Western Front - 1985 April 12

              FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1985 WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WA VOL. 77, NO. 19
Abcstos insulation
removed from pipes
By Tom Yearian
Western maintenance emp­loyees
have completed the remo­val
of asbestos insulation from
underground steam pipes on
East College Way behind Miller
Hall.
Al Gran, supervisor of repair
and construction, said the insula­tion
was damaged by rain that
had seeped into steam pipe
trenches and needed to be
replaced to conserve energy. The
pipes are being re-wrapped with
an asbestos-free insulation, Gran
said.
Asbestos is a carcinogen and
the cause of asbestosis, a painful
and often fatal lung disease from
breathing asbestos particles.
The potential hazards
involved in handling asbestos
required the use of special proce­dures,
Gran said. Barricades and
warning sighs had to be posted
25 feet from the work site, and
the two maintenance personnel
who were removing the old insu­lation
were required to wear pro­tective
clothing and respirators,
he said.
Gran said as soon as the pipes
are exposed the insulation is wet
with water to prevent the asbes­tos
from being carried in the air.
The insulation was put in red
plastic sacks and transported to
the King County Regional Land­fill,
the nearest designated asbes­tos
disposal site, he said.
R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of the
Department of Labor and Indus­tries
took air samples when the
work was started and currently
are processing them, Safety
Inspector Walt Springer said.
Western should receive the
results of tests sometime next
week, he said.
The project was started during
spring break and was slated to be
finished before school resumed.
Work was slowed, however,
when workers discovered several
sections of pipe had deteriorated
and needed to be replaced, Eric.
Nasburg, capital projects man­ager
of the maintenance project,
said.
. The estimated cost of the pro­ject
is $11,800, Nasburg said.
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Just a touch of additional mortar and Phil Amarando will
finish filling in one of the 1,000 cracks on the face of thcr
Performing Arts Center. His work is part of an ongoing pro­gram
to seal and maintain the exterior surfaces on campus.
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Budget bites student loans
By Tricia Meriwether
Students will lose $200 million
in the federal Guaranteed Stu­dent
Loan program next year
and can expect to lose an addi­tional
$100 million each year
through 1988 when the loss will
reach $400 million. This is part
of the Reagan administration's
plan to reduce the federal deficit,
according to a newsletter by the
National Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators.
Three weeks ago, the Senate
Budget Committee met and
agreed on a $60 million savings
budget for 1985-86.
"This amount is conceivable
without seriously hurting stu­dents,"
said John Klacik, acting
director of financial aid at
Western.
The amount of savings could
be made possible through reduc­tions
in lender (bank) interest
subsidies, he said.
The lender receives interest on
all loans made, Klacik explained.
Each lender receives interest at 4
percent greater than the quar­terly
treasury bill note rate. On
every loan made right now, the
bank gets an interest rate of
approximately 13 percent, he
said. Had the budget been
approved, the banks would have
taken a 1 to 2 percent reduction
in that figure.
One week after the budget
committee meeting, however, the
Senate decided it had failed to
come up with reasonable savings
and budget figures, Klacik said.
The $200 million figure was
chosen because "that was the
original proposed savings from
Reagan," he said. In addition,
the program must save $300 mil­lion
in 1986-87 and $400 million
in 1987-88 he said.
How to go about saving this
money hasn't been firmly estab­lished
at this time. Klacik specu­lated
it could come in three
forms.
First, a reduction in the inter­est
subsidy toienders of approx­imately
2.5 percent for 1985-
86 is likely. If this happens, "a
great number of lenders will be
forced out (of the program), but
the major banks like Seafirst will
remain," he said.
Second, the interest rate stu-
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