111v ilelp(11m4in lid Silos - aren't - ---- - square. NtOEoNl(ll OLUME r3a NdUthMBhh . Er4ly3l 4 od VOLUME 83, NUMBER 134 THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1990 APPLAUSE Law students rally to support faculty diversity By GEOFF BOUCHER is to build on that, to educate students about One of the law students participating. become available This year the committee looked at more than 500 resumes for about Alligator Staff Writer the importance of a diverse faculty and to Neal Stanley, said variety among the back- let the faculty know we are concerned with ground of instructors will improve the learn- five spots, Rush said. Law students across the country will boy- diversity " ing process for all students 1The National Student Strike for Diversity cott classes today to protest faculty hiring College of Law Dean Jeffrey Lewis said Day was set up by the New York-based practices, but students at UF have decided .Having people who reflect society's di- he shares Rosenberg's concern about a fac- versity creates a better understanding of National lawyers Guild, a 9,000-member patting their school on the back may accom- ulty that has 55 professors who have tenure group of attorneys, legal workers and law plish more than slapping it in the face differences, which builds a greater sensitiv- or qualify for it. Of (hose, seven are women ity to those differences," Stanley said. "It students. Guild Executive Director Michael While protesters at Florida State Univer- and four are black. Two of those female Cowan said the annual event was inspired sity and Harvard University skip lectures, also provides role models Students can, professors were hired this year, along with identify with professors with similar back- by a University of California at Berkeley UP law students will stage a rally and wear the college's first Hispanic professor, Lewis student protest in 1988 and wii have stu- rainbow-striped ribbons to symbolize the grounds and experiences a little easier It's said. just another way to help out students.' dents from moe than 40 law schools partic- racial diversity they want in the faculty. Rally ipating this year. organizers say their plans are a sign of "When Icame here in 1972, we didn't have Law Professor Sharon Rush said the 11- support, not protest anywomenon thefacultyandwedidn'thave member committee that screens candidates The Informed Student Coalition, the I7he committee (responsible for faculty any blacks on the faculty," Lewis said. "Isee for law faculty spots has done a good job of Black Law Student Association, the John nominations) is doing a fine job and the the hirings we've made as a sign of change, identifying qualified women and minorities. Marshall Bar Association, the Law Associa- students in the college are doing better with of progress. We're not by any means where Rush said its "sincere commitment" to di- tion for Women and the Environmental Law showing interest in faculty hiring," rally we should be. We have a good long way to versity may not be reflected by overall ratios Association are all uniting to sponsor UF's organizer Robin Rosenberg said. "iis rally go. because of the low number of positions that awareness day. Workers unaware of dorm's exposed asbestos air readings where unaware By GEOFF BOUCHER it'spretty much a caseofiiscom- Alligator Staff Writer munication," Grimm said "As workers may have disturbed the long as they don't touch it or insulation. Electrical workers have spent bump into it, everything should Housing custodian Anthony three weeks working within be fine." Smith, 24, says he didn't know arm's reach of asbestos-lined UF Environmental Health and there was any asbestos in the pipes in Hume Hall ceilings, as Safety Director William Pro- building he has spent the last unaware of the cancer-causing perzio said workers should al- three months working in. material as the students walking ways be notified about the "I really think it's bad," Smith beneath their ladders. presence of possiblehazards, but said. "I'll tell my workers about Workers for electrician Carlos he also said this specific location it. Why are they working around Hope am wiring fire alarms and may not be dangerous. He said it now? They should do it when the back-up power system as manyas 400 campusbuildings there's nobody here " throughout the building's hall- contain asbestos, but none have While the electrical workers ways, but an apparent communi- the carcinogen in an "air-carried stood on ladders in the narrow cation lapse kept some workers form," theonly threatening form. hallways Wednesday, students in the dark about the presence of 'We took air samples and we squeezed through on their way asbestos above their heads. didn't find a building, or a site to the bathroom or kitchen "I don't know if it's asbestos or within a building, where there Sophomore Dan Margrey, a not, said a worker who asked was a reading indicatingiany dan- ground floor resident, said the not to be identified. "I'm really ger," Properzio said. 'When it's students have to leave their fate not qualified to say. If it is, I'd be air-carried, it can be inhaled, to the expertise of workers. worried about it though. When then it can get lodged in the lung. "I don't know what require- you work around pipes, you do Since it's almost chemically what you hase to do, what you're ments there are," Margrey mid. inert, it doesn't get dissolved by "You just have to hope they take told to do. But I'd be worded. I the body." don't like having my lungs all the precautions necessary. I blocked up." Asbestos, a combination of don't know if they are or not." UF Housing Director James several minerals, is an effective Wednesday afternoon, Grimm Grimm said he Informed Hope's insulator, but the microscopic fi- said he called Hope Electricians firm about the asbestos in Hume bers were identified in the 1960s; to remind them of the asbestos. Hall before the project began. ABA cause of cancer and diseases "I just got off the phone with "Miscommunlcation. I think similar to the "black lung" found the contractor and I told him in coal miners, Propertio said. 'Hey, tell your workers we have "We perform follow-up sur- asbestos up there' and he said veys every six months because 'Ihey know, I told them already' the situation can change," Pro- and I said, 'Well, maybe you perzio said. "If something falls didn't,'" Grimm said. "in any down, or a pipe leaks and some- case, I told them to come out in thing slips, the asbestos can be- the morning and tell their guys come air-carried. le' something they're working about 18 inches we have to keep up continual away from the stuff, work on." "I also told them that if they In areas where workers had come across anything of con- removed ceiling panels Wednes- cern, to call me up and well take day, there were visible rips in the a look at it," Grimm said. asbestos lining, frayed edges one Employees at Hope's firm said MT St SUZEm CO -m ST Above: A UF student walks pst open ceiling tiles in Hume Han worker said were present before only the owner could comment whoe, right, pipes expose the cancer-causing material asbestos. their work began. Properlo said on the situation. He did not re- he would send a survey team to turn phone calls Wednesday al. Hume Hall this morning to take ternoon. 3 LA - 24 ALLGATIOR. THURSDAY. 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