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...Simon J. Frankel...
...Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO: "Labor is not supporting testing in the workplace. As part of a physical exam for new employees, it is acceptable, but otherwise there are problems of violating civil rights." Some unions also fight against firings of workers with drug problems. Rockwell's Frankel quit as the company's medical director in 1983 partly because, he says, management repeatedly gave in to union demands that drug abusers be reinstated in their jobs...
Even the space program has not been immune to the drug plague. Dr. Howard Frankel, who was medical director of Rockwell's space shuttle division from 1981 until 1983, says that he treated employees who were hallucinating on the job, collapsing from cocaine overdoses and using marijuana, PCP, heroin and numerous other drugs while they worked. Frankel estimates that 20% to 25% of the Rockwell workers at the Palmdale, Calif., plant, the final assembly point for the four space shuttles, were high on the job from drugs, alcohol or both. During the construction of the spacecraft, police raided Rockwell...
...tragedy. The solid rocket booster that is suspected of causing the explosion was made by Chicago-based Morton Thiokol, and no reports of drug use among its employees have surfaced. Nonetheless, any drug abuse among production workers in the space program or the defense industry carries grave risks. Says Frankel: "In this kind of ultra-high-tech work, the guy who makes the little adjustments, the screwer-on of parts, the bolter of nuts, is just as important as the project's chief engineer...
...standing committees. Anita Ramasastry '88 was elected to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. Joel A. Getz '86, Jennifer O'Connor '87 and Timothy A. Welsh '88 were elected to the Committee on Advising and Counseling. Daniel A. Simkowitz '87 was elected to the Committee on Athletics. Simon J. Frankel '86 and Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 were elected to the Committee on the University Library System