Struggle for power at Marion penitentiary debate
Inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion described ongoing beatings and a defiant code among prisoners during a public hearing. The testimony highlighted a daily power struggle with staff, symbolized by salt and pepper packet refusals, while lawyers urged ends to confinement and improved humane conditions amid a lengthy lawsuit.
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Marion Penitentiary
Tim Landis
The
Southern Illinoisan
U.S
Marion
Eral
Roy
Ralph Friederich
John Williams
Williford
Southern Illinois University left out by college guide
By Nancy Weil a column notes humorist Lisa Birnbach omitted Southern Illinois University from her College Book coverage of 186 colleges. It contrasts Birnbach's focus on politics sex drugs sports and religion with SIU's campuses and gathers student observations on local college life. The piece lists Illinois institutions Birnbach visited including DePaul University Lake Forest College Northwestern University University of Chicago UIUC Urbana Champaign and Wheaton College.
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Nancy Weil
Southern Illinoisan
Lisa Birnbach
Ivy League
Southern Illinois University
SIU
Birnbach
Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
DePaul University
Lake Forest College
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Wheaton College
Official List and Ultimate Guide To Southern
A campus profile lists top majors and least popular ones, library and study lounge preferences, dorm ratings, off campus living attitudes, hangouts, pizza choices, and drinking and drug trends. It notes campus demographics, social scenes, and a偏 judgment on SIU C with a skeptical tone.
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Morris Library
Thompson Point
The
Triads
Wright
Allen
Boomer
Student Center
Hangar 9
Gatsby’s
American Tap
T.j.’S
Quatro’s
Pagliai
Pat
Inland coal sales lift plan to 1.5 million tons this year
Inland hopes to sell 1.5 million tons this year, after moving about a million last year, including a contract to supply the Tennessee Valley Authority at 12,600 tons weekly for ten months starting in September. No. 2 mine, idled with short weeks, shifts to a four day schedule this week with aim to five days by March end.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Inland
Union Electric Co
St. Louis
Ranney
Indiana Harbor Works
E.H. ‘‘Buster’’ Roberts
Coal Company
Miners allege allergy risk from MDI in Rok-Lok at Old Ben mines
Miner Bill Mosley reports severe allergic reactions to diphenylmethane diisocyanate used in Rok-Lok for roof stabilization at Old Ben Coal Co. Mines No. 25 and 21 in Illinois. MSHA ordered removal of 18 barrels after complaints. company moved Mosley to surface work and tightened handling with a closed mixing system and respirators.
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Cathy A. Monroe
Southern Illinoisan
Bill Mosley
Old Ben Coal Co
Franklin County
Old Ben
Longwall
Illinois
West Virginia
Mike Musulin
U.S
Musulin
Richard Sachoff
MDI
Mosley
Sachoff
Old Ben’s
West Frankfort
Bok- Lok
Fred Boester
Lake of Egypt
Ben
Boester
S. Boester
Ees
Illinois Longwall
Steve Vercellino
S. Illinois
Sentative
MSHA
Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals Safety
Mobay
Vercellino
Chicago
New
McKay
UMW
What is MDI and how it differs from MIC
Diphenylmethane disocyanate or MDI is a stable compound used to make polyurethanes. Jim Chapman of Mobay explains MIC is highly unstable and toxic, causing headaches, shortness of breath, and asthma like reactions at low exposures while MDI may irritate only in sensitive individuals.
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Bhopal
India
Jim Chapman
Mobay Chemical Corp
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Adrianne Wesel
Carbondale
Wesel
Touch of Nature
Dwight Nas E
Vironmental Center
United Mine Workers
Roberts
No. 2
U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration
Logan
Booster
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