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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
Markley said the fire office inspected the residence halls each year. But each year when the smoke detector rule was not met, the K'
"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." Mark
Dean Milroy, associate director of maintenance for the office of student housing, said Lewis, Templein. 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.
tin in 1988, in Hashinger and Eldworth 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.'
Paul Markley Of the state
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"A jury would probably have to answer that question." Markley said. If they believed the University wasiligent, or not making enough of a attempt to comply with the law, ley could possibly be held responsible."
Two halls are about the most that could be wired with smoke detectors one year because the housing office has a limited number of electricians. Also, the cost of the installation would take money away from her projects such as roof repairs, toner said.
Don McConnell, assistant director f maintenance for student housing, aid that Oliver still was being wired or the smoke alarms, and that the roject would be completed by the beginning of next semester.
other said smoke detectors had been installed in Jayhawey Towers some time after the housing office began operating the Towers in 1980.
Milroy said smoke detectors were installed in the scholarship halls in he early 1890s.
rom both. The load has to be hared."
support
Even though the amount of money KU receives from the state is 85.9 percent of the average mount received by peer schools, UH 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 mallest at $32 million.
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KU's total spending for fiscal
ear 1987, which ended June 30,
as $183.99 million. The Endow-
ment
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TOMORROW
Connector Gene A. Bing 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.