Page 10 University Daily Kansan, February 12, 1982
Fire escape needed
Officials, students worried about safety
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
A lack of money to furnish the Psychology lab building with a fire escape has left KU officials concerned for the safety of about 15 graduate students who use the office space on the second floor of the building.
"Everyone on the executive vice chancellor down is concerned," Al Johnson, assistant to the vice chancellor, academic affairs, said yesterday.
Administrators are not alone in their concern.
in there were a fire, I would probably be fried very crissly," said Jim Clinger, Lawrence graduate student, who has an office in the Psychology lab building, which is south of Flint Hgl.
Last summer, the state fire marshal said that the building needed a fire escape on the end. Johnson said.
The only access to the upper floor is by a staircase on the east end of the building.
"THEY DIDN'T GIVE A deadline," Johnson said. "It was a recommendation."
But for the graduate teaching assistants using the building daily, a fire escape for the building has been too long in coming.
"As long as there is no deadline from the state fire marshal, it kind of leaves it up to the discretion of the University," said Craig Duczak. Lawrence student and graduate representation faculty of communications studies.
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According to Thomas Beikeer, associate professor of speech and drama, both the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences office and Johnson were notified of the situation early in the fall semester.
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"THE FIRST THING they told us was that they recognized that there was a need, and they were looking into buying a used fire escape," Beisecker said. "Then we were told they would get a new fire escape.
"As far as I'm concerned, we have people sitting up on there on second floor who have problems."
Graduate teaching assistants from the departments of communication studies, political science, East Asian languages and cultures and the speech and drama occupy office space on the second floor.
Jeanette Smiley, Columbia, Mo. graduate student, has occupied office space in the building since the beginning of the fall semester.
"IM NOT REAL fond of the building, anyway," she said. "Every time I walk through the building, I'm reminded of it and getting out would be very difficult."
She said that she thought about her unsafe surroundings every time she walked through the building.
She said a fire in the east end of the building would cut off the only escape route for people on the second floor.
Smiley said that there were only two windows on the upper floor.
said. "The other is near the stairwell." If there is a fire in the well, that's it.
"One has an air conditioner in it," she said.
"(The air is a cooler, so it's better.)"
Clinger said he didn't think about the problem too often.
"I'm really here more than most of the other people," he said. "But I guess it doesn't bother me as much as it does others."
ALTHOUGH MARY-ANN Leon, Albuquerque, N.M., graduate student, doesn't have an office in the building, she called the situation there scary.
"We're talking about people who could be hurt in case of fire," she said. Leon, a graduate representative to division faculty of communications
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studies, said that as long as there was no deadline set for the provision of a fire escape, it was less likely that something would be done.
tor of facilities operations
"This is not totally unreasonable," she said, referring to the absence of a deadline. "But it doesn't make the problem any better."
"There are people who, I think, have
But the problem of equipping the Psychology lab building with a fire escape came down to lack of funds.
the ability to do something about it and who haven't."
KU OFFICIALS COULDN'T say when a fire escape would be provided, because the money for the project hasn't been found yet.
"I would hope it be soon," said Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor. "There are three potential sources for the money."
He said the funding could come from an annual appropriations fund that the Kansas Legislature distributed for improvements to the Board of Regents.
"But the problem is they're never enough," he said.
Cobb said the University either would have to "scrounge" from its own resources or use money from year-end sources.
After funds are found for the project, it would be about 90 days before a fire escape would be built, said Thomas Berman, director of facilities operations.
"It's a number one priority, and the funds will undoubtedly be found," he said. "As soon as the project is funded, we will proceed with it."
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