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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
"I am rather surprised KU still has five dormitories that do not have fire detectors, because fire detectors are safer," Markley said yesterday.
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.
Markley said the fire office inspected the residence halls each year. But each year when the smoke detector rule was not met, the KU
Staff writer
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.
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.
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.
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.'
Bill Baetkke/Special to the KANSAN
L. A. Rauch/KANSAN
Above top, Mark Porter, Pittsburg senior, does some rock climbing; above right, fraternity and sorority members have a camping get-together; above left, Jeff Yoder, Wichita senior, tackles a hill in Lecompton.
Paul Kennedy/Special to the KANSAN
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KANSAN MAGAZINE October 14, 1987 1
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."
beginning of their school. 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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s support
Even though the amount of money KU receives from the state is $9.9 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 $32 million.
from both. The load has to be shared."
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?
Also, the Board of Regents discuss Margin of Excellence and open admissions.