4—The Daily Collegian Monday, Aug. 27, 1984 | ■| ■ | I - I - m ' ■ ■ I I The Daily Collegian Monday, Aug. 27, 1984—5 High tech industry safety is questioned | Park Ave. construction almost complete collegian notes By FRED BAYL.ES . —— ' illness rate among workers making semiconduc- I Road construction in the northeast section of /•* • *- v ITT tZSSZI Associated Press Writer ‘Manv illnesses mav not he tors that v f as . three , times the norm in other I campus, aimed at rerouting trucks and through ; s:r * Ui ‘- — '' ' ■ ; • The Penn State Juggling Club • The Newman Student Associa diidi imptom n/i „ .. ... i y . . , , , manufacturing industries. I traffic around State College, is scheduled for ' r " \ A H will hold its first meeting of the Fall tion will sponsor a special mass to hnS« R u M Slhn 7Sri im J'i/llmSh as work-related The hazards have not gone unaddressed. Indus- i completion by Sept. 1, the director of University *. I \ , > RfIAU Semester at 8:30 tonight in 133 White celebrate Fall Semester at 7:30 to tSSLL*S\ rAwSMTSSJ and manyillnesses don’t show 1 I \ -* ■ ; _ 8u “ 8 ....„„ ... night i„ Mower chapel. deliberately or accidentally inhaled arsine gas, a up until after the worker has omnlmrooc ohm if t nv i« cnhcfannac otl j.« • * l ill MflV IS nflrt Of ttl6 State C 011656 t)VD£ISS COll* ' * . I>Alv> A f- ■ |r: fiiu* ia j j mtotKS rUSedlo,:ookC ' r "" l 8 left the firm.’ (ects. The law goes into effect later this year. l stnictio’n, which will connect Park Avenue, the jjKi I ClnUSul/ \ ”1,“ today? Wednesday DOliC© IOCf Si'z-ju. was in a hospita, h,. k,dneya -Jack Barry, Bos, on region Labor WB > 1 V behind Park, ng Ut St. t, hie hypasa. Mr 1 -\ ' —***~"~™ ~ E 2 failing. Eleven days later he was dead. Department unknown health risks HHH| THB f* to a demand in State College for additional routes. Bj L. ~ „ * Collppp RpaHinp Occupational safety experts and union orgamz- K W J Stormer said the tie-in to Park Avenue will be a J 1 fering a two-credit College Reading • Anthony Smith, 2215 Circleville ers say Zemotel’s death dramatizes the dangers Solvents like tnchloroethane and methyl ke- HHI \ | ma ior University entrance and will allow access to Improvement course Mondays and R oa d, reported yesterday the theft of lurking in the laboratories and production lines of tones, used to make microchips, are known to MMI .. ..3 Centre Community Hospital. Park Avenue will *MWBBBBBMBU^Ii^^I9^EMfr( •M&Q&ssSmS'' MB ImBT • JHt, Wednesdays, fifth, sixth, and seventh his wallet from his car between mid the nation’s booming technology industries. that those in the business of manufacturing elec- affect the human central nervous system. Epoxies | extend to the hospital. JH periods during Fall Semester. Those night and 1 a.m., University Police The critics deride the public notion of high tech tronic components and accessories have an acci- an d chloronaphthalenes used to protect circuit | He ac jded that Pennsylvania Department of - interested should register for the services said. Smith’s car was as a “clean industry,” where workers in white lab dent and illness rate nearly half the national boards are suspected carcinogens. f; Transportation workers could have finished the course at the College of Education parked in Parking Lot Orange B coats worry more about contaminating their prod- average. Others fear the long-term effects from the pro- Mf H work last week, but were hindered by wet weather £¥ B Jm JBf ‘ i office in 181 Chambers - outside of Sproul. uct than contaminating themselves. In 1982, the last year of complete figures, high duction of gallium arsenide microchips, cheaper • V during the summer months. Bl—Mar A • Fall Orientation Tours for grad “ The myth has got to be debunked," said Ken tech manufacturing workers nationwide had a 5.8 and faster components that may someday replace . -•. H I Stormer said traffic normally on Park Avenue uate students will be held at 10 a.m., 2 •• Kurt Murray, 121 N. Gill St., told Geiser, an associate professor of urban and envi- percent incidence of injury and illness, compared silicon chips. B i : and University Drive will be routed to Curtin Road p.m. and 4 p.m. today in Pattee. University police his bicycle was ronmental policy at Tufts University. “It is not to 10.2 percent for all manufacturing jobs. The production process uses arsine gas a com- HHR I I until Sent. 1. Other roads in the area will he WBB^mmBSB^^^^±JSSSStSSSSSSSSSS^SS^ • The staff of the Penn State Ensi st ? len Saturday from the south side of that high tech is more dangerous But Jack Barry, chief of occupational safety and bination of hydrogen andarsenicthat canbe fatal HRgfi I || temporarily designated as one way. .'i.. , ne * r Magazinewillholda meetingfor Wll . lard - The bike is valued at $389, But industry officials say isolated incidents have lems that could crop up year! fate" 1 mStS^dMrS V,or Hf ' \] M I 61^111 beCaUSC at been overplayed and claim one of the best safety “Many illnesses may not be recognized as work- 8 ’ 8 BP IHIBI i -‘ /w 1' < - 1 / |i “We didn’t have the faculty staff and normal records in U.S. history. related and many illnesses don’t show up until Zemotel’s employer was MA-COM, which makes BVBI // / \ -’J 1 fill w Jkdav traffic "he sad [f _ “You talk to all the environmental affairs and after the worker has left the firm,” he said. telecommunication components. The company mg HI iff \' / .