Steam part of the problem by Lisa Cellini News Editor Steam rising from the ground . Phone problems annoying students-. Tents covering the basketball court manholes. Mysterious gas drifting through the Benjamin Franklin Building. Are any of these incident related? According to Don McCulloch , director of Physical Plant and Energy Management, several are, and have been management priorities at Bloomsburg University for the past half year. Num erous hot water leaks in the condensate return pipe system, which heats most of the university buildings , cause steam to rise from the ground , McCulloch said. Ideally, the condensate return system, which has been used for about 20 years, is a continuous energy cycle of steam that heats buildings, condenses into water, and returns to the Central Heating Plant, below Old Science Building, to be revaporized. Without water leaks, the system could efficiently reutilize 92 percent of the water and purchase 8 percent new water. Currently, the system requires 50 percent new water intake, according to McCulloch. Last semester, the leaking pipes damaged telephone lines underneath the basketball courts between Navy Hall and Benjamin Franklin Building, causing static on most campus phones. According to McCulloch, holes were dug into the basketball courts to allow the phone lines to dry. The eroding condition of the pipes could not be avoided , according to McCulloch, who said that BU (a stateowned university) petitioned the Pennsylvania State Legislature for repair funds eight years ago. Although the app/opriation bill passed in 1980, actual funds of nearly $707,000 were unavailable until last fall. "We try to anticipate what projects we will need funds for. It's very diffi cult to gel projects of this type approved by the leg islature ," McCulloch said. Before a Shamokin contractor was hired to repair the pipes, BU initiated an asbestos removal/containment project last semester. Asbestos was removed from 34 manholes where pipe leaks would be repaired. The BU administration makes $120,000 available to us each year for asbestos removal or containment. The university is showing responsibility," McCulloch said. Adhering to Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Environmental Resources requirements that the asbestos removal spaces be shielded, yellow tents were placed over the manholes to decrease the opportunity for asbestos fibers to become airborne, McCulloch said. ' According to McCulloch , a comprehensive study of asbestos on campus was completed last year. Highrisk areas, attaining a score of six, were dealt with immediately. The only "six area" was found in the old QUEST office under Centennial Gymnasium, where a metal cabinet had been brushing against a torn asbestos covering. Asbestos has also been removed or contained in the renovated Sutliff Building and in the Old Science Building currently under renovation , McCulloch said. Last week, Ben Franklin Building employees , complaining of dizziness, headaches , and irritability , claimed that a gas pervaded their working area, according to Lynold McGhee, Occupational Health and Safety officer of BU. When asked if a link existed between the repairs of the condensate return system and the gas, McCulloch said, "There is no reason to believe it's connected with the condensate system. It's a mystery.We were unable to determine what the problem was, and we looked into it as thoroughly as we could." McGhee confirms that since last week, no evidence of gas exists in the building, and employee complaints have ceased. CGA Primary Elections for V-Pres* Toes. Feb 9: in the Union & Commons Candidates seek religious support by T.R. Reid L.A. Times-Washington Post Service Bypassing the biblical injunction to "turn the other cheek," the two most overtiy Christian presidential campaigns have launched a bitter battle of mud-slinging and rumor-mongering to win support from born-again Christians in this state's Republican caucuses. In their fliers and phone banks, backers of former television evangelist Pat Robertson are charging that Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., is unworthy of Christian support because of his policies and personal life. Meanwhile, Kemp supporters and various anonymous sources are distributing literature charging that Robertson's politics and theology violate scriptural teachings. This week, for example, someone stuffed the faculty mailboxes at Faith Bible College here with a photocopied flier suggesting that Kemp 's support for a gold standard underlying international currencies is an unchristian position. The flier was signed "Students for Robertson." Some Des Moines-area Baptists received a document saying Robertson 's tactics in the Michigan Republican campaign violate biblical laws enunciated in Chapter 13 of Paul's letter to the Romans. The paper was not signed, but Kemp aides acknowledge it was the work of a Kemp supporter. In southwest Iowa, a conservative bastion , some Republicans say a local Robertson campaign worker has been telling born-again Christians that Kemp has not been a faithful husband. Asked about this, the Robertson backer, Russell Rogers, replied, "There's a lot of junk like that fly ing around, and I don 't know who 's saying what about anybody." In Page County, on the Missouri border, the animosity between competing groups of Republican Christians has gotten so heated that GOP Chairman Dennis Parrot has ordered a cease-fire. "I've told these people to knock it off," Parrot said. "I tell them that Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson will be gone once the caucuses are over, but we have to live with our neighbors down here for the rest of our lives." Parrot is supporting Sen. Robert J. Dole, R-Kan., for president. The increasingly nasty KempRobertson conflict reflects the importance of born-again Christians in Monday 's Republican caucuses, when the two will be battling for the role of chief conservative alternative to the GOP front-runners , Vice President George Bush and Dole. The born-again population has been an important factor in Republican politics here in the past. This year, though , it seems that religious concerns will loom larger. In a sermon last Sunday, for example, a prominent Des Moines minister, the Rev. John Palmer, senior pastor of the First Assembly of God Church , told parishioners to apply a "biblical litmus test"when choosing a presidential candidate. Officiall y, both campaigns say they deplore the attack materials that have spread. "It's amazing how much of this junk there is out there," said Marlene Elwell, Robertson 's Midwest campaign director. "We wish there weren't any, on either side." Elwell said the anti-Robertson literature and rumors "definitely come from the Kemp people, or at least we have a pretty good idea that's who it is." Elwell said Kemp backers are probably behind a 15-page compilation of Robertson quotations that has been mailed to evangelical Christians by the "Coalition for Biblical Renewal." The document purports to show that Robertson is a practitioner of "New Age" theology, derived from Oriental cults. Robertson denies any connection with the "New Age." The Kemp campaign , in contrast, says Robertson's people have told many Christians that Kemp's advocacy of a gold standard conflicts with scripture. Kemp and Robertson are showing voters long lists of born-again ministers who support them. And Dole on Tuesday announced formation of "National Coalition of Evangelicals for Dole." The steam rising from fli c basketball is just a small part of the problems that have plagued the university in the past semester. Photo by Ben Garrison Students stopped in laboratory TJ Kemmerer News Editor BU Law Enforcement officers last month apprehended two students who were allegedl y duplicating parts of Pennsylvania state driver 's licenses, The Voice has learned. The students were caught working in the student computer laboratory in the Benjamin Franklin Building on Jan . 27, an eyewitness told The Voice last week. The witness said ihree BU Law Enforcement officers entered the laboratory about 9:40 p.m. and after a brief discussion with the students escorted them out of the laboratory. 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