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The Red and Black • Thursday, November 1, 1990 • 3
Prof: Birds aren’t fair game
By CUNT BARRENTINE
Campus Correspondent
There seems to be no biological
reason for hunting animals that —
unlike deer — don’t damage their
habitat, a University professor of
forest resources said.
Ernie Provost, leading a seminar
on hunting, said Tuesday that
wildlife management isn’t an ad
equate excuse for shooting animals
like quail and dove.
“I’m asking for a reasonable bi
ological justification for hunting
quail, and I haven’t heard one,"
Provost told a group of forestry stu
dents, hunters and others at the
School of Forest Resources.
Hunting deer is an efficient and
necessary way of keeping fast
growing populations from using up
food resources, he said.
But quail and dove don’t pose
any real threat to the habitats of
other animals, Provost said.
Provost, who does hunt, scud the
purpose of the seminar was to get
hunters to develop a set of philo
sophical and biological justifica
tions for their sport.
“There are a hell of a lot of non
hunters, and decisions involving
hunting are going to be made at
the ballot box by the non-hunters,"
he said. “If we want them to vote
our way, we have got to give them
some legitimate answers.
Provost rejected a suggestion by
an audience member that quail
and dovo should be hunted because
they would die anyway.
“Just because they’re going to
die, does that mean we should go
out and kill them?" he said.
Jeff Jackson, an extension wild
life specialist who attended the
seminar, said hunters shouldn’t be
required to provide any academic
reason for hunting because it is an
elusive question.
“One of the biggest mistakes
hunters make is saying the reason
they go out and hunt is that they’re
performing some kind of popula
tion reduction service," he said.
Laura Echols, a sophomore
Italian major and co-chair of the
Student League for Environmental
and Animal Protection, said she is
dubious about human attempts to
manage animal populations
through hunting.
“I’m against hunting, and I’m
here to find out why they hunt,"
she said.
Tuesday’s seminar is part of a
series presented uy Provost fo
cusing on ethical and scientific is
sues of hunting.
SAFETY
From page 1
may be needed, Peck said.
One project put on hold due to
the budget splice is new organic
labs that work to cut down on
toxics released by solvents that
contribute to the existing ventila
tion problems, he said.
Even though it may or may not
be funded in time, Peck said the
move would be one that is environ
mentally sound.
He said the explosion that oc
curred two weeks ago was just an
accident, but that safety proce
dures will be stressed more to stu
dents and faculty that use the
facility at any time.
“Such an accident makes us
more conscious of safety,” Peck
said.
He said no new rules will be im
plemented because the current
rules are adequate and are being
followed.
Peck said every student involved
in the explosion was wearing gog
gles, which is the first basic rule.
Although there was no failure of
students involved to obey existing
policies, Mary Mellein, an adminis
trative manager in the Public
Safety Division, said there should
be more adherence by students to
the policies and rules during any
experiment to keep such events
from happening again and being
potentially fatal.
Peck said there have been no
complaints of physical symptoms,
such as the ones mentioned in the
committee’s early report.
One much-publicized health
case involved Connie Logan, a sec
retary at the chemistry building in
October of 1984, who left the de
partment after complaining of
Lab radiation safety tightens up
By JENNIFER PETERSON
Campus Correspondent
The University’s Office of Ra
diation Safety has tightened up
on laboratories and researchers
as a result of an inspection by the
Georgia Department of Human
Resources and the Nuclear Regu
latory Commission, according to
a University official.
Radioactive materials are used
— for X-rays, research and va
rious experiments — in most Uni
versity science departments, and
the Radiation Safety Office is re
sponsible for controlling these po
tentially harmful substances,
said Alan Brown, Radiation
Safety officer.
The state inspectors, who vis
ited in January and February
1989, stated that the problems
must be sufficiently corrected, or
the University will lose its license
to use radioactive materials,
Brown said.
The most serious offense found
by inspectors was the unautho
rized transport of materials.
Moisture and density gauges
are transported to smaller “ex
periment stations” across the
state for research, including labs
in Tiflon and Griffin, Brown said.
These gauges have sealed
sources of radiation.
‘They’re not really dangerous,
but it wasn’t clear about now to
transport them,” he said. “We
made copies of the rewritten
rules and passed them out to ev
eryone.”
Inspectors also noted problems
with the waste disposal system —
the Radiation Safety Office
wasn’t enforcing correct proce
dures in which each department
labels its waste.
“We used to pick it up regard
less of correct identification and
then notify the lab of the error,"
Brown said. “But now we leave it
with them to correct."
The inspectors also said that
survey meters in a few labs
needed calibration.
“When meters are calibrated,
they are simply checked to see
that they are measuring the cor
rect levels of radiation," Brown
said. The departments are now
required to record the results on
the monthly surveys.”
Asa Boynton, Public Safety di
rector, said Radiation Safety is
part of the Public Safety Divi
sion’s Environmental Safety De
partment. Federal and state
regulations required the estab
lishment of the office.
Brown said Radiation Safety
officers regularly inspect labs
using radioactive materials,
making sure the labs follow state
and federal laws governing radio
active materials. Sometimes the
office announces inspections;
sometimes they are surprise.
Radiation Safety officers en
sure, for instance, that the bio
chemistry department — which
uses a liquid form of radiation to
label tissues — follows safe proce
dures.
Biochemistry Professor Leon
Dure said that over the past two
years, the Radiation Safety Office
has tightened up on researchers
considerably.
headaches, swollen legs and dizzi
ness while at work.
Logan said she had no proof that
her health condition was related to
the ventilation problems, but
heard other employees complain.
Logan worked in Room 215-B,
which was located in an area tar
geted by the committee’s report as
needing “critical and immediate at
tention.”
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