Friday, March 5, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Fire ordinance incompliances could affect 4 greek houses
By Jamie Knodel
jknode1@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
If four University greek houses don't comply with a City of Lawrence ordinance by April 2000, the Lawrence fire marshal will attempt to remove residents from the houses.
The city ordinance requires all Lawrence congregate residences, which includes Greek housing and house cooperatives, to be equipped with a sprinkler system.
"Congregate residences are different from other living arrangements. Things that occur in one part of the house can easily affect what happens in another part of the house, because it is wide open," said RICH Barr, Lawrence fire marshal.
The Lawrence City Commission adopted the policy in 1993 and allowed the houses seven years to comply.
Barr said that most of the greek houses were already in compliance with the ordinance more than a year before the deadline.
He said 24 of the houses were totally compliant, six houses had put in sprinklers everywhere in the house except the main living floors and two had installed sprinklers in the basement and put in a fire line.
Barr said that the Sigma Delta Tau sorority house, 1625 Edgehill Road; Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house, 1911 Stewart Ave.; PI Kappa Alpha fraternity house, 2000 Stewart Ave.; and the house at 1003 Emery Road which is where members of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity are living; were the only houses to not be in partial compliance with
These organizations are taking action before the deadline to avoid violating city code.
Andrea Golden, Sigma Delta Tau sorority house manager and Plymouth, Minn., sophomore, said a sprinkler system would be put into the house before school resumed in the fall.
"We weren't aware that we needed them." Golden said. "As soon as were were told that we needed them, we took action to get them in."
John Nelson, Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house manager and Salina sophomore, said that construction on the house's sprinkler system would start this summer.
He estimated costs to be roughly $20,000. He said financing the project would not be a problem.
Spencer Staudenmyer, Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity president and Kansas City, Kan., junior, said that the chapter's fraternity alumni housing corporation was in the beginning stages of planning to get a sprinkler system in place and that he fully expected to comply with the ordinance by 2000.
Jordan Strauss, Zeta Beta Tau fraternity president and Riverwoods, Ill., junior, said that he did not know where the fraternity members would live next year.
The Alpha Xi Delta sorority owns the house where Zeta Beta Tau members are living at this year.
Strauss said that the fraternity was not responsible for installing a sprinkler system and that the fraternity would make its home in a place that complied with city codes.
Barr said that if houses failed to meet codes by the deadline, action would be taken to protect the people who lived there.
"We will attempt to allow them not to live there until they are compliant," he said.
-- Edited by Duane Wagler
Campus opinions vary about Lewinsky interview
By Dan Curry
dcurry@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
While Monica Lewinsky kept the country's eyes glued to the tube Wednesday night, opinions about her interview filled the air around campus, yesterday.
"I watched it from start to finish," said Erik McCarthy, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student. "All they did was try to make it more melodramatic."
He said that he had been following the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal development from the
start and finish anything new in the 20/20 interview.
"It was all media spectacle and no news," he said.
Paivi Hongisto, Turku, Finland, graduate student said that the Lewinsky scandal wasn't worth watching at all, though he admitted to watching a little
"All I can remember is that her makeup was perfect," Hongisto said. "It caught my attention. She looked nice."
Lewinsky. Told her story yesterday on television's 20/20
William Dickinson, resident professional at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said he had mixed reactions about the interview.
"I was surprised that Barbara Walters did such a good job of interviewing Monica," said Dickinson, who worked as a journalist in Washington D.C. for more than 20 years.
"Still, as a program, it's what I'd call info-
entertainment because it was taped in
advance and filmed with commercials." Dickinson said.
The program's commercial veneer somewhat compromised its journalistic integrity, Dickinson said.
He said that it was clear Lewinsky was trying to portrait herself in the best possible light.
Lewinsky refused to completely condemn Clinton, she dodged questions regarding Kenneth Starr and she said that now she wouldn't give anything to Linda Tripp.
Roscoe Howard, associate professor of law, said that Lewinsky most likely avoided talking about Starr because she would not want to give Starr any motivation to investigate her further.
"Let sleeping dogs lie," Howard said. In the interview, Lewinsky also gave insights into the emotions she felt as the trial proceeded.
"I felt like the whole world looked at me like a whore." I waved, Evansky said in the interview.
I fell like the whole world looked at the K. a whore," Lewinsky said in the interview. Kathy Rose-Mocky, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said she was concerned about the drawn-out focus on Lewinsky's character with less attention being paid to character of Clinton.
Leann Graham, Lawrence senior, said she felt physically ill as she watched Lewinsky on the television.
"I can't imagine walking up to anyone and going, 'Look, here's my thong underwear,'" Graham said.
Lewinsky's new book, "Monica's Story," which was cited in the interview for extra insight, was released yesterday around the United States.
As of 5 p.m. yesterday, Hastings and Borders Books and Music in Lawrence only had sold nine copies each, employees said.
Edited by Keith Burner
Ex-presidential intern for hire
The Associated Press
NEW YORK After the mess she helped make at the White House, who would hire Monica Lewinsky now?
Actually, she might find more success than you'd think. Employment experts say that with a little image polishing, she could have a future in fashion, media, public relations, women's issues, even the law.
"She'd be great in public relations," adds Nick Corcodilos, who runs the Ask the Headhunter job-search Web site, citing her ability to stick to her message through fierce interrogation.
The scandal aside, Lewinsky has exhibited some pretty poor work habits. Her emails and letters were riddled with spelling errors. She was not always truthful and showed signs of petulance and laziness.
Yet she has also offered glimpses of the ambitious young woman who used a family connection to secure a White House internship in 1995. By the time President Clinton's impeachment trial wound to a close, U.S. senators were fairly gushing about her noise and intelligence.
Her best bet might be in a very public sort of job.
“In the entertainment industry, for example, it really doesn't matter if you're good famous or bad famous,” says Laura Berman Fortgang, author of the career advice book “Take Yourself to the Top.”
Marv Albert, the sports announcer who lost his job with NBC in 1997 after he admitted biting a woman during a sexual encounter, is back in broadcasting. Donna Rice, whose romance with Gary Hart helped end his presidential campaign in 1987, modeled blue jeans for a while and now crusades against Internet pornography.
Similarly, Lewinsky could hit the lecture circuit, offering lessons to young women about how to avoid her mistakes.
She might even find a job asking questions instead of answering them. Barbara Walters, during her daytime talk show, The View, invited Lewinsky on Wednesday to audition for a slot as a host on the program.
One thing is sure: She's highly unlikely to slip into a low-profile position befitting a former intern with a bachelor's degree from an undistinguished liberal arts college.
"Iimagine if you came to work one morning and found her in the next cubicle," said Cathleen Faerber, president of the Wellesley Group, a headhunting firm in Lake Zurich, Ill. "Her presence would be so disruptive."
For a while anyway, Lewinsky's main job will be promoting her book, "Monica's Story," written by Andrew Morton with her cooperation.
"I don't think she's going to walk right into a $90,000 job somewhere," Faerber says. "But there is light at the end of the tunnel for Monica."
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