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Residents give pennies to improve playground
By Jessica Palimenio jpalimenio@kansan.com Kansan staff officer
Find a penny, pick it up — and this week, donate it to children living on campus.
Residents in student housing are collecting change for a fundraiser called "penny wars."
The money raised will purchase playground equipment for the Stouffier Place apartments on campus, where married students live with their families.
This will be the second time this school year that residents have participated in the penny wars. Last semester, the groups raised about $2,000, said Lee Bickerstaff, resident and National Residence Hall Honorary community service chairman.
"We haven't done anything with the funds yet," he said. "What we have this time is just going to be added to it and given to the Stouffer neighborhood in one lump sum."
Judging of the game is based on a point system. Pennies are counted as positive points and any other change is negative.
There will be cups in the lobies of each floor of the halls for residents to drop their change in. To stiffen the competition, they can also put negative coins in the other floors' cups.
"Everyone usually ends up negative, but whoever is the least negative wins," Bickers staff said.
Prizes will be awarded within
the residence halls. The building with the best score will receive a DVD player, and the winning floor in each building will receive a pizza party.
The event's sponsor, National Residence Hall Honorary, is purchasing the prizes. The group has a fund built up from other fund raisers to use for the purchases, said Stacey Reding, Alma senior and secretary of NRHH.
The scholarship halls and Jayhawker Towers also contribute to the event.
The deadline to contribute change is 5 p.m. Friday. After that, all change will be taken to a bank and counted for the second time to determine the winners.
Edited by Lindsay Hanson
Two nightclub disasters spark more inspections
The Associated Press
CHICAGO—Fire inspectors descended on nightclubs across the nation this weekend after two nightclub tragedies in the span of a week killed 117 people, some caught in a stampede and others burned to death in a fire.
In Chicago, where the 21 people were trampled at the E2 nightclub Feb. 17, inspectors evacuated the second floor of a club early Sunday after finding overcrowding, blocked exits and other problems.
A rock band competition planned for Salem, Ore., was canceled after an inspection there revealed the venue didn't meet fire and building codes.
And other cities, including Dallas and Kansas City, Mo., put more inspectors on duty and kept them out until the early hours, when clubs are most crowded.
The flurry of inspections closely followed the deaths late Thursday of 96 people in a West Warwick, R.I., nightclub, where a
rock band's pyrotechnics ignited the ceiling tiles and quickly engulfed the nightclub and its trapped patrons in flames.
"We've seen a sharp increase in the number of reported overcrowdings," even though most didn't prove to be problems, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Fire officials across the country tried yesterday they were finding clubbears almost everywhere were more aware of their surroundings than usual — and more willing to report problems.
More people than usual also called Chicago authorities to complain about clubs there, said Chief Kevin MacGregor, a department spokesman.
It was a complaint that led police to the Rive Gauche nightclub early yesterday.
Kansas City's fire department, which typically conducts inspections during the week, sent four teams of investigators to 54 establishments on Friday night and Saturday morning. In
Dallas, the city fire department, which now has two full-time nightclub inspectors, pledged to temporarily add a second two-member team to search for safety violations.
Philadelphia Mayor John E Street announced Sunday that the city's approximately 200 nightclubs would face emergency inspections in the next 60 days. Massachusetts governor on Friday ordered similar inspections statewide.
In Miami Beach, which has more than 60 clubs, Fire Marshal Ed Del Favro said the city continued an already busy inspection schedule. Fire marshals are in the clubs during peak hours every Friday and Saturday night and make about 3,000 inspections a year, he said.
On Saturday, one Miami Beach club, Ibiza, was cited for having about 230 patrons—well above its legal limit of 142. Fire marshals ushered patrons outside until the level was back to the limit.
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