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Dr. Dasgupta is posi- ve for the policy’s future. it may make it casier to uit... the best thing to do quit. I know it’s not that isy; it took me 20 years.” urrently, people are obey- hg the no-smoking policy h the cafeteria. 1e weather is

However, still rela- * The. win- r time is the real test. ‘ll be hard on the peo-

vely warm.

e who sinoke to, adjust... it, they will adjust.” On he snecessfil integration of

the plan, Daseupta admit- ted that the. “policy can only be implemented if it’s accepted on people’s own volition.

“Up to point, smokers have been cooperative. It’s dificult to police people whether

this

or not they are smoking. The feeling’s already estab- lished that yon don’t smoke in public places. I feel that people will (follow the pol- icy) on their own volition ... (with) no need to police it.”

This is a policy based

on respect for a non-

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breathe clean air and respect for a smokers right to smoke.

smokers right to

It provides designated ar- eas for smokers in each building, and it details that smoke cannot recireulate in smoke-free places such as lounges. In the past, stn- dents and faculty have vol- untarily followed the uni- versity’s non-smoking pol-

In ef-

fect, this is a natural ex-

icy for classrooms.

tension of that trend. It’s up to the Board of Gover- nors to deal with the pol- icy to ensure the health and rights of all people here at UPEI are considered. a

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS? —

The New Hot Water Heating System

by Chris Vessey

As you may have no- ced, the entire campus of PEI is currently under- ping major | here are hundreds upon indreds of feet. ' ted piping laying abont he grounds. You ask, hat is it all for?”

It’s

Ned “District Heating”. is a project of the PEI lergy Corp., In conjune- hn with UPEI, and phase should be complete by The Uti- y building on campus is he source of hot water that Piped to Towers. Hol- nd College Royalty Cen-

renovations,

of msu-

id-November.

©, Charlottetown Rural igh, Mount St. Mary’s, le Sisters of St. Martha.

td of course buildings on ir own campus. In Phase

to be next year, the stem will supply the K- Part shopping plaza. the CMP station. the Depart- ent of Agriculture, and

il eventually meet a simi-

lar system progressing from a boiler downtown. The

a closed-loop energy trans-

system is called

fer line. This means that the water that is in the pipes doesn’t leave them it runs around this thermal piping. continnously. At each station (or building) there is a converter. which transfers the heat energy in the water of the closed loop to.the water of the station, which is separate trom the loop. The loop water loses heat, and the station’s wa- ter gains the heat. ‘This process is called ~Enerey Conversion™, and is deemed to be quite efficient. The startling fact about this is that UPET receives “no revenue from this opera- tion. The project is tunded by the PEI Energy Corp.. and so the maintenance and insurance costs are paid for by the corporation. “Tt (the project) evolved, originally,

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after UPEI entered into a Canertec Agreement, three or four years avo. which was an energy retrotit.”. says Don Coles, Director of the UPEI Physical Plant. According to Coles. the retrofit produced a stantial yearly savinys. Af- ter the Canertec agreement they explored. the

sub-

possi- bilities of going with so- lar heating (as evidenced by collectors on Duffy and the Utility “biomass”.

building), or The

became the

biomass system wood chip use.

Currently. the

building

system currently in utility houses 4. boiler systems, 1 wood chip and 3 “Bunker C” oil burning units. the total energy output of

According to Coles,

the 4 boilers is approxi-

mately 2300 horsepower. The

campus should all be filled

trenches around,

in by mid-November and

the system will be up and

ru.ring. .

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