Wednesday June 8,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 146 (USPS 650-640)
Frat may be charged for violating fire code
By Karen Boring
Kansan staff writer
City Prosecutor Jerry Little said yesterday he would file charges against the Triangle fraternity next week for failure to comply with city fire codes.
Jim McSain, Lawrence fire chief,
said in a videotaped press conference
on May 5 that after the April 26, 1987,
fire at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity
house, the Lawrence Fire
Department developed a program to
bring all KU greek houses into compliance with the fire code.
The department inspected the 37 active gym houses in June and July 1987, said Fire Marshal Rich Barr. The corporation board of each house was given a list of violations and was required to turn in plans of compliance, including a schedule for completion, by January 1988. A corporation board is a group of alumni that acts as landlord of the house.
The Triangle board turned in a statement to Barr, asserting that all required changes had been made, Little said. However, when the fire marshal Inspected the Triangle board, found none of the changes had been made.
"The only course of action that the
fire department is interested in with the Triangle house is prosecution." Little said. "The next step is filing charges against that fraternity."
Ron Gast, Triangle corporation board president, said a new board, including himself, was elected in February and that the original plan of compliance had been submitted by the former board. Gast said he and other board members learned of the fire-code problems from the house's student officers after the May inspection.
The board is taking bids so it can make a new plan of compliance. Gast said. He anticipated no problems with meeting the December deadline.
"We want to get costs in mind first," he said. "I think we will have a firm plan by this summer and have some of the work completed by September."
Five other greek houses also are under investigation by the city prosecute.
The Alpha Kappa Lambda andLambda Chi Alpha fraternities and theAlpha Chi Omega sorority have not come to agreement with the fire department on plans of compliance with the fire code, Little said. The
Tau Kappa Epsilon and Phi Kappa Tau fraternities also have been submitted for investigation.
"They either have not submitted plans of compliance or the compliance time frame is not acceptable." Little said. "What I'm trying to do is to open the lines of communication."
The project involves obliterating grandfather clauses, under which older structures do not to have to comply with fire codes enacted after they were built, he said.
Normally, the fire department inspects greek houses twice a year to ensure that existing fire equipment is working properly. Barr said. The present fire-code project, however, involves seeing that the existing equipment adequately complies with today's fire code.
"If they do not involve sprinkler systems, because sprinkler systems are a very large project from a structural standpoint, we are requiring those plans of compliance to be completed by December 1988." Barr said at the press conference. "If they involved sprinkler systems, then we extended that deadline by one year."
Give it a twirl
Davo Nihoroaall/KANSAN
Terri Maness, Lawrence resident, twirls batons with glow sticks attached to the ends. Maness entertained golfers during the Moonshine Night Golf Tournament on Saturday night at the Orchards Executive Golf Course. The tournament was a benefit for the Achievement Place Boys' Home.
Water safe, tests indicate
Cancer-causing chemical no longer present at Lindley
By Monica Hayde
Kansan staff writer
For two weeks, signs were posted inside and outside Lindley Hall warning people not to drink the water in the building. On Friday, they were removed.
Warning notices were posted in the building on May 20 after state and University inspectors found high levels of a cancer-causing chemical in the water in Room 107. But the latest tests have shown that no health hazard exists, a University statement released Saturday said.
Inspectors from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment found high levels of 1,2-dichloroethane
Official reverses Hoch ruling
Bearse said it was unlikely the water in any other campus buildings was contaminated.
“Tests have not been run campus-wide, but they are in the process of being run,” he said. “However, the water coming into Lindley Hall is of acceptable quality, so the assumption is that of acceptable quality going out other buildings.”
Steve Cater, University environment, health and safety officer, said no one knew why such an elevated level of ethylene dichloride was in the water.
"It's quite possible we'll never know where it came from." he said.
Bv Paula Messharger
Kansan staff writer
Paul Markley, who is chief of the fire prevention division for the state fire marshal's office, said after his April inspection of Hoch that the 61-year-old building was too dangerous to use because of fire-code violations.
But Markley said Monday Hoch is safe and can be used by the University of Kansas for classes and concerts.
A state fire official who said in April that Hoch Auditorium might have to be closed because of fire hazards now says it is a safe building.
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BERNARD GOTFRYD—NEWSWEEK
Serious business: Shefelman with Pat Maloy, Dow Jones employee-services manager
child-protection agencies or government antipoverty programs. A growing number, however, work in business or private practice, where salaries are higher and case-loads less taxing. In 1972 only 3 percent of America's social workers served in nontraditional, for-profit settings; in 1987 the figure stood at 20 percent.
Minding business: Carolyn Shefleman counts herself among the nontraditionalists. She works in the burgeoning field of occupational social work at New York's Brownlee Dolan Stein Associates, which has over 300 employees more than 90 U.S. corporations, including Ford Motor Co., Dow Jones and News-week. Inc. Shefleman, 29, earns nearly
$80,000 a year college employees with family and drugabuse problems and running corporate workshops on stress management and MBI research. Businesses with such programs more than doubled between 1975 and 1984 to more than 5,000. The reason: "Businesses are beginning to realize that what happens to their employees affects the bottom line," says Nancy Randolph of the Council on Social Work Education.
