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For more information, please contact [email protected]. wKmrnmOBmSmBBBSSSSSm i • • • • O ' GEORGE-ANNE Vol. 59, No. 9 Statesboro, Georgia 30458 December 4, 1978 Poor Ventilation In Foy Causes Health Problems By KAREN PAUL as you develop it, and in the affairs, said, "It's not a exhaust system for the dark process you are leaning over matter of being aware of the room involved "more than tubs of all these solutions." problem, it's a matter of just putting in a fan because GSC photography instruc- Students have complain- being able to implement it. not only do we have to take tor Tom Raab was recently ed of nausea, stomach We've realized ventilation precautions that light won't awarded workmen's com- cramps, and skin and eye was a problem as early as last get in, but also make pensation for respiratory irritations caused from the year, but we can't do provisions, for replacing the damages caused from intensity of the solution everything overnight." air taken out of the room." working in the non- vapors. Cook said the college was Cook was unable to ventilated dark room of the "You can't seem to ever in the process of accepting determine how soon the Foy Fine Arts Building. get rid of the smell of the bids from various contractors plans will be complete, but Raab said he suffered solutions," said Andrea and estimated the project to said "Plant Operations is "severe ulcerations of the Cappelli, a photography cost around $4-5,000 for a acting as quickly as possible nasal passages" from student. "Those vapors temporary solution. to resolve this serious inhaling the concentrated permeate your hair, your He said that providing an problem." vapors of various photo- clothes, and your nose. graphic solutions because When I leave the lab. I smell there was no exhaust system that stuff all day, I taste it all to draw them from the room. Fomer GSC Student day, and I often get He says plans are now headaches from it." being made by the college to remedy the problem. Raab said his doctor had "Ventilation is a vital advised him to stay put of the Among Slain In Guyana requirement for the healthful dark room until the burned operation of a dark room nasal passages can heal. Don Harris, NBC corres- television job with a station because the chemicals used "But I can't stay out—that's pondent who was recently in Charleston. are dangerous to inhale, and my job!" he said. murdered in the Guyana He later held other radio many form by-products Raab now has a respira- mass suicide disaster while and television jobs in Tampa, which mix in the air and tor, furnished by the art investigating the religious Fla., Ft. Wayne, Ind., present a serious hazard," he department, to allow him to cult there, was a former Washington State and remain in the photography Dallas before being hired by A photography student wears a respirator while said. student of Georgia Southern "In the dark room you are lab. NBC as an investigative working in the laboratory. College. constantly inspecting a print Bill Cook, director of fiscal reporter and anchorman at Harris, a native of Vidalia the network's station in Los attended then Georgia Angeles. Teachers College while Harris, 42, who was Foy Draws Faculty, Student Complaints working at local radio station married and had three WWNS in 1954-55. children, began his journa- He changed his name usm career as a teenager provided, but with no vision, said Solomon. class and my eyes began to By KAREN PAUL from Darwin Humphrey working for a Vidalia radio ventilation it is one of the Sue Boykin, a student bother me and we hadn't when he landed his first station. Health hazards, stemm- most dangerous places in the presently taking print- even done anything yet." ing largely from inadquate building." making, said she will have to Solomon says, "I give my ventilation, have troubled Silk screening is a hand get a new pair of contact students an option of doing students and faculty in the printing process in which an lenses because the ones she some of the printmaking art department for eight image is reproduced by wore during plate etching methods because it's not fair years and the problem forcing ink, paint or dye were ruined by the acid they to require them to work in deserves immediate atten- through a stencil made of silk absorbed. these conditions." tion, several faculty members or another fine fabric. Many After suffering from eye To protect himself say. of these inks, paints and dyes irritation, Boykin sought Solomon has his own gas "Those serious conse- contain solvents which aid in medical attention and was mask. To help students, he quences we always warned drying, or are used to clean warned about the hazards said he has taken indepen- could happen, are now up afterwards. which could be created by dent action to reduce as much happening," said one staff Solomon says serious working in such an environ- of the hazard as he can. member, referring to the case problems could result if ment. He installed his own of photography instructor vapors from these solvents "I plan to give up etching ventilation system in an Tom Raab who recently are allowed to accumulate. because I'm worried about acid cabinet where intaglio received workmen's compen- "Super Blox" used in screen my eyes," she said. plates are etched. The cabinet sation for respiratory printing contains methylene Acetic and nitric acids is a large box with a lift up damages caused by a lack of chloride, which is a central used in etching and panel. To etch a plate, a ventilation in the dark room. nervous system depressant. lithogn phy are also highly student must lean inside the Plans are now being made It is metabolized to carbon irritat' og to mucous membra- box to work with the acid. to provide ventilation in the monoxide and inhalation in nes and respiratory tracts "I purchased an acid photography lab and several concentrated form will give whe. inhaled. Students fume hood at surplus in art instructors say that equal symptoms of carbon mono- claim that, even while Atlanta for $40, and using attention should be given to xide poisoning, as it reduces wearing protective goggles, plywood found laying around the other workrooms in the availability of oxygen to they suffer the effects of the in the building, an eight-inch Foy Fine Arts Building. tissues. inadequately ventilated stovepipe, and help from The Christinas tradition is coming; it's just been Bernie Solomon, instruc- room. some friends, I was able to delayed. The annual lighting of the oak tree behind Methyl alcohol and opex tor of printmaking, said there Julie Wooten, a second- install ventilation to reduce Williams Center has been postponed until tomorrow lacquer, if allowed to quarter printmaking student, is no ventilation in the silk the amount of vapors inhaled night at 6:30, due to the rainy weather of last accumulate in the air, can screening workroom. "Silk said, "The vapors seem to in the cabinet." Thursday, when the ceremony was originally cause eye irritations, and screening can be relatively hang in the air all the time. I See HEALTH, p. 2 planned. safe if proper ventilation is even result in failure of walked in on the first day of ■*m Page-2, December 4, 1978 Health Hazards In Foy Building Draw Criticism Con*, from p. 1 now dampen part of it before instructor said the room has sculpture room, which causes to raise in considering the ventilation?" another mixing), and they no longer a large garage-sized door He said thai although the their classrooms to be stuffy cost of total ventilation is student asked. fan was an immediate store bags of dry clay in the which opens to the outside and "hard to breathe in." whether we should put a lot of Faculty members in the solution, it is hardly classroom. and a fan which he installed But heat is not the only money into renovations, or art department say that the adequate for what is needed They also keep a door at himself "because the request serious danger involved in go with a whole new problem of poor ventilation to prevent safety hazards. the back of the room open for the door took over two the welding process of metal structure." and health hazards has been Solomon also has his while mixing. years." and other kinds of sculptur- Some students fear that recognized for about eight "But that's not enough," He said he cut a hole in the students clean .their silk ing. Ozone and nitrogen instead of being renovated, years but that nothing has said Posner. "There is no air wall and installed a $17 screen in a nearby fire compounds produced and the studios will be closed been done to remedy the movement. The dust does not surplus fan which temporar- stairway because the toxic inhaled can cause a severe down.