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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 14, 1967
Eastern fire spawns discussions
By Ted Bell Kansan Staff Reporter
Kansas Staff Reporter The danger of fire hazards in the nation's older fraternity houses has become a topic of discussion for national fraternity offices and KU's Interfraternity Council (IFC) meetings.
A fire in the Delta Tau Delta house at the University of Pennsylvania killed three persons and injured 14 last weekend triggered the discussions.
Just how safe from fire are the nation's older fraternity houses?
The question has been of particular interest at KU ever since the Phi Gamma Delta chapter house was gutted by fire last May.
Like many of KU's chapter houses at the moment, the Delt's Pennsylvania home was heavily decorated for the Christmas season. A carelessly tossed cigarette apparently fell on a 10-foot tissue paper snowman and within
As was the case in the Phi Gam fire, neighboring houses were quick to offer assistance, holding blankets and mattresses for those who were forced to leap from the second floor. Like the Phi Gam fire, they couldn't save the house.
$260,037 grant to summer schools
ten seconds the house's chapter room was afame.
Five KU summer institutes for elementary and secondary teachers and principals will be supported by grants totaling $200,637 from the U.S. Office of Education.
Duane S. Knos will direct an institute in the teaching of geography for 40 teachers of kindergarten through the ninth grade. The grant for the June 10-Aug. 2 program is $64,917.
Lynn R. Osborn, assistant dean of faculties for research, will conduct a program for 30 speech teachers to American Indian students in grades 7 through 12. The grant is $40,690. Additionally, the Bureau of India Affairs will supply a demonstration class of 25 Indians and two language arts specialists at Haskell Institute for the June 17-July 27 program.
Donald C. Richardson, associate professor of education, will lead an institute in teaching reading for 32 principals of elementary
schools June 10-Aug. 2. The grant is $70,957.
Theodore A. Wilson, assistant professor of history, will organize an institute in teaching history for 30 teachers of grades 9 through 12. The grant for the June 17-Aug. 9 program is $47,449.
Each teacher attending the institutes will receive $75 a week and $15 a week for dependents.
Milton Steinhardt, professor of music history, will lead an institute in teaching an introductory music literature course for 25 secondary school teachers, June 17-Aug. 19. The $36,024 grant makes possible KU's first summer program under the Arts and Humanities Foundation authorizations.
The five institute directors will be in Washington, D.C., Thursday through Saturday this week at a national meeting of summer program leaders.
This year, as a result of the Phi Gam fire, the IFC has passed suggestions to its members to recheck all houses for fire hazards. The Lawrence Fire Department will sponsor a program of demonstrations followed by extensive inspections of each KU fraternity house.
John Kasburger, assistant chief of the Lawrence Fire Department, said ten of the chapter houses have been visited so far, and have been given the half-hour demonstration, showing the various fire hazards particular to their living groups.
The inspection program will begin in January, and the department will turn in an extensive written report on each house to the Dean of Men's office.
When asked whether or not steps have been taken to do something about the acute shortage of water during the Phi Gam fire, Kasburger said that nothing physically has been done, but that he believes "some paper work is being done over at City Hall."
"Some of the houses are real safe, but some of the older ones have things that definitely should be changed. Many of these houses are old enough to have been built almost entirely of wood, and are much more dangerous than the newer ones that are based on masonry," Kasburger said.
The University of Pennsylvania's Delts have a brother chapter at Kansas, Gamma Tau, at
1111 W. 11th St. According to it's president Stan Garlick, Wilton, Conn. senior, the Lawrence chapter house is one of the older ones Kasburger was referring to.
"Because of its age, the old section's wiring and construction is a bit of a hazard compared to the new section. Actually it's impossible to make anything fire proof. The programs we have are such that we do as well as we can with what we've got. I think what happened to the Phi Gams could happen to any of the older houses," Garlick said.
KU's fraternities realize that although it is the season to be jolly, extra care is needed in fire prevention programs. What happened at Pennsylvania could very easily happen here.
KU sorority pledges 14
Fourteen KU freshman coeds have pledged the colony of Alpha Epsilon Phi.
They are Charlene Barash, Kansas City; Jan Deutch, Shawnee Mission; Vicki Finke, Bartlesville, Okla.; Nancy Friedman, Shawnee Mission; Susan Hertz, Shawnee Mission; Arlene Kaplan, Shawnee Mission; Karen Marcus, Shawnee Mission; Marilyn Nevard, Wilmette, Ill.; Barbara Orchard, Shawnee Mission; Robbi Rothman, Shawnee Mission; Jasey Sandler, Tulsa, Okla.; Jacki Shirn, Shawnee Mission; Loren Sircu, Shawnee Mission; and Shelby Yeddis, Shawnee Mission.
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