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UNL cuts
fuel use
by third
by John Russnogle
Students and faculty chilled by the University's attemps
to reduce fuel consumption should be warmed by the fact
that fuel usage has been sliced by about a third.
Harley Schrader, UNL physical plant director, said that
in the 1972-73 academic year the UNL campus required
4,200,000 gallons of heating oil but he projected a total
usage of 3,000,000 gallons in this academic year.
Fuel conservation methods at UNL began months before
an international fuel shortage began forcing reduced fuel
consumption, Schrader said. A cutback in the physical
plant's budget caused him to begin fuel conservation.
Although fuel usage has been reduced considerably,
Schrader said the physical plant is still operating at a
deficit.
"Fuel savings do not represent a dollar savings but a
reduction of our deficit spending," he said.
Schrader said the steps were not taken before this year
because the time was used for more profitably work.
Skyrocketing fuel costs, however, changed priorities.
Fuel prices being paid by UNL have almost been tripled,
according to Ron Wright, assistant director of business and
finance. UNL is budgeted to pay six cents a gallon for the
oil, but prices have reached 22.5 cents a gallon and are
expected to keep climbing, he said.
Methods used to reduce fuel consumption are raising the
temperature of rooms in warm weather and reducing the
temperature in cold weather, Schrader said. A '"light's out"
campaign was begun in June.
During the interim the temperature in buildings not in
use was set as low as 40 degrees, Schrader said. Time clocks
have been installed in buildings to turn off the heat when
the buildings are not in use.
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Experiments using prison
inmates to test drug effects
warrant careful supervision but
prisoners should be allowed to
fxulicipate in them, according
to Norval Morris, director of
the University of Chicago's
Center for Studies in Criminal
Justice.
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ethical and legal aspects of
using prisoners in medical and
pharmacological experiments
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Morris said he visited prison
hospitals in Illinois and found
that prisoners "tend to favor
continuance of being allowed
to participate in drug
research."
He explained that before
the Federal Drug
Administration decides
whether a new drug is safe for
public use it must go through
three stages of testing.
The first stage, Morris said,
deals with disease treatment
and involves laboratory
animals. Prisoners are used in
the second stage to study
collateral effects, while the last
stage uses volunteer citizens
and concentrates on studying
the drug's effect, he said.
He said an example of a
collateral effect would be is a
person's hair fell out as a result
of some medication he was
taking.
Morris, who during the last
two years surveyed prisoners'
roles in medical experiments,
said he either has visited
correctional facilines or tblke-d
with prisonyrs arid prison
persosinel in M'inois, Oregon,
California and Michigan.
"I believe thaj prisoners
should be allowed to take part
in medical tests, but it's
important that their freedom
be protected and Lhat they not
be coerced into participating,"
he said.
Morris said ha believes
prisoners should receive
payment equal to what a free
citizen would be paid whenever
they partake in experiments.
Prisoners now receive no
additional payment other than
their daily prison wage, he said.
He also suggested giving
prisoners the right to form
prisoner review committees to
better inform prisoners of the
risks connected with ech
particular diug.
He said there have been
situations where prisoners were
subjected to "painful diseases
and lasting injuries" without
realizing it. Except for saying
two of these diseases were
malaria and syphilis, Morris
declined to elaborate, but said
that the topic would be
covered in his lecture on
Wednesday
There isn't a central data
ile on the number of drug
research programs using
prisoners, he said.
nionday, january 14, 1974
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