> W f/B However manv arriving students did have to J\ • Environmental Protection Agency people and Few studies have looked into the long-term had transferred Zemotel from arsenide gallium W|J ///■ - J f /[/, g ft I? they’ve been saying the high tech sector has a very health effects of the high tech workplace. Geiser chip production when a routine health check m W : ‘v/JH- tJJ, ■ ■, i J/J ■ |;i R P th Smollon (soDhomore-Pre-law) said it took *T* IH if IVi WfWA ¥. I .INF? :;high health and safety record,” said Charles mentioned a 1983 study in the British Journal of March found his urine contained higher than 11', _ . I he f a bouUs minutefto get to BiZ *■ Baker, a spokesman for the Massachusetts High Industrial Medicine, which reported that electron- normal levels of arsenic. The levels later returned ** ‘ B i' campus " J —••—. ~ , p Council. ics workers in Sweden, whose health was tracked to normal. . ■ 0 «(The traffic) made it ’ reallv miaerahle fnr ... - . . ni„i„r d„,h AVOIO tllG rUSS, ;• The American Electronics Association esti- over a past decade, had a higher than average But MA-COM officials say they have witnesses I people trying to move in," Traceyßentzel (senior- Workers oversee construction that has been taking place all summ r a r g Rent St Terminal frOUl iIS •.mates some 2.4 million people work for companies incidence of cancer in the respiratory system. and a deathbed statement by Zemotel to prove he I V H f-;4 individual and family studies) said. “People han- also kept the congestion to a minimum. “We will just have to bear with it because there , producin B or using electronic components; in Geiser also said a 1980 report by the California went into a room without authorization, removed a H died it really well, though.” Stormer said motorists should allow an extra 15 will be congestion,” Stormer said. Get Your Own for Home ‘Massachusetts, about 300,000 people work for Department of Industrial Relations had raised panel from the cabinet containing the gas tanks, H -J Notices in the faculty and staff newsletter, to 20 minutes if driving in the affected area this He said the final coat of asphalt was put down S°„ * )usiness ®’ • questions about the immediate health effects of , took off a protective cap and released a stream of mH • 1 H . » television releases and letters to departments in week, especially from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. He sug- Wednesday. Motorists can look for new traffic Rpct Rates Best Hardware •r US ’ Bureau of Labor Statistics figures indicate the high tech workplace. That study reported an gas into his face. ' I' H i | Shields and Wagner helped keep unnecessary gests that students walk to the administration lights at University Drive and Shortlidge, Bigler HH • I'- v ; c HI r l traffic from the area. Traffic control personnel buildings. and Fox Hollow roads. —by Nancy Stewart Ilille r-i jl|_ i ■_ § g _ _ m f - ffl: doutn raifiis computers Flu outbreaks may be caused by sun A f % / m rr ~r. usg senate spends weekend wi5e.«!«.«.,8u»e 304 a ' " Bnf r , ./ BB y 1 -\#par-nln rfllAQ 1 . 234-1262 LONDON (AP) A new study the “midsummer” curve, when the ' ■K ftm J m 3 uiuman uico acquainting itself with issues V J suggests that influenza epidemics are sun is directly overhead. _ , , . .. , BH|Bk . .Jj&F' l llp‘ Jf “f-IH j X4~.1l ——a——— irißg—«■ nimin^ triggered by global movements of the T he data showed that, for example, Such phenomena occur because the seasonal mBT ' il IH T3II TrOITI 300110101110 and Sfitt PIQ SGITIGStGr S aoals sun and its rays - not by the random two widely separated localities on the variation in the SUn’S.movements along each line , , „ lnnoro „ rinc u ° arrival of alien viruses. camp linp nf intihidp Prague and £ • ... ■ .. . . .. , J A 21-year-old Palmyra man fell Anne uervinski. mn^ The study by Dr. Robert Hope-Sim- - SfLZ of latitude activates the latent flu virus existing 1 | illllllmn llWlIBBi to his death early Friday morning Borough police are still investi- The Undergraduate Student Govern- the