ENTINEL Friday, November 15, 1991
Nortb Idaho C.Ott,ge•a Student Newspaper
Coa1,111 d'Alene, Idaho
Unplanned costs cause 5 percent budget cutbacks
THERE'S
GOLD!
- IN THEM T HAR' HILLS
by Miko Saunders Execubve Ed,10<
NO FOOLIN'--N/C science instructor Bill Richards hunts for all that glitters, running sand, silt and lots of water lhrough a gofdpan. The heavier gold slays In the bollorn (below). To find out where to slrike ft rich. please see GOLDI Page 15.
photos by Ka1.hy Hostetter
Unroresecn e,penses have 1emporruily lefl NlCs conugcncy fund high aoo dry. prompong C1111pus-wkr lioondal cu1~k.~or iron 5 (X'l\"'ent in c:rh <Jer<uuncnL 1lx: ne:irly S200.rol the fund held. ;t( = n1ly as July. was chicOy paid oot for n:p.iirs 10 the t.roubled IIC\llund Vc~::won.11 Ouikhng. mcdk-ui e"uninruion( for some of ii~ emplo)e~. computer ,uf1w.1n: and one major O\'tl\igh1.•11..onlinll to Rolly Jurgen~. dcJn of adm1m~1m11on. ,\ lnrpe p.111 of lhc problem occum:d when he ,ind other admini~tr,IIOr( forguc to allot $100.(XXJ of tlu., )ror'S booi;ct for fumirurc f0< tlic new library. he '1kt Effons nrc 1'cmg made to shml 1111.: wth.-.:k.\ away (rum nrcas th,11 " ould nffoc1-'1udcnt\, n.ccording to DJvid Lmd.'11\y, dclu1 of "111de11L\, but thc ughtcnmg h.t~ to be felt in <ome pl~cc~. Joan Urogan. head of the nUl\inl! dqxlrtn1till. 1, nln.':kiy pn.'PJllnl! for le;uicr times in tlic no1,<;(}-(Jist:ui1fururc. ·w e·re OK right now. but this ~ ni: we·n be hu," Of\ll!an '1.'lid. "We t1:1, c to ~ II it like a chcckhook- thc le:;.~ " C sp:nd now. thc c.l.'iicr ii will l'C then." Admi'-Sions wilt l~ve 10 do 1~,~ rocruiun{! from .irro high school~ through both the mnil nnd in pcr,;onnel visilS. Lin<hny said. Coriceming thc budgcung ClTOf. Tim Chri,tie, he:xl of the communicuuoo department, looks at it IL\ ~ix of one. haira dozenorthc Olho.'f. "If tlley Im bud~ for lhaic expcrt<,Q, in 1he liN place. tnU 5 ~111 ~ooldn't have been there to Slart off with," 11: said "It's not a ,-cry big deal, then: m,-e always been ~ >ti cu!lxlC'k.~ fOC' <,()l11C reason or othcr."
Former NIC student files $500,000 claim by Patricia Snyclor NewsEd1I01
the Leaming Center. which is located on the second Ooor of the Hedlund Building. 11 was on the second noor that Foster claims she developed carbon monoxide poisoning. "I got the education I went down for," she said. "I just got a Huie more that I didn't
NIC has acknowledged a claimed filed by a former student ror $500,000 or the maximum amount allowed by insurance, which ever is greater, due to health problems allegedly caused by rumes in the Hedlund Vocational Building. want" Sharon Foster nucndcd classes in the Foster said she staned feeling unwell in Hedlund Building in 1hc 1990-1991 school late Jnnuary. She said she experienced, and year. Foster estimated spending about five still experience~. numbness, memory loss hours a day on the second floor or the and weakness on the right side of her body. building foll semester and a linle less during On Feb. I. she went 10 a doctor. the spring. "They 1hough1 i I was II stroke or She said after classes finished, she would something," she said. "I didn't even give a do homework with friends across the hall in thought that is was something at the college."
In April. after hearing complaints from of time. such ns a couple of years. Foster spoke with a doctor who refered her some of the Hedlund instructors that seemed similar to hers, Foster said she first got the to occupa1ionol mecical testing. she said. idea that something in the building was Foster said she was told she had carbon monoxide poisoning. causing the problems. Fos1cr said the effects of the poisoning However. she said, doctors could find have carried over into her everyday life. nothing. "I can't even open a jar anymore." she When the college decided to tesl Hedlund Building employees, Foster said she went to said. Usually. when she is alone in 1he house. Dean of Administration Rolly Jurgens. who she has 10 wait for assistance if she wnnts to told her that the college was only testing open a new jar or one that 1he lid has been puton tightly. teachers. "When I do things. my arm gets really According to NIC President Robert Benne11. the college chose to test only tired, so I can't do things for a long a time inslJllctors because they had been exposed 10 the Hedlund environment for a longer period -----please see CLAIM Page 2