Does this story make you wonder what we could have been exposed to while attending Texas A&M? Think of the old dorms and class room buildings that were there forty and fifty years ago....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13264229/North-Carolina-college-cancer-victims.html

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EXCLUSIVE: Victim of America's 'CANCER COLLEGE': Widower reveals how late wife, 35, was diagnosed with terminal breast tumors while pregnant with her son - and died before seeing him grow up... as family blame 'toxic' North Carolina university building

• DID YOU ATTEND CLASSES IN POE HALL AND GET DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER? WRITE TO US AT HEALTH@DAILYMAIL.COM

By CAITLIN TILLEY, HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 10:31 EDT, 3 April 2024 | UPDATED: 13:45 EDT, 3 April 2024

It was meant to be the happiest moment of her life - Sarah Glad was pregnant after more than a year trying.

But never did she expect that, within a few months, she'd also be dealt the most terrifying of moments: a diagnosis of stage four, aggressive breast cancer.

The civil servant, from South Carolina, died less than two years later, aged 35, leaving behind her new toddler son and husband.

But according to her family, Ms Glad's death could have been prevented.

They now believe she was poisoned by one of the college campus buildings that has since been closed because it contains dangerous levels of toxic chemicals.

The specific structure indicated is Poe Hall - a department building which held education and psychology classes for 4,000 students.

'The last two years of her undergrad degree were at Poe Hall,' Sarah's husband, Robbie Glad, 40, a general manager, told DailyMail.com. 'Then almost 10 years later, she battled cancer for two years. It's hard to watch your loved one go through that.'....

......Mrs Glad was one of dozens of students, staff and alumni who have been diagnosed with cancers and other diseases linked to the university building on the North Carolina State University site.

Subsequent investigations found dangerously high levels of a poisonous, cancer-causing substance called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) detected in several of the building's rooms.

Studies show that PCBs suppress the immune system, allowing cancers to develop and spread.

In five areas, PCB levels were found to be more than 38 times the Environmental Protection Agency's safety limit.

The finding, coupled with the 152 lawsuits from patients claiming the structure caused their sickness, led to the closure of the building late last year.
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There are old dorms at literally any major university.

Four Seasons Landscaping said:

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There are old dorms at literally any major university.

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But not all of them have high levels of PCBs as was the case at Poe Hall in the article.

That wasn't my point.

What does that have to do with "the old dorms and class room buildings" at A&M?

Is there a PCB issue there?

This is such a weird situation. Do they know where these chemicals came from and why they were there?

Asbestos would be more likely in old buildings than PCBs.

A&M has a good program for either removing or permanently encapsulating the asbestos so it is no threat.

Rapier108 said:

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Asbestos would be more likely in old buildings than PCBs.

A&M has a good program for either removing or permanently encapsulating the asbestos so it is no threat.

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Can somewhat confirm. I just had a $5400 conference room renovation that required opening a small portion of a wall. The university charged me $600 in that quote for an asbestos survey.

I'm looking at you, Walton Hall.

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Thunderstruck xx said:

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I'm looking at you, Walton Hall.

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all of them

Moses, Neeley, Schumacher, etc.

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Why doesn't anyone ever call out the Hotard Hall folk?

Lived in 2 of the 3, so I may be in trouble:

So I used to work in the environmental. In fact I traveled the globe cleaning up the nasties sites out there. Spent 6 years cleaning up agent orange in Vietnam.

PCB was an additive to transformer oil for cooling. It made the oil stable and gave a longer shelf life. One particular site I got completely soaked in some really concentrated PCB oil. Yes we were treated PCB impacted soils.

Had to write an incident report. My H&S officer advise me to double bag my clothes and brand new boots and send them off to be incinerated.

So of course I am a little concerned. This is where I learn to avoid looking up chemical exposures in an occupational medicine journal because the articles scream that you will die. Then I look up info in medical journals and books. Those articles basically said you would have to ingest PCB oil to get cancer. Doesn't say you can't catch cancer but the tone of the concern is wayyyyy down.

So get back to this. Find a common use chemical that had chlorine in it. Blame your cancers on those exposures that you really can't prove. Then ignore all of the exposures you receive just being out doors in a city, your own garage, gardening and so on because certainly there are no cancer causing exposures …….anywhere else except a university with deep pockets. My guess there are gaps in accountability of harsh chemicals…..therefore they are a prime target to give somebody a payday.

C@LAg said:

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Rapier108 said:

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Asbestos would be more likely in old buildings than PCBs.

A&M has a good program for either removing or permanently encapsulating the asbestos so it is no threat.

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not so certain about that.

kids who lived in Northside dorms obviously had severe developmental and other mental disorders.

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no I'm….doesn't.

C@LAg said:

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Thunderstruck xx said:

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I'm looking at you, Walton Hall.

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all of them

Moses, Neeley, Schumacher, etc.

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It's Schuhmacher, thank you very much.

Schuhmacher Seamen,
A humpin' and a screamin',
Best damn dorm on campus!

Is it just me? Or does this thread sound like the movement in Kyle Field stands means everyone is gonna die type thread?

How Walton Hall couldn't cause cancer, I have no idea.

Tex117 said:

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How Walton Hall couldn't cause cancer, I have no idea.

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Sawing into walls, were you?

aggiehawg said:

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Is it just me? Or does this thread sound like the movement in Kyle Field stands means everyone is gonna die type thread?

