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Thursday, March 2, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Gretchen Pinngenger/Special to the KANSAN
Inside look
Progress continues on construction inside the new Science Library. The library is expected to open later this year.
Greeks express concern
Fire-code plan called expensive
by Michele Logan Kansan staff writer
Members of fraternities and sororites expressed concern last night about the repercussions of having to install sprinkler systems in their houses to meet a proposed amendment to the Uniform Fire Code.
At a meeting in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas University, members of the fraternities and sororites and their building corporations met with the Lawrence fire marshal and the Fire Code Board of Appeals to discuss the proposed amendment to the 1988 fire codes. The amendment requires the installation of sprinkler systems throughout each house.
"We've done everything the fire department has asked us to do, yet they still want more," said Phana Holdredge. Sigma Kappa national organization has requested us on every year and I asked them, "When does it stop?"
Frank Bustamante, Kansas City, Kain, freshman and member of Delta Chi, said the amendment would cause his fraternity financial prob-
"We'll have to ask alums for money, and our house does will also shoot up," he said. "They have to pay the debt." He's not a bottomless pit of money."
Other houses, such as Kappa Sigma, proposed alternatives to the sprinkler system such as spraying fire-shielding paints on all ground-floor furniture to protect the furniture from burning.
"Buying paints for the house would
The amendment was proposed to improve safety for people living in group occupancies with more than 16 people by altering the existing buildings, according to a memo to the Lawrence City Commission from Mike Wilden, assistant city manager.
cost about $7,000 or $8,000, whereas installing a new skinker system would cost us at least $25,000," said Cynthia Moore and Kappa Sigma vice president.
If the proposal is adopted by the commission, all buildings would have to install fire-alarm systems, exit signs, emergency lighting and must meet occupancy limits within six months of adoption of the amendment.
Every floor above the first story must have at least two separate exits within one year of adoption of the exit; all exits of the would also have to be provided
A sprinkler system would have to be installed in all living areas and exit corridors within three years of adoption.
"The commission will have a first read and listen to public opinion on March 28 and probably won't vote on the amendment until the first week in April," said Rich Barr, Lawrence fire marshal.
If adopted, the amendment would affect 39 organized living groups, 38 of which are KU fraternities and sororites, Barr said.
Other houses that have indicated they will comply within the year are Triangle, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Phi.
Wildgen said 22 houses had partial sprinkler systems.
Fraternities and sororites at KU have had eight fires in the last 11 years, he said.
"I initiated this project to maintain the houses. They've had violation after violation and the fire department finally had to take a firm decision, but I don't want to wait until a life is lost before I start doing something."
The Board of Fire Code Appeals will meet to discuss the amendment again at 7 p.m. March 9 at the fire department administrative office, *74 Kentucky St.*
Man says he killed KC girl
The Associated Press
KANSA CITY, Kan. — A man who pleaded guilty yesterday to killing a high school student at her home said that the victim's adopted sister and another man in the attack and another woman in the murder of killing the girls' parents as well.
Conrad Joseph Hernandez, 24,
entered the plea to first-degree
murder in the death of Syndi Bierman,
17 Her body, beaten and stabbed,
was found early Feb. 19 at her home
at Piper in western Wyandotte County.
Hernandez, of Kansas City, Kan., surrendered to police in Oklahoma last week. He pleaded guilty under an agreement to testify against the attackers. Shari L. Bierman, the victim's sister, and Archie E. Owens, both 20.
Bierman is in custody, undergoing an examination to determine her competency to stand trial. Owens is still at large.
Hernandez, whom authorities said was Shari Bierman's boyfriend, said the three defendants engaged in bondage sex in Shari Bierman's basement apartment at the family home the night of Feb. 18.
Shari Bierman had separated from her husband and moved back home with her two children. 2 and 1.
"Arche was making jokes that you ought to tie the whole family up and kill them," Hernandez said. He said Bari Sherian remarked that would be a good idea because they could collect life insurance money on her parents, Leonard and Barbara Biernan.
Wyandotte County District Attorney Nick Tomasic told district Judge Philip J. Siehe he would show that Shari Bierman struck her sister with a board that had nails protruding from it.
Gumbel's grumbles extend to Scott and Shalit, but Pauley escapes mention
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Bryant Gumbel, who has snipped at David Letterman, Connie Chung, Linda Ellerbe and others, is at it again, this time firing a rocket at fellow "Today" show staffers such as Willard Scott and Gene Shalit.
In a 6-month-old memo made public by New York Newsday on Tuesday, he accused weatherman Scott of holding NBC's top-rated morning talk show "hostage" to his "bad guy," David Goldman. Herowitz was a "walking cliche." He said Shaltit's movie reviews were often too late
and his interviews were "not very good."
Medical correspondent Art Ulene's them
weeks were dubed "boring," and many of
New York-based consumer correspondent
Betty Furness" reports "too local."
Jane Paule escaped mention.
He co-host who wrote the memo last
August when he was negotiating his three- year, $7 million contract, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
It's not the first time Gumbel's grubbles have made news. In a September issue of Sports Illustrated, he recounted his disenchantment with Chung, Ellerbe and Letterman, among others.
Even Pauley, who keeps a scrupulously happy face, seemed exasperated by Gumbel's long-time word of words with the host of NBC's "Late Night," which stemmed from Letterman's bullhorn disruption of a primetime "Today" special.
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