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...would not be too keen on teaching Nat Sci 110 again without another computer," William H. Bossert '59, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics said yesterday...
...happily remembered old movie. There is an irresistible urge to improve it, expand it, stamp it with the personalities of the remakers. So it is with the new, all-new version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which was just fine, thank you, as a cheap, neat, slightly loony sci-fi horror picture...
...Wednesday, November 15, the Nat Sci 3 staff found a successful alternative chemical, methylene chloride, which was used exclusively in the lab starting Thursday. The staff deserves credit for the quick action taken to find a substitute for EDB. But it was irresponsible to needlessly expose students to this suspected human carcinogen in the Tuesday and Wednesday labs...
...Sci 3 professor Bennie R. Ware, associate professor of Chemistry and Veronica Vaida, assistant professor of Chemistry, rightly point out that the high-dose NCI animal study does not conclusively prove that low levels of EDB can cause cancer in humans. But the scientific community is currently debating he validity of extrapolating animal carcinogencity data to humans. This debate is far from resolved, and many scientists feel that the discovery of potent cancer-causing ability in animals must be taken as strong presumptive evidence for a human cancer threat. That's the reason why NCI did its animal study...
Ware and Vaida also seem to take the position that the laboratory hazards are simply a part of laboratory work and that singling out EDB for scrutiny is unfair since it fails to take into account the many other hazards necessarily present in all labs, including the Nat Sci 3 lab. But teaching laboratories can be made safe, or at least safer than they are now, and they should...