Health & Comfort in
Modern Office Buildings

Hear Elia M. Sterling, a Research
Architect with the Vancouver based
consulting firm of Theodor D.
Sterling (TDS) Ltd. which special-
izes in energy, environment, health
and ergonomics describe results of
research and consulting projects
undertaken by TDS Limited in Canada
and the United States evaluating the
effect of contemporary buildings on
the health and comfort of office
workers will be presented including:

1. A work environmental survey ad-
ministered to 1100 office
workers in New York City.

| E. Trudeau is reported to have said:

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To Hang or Not to Hang
Is not the Question

The media informs us that our
country will soon face another de-
bate on capital punishment.
(Maclean's, Oct. 8, 1984). On this
topic, the former prime minister of
Canada, the Right Honourable Pierre

“Are we, aS a seciety, so lacking in
respect of ourselves, so lacking in
hope for the betterment of mankind,
so socially bankrupt that we are
ready to accept state vengeance as
our penal philosophy?"

Forget, for a moment, that this same
man signed the agreement for the

 

An experiment study undertaken
to determine the effect of
office ventilation and lighting
on symptoms reported by occu-
pants of one sealed building in
Vancouver.

3. Renovation of an office building
in Ottawa to improve worker
health and comfort.

Find out how to identify if the
building you work in is a "problem
building" andthe means available to
office workers to improve conditions
of environment in modern buildings.

Place: Douglas College, Room 3406
Time: 1930 - 2130 hours

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 1984
Fee: $6.00

To register call Barb Edwards,
Community Programs & Services at
520-5472.

testing of the Cruise missile in

| Canada; a weapon designed to kill
persons whose greatestcrime may well
have been being born in the wrong

' geographical location.

‘Whenever one hears such an eloquent
‘statement one is impressed by the

i fact that here is a truth which all
‘persons of intelligence and goodwill
“must accept, a truth born out of
the betterment of mankind, a truth

/ which will always be there even when
|there is no one left to contemplate
Fe
'Philosophy teaches us that the values
| which are here today may be gone
'tomorrow. The human sciences confirm
|

‘philosophy's findings and in their
|}cataloguing of the affairs of man
|they provide no basis for the pro-
;gress of humankind toward such a
.truth or even a sufficient basis for
,the necessity of such a truth. The
,theory which undergirds all of
‘existence, namely Darwin's theory
'of evolution, provides the only
,real resolution to the question of
‘capital punishment. Clearly,

|

Are there any such truths?

 

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