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By Janet Gibson
Q?m?cock Staff Wrft*r
Potential dangers of asbesUx
fibers in hand-held hair dryen
have prompted "testing and ?
tracking down of manufacturer*
using asbestos in their products,'
according to Carol Young
spokesperson for the Consumei
Product Safety Commission.
"WE'RE (the commission;
currently seeking information
testing the hair dryers anc
determining the size of fibers used
but our list of dryers with asbestos
is still incomplete," she said. "It's
especially hard tracking down the
imported brands."
Young said findings from a nine
month laboratory study conductec
by WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.
prompted the commission's
meetings with well-knowr
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blow dryers.
According to Lawrence E
Beauford, director of the USC
Safety Services Division, smali
asbestos fibers present a dangei
because they cannot be adequatel>
filtered out by the lungs.
"The effects are long-term, anc
it may take as long as 20 to 40 years
for lung cancer to develop,'
RpflllfnrH cniH Hie Hpnartmonf ic
constantly looking for asbestos
problems on campus.
"ASBESTOS is actually a ver>
necessary material because it does
not burn, and it has been used quite
frequently in automobile brake
linings and gaskets," Beauforc
Luce to speak
Don Luce, a freelance journalis
recently returned fron
revolutionary Iran, will discus:
that country's recent upheavals ai
well as international human right*
violations in a free public lectun
at USC.
The event will be held at 8 p.m
Monday in the Russell Hous<
Ballroom.
Luce has travelled the glob<
documenting man's inhumanity t<
man, particularly in countrie*
suoDorted bv the U.S.
His appearance is sponsored bj
the Ideas and Issues,Committee o
the Russell House Student Union.
Student increase
The South Carolina Commissior
on Higher Education, CHE, ha:
released the 1978 statistical ab
stract for all South Carolim
colleges. The report has deter
mined USC has increased it!
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percent although the total per
centage of all South Caroline
colleges decreased 2.9 percent
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hair dryer;
said. Dangers develop when fibers be
are exposed or suspended in the mi
? air.
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1 "At one time, it (asbestos) was Pi
} used as an open insulation in co
schools," Beauford said. "It's only an
? until recently that the effects of its tai
* use have been made known," he re
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> Beauford said other flame- <
, resistant materials may be used in no
1 place of the asbestos-wrapped coil pr
, supports and heat shields dr
s currently used in some hair ovv
? dryers. In the case of replacement thi
; materials, the price of the hair
dryers would probably increase p0
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anufacturing companies
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