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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday October 15, 1987 Vol. 98, No. 39
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
5 residence halls lacking required smoke detectors
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
Dean Milroy, associate director of maintenance for the office of student housing, said Lewis, Templin, Hashinger, Ellsworth and McCollum halls did not have smoke detectors, but the housing office did plan to install them in those halls.
Six years after state fire codes were changed to require university residence halls to have smoke detectors in halls or rooms, five KU halls still do not have them.
Paul Markley, chief of the fire prevention division for the state Fire Marshal Department in Topeka, said that since 1981, state fire codes have required residence halls to either have a smoke detector in each room or 30 feet apart in each corridor.
"I am rather surprised KU still has five dormitories that do not have fire detectors, because fire detectors are safer," Markley said yesterday.
Markley said the fire office inspected the residence halls each year. But each year when the smoke detector rule was not met, the KU housing office was given additional time to install the detectors over ten years to another
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I am rather surprised KU still has five dormitories that do not have fire detectors, because fire detectors are our top priority in fire safety.
priority in fire safety.'
Paul Markley Of the state
Fire Marshal Department
"A jury would probably have to answer that question." Markley said. "If they believed the University was negligent, or not making enough of an attempt to comply with the law, they could possibly be held responsible."
Milroy said smoke detectors were installed in the scholarship halls in the early 1980s.
Don McConnell, assistant director of maintenance for student housing, said that Oliver still was being wired for the smoke alarms, and that the project would be completed by the beginning of next semester.
Two halls are about the most that could be wired with smoke detectors in one year because the housing office has a limited number of electricians. Also, the cost of the installation would take money away from other projects such as roof repairs, Stoner said.
Stoner said smoke detectors had been installed in Jayhawk Towers some time after the housing office began operating the Towers in 1980.
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TOMORROW
Chancellor Gene A. Budig says KU will lose its best professors if the Kansas Legislature fails to approve Margin of Excellence this spring. What do legislative leaders say?
Also, the Board of Regents discuss Margin of Excellence and open admissions.