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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member
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The coach, one of the few African-Americans in big-time college football, was fired after three losing seasons. He sued, saying he had been dismissed because of his race.
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September 18, 2007
Bio-Mishaps Hit 2 More University Labs in Texas
Workers at a biodefense laboratory at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston were exposed to anthrax, in aerosol form, in April. That same month, workers sent to fix malfunctioning air filters at the University of Texas at San Antonio entered a lab containing tularemia bacteria without wearing gloves or respiratory protection, according to the Sunshine Project, a watchdog group on biological-weapons research.
The universities reported both incidents to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, complying with federal policy, and no one was infected with the dangerous microbes. But the accidents drew attention because they followed the recent disclosure that two other Texas universities had failed to report laboratory mishaps involving infectious bacteria.
The University of Texas at Austin revealed last week that it had failed to report 10 laboratory accidents to federal authorities over the past seven years. At Texas A&M University at College Station, the safety and security violations were so numerous that the CDC suspended the university’s research on microbes used in biological weapons. —Matt Petrie
Posted on Tuesday September 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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