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i Monday, April 29, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 STATE AND LOCAL Students warned of credit scams By REBECCA ADAIR Staff Writer As college students approach raduation, credit card companies pproach students. Promising the ecurity of establishing credit early, hese companies make special deals or seniors and juniors. “It’s always easier to get credit fhen it’s offered to you than when ou apply,” said Amanda Adkisson, isiting professor of finance at Texas A&M. Pam Spillers, manager in charge ( college accounts for Dillard’s de- artment store, said students apply- tig for credit need not have a pre- ious credit record or a co-signer, itudents are required to provide >arents’ address, she said, in case iills need to be sent after a change of iddress. Parents are not liable for layment, Spillers said. “We’re trying to give students a hance to explore with credit and my the things they otherwise xmldn’t have,” Spillers said. Students should be aware of the lazards of owning a credit card and hould know how to protect them- elves from credit card fraud, Adkis- on said. Giving credit card numbers to un- nown callers or carelessly tossing iway card receipts are some of the vays consumers unwittingly fall vic- im to credit card fraud. Misappropriation, a more subtle ype ol fraud, is the use of a card lumber, not the card itself, without 60 days after the first bill containing the error was mailed. Only a letter protects owners’ rights under the Fair Credit Billing Act. The card issuer must acknowl edge receipt of the letter or correct the error within 30 days. He must in vestigate and correct the mistake or justify the charges within two billing cycles car 90 days, whichever is less. Geologists oppose Texas nuke waste site The tips on guar the owner’s permission. Misappropriation may occur in a variety of ways, according to an American Express pamphlet: • A caller says that to qualify for a discount vacation or a special invest ment opportunity the only needed information is card number and ex piration date. • Discarded card receipts or car bons are used to get numbers for making counterfeit cards or for or dering merchandise by mail or phone. • A dishonest clerk makes an ex tra imprint from the credit card for his or tier own use. Many students hesitate to give out information over the phone, and with good cause, Spillers said. Some companies do solicit information il legally, she said. The pamphlet also provides tips for preventing further loss once a credit card is misplaced. The pamphlet recommends call ing the card issuer at the first sign of loss. Legally, once theft is reported, the owner has no further liability for unauthorized charges. The maxi mum liability under federal law is $50 per card. If an owner suspects a card is be ing used illegally, the first step is to send the issuer a letter including name, account number, the charges in question and the reason for suspi cion. The letter must reach the office which handles billing errors within pamphlet also gives several juarding credit cards: • Sign new cards as soon as they arrive. • Keep complete records. • Destroy incorrect receipts. • Save receipts to compare with billing statements. • Report promptly any questiona ble charges. The pamphlet also lists things not to do. Never: • Lend cards to anyone. • Leave cards or receipts lying around. • Put a card number on a post card or on the outside of an enve lope. • Give a card number over the phone unless initiating a transaction with a reputable company. Another recommendation from Adkisson is always to use the same signature when using a card. Some companies have records of signa tures and will not accept one that looks unfamiliar. it should keep d when they !*■ ■ct Visibility. Al | Id won't ion like the» .knowledgedini le that Studeni formal powers, gh Student Cot- I visor y powers, i taut becausetk follows Student! onsuimers can avoid food poisoning By BRIAN PEARSON Reporter Following a few simple rules of ^ bod handling, preparation and lorage will help consumers avoid rake it any better, salmonella poisoning, said an A&M- nutrition specialist and a poultry sci ence professor. Marilyn Haggard and Dr. Freder- jtk Gardner said salmonella, a dis- ise-causing bacteria, can be found ip many raw food products. “Any raw products like meats, gs, chickens and those sorts of tings have the potential for having the salmonella bacteria on them,” Haggard said. I Though a recent discovery of Salmonella poisoning from milk in the Chicago area has caused con- >w what siuder Ve (Student Go’ people with mi ior political» ml editorial pill >n. cern, Haggard said the majority of problems start in the home. “We probably have more prob lems with salmonella in the home be cause of the way people handle food,” she said. Haggard said salmonella is con tracted most commonly through “cross contamination.” For example, if a consumer cuts a raw chicken contaminated with salmonella and uses the same knife when cutting vegetables for a salad, then the vegetables also become con taminated, she said. Haggard said this problem can be avoided by washing the knife with hot, soapy water after use on raw meat. People can also get salmonella poisoning through improper storage and cooking of raw meat, she said. Haggard says heating food above 150 degrees Fahrenheit usually will kill the bacteria, but food must first be thawed thoroughly. Storing foods below 40 degrees Fahrenheit also inhibits the growth of salmonella, she said. Haggard said some of the symp toms of salmonella poisoning are nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea and fever. “It can mimic the flu,” she said. These symptoms usually last two or three days, but the poisoning is usually not fatal, she said. Haggard said salmonella spreads through the