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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
Staff writer
Dean Milroy, associate director of maintenance for the office of student housing, said Lewis, Templin, Hashinga Elisabeth and Ivan Guzman must have smoke detectors, but the housing office did plan to install them in those halls.
Markley said the fire office inspected the residence halls each year. But each year when the smoke
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.
"I am rather surprised KU still has five dormitories that do not have fire detectors, because fire detectors are safe," Markley said yesterday.
Paul Markley, chief of the fire prevention division for the state Fire Marshal Department in Topeka, said that since 1981, state fire codes have allowed firefighters to have a smoke detector in each room or 30 feet apart in each corridor.
lin in 1988, in Hashinger and Ellsworth in 1989 and McCollum in 1990. Stoner said.
"I had been operating under the assumption that the plan is acceptable." 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 am rather surprised KU still has five dormitories that do not have fire detectors, because fire detectors are our top priority in fire safety.'
The Clothes Make the Man
Story by Ric Anderson
Come to think of it, Shelly thought, buying Harry that blue suit was the best idea she ever had.
She had wanted Harry to look sharp the night before. She wanted Harry to take her to dinner, then out for dancing. She wanted to be swept off her feet by a complete stranger, an Olympian towel boy.
The suit would accomplish the goal. It was roomy, electric blue, made of Rayon. It was made of an oversized, double-breasted jacket and pleated pants. As she looked at it, there in the window of Green's Men's Shop, it spoke to her.
Paul Markley
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Fire Marshal Department
"What will I do if he doesn't like you," she said.
"Harry's not exactly what you'd call a fashion hound, is he, Shelly?" the suit said. "No." Shelly said. "He's not. I want him to wear nice clothes, but he always goes back to that stuff. She pointed at the closet.
"Take me home," it said. "You need me." Shelly had never heard a suit talk to her, so she decided this suit must be pretty special. She paid for it with Harry's Mastercard.
"You look like a good person," the suit said calmly. "Do I make you nervous?" "No," she said. "In fact, I like talking to you." Sheily, the suit moved for a while.
"You leave that to me," the suit said. Another paused followed. Suddenly, the suit piped up again.
"Do you like me?" the suit said, kind of loudly.
Illustrations by Dave Eames
Milroy said smoke detectors were installed in the scholarship halls in the city.
"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.
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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from both. The load has to be shared."
s support
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.
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