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Men prone to
lung disease
United Press International
BALTIMORE — A Johns Hopkins University study says males are
more susceptible to chronic lung disease than females.
Cigarette smoking was found to be by far the most important factor
associated with a person’s risk of developing the disease that partially
obstructs lung capability.
But the study showed the lung capability of male non-smokers was
similar to females who were heavy smokers. Female non-smokers had
the best results, while male smokers had the worst.
Harold Menkes, director of environmental physiology at the Johns
Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, said it appears females
lag 10 to 20 years behind males in development of obstructive lung
disease.
The situation, however, differs as far as lung cancer is concerned.
Wilmot Ball, associate professor of medicine, said the female appears
to be as susceptible to lung cancer from smoking as the male.
The project also found, contrary to previous studies, that alcohol
consumption alone does not appear to increase a person’s risk of
developing obstructive lung disease.
Another surprising finding was that people who drink at least three
cups of coffee a day had more lung dysfunction than those who do not
drink coffee when all other factors such as age, smoking and sex were
discounted.
And yet, said Menkes, those who drank tea did not show significant
differences in lung disease from those who did not drink tea.
Menkes said the findings did not show that a specific factor causes
lung disease, but merely identified an association for more study. He
said he and co-workers have not yet looked into the reason why males
appear to respond to cigarette smoke differently than females, but it
was unlikely differences in smoking habits were responsible.
“The chronic forms of lung disease result from an interaction of many
factors, including both genetic and environmental,” Menkes said.
“The end result in an individual depends on how they interact in him. ”
The study, reported in the American Review of Respiratory Disease
and discussed at a seminar last week, also found that people low on the
socio-economic ladder have more lung problems than those of a higher
status.
Your assignment
cardboard furniture
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By LAURA RUTHERFORD
Campus Reporter
After the unpacking is done, most
people wonder how to get rid of the
cardboard boxes piled ceiling high.
Engineering students at Texas
A&M University have proved there
is a useful purpose for these eye
sores: cardboard chairs.
Dr. Richard B. Griffin said the ori
ginal assignment for his engineering
analysis students was to make a chair
out of an SV^-by-lO-inch piece of
cardboard, the kind found on the
back of a spiral notebook. The stu
dents weren’t allowed to use glue,
tape or staples; the chairs had to be
of cardboard only.
The chairs, about three inches
wide and four inches tall, had to sup
port 10 pounds.
“I thought 10 pounds was a lot of
weight,” Griffin, assistant professor
of mechanical engineering, said.
The chairs surpassed Griffin’s ex
pectations, as they not only held 10
pounds, but three continued stand
ing under 95 pounds of weight.
Griffin said he did not originally
intend to have the chairs scaled to
normal size but “it seemed like a
natural extension of what they had
done. I never envisioned that they
would be as successful as they were
with the little models.”
Griffin said some of the chairs
could support three men. A student
who weighed 240 pounds, tested
each large chair by sitting on it.
The designs ranged from a small
stool with cardboard rolled into
cylinders for legs to a chair made out
of a refrigerator box and shaped like
a winged-back plantation chair.
Cardboard furniture is not a new
idea, Griffin said. Some pieces are
sold in many stores, but some of his
student’s are lighter and more effi
cient. He said his students achieved
maximum results using a minimum
amount of material.
Lawyers claim
discrimina tion
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Justice
Department, accused by a group of
black, Hispanic, Asian-American
and American Indian attorneys of
discrimination, may have to investi-
1 gate itself.
Eight leaders of a grodp known as
the Racial and Ethnic Minority
Attorneys Caucus filed a formal
administrative complaint last week
after two years of informal talks failed
to bring a settlement with depart
ment officials.
A summary of the complaint
charges the department’s six major
“ legal divisions discriminate against
minority attorneys in hiring, training
| and promotion.
It said the department has failed to
J recruit more minorities — about 8
( percent of lawyers in the six divisions
i, are minorities — or to proportionate
ly promote those in the department.
The complaint also alleges minor-
1 ity lawyers have been denied equal
access to formal and informal train
ing and that non-minority attorneys
get the best cases. It charges a “dou
ble standard” is used to evaluate job
performances by minorities, with
non-minority lawyers granted
awards disproportionately.
Dennis Scrivens, the depart
ment’s acting Equal Employment
Opportunity Officer for Offices,
Boards and Divisions, said he had
received the complaint, and he will
discuss certain language in the com
plaint with caucus leaders.
William Robie, deputy associate
attorney general, would say only that
the complaint is unprecedented.
If the complaint is accepted, the
department has 75 days to investi
gate it and negotiate a settlement, or
the caucus may request formal hear
ings.
A source in the caucus said an in
formal complaint from black and His
panic attorneys was first filed May 1,
1979. Indian and American Asian
attorneys joined the complaint with
in a few days.
But no agreement was reached in
informal talks with former Attorney
General Griffin Bell and Attorney
General Benjamin Civiletti, both of
whom have pressed their own affir
mative action efforts.
The new complaint alleges discri
mination against ethnic and racial
minorities in the six divisions that, as
of last June, had 1,710 lawyers, of
whom 135 were minorities.
The divisions named include anti
trust, which had 16 members of
minority groups among its 411
lawyers; civil, 23 of304; criminal, 19
of407; tax, 23 of262; lands and natu
ral resources, 10 of 153, and civil
rights, which had the highest per
centage of minorities with 34 among
its 174 attorneys.
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