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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, September 30, 1971
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
FDA claims criticism
of PCBS is unjustified
‘Wanta know how you could help?”
WASHINGTON <A>) — The
commissioner of the Food and
Drug Administration declared
Wednesday there has been un
justified public alarm over dis
covery of the industrial chemi
cal PCBs in food. He blamed
alarmists and what he called un
balanced reporting.
“We still have as many ques
tions as answers but we do have
some answers,” said Dr. Charles
C. Edwards. “We do know that
as a toxic substance PCBs are a
potential but not immediate
health hazard.”
Bulletin Board
Tonight
Beaumont Hometown Club
meets in Lounge B between dorms
two and four at 7:30.
Circle “K” Club will hold an
organizational meeting in the
Business Administration Build
ing, room 152, at 7.
Cephid Variable Science Fiction
Club meets in the Ballroom at
7:30 to see films.
Panhandle Hometown Club will
meet in the Social room of the
Memorial Student Center at 7:30.
Austin Hometown Club meets
in the Memorial Student Center
rooms 2C-D at 8.
Eagle Pass Hometown Club will
meet in room 2B of the MSC at
7:30.
Laredo Hometown Club meets
in room 3B of the MSC at 7:30.
Mid-Jefferson County Home
town Club meets in room 2A of
the MSC at 8.
Motorcycle Club will have a
film in room 201 of the old Vet
erinarian school at 7:30.
Listen up
Some Ags are immature
Editor: efficient. The sloppy jobs that bow? Why do things on wheels
I just had another run in with they do require that it be done roll across the room? Why can
immaturity here at A&M. A guy over and over again because they someone running up the stairs
was kissing his girlfriend good- never quite finish a job to perfec- shake the whole building. Why
night when three guys in a car tion. I had occasion recently to does the shower upstairs drip into
drove by. The whoops were irri- watch their work. Across the the one downstairs ? Why has the
tating if not disgraceful. The guy- street from us they tore up the shower rusted out between the
girl ratio may be poor but that sidewalk, graded the yard and water taps and the university
doesn’t mean we should condone spread dirt, and replaced the con- tells us to fix it? There are
rudeness. During a Town Hall crete. This took five days—a job many more. I will leave it up to
series, Helen Reddy sang a song that would have taken an effi- our “illustrious” university ad-
that made reference to sex. The cient crew, maybe two, days. Sev- ministration to answer these
whoops came in ready abundance. eral times a day when I looked questions—as if they ever will.
Have some demented persons for- out no one was there, or they Mrs. Ronald L. Nelson
gotten that there is another sex, would be lounging around talking. The university is not allowed
is it necessary to show off in rude Do they really get that many by state law to make a profit
displays or have some people al- breaks during the day? off of any dorm or apartments,
ready given up ever getting a I have also seen three or four There is no way they can “take
date ? men sent to do one job. The oth- him for all they can get.”
It may be funny the first time ers watch and give moral support Howard Vestal, Director of
but next time look around and to one man who works. When he Management Services, said that
see the frowns of disgust. gets “tired,” another one takes more personnel are required be-
Mark S. Abramovitz over. Is this necessary? Also, are cause of the poor condition of
★ ★ ★ more maintenance men needed to the older apartments. That is the
Editor: pull such stupid stunts as putting reason for the increase, which
I read on the front page of both barriers across the middle of all was recently halted by the Office
The Battalion and The Daily th e streets in married housing? of Emergency Planning.
Eagle that the rent increases on Why should I have to take an Also, the buildings are not con-
married housing was needed to extra $7 a month out of our mea- demned. They are scheduled to
“proved for employment this year # er $ 180 a month intake to pay be replaced in the future, when
of additional maintenance person- f °r al l this foolishness ? the university is able to.
nel and to meet debt service re- Second, the utility rates can’t If you have any more com-
quirements for enlargement of go U P during the freeze, so the plaints or questions the Student
the utility system.” I would like university was trying to make Apartment Council, headed by
to say a few words about this. more profits out of the rent in- Paul Amons, is available to every
First the university wouldn’t crease — as if they don’t make resident of the married student
need to’ hire additional mainten- enou ^ h P rofit now - Also ’ 1 have apartments,
ance men if their crew were more seen no evidence that they have E d.
increased any utility services to
the apartments. We still have on- mmci
villain ^ one electrical outlet to a room ^ t0 COIKl,1Ct
—a potential fire hazard because PoliCG COlirSG
B of all the extension cords needed. A&M’s Engineering Extension
qJ gg1e |a /"I The university seems to be here Service will conduct a one-week
&& not to help the student but to course to explain probable cause
^ ^ . take him for all they can get. in criminal arrests beginning
riCCCIS edltOr * feel that the university should Monday in Madisonville.
build low-rent married housing The course is sponsored by the
Applications are being taken an( j ge t r id 0 f these buildings they Brazos Valley Development Coun-
for editor of the Civilian Section acquired for temporary use in cil through EES’s Police Training
in the ’72 Aggieland. the 1940’s. I have heard (from Division.
Any hall resident who is class- friends who were refused fire in- Chief Instructor Ira E. Scott
ified sophomore or higher and surance for this reason) that expects 15 law enforcement offi-
is not on any kind of probation is these buildings are condemned. cers from the seven-county area
eligible. Filing may be done in Renovating them doesn’t help if to enroll. Classes will meet from
the Student Publications office, they are about to fall apart. The 8 a.m. until noon in the Madison-
room 216, of the Services Build- more I see, the more convinced ville City Hall,
ing. I am that these buildings are Bob Austin and Tom Robinson
The application deadline is Oc- condemned. Are our fire escapes of the police training staff will
tober 8, 1971. safe? Why do the door jambs be course instructors.
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The FDA announced Monday
it had discovered PCBs, which
have been implicated in human
skin and liver ailments as well
as in birth defects in animals,
in seven packaged foods and was
surveying 15 foods nationwide for
PCB contamination.
So far this year, PCBs have
forced the destruction or deten
tion of chickens, eggs, turkeys
and fish.
“Public confusion has created
public alar mand a feeling of
still another crisis in the food
supply,” Edwards told a news
briefing.
Edwards did not name the
alarmists nor cite the unbalanced
reporting he blamed for the con
fusion. Consumer advocate Ralph
D-N.Y., have been critical of the
FDA’s handling of PCBs.
Dr. Albert C. Kolbye Jr., dep
uty director of FDA’s bureau of
foods, noted that someone would
have to eat a half-pound of food
contaminated at the highest level
permitted by the agency every
day for six months to show ill
effects from PCBs.
“But human exposures to food
contaminated to this extent are
infrequent and sporadic,” said
Kolbye. “To our knowledge we
are not aware of any foods con
taminated at significant levels on
a regular and consistent basis.”
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