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University Daily Kansan, December 1, 1982
KU never completely deserted
Custodians to keep holiday vigil of campus
By BONAR MENNINGER Staff Reporter
A university is not just locked up like a house and forgotten.
When students and faculty take off to enjoy a break during the holiday period, facilities operations personnel are kept to keep the deserted KU campus alive.
For the first time since the energy crunch of the early 70s, the Lawrence campus will be partly shut down and staff would be given administrative effort to save money.
**ABOUT 35 BUILDINGS will be closed and their thermostats kept at 45 degrees in a move that is expected to save $150,000, according to William
Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor. Buildings storing critical research materials, animals and plants will be left at normal temperatures.
During break, facilities operations workers will be working overtime to protect the closed buildings against any other problems that might arise.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said yesterday he thought people sometimes took for granted the maintenance and custodial workers.
"I think our people deserve credit where credit's due," Anderson said. "They don't get the luxury of staying
home. We are the keepers of this campus."
He said almost 400 people would be working to keep the buildings under watchful eyes 24 hours a day.
"They don't get the luxury of staying home. We are the keepers of this campus."
Tom Anderson Facilities Operations
"Somebody has to keep those buildings alive and well," Anderson said.
About 35 of the 132 housekeeping staff members will work each shift to patrol buildings, monitor temperatures and check faucets and water flow. The
THERE HAVE BEEN some grumblings of discontent among employees who must work the graveyard shift over the holidays, Anderson said.
patrols will operate around the clock,
Anderson said, which is not normal.
"It's an odd number of patrols."
"Some of our people have a tendency to forget that our obligation in facilities operations is as a support unit that takes care of the University," he said.
"SOMETIMES our people wish that they too could leave, and it's hard for them. I really think that they deserve a thank you and some amourment."
Members of the maintenance staff, including plumbers, pipffilters, steamers, and cooks.
grounds crews will do routine work on buildings that remain open and will respond, should the need arise, to emergencies during the break.
At least one housekeeping employee is ready to work through the long nights
Anderson said shifts would be rotated so that the majority of employees would receive a maximum amount of time off. On Christmas and New Year's, skeleton crews will be working, and some employees will be on call.
"As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather be working than doing nothing or fooling around," Jim Lewis, a custodian in Flint Hall, said last night.
"I work from 5 p.m. until 2 a.m, as it is."
Students safe after house fire
BY CAROL LICHTI
By CAROL LICHTI Staff Reporter
Three KU students rummaged through charred belongings yesterday afternoon after escaping a fire yesterday morning that caused $30,000 damage to the house they were renting at 2216 Marvonne Road.
A fourth occupant of the house, Jeff Nelson, Lawrence special student, was irf-satisfactory condition at Lawrence Hospital when recovering from smoke inhalation.
Mark Lohrenz, Lawrence sophomore, was treated at the scene for a minor hand injury suffered when he dropped from his playground window to evacuate the house.
LAWRENCE FIRE Department officials said Lohrenz had been lucky to escape the fire. The fire caused $20,000 damage to the structure of the house, belonging to Adrian Tang, associate manager, and $10,000 damage to the contents.
Jeff Campbell, Wellsville junior, and Gilbert Hartman, Lawrence junior, both escaped unharmed from the fire, and were using their personal items in the flames.
"Some things just can't be replaced," Campbell said.
Campbell, an architectural engineering student, lost some architectural materials. He lost his artwork because of smoke damage. All four lost items of personal value.
FIRE CHEF Jim McMain said the fire had been accidentally started in the basement by a cigarette on an overstuffed stove. They were called to the scene about 7:50 a.m.
Nelson got lost on the way out in the thick smoke because of his asthma, Campbell said, and Hartman went back in room, but lost his way in the living room.
door with Hartman and Nelson behind him.
Three fire engines and a ladder truck responded to the fire, a fire department
After Campbell struggled to get the door open, he went back and found Nina.
IT WAS NOT until they were safely outside that the three remembered their other roommate, Lohrenz, in the basement, Campbell said.
Campbell said he woke up about 7:30 a.m. sat in bed and suddenly started falling down.
"About then he came walking around the side of the house," Campbell said.
Lobrens and that has was in the business of struggling for air because of the thick smoke.
"I got into the closet to get a breath of
air and then I broke the window."
Lohrenz opened the basement window and cut his hand breaking out the
"I dropped to the floor and started crawling," he said.
campbell said Lohrenz and Hartman both were awakened by a wake-up call about 7 a.m., but did not notice anything and went back to bed.
After he made sure the two other people in the upstairs were awake, he ran down to the bed and sat.
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