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Can't call it a day at /f16 without someone proclaiming the end of the world.

Slother93 said:

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C@LAg said:

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Thunderstruck xx said:

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I'm looking at you, Walton Hall.

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all of them

Moses, Neeley, Schumacher, etc.

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It's Schuhmacher, thank you very much.

Schuhmacher Seamen,
A humpin' and a screamin',
Best damn dorm on campus!

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Student in the 80s here, how come I don't remember this one? I can recite Moses (lived there), Moore Hall, Crocker, DG, etc but the filters will have a problem if I write them. The more I think about it, it's the alternate DG yell I remember lol.

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aggiehawg said:

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Is it just me? Or does this thread sound like the movement in Kyle Field stands means everyone is gonna die type thread?

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Can't call it a day at /f16 without someone proclaiming the end of the world.

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Zero understanding of real life and neither my post.

Moderna or Pfizer clot shot?

Law Hall resident... would not doubt I/we was/were exposed to asbestos... possibly lead in the plumbing/paint.

Thing that affected me the most while living in Law was the black mold that grew on the walls in the Spring. I recall housekeeping coming into the ramp and scrubbing the walls with bleach (maybe it was ammonia?)


Oh, and FUP!

aggiehawg said:

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TA-OP said:

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aggiehawg said:

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Is it just me? Or does this thread sound like the movement in Kyle Field stands means everyone is gonna die type thread?

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Can't call it a day at /f16 without someone proclaiming the end of the world.

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Zero understanding of real life and neither my post.

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Your sarcasm detector off?

I read a report that students that stayed in the highlighted room have above average intelligence and physical attractiveness.

They were also 100x more likely to be on scho pro by being as close to Northgate as physically possible.

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C@LAg said:

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Thunderstruck xx said:

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I'm looking at you, Walton Hall.

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all of them

Moses, Neeley, Schumacher, etc.

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Why doesn't anyone ever call out the Hotard Hall folk?

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You shut yo mouth!

I worked in the oil field. We put cancer on our Cheerios in the morning.

FCBlitz said:

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So I used to work in the environmental. In fact I traveled the globe cleaning up the nasties sites out there. Spent 6 years cleaning up agent orange in Vietnam.

PCB was an additive to transformer oil for cooling. It made the oil stable and gave a longer shelf life. One particular site I got completely soaked in some really concentrated PCB oil. Yes we were treated PCB impacted soils.

Had to write an incident report. My H&S officer advise me to double bag my clothes and brand new boots and send them off to be incinerated.

So of course I am a little concerned. This is where I learn to avoid looking up chemical exposures in an occupational medicine journal because the articles scream that you will die. Then I look up info in medical journals and books. Those articles basically said you would have to ingest PCB oil to get cancer. Doesn't say you can't catch cancer but the tone of the concern is wayyyyy down.

So get back to this. Find a common use chemical that had chlorine in it. Blame your cancers on those exposures that you really can't prove. Then ignore all of the exposures you receive just being out doors in a city, your own garage, gardening and so on because certainly there are no cancer causing exposures …….anywhere else except a university with deep pockets. My guess there are gaps in accountability of harsh chemicals…..therefore they are a prime target to give somebody a payday.

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Back in the day, wives who washed their husband's PCB-soaked clothing had a higher incidence rate than their husband did. I can't remember the mechanism but it was something GE knew about in the 1920s and covered up. I used to work with guys who worked knee deep in PCB oil daily and were fine. Others would get bad acne with contact and extremely dry hands. Now they go over the top and any PCBs feels like they require treating it as if it were HF.

PCBs migrate like crazy. Go to an old transformer facility and you can do a swipe test off the ceiling and be positive.

cancer is no joke, I have had two close friends from High School and College already die.

one at age 48, the other 54.

had my own scare 5 weeks ago but later tests showed biopsy was not cancerous (b''h)

in a related comment to the OP, NC State is a beautiful campus in Raleigh.

Slother93 said:

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C@LAg said:

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Thunderstruck xx said:

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I'm looking at you, Walton Hall.

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all of them

Moses, Neeley, Schumacher, etc.

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It's Schuhmacher, thank you very much.

Schuhmacher Seamen,
A humpin' and a screamin',
Best damn dorm on campus!

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Crocker cocks
Hard as rocks
Ass kicking hell raising non regs
The best, dammit

That's the PG one

Thunderstruck xx said:

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I'm looking at you, Walton Hall.

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I don't know. If you survived a year or 3 in Walton (before they got soft and put in ac) then I'm pretty sure you could survive anything the outside world could throw at you.

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Slother93 said:

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C@LAg said:

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Thunderstruck xx said:

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I'm looking at you, Walton Hall.

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all of them

Moses, Neeley, Schumacher, etc.

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It's Schuhmacher, thank you very much.

Schuhmacher Seamen,
A humpin' and a screamin',
Best damn dorm on campus!

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Crocker cocks
Hard as rocks
Ass kicking hell raising non regs
The best, dammit

That's the PG one

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That's not how I remember it. I seem to recall something about 'soft as socks' as the 2nd line and from there it quickly went downhill...

Did Milner have something wrong with it before it was remodeled around 2014 or so? I believe they took out HVAC, sheetrock etc.....

Thank God for the cockroaches when I attended as they mitigated the dangerous chemicals.