senate is going to combine some ' ""““““"’TT a pson of Britain’s Epidemiological Re- 0 f simultaneous flu outbreaks caused in those areas. He did not explain hOW the 1 in an accident at the Alpha Chi gating the incident, but no further ment Senate left the hustle and bustle of its committees and narrow down O ’ \ search Unit, published in the latest bv the same virus between 1969 and activation orrurrprl 'FtHBHHHHHHHHHB i;f Rho fraternity house, 425 Locust information was available, Stuller of State College this weekend to get each one’s purpose. Some of the com- X X IJ pQIf IV® | Journal, of Hygiene, researched all duiivduon uuuu eu. Lane - S3ld '- its senators better acquainted and to mittees may be eliminated. A « 1® maior flu outbreaks around the world . ’ , , „ , , n r Rnhprt Hnnp-Simnsnn nf Rritain’*? Fnidpminlnniral ISi .dT ali '"4 Kerry Holsinger of 230 E. Maple University Police Services, al- lay out semester goals. “We want to put a lot of them 1 1 Mm Seen iS and 1975. A comparison between England DQo ° r -^°. b HOp e Sim PSOn Of Britain S Epidemiological [ [gjlj W—l St., Palmyra, climbed the scaf- though not involved in the investi- USG Presidenf Adam Levinson together,” Cooney said. “That’s the j />-?\ I TJoCltf \V® J Hope-Simpson said current medi- and Ne w South Wales m Australia, Research Un t Bwjfeife'IjaJBBBBBBBBBIBBIBBi folding attached to the house and gation, reported yesterday that said the retreat, held at camp Blue basic idea.” , 1 | //OT I I ■ 1 cal opinion that the flu virus travels two regions on latitudes roughly equi- fell about 40 to 50 feet when the Holsinger was a senior at Eliza- Diamond in Mooresville, gave the The senate will also be working ;ygl 1 V J I via endless —and sometimes interna- dlstaiol trai " tlie equator,. turmer . ,| scaffolding apparently came loose bethtown College and was appar- new senators an opportunity to learn more on publicity, she said. m>\ \ > * ~~ I tional chains of direct transmission pealed that t e same virus spar areas. He did not explain how the virus is reactivated, such carriers OPEN NIGHTS UNTIL 830 M. “F I from the building, said State Col- ently just visiting State College. how USG works so they can make an “It still takes a lot of effort for &!■&» X < ' >u O I of the disease from individual suffer- °“ e piaemies m ° oca 10ns ome ac ti va tion occurred. become for a short period intensely r A .. r ■ ■ . r ! lege Police Corporal James Stul- He attended Summer Session at “educated” start on the semester. senators to find out what students feel ssssl /Vr~3l M V \ ers, fails to explain why epidemics six months, apar . The latent virus is carried in the infectious to their non-immune com- VlbA , MU, AMt X , dAHI ("001 CHHu '1 ler. University Park campus. “There’s a lot of new senators and and vice-versa,” Cooney said. “In the \ tend to be seasonal. Hope-Simpson said such phenome- tissue of people who suffered and panions, he said. Holsinger was transported to Holsinger is survived by his Adam (Levinson) thought it would be past, we’ve had a problem with visi- =5 \ AL' I He identified a chronological pat- na occur because the seasonal varia- recovered from flu in the previous Influenza symptoms usually occur I Centre Community Hospital by parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hoi- a g oo d idea (for them) to get bility.” ,\ At* \ tern, with the so-called flu seasons tion in the sun’s movements along epidemic, he said. abruptly, with fever, muscular aches, ! ambulance where he was pro- singer of Palmyra. away.. .to get to know each other,” Levinson said the retreat, which \ . V 1 . occurring around the earth’s surface each line of latitude activates the Though themselves immune from a and inflammation of the respiratory ■ . B ( nounced dead at 2:25 a.m., accord- Town Senator Michael McDonald cost $lOO, was funded through Asso- bs#J /iTftl Ifrllt \ in a curve rouehlv six months behind latent flu virus existing in those recurrence of the illness, when the mucous, membranes. m m ■mm at VARA B ing to nursing supervisor Mary —by Terry Mutchler said. dated Student Activities. \ U\ .liLtyff \ , f B I Senate President Kate Coonev said —bv Steve Wilson \ W We’re Open \ } ATTENTION MEMBERS OF THE } FRATERNITY RUSH DOUBLE SAVINGS ( Headaches 138 E. Ma, 2^^^^ e y ou: \ J UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM... J I TRADE-IN SALE I > sye Strain Boaisburg # omelettesl \ J Please notif y the office < 214 willard ) of y° ur fall address } Meet Representatives from all of SAVE TWICE: first on trading-in your old calculators and I ■ ( due to bare I i • BurS® rS I V JAS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 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