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Main Desk
EMU Check Cashing
Information
I'hc Krb Memorial Union Main Desk Store cashes checks as a
service for students, faculty and staff of the University of Oregon.
Students must present a current certificate of registration and a plastic
identification card with picture; facultv/staff must present their plastic
identification card with picture and current validation sticker.
There is a 15 cent service charge per check. Make checks payable
to the Erb Memorial Union and include Eugene address and phone
number (or department and extension for facultv/staff) on the check.
The limit on checks is S 10.00 unless otherwise posted.
When writing checks, double-check vour bank balance. Make sure
what you think will be a “good check” doesn’t turn out to be a “bad
check." If vour check is returned, there is a service charge of $7.50. This
is in addition to anv service charge charged by your hank. You will also
lose the privilege of cashing checks at the Erb Memorial Union for the
remainder of the year (July 1, 1982—June30, 1983).
To abide by policies set forth by the banks: 1) We cannot accept
counter checks, 2) There can be no alterations or changes made on
checks, 3) We cannot accept personal second party checks and 4) If
you do not have personalized checks additional I.D. must be presented.
I D. FOR CASHING CHECKS PRIOR TO EAST DAY TO PAY
FEES WITHOUT PENALTY.
New Students
1. U. of O. statement of admission with student l.D. number.
2. Valid l.D. with signature and description.
Returning Students
1. Previous term's certificate of registration.
2. U. of O. Plastic l.D. card with picture.
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Radiation only
a small hazard
By Doug Levy
Ol the Emerald
Put Ed Bailey at the head of
the group of people who hate to
hear about radiation leaks
Bailey is the head of the
Department of Environmental
Safety, which is responsible to
clean up such leaks
While the department’s
major chore is to preserve the
environmental quality of the
University campus, it also dis
poses radioactive material and
in the rare instances when they
occur, cleans up radioactive
spills
Bailey cringes when he’s
asked about those instances
"Spills are made out to be far
more than what they are We
had one a couple of months
after I got here and the
newspapers blew it out of
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minimal," Bailey says "We've had a couple of
spills since then, and I think we've made progress
in that people have reported them Before, people
used to try to clean them up without reporting
them, and we'd find out about the spill and
discover it wasn't cleaned up properly
Aside from radiation spills and waste dis
posal, the department has other purposes. For
that reason the name was changed in 1980 from
the Department of Radiation Safety to its present
name Bailey, a radiation physicist, acts as the
health physicist and manager of the department.
Bailey and his small staff check for air conta
minants that threaten worker safety (including
wood, lead, asbestos and carbon monoxide), take
samples of possible contaminants, dispose of
radioactive waste and train staff members to
handle contaminants
But unless you spend a lot of time in the
science buildings, you probably haven't heard of
the department or of Bailey
"It's amazing how very few people know we
exist," Bailey says. "People just don't think about
these things."
Like most of the other departments at the
University, the department is limited to keeping
the University contamination-free on a minimal
budget, about $10,000 a year, according to
Bailey "We re a group that wants to identify
environmental concerns, but has to rely on
supervisors to tell us the problems "
It's ridiculous to think that administrators
who don't have all the knowledge of envir
onmental problems can identify all these
problems,” Bailey says Yet, with a limited budget,
and assisted only by chemist Clay Carey (who will
soon resign) and part-time management assistant
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department surveying every environmental
hazard on its own “It’s impossible for a IV2 to 2
man office to survey all these things," he admits.
Another thing eating at the budget is that the
department takes care of waste disposal and
provides geiger instruments, radiation detecting
instruments and calibration instruments for no
charge "It's unrealistic," Bailey says
Bailey's office is full of gadgets to detect
environmental hazards, including a mercury
vapor sniffer, an atmospheric explosives detec
tor, a gas flow proportional counter and a floor
monitor that looks like an electronic vacuum
cleaner
All the instruments are used to discover
contaminants “Once we've discovered conta
mination, we want to see if it is removable," Bailey
says
Downstairs, barrels of radioactive waste and
isotopes abound Some of the wastes are sent to a
waste site in Washington and some are simply
incinerated
A new building being constructed will have
additional office space for the department, as well
as a waste packing area, a chemical waste room,
compactors, fume hoods and a decontamination
shower for the people who discovered conta
minants
Other problems Bailey must cope with are the
lack of awareness of chemicals on campus and
the inability of the department to test for all
environmental hazards due to a lack of money
But the philosophy of the department remains the
same Carey enters the office and says, "Worker
safety and student safety are what we strive for If
someone has a problem, they should come to us
— that s why we re here ”
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