final outcome of the The shuttle Columbia entered a European Spacelab research center gas. Carolyn Bates and Amanda still feel that the job is far from problem. It reads “the Housing record eighth day in space Tuesday — no problems were foreseen in Scientists said the finding of Spillman. residents of Lee. slung a completion. as their windows still do Department assumes no responsibili- in a historic mission that already has landing on the dry lake bed runway methane. produced by biological blanket over a length of yarn to block not seal out drafts and some of them ty for guaranteeing a completion produced startling findings about in California's Mojave Desert. said processes on Earth. was particularly the draft from the windows as well as even leak. date or cost of repair under any Earth's atmosphere. distant stars flight director John Cox. important because it provides new for privacy. Perhaps a statement in the Resi- circumstances." and processing of materials vital to “Columbia is performing like a clues to the dispersion of at- the electronics and computer in- champ." said Anna Fisher in ground mospheric constituents. dustries. control. Another first was the discovery of Commander John Young. copilot The only puzzle was “popping and carbon dioxide 78 miles high and Brewster Shaw and astronaut- banging" reported by the ship's evidence found through an X-ray Syrian troops shoot down scientists Robert Parker. Ulf pilots. who told engineers early scanner of iron in a swirling disc of Merbold. Byron Lichtenberg and today. “Boy you ought tohear this." gas and dust around a distant Owen Garriott awaited final word on “We've never hooked anything to apparent black hole known as Cygnus when weather would permit them to the pressurized module which floats X-l. return to Earth — Wednesday, in the cabin. Now we have the tunnel Mission scientist Chuck Chappel Israeli planes, capture one pilot Thursday or possibly Friday. said the material was coming from a The nine-day mission. the longest hooked in. so the sounds may be BEIRUT. Lebanon (UPI) — Beirut News of the latest air action over In Washington. Secretary of State and most ambitious science expedi- normal cooling and heating distor- nearby star "being slowly eaten by radio Tuesday said Syrian troops the Bekaa Valley came as the United George Shults Monday said the tion to date. was extended by one tio’n‘s'." Cox toldreporters. the black hole." shot down two Israeli planes over States pressed top-secret talks to Americans have talked with Syrian day. But officials kept an eye on a Each day the astronauts float to In an experiment with significant Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley Tuesday and free the captured US. Navy airman. officials “several times in the past 24 storm heading toward the Edwards .work in Spacelab from their living implications for electronics. a glow- captured one of their pilots. An Syria refused to give him up until hours” to explain the raid on Syrian Air Force Base. Calif. landing site quarters through the 18.9-foot-long, ing rod of silicon melted in a sunlamp Israeli military source denied any American Marines leave Lebanon. anti-aircraft gunners and to ask for before settinga date. 3.5-foot-wide aluminum tunnel. furnace in an attempt to grow Israeli aircraft were lost today over A US. Embassy spokesman in Goodman's freedom. Columbia. which made the maiden Cox said officials were “elated" at near-perfect crystals in the weight- Lebanon. Damascus said he could reveal “abso- US. Ambassador to the United space shuttle flight. broke its own the glowing congratulations less environment. Asked to comment on the report of lutely nothing" about the status of Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick asked space endurance record Tuesday of extended Monday to the astronauts “We have very good news." the captured pilot. the military Goodman. whose A6 Intruder was U.N. Secretary General 'Javier Perez eight days. six minutes, by President Ronald Reagan and Lichtenberg told scientists on Earth. source in Tel Aviv said. “The pilot is one of two planes downed by Syrian de Cuellar for the use of his "good nine seconds. since during its third West German Chancellor Helmut “We've completed the crystal growth not ours." He said no Israeli aircraft gunners during a retaliatory strike offices" to secure Goodman's release flight in March 1982 when unfavor- Kohl during a unique space confer- quite successfully. went all the way were lost. Sunday against Syrian positions. after a public appeal to Syria went able weather conditions at the White ence call. to the end. Ulf looked at it. We Syria's state-run Damascus radio Tlas said the pilot of the downed unheeded. Sands. N.M.. landing site forced a Although most of the information jumped up and down and slapped made no mention of the downings in jet. identified as Lt. Mark Lange. had Goodman “will be set free as soon one-day delay in touchdown. will be analyzed after landing. the each other's hands. It looked really its 1:15 a.m. (6:15 a.m. EST) died of injuries suffered in the crash as the war ends and the Americans Despite the added weight of Col- latest results already available in- nice up here." newscasts. and that his body would be delivered Lebanon." Tlas said in The Beirut radio report identified to the US. Embassy in Damascus. leave the Israeli planes as a pilotless drone The pilot of the other jet downed Damascus Monday.