«• JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY HorrUonburg, Vlrfllnlo 22301 e cBt&eze Vol.58 James Madison Unlversit Friday. October 10,1980 No. 11 ■ Asbestos Cancerous substance to be removed; potential hazards known for a year By DONNA SIZEMORE million alloted by the state for Department came in in May Asbestos material is being this purpose, he said. and verified our findings." eliminated from 14 campus JMU conducted a study in Hilton said, adding that the buildings. after James the summer of 1979 to problem is being corrected Madison University officials examine asbestos levels in throughout state agencies and haveknowuabout its potential campus buildings, Hilton said, buildings. health hazards to students for noting that the study revealed According to Hilton, the more than a year. high asbestos ratings in Duke state did not. come in until Fine Arts Center, Godwin JMU requested money to An estimated $620,000 is Hall, Warren University eliminate the asbestos. being spent to remove the Union. Gibbons Dining Hall, In January, JMU requested asbestos, and 25 percent of all Harrison Hall, Jackson Hall funds from the 1980 Virginia , campus structures is affected. and residence halls, including General Assembly and was Shorts, Frederickson, Huff- granted permission this week The project, which probably man, Chappelear, Dingledine, to begin using this money will begin next summer, may Garber, Hanson and Weaver from the central account, have been started earlier if Halls. Hilton noted, adding that the the funds had been available, "The State Health Board of Visitors endorsed the according to Fred Hilton, project last Friday. JMU WILL spend $620,000 to remove asbestos from 14 assistant to the vice president campus buildings. Duke Fine Arts Center was found to of university relations, but the STATE FUNDS can be used have the highest level of the substance. university needed state aid to only to correct problems in finance the project. academic buildings, Hilton little more than one percent of with a level of 20 or more will Sixty percent of the said, adding ' that the JMU's annual budget of about be repaired. necessary funds must be university must assume the $40 million. The highest possible rating assumed by university burden of renovating Asbestos ratings used by is 153, according to a report by financing, including student buildings such as dormitories. federal and state agencies Hilton. Hilton said that this fees, and the remaining 40 Although there is no note the condition of the figure was calculated by Jim percent will be provided by a evidence that the asbestos is material, its exposure to Auckland, energy coordinator general fund established by harmful, other than when high persons and its content and at JMU. However, 7^ is the the state legislature levels are exposed over a long power to flake. They also highest one present on specifically for removing or period of time, the general measure the potential for campus and is found in Duke containing asbestos in state consensus throughout the presence of particles, rather Fine Arts Center, Hilton said, . buildings. state is that it is best to than measuring the particles adding that no particular remove it, Hilton noted. themselves. scale exists to determine THE UNIVERSITY will The $620,000 necessary for exactly what level asbestos receive $250,000 of the $2 Fred Hilton the project represents only a HILTON SAID any building becomes hazardous. All buildings that require repair were built in the 1960s and 1970s, when asbestos was New athletic conference formation a common construction material, according to a university spokesman. Hilton said that a majority of these remains tenuous for JMU officials huildings were constructed by By DAVID TEEL Nielsen Construction Co. A minimum membership of six schools is required to be of- Construction work either, Officials at James Madison University are continuing efforts to ficially recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association will involve replacing the/ form a new athletic conference which primarily would benefit the and according to JMU Athletic Director Dean Ehlers, five schools ceilings or permanently basketball program here. are firmly committed to the new conference. Those schools are sealing them off. East Carolina University, Old Dominion University, the Bidding for the project must University of Richmond, The College of William and Mary and be handled through the state, JMU. r Hilton noted adding that JMU President Ronald Carrier told the Board of Visitors completion of the work can be Friday that negotiations are delicate and that conference af- expected by next fall. filiation is almost imperative for the university if it wishes to participate in NCAA playoffs in basketball and football. "That's not really true," Ehlers saidgof Carrier's remarks. "Our real concern in football is who we will play down the road. The