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The Red & Black | Monday, September 19, 2005 | 3
LAUREN CARROLL | The Red & Black
▲ Valentina Tapia, a freshman journalism major, listens to
her iPod on the Myers quad on Sunday. “I try to keep it
at a reasonable volume,” Tapia said.
Headphone
volume can
damage ears
By REBECCA BOWEN
rbowen@randb.com
If you have 50 Cent blast
ing through your earphones
and the people across from
you on the bus are nodding
their heads to the beat,
chances are your iPod is
cranked to a dangerous vol
ume, said a University audi
ologist.
“I figure it’s no big deal
because it’s not as loud as
the concerts I go to,” said
Matthew Hayden, a sopho
more from Waynesboro who
said he listens to his iPod as
loud as possible to drown out
the noises around him.
University audiologist Dr.
A1 DeChicchis said The
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) suggests
people not expose their ears
to 85 decibels for more than
eight hours a day.
“Every time you increase
that decibel level by 5, you
have to reduce the permissi
ble listening time by half,” he
said.
Portable music players
like iPods reach maximum
decibel levels of 91 to 121,
according to a 2004 article in
the Journal of the American
Auditory Society.
Using NIOSH’s guide
lines, students should keep
the volume setting under 70
percent and never listen to
their portable music players
at maximum volume for
more than a few minutes at a
time.
Taylor Leigh, a senior
from Snellville, said he keeps
his iPod’s volume level
around 80 percent.
“I don’t see any immedi
ate consequences,” he said.
Both Hayden and Leigh
said they probably would not
turn down their iPods even if
they were told they were
damaging their hearing. But
another University audiolo
gist said students could be
affecting their hearing for
years to come.
“It’s very much like harm
ful sun exposure in that peo
ple typically aren’t affected
until years later,” said
University audiologist Alice
Sanderson.
DeChicchis said noise-
induced hearing loss occurs
when small hair cells in the
inner ear, called sensory cells,
are damaged. These cells
affect how the ears send sig
nals to the brain.
He said there also is some
evidence that small ear
inserts — versus over-the-ear
headphones — produce a
greater sound level in the
inner ear and could be more
damaging.
Though these problems
are generally slow-develop
ing, DeChicchis said, many
people temporarily lose some
hearing after loud rock
shows or prolonged head-
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DeChicchis said every
time a person experiences
this temporary hearing loss,
the chances of repair are less
likely.
“We live in a louder and
louder world,” he said,
adding that this results in a
tendency for more young
people to experience noised-
induced hearing loss.
Many students, however,
successfully keep their music
at lower levels — though not
always for health-related rea
sons.
“I just don’t want anyone
else to hear my songs,” said
Amanda Robinson, a junior
from Lilburn.
TRASH: 50,000 pounds hauled away
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four of those years in the sta
dium.
“Somebody’s got to
do this,” Baughns said.
“Everybody can’t sit behind a
desk.”
The stadium crew sweeps
the upper deck once, hand
collecting each bottle, wrap
per and piece of litter
between the rows. The lower
section, with more rows,
requires two sweepings.
Later, cleaning crews from
the athletic department will
use blowers to get rid of
peanut shells and smaller
debris.
Other workers fan out
across campus, picking up
trash and collecting on aver
age 1,000 strategically-placed
cardboard trash bins.
The cardboard receptacles
were introduced in response
to complaints from fans.
“In the past, people used
to complain we didn’t have
enough,” said Whittemore,
referring to trash bins. “And
trash went everywhere.”
After almost five hours of
constant work, the crew col
lected about 25 tons of trash,
the equivalent of 50,000
pounds.
Bigger games against
major SEC rivals can produce
up to 60 tons, or 120,000
pounds of trash, Fox said.
American Services
deposits all of the collected
trash in the Athens-Clarke
County landfill.
The average cost of clean
up fluctuates, but it usually
exceeds $25,000 per game
and includes labor, materials
and landfill fees, Whittemore
said.
Leftover charcoal is a
problem that consistently
complicates the clean-up
process, said Whittemore.
Though charcoal is illegal to
have on campus, fans contin
ue to use it for grilling hot
dogs and hamburgers. The
smoldering material can be a
major fire hazard.
“Historically, we have
found fires in metal dump
sters on campus,”
Whittemore said. Once, a
dump truck caught fire due
to warm charcoal, he said. He
urged fans to remove used
charcoal or use gas stoves.
Fox, whose company has
been in charge of clean-up
for the past nine years, said
he has seen a steady increase
in the trash produced by
fans.
Matt Bradchowski, assis
tant director for event man
agement, offered three rea
sons to explain the increase:
a larger stadium capacity, a
better football team and
technology such as portable
grills and televisions that
cause fans to stay on campus
longer.
For the workers, at least
on this Sunday, trash pick-up
was business as usual.
With sweat streaming
down his cheeks, Charles
Smith worked his third
clean-up picking up litter in a
North Campus parking lot.
“It’s not nasty at all
today,” he said.
GAS: Annual mileage around 3 million
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have to find ways incorporate
the higher rates into their
existing budgets.
The departmental budgets
for this term already have
been set, so the new rates
may mean the departments
can’t do as much traveling.
Nesbit said department
heads will be able to incorpo
rate the higher rate into
future budget requests.
He said University employ
ees travel about 3 million
miles a year in their personal
vehicles, but the exact num
ber can be difficult to project.
If the number of miles
traveled stays around 3 mil
lion over the next year, the
rate hike could lead to an
overall increase in over
$600,000 for all departments
combined.
“Sometimes a negative
budget impact is positive
overall,” Nesbit said.
“Increasing the rate was the
right thing to do.”
Garber, whose department
works with faculty and indus
try groups all over the state,
said his department will have
to manage its travel to stay
within its budget.
Other universities in the
Southeast have increased
their reimbursement rates as
well.
Thursday, the University of
Tennessee announced a tem
porary increase from 38 cents
to 46 cents.
The increase will be
reviewed before the year’s
end, according to the univer
sity’s Web site
(www.utk.edu).
The federal rate set by the
GSA, which is designed to
reimburse employees for the
cost of gasoline, insurance
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RYAN NESBIT
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merchant
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vehicles
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