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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
sun do not have them.
Dean Milroy, associate director of maintenance for the office of student housing, said Lewis, Templin, Hashinger, Ellsworth and McColm 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
nn in 1988, in Hashinger and Elsworth in 1989 and McCollum in 1990, Stoner said.
But Markley said the housing office was violating state law by not having alarms in the five halls. He said the housing office could be liable if someone was injured or killed in a fire in one of the halls.
"I had been operating under the assumption that the plan is acceptable." Stoner said.
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.'
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Shelly did as the jacket asked. The jacket felt wonderful around her shoulders. She liked the way it hugged her shoulders and, with a feather touch, caressed the nape of her neck.
Nonetheless, Harry wen straight to Sharla after saying hello to his friends. Shelly sat across the table from him. Soon, she noticed Harry and Sharla getting out of their chairs, heading for the dance floor. Harry's other friends followed suit.
"Get rid of him," a voice told Shelly.
"You told me not three hours ago that I was a great suit," the jacket said. "You said you liked it, but me around your shoulders."
Shelly looked around, then noticed that Harry had left his jacket on the chair.
Shelly stared into her gin fizz.
"Why should I listen to you?" she said. "You're just a jacket."
"Why?" Shelly said. "I love him."
"No you don't," the jacket said. "He's a creep. I've been watching him all night. He ticks me off, Shelly."
"Has Harry ever made you feel like that?" the jacket asked.
"I like you," Shelly said. "But what do you have that Harry doesn't?"
"Umm." Shelly purred. "No."
"Then get rid of him," the jacket said.
"A woman like you deserves more."
"At least I won't watch cartoons while there's a beautiful woman like you in the bedroom. At least I wouldn't ditch you for
"I can offer you a lot of things," the jacket said.
some middle-aged, boozehound slut like Sharla Knight."
But this suit seemed different. It was cultured. kind. sensuous.
Shelly knew the jacket was right. When Harry first asked her out, she had turned into a 105-pound blob of Jello. She had stayed that way ever since. His startling good looks and primal charm made her overlook his 1970s-ish machismo, his clothes, his frequent flirtations...the rumors that he often was seen with other women.
"But Harry's a genuinely nice person, deep inside." Shelly said. "He usually treats me okay. He's just being kind of weird tonight."
"I've watched the way you act, Shelly," the jacket said. "Don't lie to me."
"Even if I did want to leave Harry, how would I do it?" Shelly asked.
"Leave that to me, darling," the suit said.
"I don't know," she said. "I need some time to think."
Shelly obeyed, telling Harry that the crab she had for dinner was giving her cramps. She told
"No, it's got to be now," the iacket said.
She tilted her head so that it touched the jacket's shoulder and looked at the dance floor. The jacket comforted her as she saw Harry doing some horrible takeoff on the Hustle while Sharer took off her gloves to the neck. Harry's hands rupee up and down Sharra's waist.
"Tell me what to do," Shelly said.
"Take me over to him and make sure he wears me," the jacket said.
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"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."
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.
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.
Milroy said smoke detectors were installed in the scholarship halls in Chicago.
Stoner said smoke detectors had been installed in Jayhawker Towers some time after the housing office began operating the Towers in 1980.
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from both. The load has to be shared."
Even though the amount of money KU receives from the state is 85.9 percent of the average amount received by peer schools, KU has the largest private endowment. KU's endowment totals $196 million. North Carolina has the second largest endowment at $105 million and Oklahoma has the smallest at $23 million
KU's total spending for fiscal year 1987, which ended June 30,
was $183.99 million. The Endow-
See PRIVATE, p. 14, col. 1
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?
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Also, the Board of Regents discuss Margin of Excellence and open admissions.
KANSAN MAGAZINE October 14, 1987