conference will be strictly for basketball because Old Dominion has no football program." Inside. • THE UNITED STATES .Naval Academy had been a prime —Administrators contender for the sixth slot. Ehlers said, "In July of 1979 we were propose limitations on on our way to Annapolis with every intention of making a formal the number of students announcement, but they balked at the last minute." in "popular majors." .: The defection of Navy has become a major stumbling block as See story, page 3. athletic directors from the five institutions now are not able to agree on a sixth member. George Mason University is being —Norman Lear Award considered but apparently the school's small field house (2,500 Winner Phoef Suit on capacity) detracts from its chances. discusses a summer "There are some schools out there that would join us in a script-writing excursion minute," Ehlers said, "We have to try to make a unanimous for a national television decision on who. series. See Folio, page "As a small school with no real reputation, we consider our- 12. selves lucky to be in on the front end of this thing," he added . "We're really a no-name school at this point." —See page 16 Sports as the JMU football team 'AS A SMALL school with no real reputation, we con- returns home Saturday sider ourselves lucky to be in on the front end of this i HI Kits SAID the conference was needed to help "counteract the onslaught of Atlantic Co*»i Conference media coverage we to face Liberty Baptist thing. We're really a no-name school at this point," said College. JMU Athletic Director Dean Ehlers. < Continued on Page 19: Page 2, THE BREEZE Friday, October 10, I960 SCHEV decision to be appealed Changes prepared for Anthony Seeger By CHRIS WARD SCHEV decision. University THE MODIFICATIONS to the is considering ending state grades nursery-kindergarten While the State Council for President Dr. Ronald Carrier program are designed to bring funding there, as well. through sixth at Anthony Higher Education of Virginia will go before the state council Anthony Seeger in line with Seeger and there are already recommended that the state Dec. 2 f*» present JMU's case. those regulations," he added. JMU STUDENTS •con- "a certain percentage of no longer fund James Madison According to School of Although university ducted close to 12,000 ob- gifted students" presently University's Anthony Seeger Education and Human Ser- spokesman Fred Hilton hinted servations of students at attending the school, ac- Campus School, the School of vices Dean Julius Roberson, that the timing of the Anthony Seeger last year," cording to Roberson, who also Education and Human Ser- the modifications to the modifications' release may according to a university said he was "not concerned vices here was preparing to program would change An- have been to make JMU's published report. with bringing more gifted release a set of modifications thony Seeger into a "model case for SCHEV reversal "a The School of Education and students in at this time." to the school's program, school" for preparing little more appealing," Human Services now operates (Continued on Page 6) according to sources here. teachers to work with gifted Roberson noted that "We've SCHEV recommended last children and handicapped or been working on these month that the state end learning disabled students. program modifications for funding for the laboratory The students would be some time." He added that the DANCE school, one of three left in the "mainstreamed" into the changes were necessary to state, at the end of the 1961-82 regular student body," be make the program at Anthony school year. said. Seeger "a more meaningful FridayOct. 10 8:30-12 If funding for the school "Because the new federal experience for teachers." were cut off completely, and state laws require still, Hilton noted that Anthony Seeger would have to programs for handicapped SCHEV has reversed its U.C.T.Ha// be supported entirely by and gifted students, and as a decisions before. If the tuition, or closed down. The result of those being new laws, university brings the program Highwoy 11 administration and the School there aren't enough student at the campus school closer to of Education want neither. teachers familiar with the priorities set by the new Across from the Trailer Court THE JMU Board of Visitors teaching those students," regulations, Anthony Seeger voted last Friday to appeal the Roberson said. may remain state funded, he indicated. "The SCHEV recom- ROCK BAND mendation was based .on -its mmKW." - staff recommendation," Hilton said. "The state council "1HECASEBAND has taken the staff's recommendation and en- FREE BEER dorsed it." Tickets: $5.00 HILTON POINTED to an earlier SCHEV decision blocking the construction of a Available at the door dormitory on campus. JMU appealed and won that decision last year. He also said other schools' appeals, like George Mason's were turned down.