Word: halogens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advice is just never heeded. Last week, it was announced that the Class of 2001 will be warned against the purchase and use of halogen lamps in spite of the fact that no suitable alternative has been suggested by the administration. Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans, refusing to outright ban the lights, wrote in an e-mail message, "We will tell entering students that halogen floor lamps pose a potential fire hazard and that students need to use incandescent or fluorescent lamps in freshman dormitories...
...well aware that halogen lamps have caused fires and deaths in the past. According to a Consumer Product Safety Commission report, halogens caused 100 fires and 10 deaths last year in America. But we need to see, and we will continue to use halogens regardless of the University's policies if there is not an equivalent to the lamps proposed...
...have seen a fire caused by a halogen lamp, and I'm pretty glad they're prohibited," said Barry M. Fine, a first-year at Yale...
...doesn't particularly bother me. I have an incandescent floor lamp in my bedroom. It's just as good as the halogen in our common room," said Grays Hall resident Michael B. Leslie...
...begins to look into this issue, things such as halogen lamps become part of the discussion," said subcommittee chair Robert Mortimer...