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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 5, 1985
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and had considered resigning since July.
"I would hate to see a fine organization like ASK go down the tubes, so it's better for ASK if I'm not here." she said.
The campus director coordinates campus lobbying efforts in Topeka and keeps students posted on current issues and status of legislation, Binyon said.
"Polack said. "The campus director has to be able to travel to Topeka and have the ability to work with people, since it is a lobbying job. We'll have interviews Tuesday and hopefully announce the new director Wednesday."
Lower false alarm figures credited to residents
Of the Kansan staff
Bv Rob Tinslev
The number of false fire alarms on campus has plunged by more than 90 percent since 1980. The decline is the result of responsible action of campus housing residents, Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McSain said Friday.
"The false alarm situation has improved dramatically," McSwain said, "because people realize it's an inconvenience and the dangers they cause by yelling 'wolf' too much."
According to KU police department statistics, there were 78 false fire alarms on campus in 1980.
There were 12 in 1984 and, in 1985 to date, a mere five.
Former residents of University housing may recall frigid winter nights in years past, when they tried to stamp out a warm place to stand and walkals while waiting for fire fighter permission to re-enter the building.
Ruth Mikkelson Lee, associate director of residential programs, remembers them too. And she feared that the great number of false alarms might portend a worse fate than a record of exposure to midwinter's ice blast.
"If there's a real fire, the residents would stay in their rooms and die because they didn't take it seriously," she said.
A fire education program is now a part of students' initiation to University housing each fall, Lee said.
The program, which was developed by the office of residential programs and the Lawrence Fire Department, begins in the summer. Hall staffs are trained in the procedure to follow in case of an alarm.
"We treat every alarm as if it were a real fire." Lee said.
Staff members pass this information on to residents at mandatory floor meetings. Residents also are offered a free call and are visited by city fire officials.
Residents also are given a brochure called "Fire Action." It is a concise guide to fire prevention and
emergency procedures with a comic-book format.
Residents also are told that tampering with fire alarms is a crime.
"This is a misdemeanor," Lee said, "and we do turn it over to the courts if we ascertain that someone was with alarms or fire extinguishers."
housing office and the respective hall government.
As a Class A misdemeanor, such an offense carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a $2,500 fine, said Sgt. John Brothers of the KU police. Lee said anyone who gave information that led to an offender would receive a $200 reward from the
False fire alarms are practically
False fire alarms are practically unknown these days to some residents.
"Sometimes they'll mess with the extinguisher, but that's the only problem."
"Hasinger hasn't had any false alarms, and I've been here three years," said Tom Smart, resident of Hasinger Hall's third floor.
"It is an educational venture we've undertaken, and it has worked," Lee said of the program.
The office of residential programs cooperated with the fire department to buy a new truck with longer ladders to reach the upper floors of highrise University housing.
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how I needed to talk to an American. But I was afraid.
Not so much that it would be the enemy, but that it would turn out to be another American fighter pilot — one of my peers.
"I was 24 years old, a jet fighter pilot — one of those people with the right stuff. But I was down to 115 pounds. I had bobs all over the front of me. I didn't make it. You don't. You have to make a gamble. I didn't want to take the risk."
Plumb said his need to communicate finally overcame his fears, and by pulling back and onfro
the wire and using a code that was passed to him on a sheet of toilet paper, he "talked" to the man on the other end of the wire.
"He said that I had to stop blaming others and feeling sorry for myself, and take charge of my own destiny. I asked him how I could still control my destinay in an eight-by-eight cell."
His fellow prisoner, who was an American fighter pilot, told Plumb of "prison thinking", and how it could distroy him.
Wreck spills gas at turnpike exit
By Mike Spider
Of the Kansan staff
A semi-tractor trailer transporting gasoline overturned at about 5 p.m. yesterday on the entrance ramp of the West Lawrence exit of the Kansas Turnpike.
The driver of the truck was knocked unconscious and was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Fire department officials and paramedics on the scene estimated that the
driver had minor injuries. The hospital did not release information on the driver's condition last night.
The Lawrence Fire Department and Lawrence Police Department directed traffic to keep vehicles out of the area while firemen worked on the truck, which was leaking fuel. The westbound West Lawrence entrance of the turnpike was closed for approximately five and a half hours.
A fire department spokesman said approximately 4,000 gallons of gasoline poured from the transport before the remaining gas was pumped into another transport.
The fire department alerted the Environmental Protection Agency about the accident. It is standard to an accident of this nature, he said.
Officials called two tractor trailer tow trucks to the scene to right the trailer. The spokesman said crews would be on the scene until about midnight.
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An article entitled "Commissioners Differ on Funding Social Services" in that very day's (August 27th) Journal-World described Commissioner Angino as thinking a public vote should determine whether or not the government provides social services. This piece also attributed to Commissioner Longhurst the following statement: "I firmly believe the municipal government should stay the hell out of social services." Despite their opposition to the governmental provision of social services, neither these two advocates of drastically reduced government nor any other commissioner objected to the creation of this sterile bureaucracy designed to oversee a social disservice.
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