The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 16, 1979, Image 7

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    Soise pollution
Called hazard
United Press International
Sf LOUIS — Smelly air and filthy water are obvious pollutants.
[excessive noise generally is considered to be only a nuisance.
|Yet health hazards from prolonged exposure to loud noise are just
1 real as the problems caused by air and water pollution. Jerry
j | iwe iker, an engineer specializing in noise control, wants the public
I listen to advice about noise.
Noise levels keep increasing with the growing population and
y |th growing industry,” said Schweiker, a founder and past president
"the Midwest Noise Council.
"It's the third pollutant, but except for people who live near air
land places like that, they don’t notice the effect it has on them.”
■Council members range from health professionals to industry rep-
HgHiBsentatives. Their services include public seminars and consultation
thgroups and industries trying to work their way through the maze
igovernmental regulations on noise control.
Public awareness of the longterm effects of noise is growing,
■hweiker said.
When we first began being concerned with it, it really threw
Lstry at large,” he said. “They didn’t know anything about noise.
1st plants dealt with general safety, but noise was something they
jdn’t think about.
|The current fight over noise control, with industry on one side and
ieEPAon the other, is over acceptable levels of noise in the work-
EPA officials want to reduce the current standard of 90 deci-
Js to 85 decibels for eight hours.
Unions also are fighting for the 85 decibel level, and they want
dustries involved to take responsibility for engineering noise dam-
jners into their plants rather than requiring workers to wear ear
Sectors.
possibil- Schweiker explained the noise levels this way: a park setting might
It on the ive noise measured at 40 or 45 decibels, while normal traffic might
e earths isc the level to 50 decibels and noise at a busy intersection may be
o testthr | ^ as 60 or . 65 decibels
Heavy manufacturing produces sound measurable at around 90
libels, he said, a point at which normal conversation is difficult
itb someone standing six feet away. Noise at a rock concert or a
sco may exceed 105 decibels.
After 20 years of daily exposure to 90 decibels, Schweiker said,
out 3 percent of workers begin losing their ability to hear high
jquency. The higher the level of noise above that point, the higher
epercentage of persons with hearing problems.
His concern is not with quibbling over a difference of 5 decibels
way or the other, because he said the measuring instruments are
it that sensitive. Schweiker and other members of the Midwest
jise Council just want to see progress toward controlling noise.
Meanwhile, he wants people to know that noise can hurt as much
whom 10 J dirty air and water.
Noise is a localized problem, but it’s like hearing a dripping
The sound might not be so bad, but after a while it can drive
n batty.”
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1979
Page 7
Dancers
delight
By PEGGY C. McCULLEN
Battalion Reporter
Seven of the 15 Soviet Union re
publics were represented by the
Kafkaz Dance Ensemble last night
in Rudder Auditorium when a
kaleidoscope of dancers delighted a
full house with their native dances.
Swirling figures garbed in a rain
bow of colors kept the stage alive for,
two hours. As agile men leaped
weightlessly from the stage floor in
pursuit of the beautiful village girls,
the orchestra played faultlessly.
Native instruments made of wood
and drums played by the dancers
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Battalion photo li> Colin Ciombie
Dancers of the Kafkaz Dance Ensemble kick their heels last
night during the OPAS presentation of A Festival of Russian
Dance. These Kafkaz, or Caucasian, dancers are here danc
ing the “Adjarian Dance ‘Gandagan’.”
themselves added gaiety to the fes
tive numbers.
Thunderous applause followed
each dance. When men bearing
swords sent sparks flying, orchestra
seat occupants sat low in their
chairs.
The excitement never ceased and
the smiles never faded. A soloist
from Siberia mimicked a fisherman
happily dreaming of finding his fish
in the pond. Indeed he did — a
lovely blonde maiden.
An unforgettable sight were the
seven Armenian drummers who
placed their instruments on the
ground and danced “en point” while
exhibiting incredible stunts of walk
ing and spinning on the knees, Rus
sian splits, and no-handed
cartwheels.
The company received a standing
ovation and two curtain calls.
OPAS, you did it again.
Scientists dive
to study Monitor
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Using sophisticated diving and underwater ar
chaeological equipment, scientists will make more than 30 dives to
the wreck of the USS Monitor to see if it can be raised.
The government-sponsored investigation of the wreck of the Civil
War-era ironclad ship will be conducted during a three-week period
in August to decide whether salvage would be safe and feasible.
“Although it is far too soon to decide whether or not the Monitor
can safely be raised, the expedition will provide valuable additional
information to help us ultimately make this decision,” a government
spokesman said Wednesday.
The remains of the Monitor were discovered in 1973, under 210
feet of water 16 miles off the North Carolina coast. It sank in 1862
while under tow off Cape Hatteras.
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The resignation Wednesday of
Fred Hopson as A&M Consolidated
School District superintendent will
not affect a Texas Education Agency
hearing scheduled for March 13.
Hopson resigned, effective March
1, to take a job as superintendent of
the Leander Independent School
District. Leander is north of Austin.
The A&M school district received
confirmation Thursday from TEA
that the hearing will be held con
cerning the $54,400 that Hopson
was paid upon termination of his
contract.
"The case has already been doc
keted, so it will be heard unless the
parties bringing the suit don’t say
any different,” said Margaret Cog
TEA staff attorney.
College Station resident Oran
Jones, who requested the appeal,
said he still wants TEA to go ahead
“mainly because I was not arguing
about Hopson’s termination; I was
arguing about the expenditure of
the funds.”
Board members agreed in a re
negotiated contract in November to
pay Hopson $54,400 — $34,400 to
represent his annual salary and
$20,000 for damages as a result of
early termination.
The money is now in trust in a
College Station bank. Hopson will
not get it until 1984.
The board terminated Hopson’s
original three-year contract in
November, citing "disagreements in
policy and policy implementation.”
The renegotiated contract was to
expire on June 30.
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