Health rally attacks G.O.P. BY KATHRYN DEMOTT For the speakers at Friday's "Make A Difference Rally" - a fo- rum on public health issues spon- sored by the Public Health Student Association and the Public Health Students of African Descent - the choices are clear in the upcoming election. No improvements in public health and environmental policy can be made until the Democratic party re- gains control of the White House, warned School of Public Health alumnus Mike Silverstein, director of health and safety for the United Auto Workers in Detroit, and other speak- ers at the forum. Silverstein, who spoke to about 20 people on occupational and industrial health, said the Republican party has failed to enforce the Occupational Safety and Heath Administration's laws. The country needs a political Sparty that will regulate chemical standards at state and federal levels and protect the Workers' Right to Know laws, which would obligate industries to tell workers when they are working with hazardous chemi- cals, he said. As of now, "30 percent of al workers suffer damaging effects from chemical exposure," he said. The Reagan administration has left S these problems up to the private sec- tor, Silverstein said. Silverstein illustrated the differ- ence between the two parties by the stances their vice-presidential candi- dates took on the High Risk Notification bill, which was in Congress last spring. The bill - which would obligate industries to identify and inform workers of high-risk chemical levels and direct them to proper services - was supported by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and vigorously opposed by Republican Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Indiana). "The last eight years have enacted our grimmest nightmares," he said. In 1980 the Reagan administration dismantled the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, allowing the *fireworks and meat packing indus- tries, two of the highest risk indus- tries, to be exempt from O.S.H.A. inspections, Silverstein said. Rackham graduate student Corey Dolgon and LSA senior Tim Hawkins, both from the Public Re- search Group in Michigan's Toxic Stop Tour '88, also urged voters to vote yes on proposals C and D, which would collectively allocate $800 million in state bonds to clean up the environment. The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 31, 1988 - Page 5 Speakers support Proposal A at rally BY ALEX GORDON The sun shone through the noon- time clouds briefly Friday, casting an optimistic glow on the six speak- ers attempting to rally support for' the defeat of Proposal A on the November 8th ballot. Supporters of Proposal A - which calls for the end of tax-funded Medicaid abortions - have been appealing to voters through their pocket books, said Judy Levy, bar- gaining chair for campus AFSCME, the workers' union. "The right-to-life (group) is mak- ing abortion a money issue to hide their contempt for woman's rights under the pretense of saving money," Levy told the crowd of about 50. Former Ann Arbor mayor and practicing physician Ed Pierce agreed and pointed out that the proposal would, ironically, cost the tax payers more money in the long run. Those most affected by the pro- posal if it passes would be the younger pregnant women about 13 or 14 years old, he said. A child born to a mother that young would most likely go on welfare, ultimately Cathy Cohen, a member of the United Coalition Against Racism and 'Abortions will go on; a People Organized for Women, determined woman will Equality and Rights, told the aud- ,biience the proposal has a racist and get an abortion - it not classist bias that would hurt the often an issue of abortion... It's defenseless poor. safe vs. unsafe.' Illustrating that "the religious -Former Ann Arbor right do not represent all religion," Don Coleman, a spokesperson for mayor Ed Pierce the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights said it is the "will of God that all children be wanted, that they be costing the taxpayers much more cared for, planned, and able to be costngythe apay0 eimchidmore ncaeof'. money than a $300 Medicaid abor- Those opposing Proposal A have tion. found voter unfamiliarity with the Pierce added that whether or not issue to be a major stumbling block. the proposal passed, Abortions will The few students who wandered by go on; a determined woman will get the rally seemed to attest to this. an abortion - it's not an issue of "I hate to sound ignorant, but I abortion: yes or no. It's safe vs. un- don't even know what it is," said safe." LSA junior Howie Nicholl. The proposal is on the ballot in POWER member Pam Kisch and two other states besides Michigan Susan Sherman, co-chair of the next week. Only the state of Col- MSA women's issues committee orado has cut off Medicaid funded said the rally helped inform people abortions by a vote, and 15 states that the real issue is not tax dollars. still provide the service. Several re- The proposal's leaders, they said, spected state leaders, including are "a group of people against Governor James Blanchard, have women's rights and in favor of criticized the proposal. compulsory motherhood." JESSICA GREENE Dolly Former Ann Arbor mayor Dr. Ed Pierce speaks about the dangers of Proposal A at a rally Friday. State committee declares collider safe BY NOELLE SHADWICK Health risks to people residing near the largest proposed superconducting supercolli- der will be insignificant if Michigan wins the bid for its construction, a state committee said in a report last week. The report released by the 18-member committee - including health and business officials, scientists, Stockbridge residents, and environmentalists - concludes that "there are no significant health hazards to the general public" due to the conservative safety design of the conductor and special features of the Stockbridge area, where Michigan would build the conductor. The proposed $4.4 billion collider would shoot high energy protons at nearly the speed of light through a 53-mile oval-shaped tube with a diameter of about two inches. The pro- tons would crash into one another at various intervals, causing them to fragment into smaller particles called quarks. The protons are not dangerous, the report said, but when they collide, the fragments be- come unstable. Most of these fragments only last for a few billionths of a second before de- caying into simpler components, but some of the fragments are radioactive. The half-lives - the amount of time i1 takes half of the atoms in a radioactive sub- stance to disintegrate - of these elements are usually only a few days. But two of the by- products last longer. Tritium has a half-life of 12 years. Sodium's (Na22) half-life is 2.5 years. Yet, the amount of tritium and sodium produced by the superconductor will be low. The total buildup in the soil from the conduc- tor, according to a Department of Energy re- port, would be approximately 1.2 percent of the current EPA standard for tritium in drink- ing water. The sodium build-up would be 36.4 percent of the EPA's standard. The amount of tritium and sodium isotope produced is equal to "one atom in a bucketful of dirt," said Roger Dardan, associate director of the SSC in Michigan. "There is more tri- tium in the surface water now than would be created by the SCC in a decade," Durdan said. The longer half-lives of tritium and sodium allow them to migrate further into the soil and water underground. However, because the Michigan site is composed of bedrock, migration would be minimal. The proposed depth of the site, 130-150 feet, would be an additional safeguard against radioactive elements surfacing or entering the water table. The conductor is expected to emit no more than 10 milligrams of radiation a year. Hu- mans normally absorb about 5,000 milligrams per year of naturally occurring radiation from eating, drinking, and sitting in sunlight, Dardan said. In the event of a "catastrophic accident," the greatest health risk would be to people working in the conductor, the report said. For : instance, if any of the almost 10,000 super- conducting magnets that hold the protons on track were to fail, the force of the protons would cause it to penetrate outside the tube. The proton could create a tunnel of about three feet before losing energy. There would be no health hazards unless a worker were to stand directly in the beam's path, the report said. This possibility is safe- guarded against by not permitting workers in the tunnel while the beam is up. Additional health hazards to workers could" evolve from ordinary construction risks,. transportation of radioactive wastes, or fire.o' Fright Continued from Page 1 Fine's interest in vampire lore was sparked by research into 19th century Slavik court records. There he found numerous references to "vukodlaks," creatures whom "40 days after death a devilish spirit en- ters and enlivens." He said the vam- pire became a scapegoat for those who had no other explanation for sudden and tragic events. Traditional methods used by 19th century Serbs to combat vampires included digging up the suspicious corpse and then subjecting it to a variety of treatments - decapita- tion, shotgun blasts, pouring boiled wine through the intestines, or piercing the heart with a stake. 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