environment by fecal contamination. Salmonella is found in the digestive tracts of animals and Gardner said scientific efforts are devoted to keeping the spread of the bacteria at a minimum so it can be controlled easily. Gardner said beef is less likely to contain salmonella than poultry products because the skin is re moved before packaging. Salmonella is found on the sur face of meat rather than in the mus cle, mostly because of the way it is handled, he said. “If you cut into it, then you can transfer organisms into the tissue,” Gardner said. “The problem we run into is product abuse,” he says. “If the product is handled the way it should be handled, salmonella should not be a problem.” By MARYBETH ROHSNER Staff Writer The U.S. Department of Energy is not following federal regulations in choosing a site for a nuclear waste dump, a spokesman from the gover nor’s office said Saturday. Steve Frishman, a geologist with the Texas Office of Nuclear Waste Programs said the designation of Deaf Smith County as a proposed nuclear waste dump site is the result of the federal government’s disre gard for technical factors. “The Waste Policy Act is being cir cumvented in site characterization,” Frishman said. “The government just wants to use what it already owns.” The Waste Policy Act says geology must be the primary criteria in choosing proposed sites said Frish man and Renea Hicks, a representa tive from the Texas Attorney Gener al’s Office. The state of Texas has filed a law suit against the Department of En ergy to prevent the construction of the site in Deaf Smith County. “We’ve done nothing but say to the DOE, ‘We don’t think what you’re doing is legal,’ and now we’re going to the courts to see if they ag ree,” Hicks said. Hicks and Frishman said the geo logical factors of the proposed Pan handle site were not taken into con sideration, especially since the Ogallala aquifer flows a few hundred feet above the saltbed in which the nuclear waste would be stored. The Ogallala is the principal source of ir rigation water for the area. “The hydrologic issue is probably the most critical now,” said R.L. Len- tell, a geologist with Woodward- Clyde Consultants. The source of the geologists’ con cern is that the saltbed, which is lo cated 2,500 feet below ground level, has a tendency to develop fractures, allowing water to flow through the layer of salt that would house the containers of radioactive waste. DOE spokesman Thomas Bailliel said this characteristic of the salt layer is not a valid concern, however, because the salt has a tendency to “heal” itself and close off fractures. “(The saltbed) can be a very suita ble host rock for nuclear waste dis posal,” Bailliel said. “There is very little pore space be- Thomas Bailliel tween salt granules, so it has a very low permeability,” said John Peck, a geologist with Stone 8c Webster En gineering. “The only way radioactive substances could escape from the re pository would be by fluid flow.” According to Frishman, the geo logical features are not the only basis for the government’s decision to des ignate the Deaf Smith location and two other locations in Washington and Nevada as proposed repository sites. “There are geologic settings that have been intentionally overlooked,” Frishman said. “It’s a political prob lem. The governor of one state and the mayor of a city told the DOE ‘Get the hell out of here and don’t come back.’ The DOE got the hell out of there and didn’t come back. To date, we haven’t resisted DOE investiga tions. In fact, we’ve been more coop erative than we should have been.” If the Deaf Smith location is ap proved by President Reagan for fur ther study this summer, the DOE will begin a series of investigations on the area. Construction will begin on the facility if the site is approved and the DOE projects that the repos itory should be ready to accept waste from nuclear power plants by 1998. The technical and legal issues sur rounding the U.S. Department of Energy’s proposed nuclear waste dump in the Texas Panhandle Re gion were the topics of debate and discussion Saturday at the aqnual meeting of the Texas Section of the Association of Engineering Geolog ists. lion 360 jf ocialion i Conference orial Board , Editor laginj’ Editor vs Editor al Page Editor ity Editor orts Editor n Staff i Dietz,Jerry Oslin nderson, Jan Pern idilor John Hah Charean Williams kiely, Walter Sml Bell, Meg Cadigan, oy, Ann Cervenka. iwlord, Cindy Gay, Kirk, Jens Koepka, i, Mary McWorter, 'ang, Tricia Parker, Marybeth Rohsner, Gigi Shams' Adair, Mike Davis, Wendyjohnsoo Ed Cassavoy Basile, Cami Brow Patti Flint John Halltii Wayne Grabeia Greg Baib, asper, Frank Hada, w kins, Jaime Lppet Michael Sancliei ’olicy (‘Hstipixirlinif nmpupcf ncr if) Texas AM W HmiHoii arc those of if* inti tit) nut nccessarilj W LMmliimtnitois, ini uli' hlmtory ncwsuuperfi" .inti pktoffraph) clw miiiHiiim. olicy not md ,W ranis» to the iiffht loeriilftllK 1 ti'owjc/rornoiminiiii mil u signed mfaiu* MMiljernfllieimitr. 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Sneed Donna Rosemarie Soell Joel Wayne Steelman Celeste Marie Treadway Phat Tien Vu Dana Ann Weber Glena Sue West Celeste Ann Wilcox Lauren Ellington Wiltshire Keith Wayne Zamzow COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN James Eustace Carrillo John Elmo Collins Linda Weills Custer Linda M. DeSalvo Robert Franklin Doane Denise Elaine Edwards Scott Benson Grissom Hobie N. Horton Michael Scott Johnson Thomas R. Kostelecky Kathleen Mildred Jenkins Kurth Lizette Marie McConachie Margaret Rose Sicola Ann D. Yakimovicz COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Robert D. Powell ....... Nell W. Page Shirley E. Bovey Wesley E. Donaldson, Jr. Otto R. Kunze Nell W. Page Wesley E. Donaldson, Jr. Shirley E. Bovey Francis E. Clark Elenor R. 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