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              specific use for brith sholom building undecided by peter trumbore strong chemical fumes caused the evacuation of 20 to 30 people from sin clair lab late friday afternoon although richard granata research scientist and member of the sinclair lab safety committee said that there was no danger to anyone in the building there was no chemical spill gra nata said one grad student was clean ing out a flask in room 218 when he dumped out the contents the fumes escaped he said that there was no evi dence of carelessness on the part of the graduate student granata said that the substance involved ethyl-acrylate used in the pro duction of plastics is a very smelly chemical even small amounts can make things uncomfortable the chemical he said is not danger ous it causes irritation to the nasal pas sages and respiratory irritation it's really just a bad odor he said see sinclair page 4 wanna dance the legendary harlem globetrotters brought their act to stabler arena on friday night approximately 5,000 fans saw the trotters lehigh university brown and white also kane said no agreement has been reached on what each lab will need in the area of individual renovations we are still trying to plan the use of the space however problems are arising over how to accomodate the needs of all of the functions he said kane added that specific renovations will differ between functions and that until it is decided what functions will be included and where they will go only general work can be done consideration was given to using the new building as a fine arts center but this proposal was rejected according to tony corallo director of facilities ser vices and physical planning given the expanding engineering programs the increased funding in robotics and the growing graduate student enrollment the president likins , his staff and the trustees decided that the lab would be best suited towards housing these tech nological activities and thus alleviate the overcrowded conditions of packard lab he said a religious sanctuary located on the fourth floor of the building will be used by the brith sholom congregation until sept 1 chase said after that time it will be converted to university use the renovations to be carried out can be split into two broad categories according to kane first he said it is necessary to bring the building up to code heating vent illation electricity etc must be meet certain standards given that stu dents will be located on multiple floors secondly the specific needs of each of the laboratories must be considered and this is what we are planning now kane said although renovations of the newly acquired brith sholom community cen ter being called packard lab west are expected to begin in april no final agree ment has been reached on what specific functions will be housed in the building or where they will be situated according to george kane chairman of the depart ment of industrial engineering and chairman of the packard lab space committee according to patricia chase director of physical planning general renova tions will begin with the first and second floors work is expected to be completed by early august the renovations are scheduled during this time to allow for the minimum disruption of university activities she said by tony copola and peter trumbore computer equipment stolen in english department theft the five areas of activity that are under consideration for installation in the building include those pertaining to robotics manufacturing systems engi neering the small business center the department of industrial engineering and the energy research center chase said she added that the robotics and manufacturing technology labs will most likely be housed on the first floor while a computer integrated manufac turing lab cim will occupy the second floor a final decision on what is to be housed in the building will be made in a week to 10 days " kane said probably the one to be excluded will be the energy research center " kane explained that the center would most likely move from its location on brodhead avenue to new quarters in packard lab adam's antics b&w photo by matt tallo performing songs from his latest album strip adam ant stood forth and delivered a show of ant music sunday night at stabler arena opening for adam were the romantics is forced open hook said the alarm did not sound during the weekend of the burglary only professors in the department should have access to the off ice's compu ter code hook said the computer secur ity code was instituted in maginnes because of a break-in several years ago of dean john hunt's office in the college of arts and science office on the first floor campus police said the theft is under investigation and would not reveal any details until it is completed the recent theft of a computer in maginnes hall does not indicate a trend of computer thefts on campus according to computing center director gary lutz see computer page 4 by rob wengert an apple ii computer an apple prin ter a collection of software and a video tape recorder were stolen from the english department office on the fifth floor of maginnes hall the weekend of jan 28 according to department chair man frank hook hook said he was called to the office that sunday when an english teaching assistant found the office door open and debris in the hall all the offices in the department's suite and two desks were broken into the office is protected by a computer ized code system that is operated by push button controls on the wall beside the door a silent alarm connected to the campus police office in the university center uc should sound when the door vol 95 — no 33 bethlehem pa tuesday february 14 1984 215 861-4184 chemical fumes cause evacuation of sinclair lab b&w photo by rob sternlieb embarrass the washington generals by the score of 85-73 but it was their bag of tricks that had the crowd mesmerized