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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
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.
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 both each
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 smoke detectors on 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.
The next time you find yourself too tired to cook on a Sunday, skip past the kitchen. Sundays may be rest days, but they're also pigging-out days. There's a place in our small city for everyone's palate, and for everyone's pocketbook.
At Rax, you can dine on eggs,
bacon, biscuits, waffles,
and apple fritters for $3.99. The buffet,
from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., also
includes the salad bar.
Mrs. Winner's offers an all-you-can-eat brunch for $2.89. The brunch, available from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., includes eggs, hash browns, bacon and biscuits.
Two not-so-typical brunches, a la oriental and mexican, also exist in Lawrence.
ly cold. But it's a nutritional meal at a low price.
House of Hupei, 2907 W. Sixth Street, provides the diner with eight eighteens to pick and choose from, for only $5.95. Four eurites remain constant each week: Mongolian beef, sweet and sour pork (or chicken), chicken wings and General Tso's Chicken. The brunch, available from noon to 3 p.m., also might include cashew chicken, a seafood combination, a fish dish or a mandarin combination.
Dos Hombres, 815 New Hamshire, is the Sunday location for all-you-can-eat tacos. Its taco bar, open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., is filled with all of the taco essentials and costs $3.95.
I am rather surprised KU still has five dormitories that do not have fire detectors, because fire detectors are our top
Food Lane, and stop off at Mrs. Winner's Chicken & Biscuits, 1819 W.23rd St., or Rax Restaurants, 707 W.23rd St., both of which offer Sunday brunch specials. They're cheap, cheap, cheap . a characteristic that rings true to this college student.
If none of these fabulous brunches interest you, venture down 23rd Street, alias Fast
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priority in fire safety.'
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."
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.
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.
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
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 $32 million.
KU's total spending for fiscal year 1987, which ended June 30,
was $183.99 million. The Endow-
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