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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
"I am rather surprised KU still has five dormitories that do not have fire detectors, because fire detectors are here for safety," Markley said yesterday.
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.
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.
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.
Markley said the fire office inspected the residence halls each year. But each year when the smoke detector rule was not met, the KU
lin in 1988, in Hashinger and Elsworth 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.
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Julie Heaton, Topeka junior,
said she was looking for something fun to do to get her pledge class reunited. She said she decided on a campout because she had been camping before and thought it would be a good way to hold the get-together.
Kurt Kerns, Hays senior, who was at the campout, said camping helped him get back to nature and enjoy the great outdoors.
Even though large campouts parties are fun, small campouts with just a few friends are more intimate. Mike Staton, Yakima, Wash., graduate student, said he
On a cold Friday night there were seven tents set up at campground 3 at Clinton Lake State Park. A roaring fire kept camps warm. About 40 people huddled around the fire, ate roasted hotdogs and drank beer. This campout party was given by the junior pledge class of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, 1433 Tennessee St. They had the campout to promote unity in the pledge class, and many of the party-goers planned to brave the nipy night and stay in their tents.
"You don't get a chance to see how it was before heaters unless you camp," he said. "I love to go camping. I go to Colorado every year."
So, enjoy Fall while it's here. Pretty soon the only things we'll have to look forward to is the next basketball game and the day that the snow and ice melt so we can go outside again. So get out while you can and enjoy the weather. Of course the winter has its advantages too. You can go sledding, traying, cross-country skiing...
liked camping with friends at Perry Lake.
"We bring beer and just sit around the fire and party in the evenings," he said.
"If you have a wet suit you can sail all year round," he said. "It depends on how hearty you are."
Hall said Clinton Lake was the best place around Lawrence to go sailboarding because it was open toward the south and you could get good wind out of any direction. He said beginners should learn in winds of five to ten miles per hour, but more advanced sailboarders need winds of at least 15 miles per hour to make their shorter boards move. Experienced sailboarders have short boards because the boards are more maneuverable. Sailboarders can sail in winds up to 60 miles per hour, because as it gets winder, they can compensate by putting smaller sails on.
In the winter, when Station wants to be alone, he likes to go Clinton Lake because there are no other campers, and there aren't any fees. In the late fall, he said he goes spelunking (caving) in the Ashgrove area near Springfield, Mo., and in the winter, he likes to cross-country ski.
contour rents camping equipment, too. A two-person tent is $8 the first day and $4 each additional day, and two sleeping bags are $12 the first day and $6 each additional day.
When it is time to find the old sleeping bag you used to take to slumber parties, and you find it doesn't quite suit your needs for camping and you can't afford a new one, then you need to rent some equipment. Wilderness Discovery, in the Burge Union, rents equipment to any one with a KUID. For a weekend, a two-person tent is $5.50, and two sleeping bags are $10. You must leave a current KUID and a $20 deposit. Ken Wicker, manager of Wilderness Discovery, said that it was a good idea to reserve equipment ahead of time.
You'd think it would be time to put away your swimming suit and pull on your long john, but some people are still sailboarding. Tim Hall, St. Louis, Mo., is a sailboarder. He said October was not too late to sailboard; in fact, January was not too late if the day was warm. But he said that spring was the best time because there was a good strong south wind.
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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."
Milroy said smoke detectors were installed in the scholarship halls in the early 1980s.
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."
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-
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