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Mold forces Turman South evacuation

http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/06/431ce6d352d1

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Turman South residents were forced to move out for an indefinite

period of time after mold was discovered in the exterior walls.

By Rudish

Executive Staff Writer

September 06, 2005

Atlanta

When many Turman South residents returned to Emory this fall, they

found themselves evicted before they even moved in, with their

building of choice in need of serious repair.

Significant water permeation in the exterior walls of the building

was found during early move-in on Aug. 24 after a parent leaned

against a wall on the third floor and found his hand had plunged

straight through.

The incident came as a shock to some housing officials, said

Trinklein, interim executive director of residence life and housing.

" The odd thing about this situation is if you visually look at the

walls you wouldn't know there was a problem, " Trinklein said. " There

wasn't spotting or water marks or anything like that. "

No mold was visible on any of the walls, she said.

When mechanical engineers examined the building the next day, they

and housing officials agreed that residents had to be moved out.

" People come with different illnesses and problems, whether it's

allergies or something else, " Trinklein said. " Sometimes moisture

can make some medical conditions worse. It's in our best interests

to not expose people to that environment. "

Housing officials provided boxes and helped move students who

arrived early. Since many students had counted on having a full

kitchen when they selected their meal plan, University Housing

offered a $100 Dining Dollar voucher to each student, consultation

with a Sodexho employee to help choose the appropriate meal plan and

a mini-fridge.

Affected students will also pay for housing at the rates of the

rooms they relocated to, instead of the higher Turman South rate.

But some students, like College sophomore andra Marquez, felt

vexed by the situation.

" It was first just disbelief and then frustration and then, I

wouldn't say anger, but [my roommates and I] were really annoyed

that we had to completely pack up again, " she said.

But Marquez recognized the efforts of housing officials.

" They're really treating this like it's a crisis, " she said.

But College sophomore Gray Reilly was frustrated by the negative

attitudes of his peers and their parents about the problem.

" Emory already looks like spoiled rich kids who get everything they

want, " he said. " I ended up getting kind of annoyed with how some of

the parents and students handled the situation.. "

No official timetable has been set for when residents can return.

" We know that we need to replace all that exterior drywall, "

Trinklein said. " But we don't want to do that until we've completely

identified the nature of what caused that moisture, and so that's

what's occurring right now. "

Trinklein said that as far as she knows, the DeKalb County Board of

Health has no plans to condemn the building and that she was never

part of such a discussion.

Turman South was originally built in the 1980s. In 2001, the

exterior was renovated, and this summer, the roof was replaced.

Trinklein said she does not think the replacement caused the current

damage.

Trinklein said that she was waiting on diagnosis reports from

outside experts, which she anticipates will come sometime this week.

A similar mold problem occurred on the third floor of Turman South

in September 2003, forcing Residence Life to relocate 10 students to

Woodruff Residential Center for two weeks. Affected students were

given $15 a day for meals to compensate for the loss of a kitchen.

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tigerpaw2c <tigerpaw2c@...> wrote:

Mold forces Turman South evacuation

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Again, for those outside the area, Emory University is just up the street from

the CDC's main campus. The bulk of the local people who work at the CDC are

Emory grads, Emory students, and Emory professors. There's even a street tram

that moves people back and forth between the two places every day. It's so

ironic that the university can take the indoor mold problem seriously, while the

CDC persists in claiming that respiratory irritation is the worst of it, and

claiming you can just clean it up with bleach. But then, these are the same

people whose Director wanted to go to New Orleans to study " stress " . Props to

Emory, anyway. May they send some smarter people over to the CDC in future.

Serena

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