Perhaps the biggest force behind the profession's recent recovery is the entry of social workers into psychotherapy—a specialty that in most states requires an M.S.W. and two years of supervised experience. Almost two-thirds of social workers did full- or part-time therapy in 1986, up from one-quarter just four years earlier. Several developments have helped
clear the way. Patients' dischantment with drawn-out, expensive Freudian analysis has led to a boom in the short-term therapies that social workers practice. And 22 states now require insurers to pay social workers for therapy, allowing them to compete with psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. "If I can do the therapy just like a psychologist, why should I be paid less because I'm a social worker?" says Carolyn Lim, 24, a graduate student in social work at the University of Chicago.
Many therapists work in public programs or nonprofit mental-health clinics. But for others the ultimate goal is setting up their own private practice. More than 15 percent of the National Association of Social Workers' 113,000 members now have full-time private practices, with another 15 percent in private practice part time. Among young social workers, the draw of private practice is even stronger. A 1984 study found that 86 percent of entering M.S.W. students in direct services—a category that encompasses about two-thirds of all social workers—wanted to go into private practice. The appeal is no mystery to Marshall Feldman, 34, a Columbia student. "In an agency, you're expected to see 25 or 30 clients a week," says Feldman, who interns at a nonprofit mental-health clinic. "Multiply that by $50, you get over $1,200 a week, over $50,000 a year. In an agency, you might pay $25,000—if you're lucky. Naturally, you start thinking . . ."
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Deny the need? That sort of thinking has some observers worried. In the rush to cash in on private practice, they fear, social work may be abandoning its commitment to the disadvantaged—a commitment going back to its roots in 19th-century charities for paupers and the mentally ill. Statistics back up that fear: from 1982 to 1987 the percentage of NASW members in public agencies fell 20 percent. "I get very upset when I hear students say, 'I'm going to come here and then go into private practice.'" says Danna Wood, director of job development and information service at the Columbia School of Social Work. "Those who have the least are the ones who need us the most."
In the face of federal budget reductions and the lure of lucrative private practice, however, the most surprising thing may be that so many social workers retain their commitment to helping the poor. When Regina Medina graduated from California
Playing by new rules: University of Chicago's Carolyn Lim
State at Unico in 1986, she knew she wanted to work with disadvantaged youth. Now, as an M.S.W student at the University of Southern California, she interns at a clinic for emotionally disturbed and sexually abused children in Los Angeles's depressed Watts district. "There's such great potential in this population, but so often it's misdirected," says Medina, 27, who works with children four to 16. "They're deprived of the education they need, and they can get involved with gangs and drugs. To neglect them is unfair." As long as that attitude survives, the boom in nontraditional social work won't see the profession abandoning its old constitutency but broadening its base to include new ones.
STEPHEN WEST with
NOELLE GAFKNEY in Chicago
TERRY ALLEN in Los Angeles and
DARIA DAVIDBOREN in Boston
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Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said the problem with the original inspection probably was a result of a KU Facilities and Operations employee who was sent with Markley on the inspection. Anderson said it was common practice for KU employees to assist the fire marshals during inspections. He said the employee probably was not familiar with Hoch and its lighting system.
"There is an emergency lighting system, and its been there for at least 15 years." he said. "The problem was no one asked the right person."
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Hoch Auditorium once was used as the home court for the Jayhawks basketball team until Allen Field House was dedicated in 1955. Hoch has had a long history of safety and structural problems, which led to the decision to build a new performing arts center within the next few years.
James Modig, campus director of facilities planning, said his office and a committee appointed by Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, are reviewing possibilities for using Hoch once the new performing arts building is completed. Modig said some suggestions were offices, classrooms or an addition to the new science library.
"We're looking for the general needs of the campus." Modig said.
As for the near future, not much will be done to Hoch, he said. Some of the stonework will be repaired this year under the fiscal year 1988 budget. But there will be no projects for the fiscal year of 1989 because the Board of Regents did not approve the requests.
The Associated Press
Dukakis finishes with nomination
Michael Dukakis clinched the Democratic presidential nomination with a four-state flourish Tuesday night and forecast a "golden opportunity" to win the White House in 1988. Republican George Bush labeled himself the underdog heading into the fall campaign but said, "I'm fighting back."
Dukakis dominated Jesse Jackson coast to coast on the final night of a grueling Democratic primary marathon. He was winning primaries in New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico and California by margins of 2-1o or more.
The three-term Massachusetts governor began the night needing about 150 delegates to achieve a mathematical lock on the nomination. He was winning more than 131 in New Jersey, Montana and New Mexico combined, and early returns from California showed him ahead for more than 200 delegates.
Duke's emerged as the winner of the Democratic primary marathon and owner of a lead over Bush in the nationwide public opinion polls. But Bush, who wrapped up the GOP nomination six weeks ago, holds formidable Electoral College advantages in the South and West, and Republicans have won four of the last five presidential elections.
Thus, the prospect is for a close general election, and Bush and Dukakis seemed to share an eagerness to begin.
'My friends, what a golden opportunity this is for us," Dukaias said as he savored his nominating triumph in a speech in California. He pledged to use his campaign to stand up for factory workers thrown out of their jobs with no warning, to ease the burden of families hit by medical bills and to "share the rage" of those living in neighborhoods threatened by drugs.
"Every day between now and November, the American people will want to hear how we intend to build a strong and vibrant future for our country," he said. "They aren't interested in slashing attacks: They want to judge our positive ideas for change."
Bush pushed uncontested primary victories in all four states and said, "I think I can overcome this deficit (in the polls)," he said.
In a television interview, he likened Dukakis to Walter Monale, the landslide Democratic loser in 1984, for refusing to rule out a tax increase. "I'll rule it out," Bush said in an interview with CBS, and rely on a spending freeze to reduce the deficit.
He decried the "gloom and doom" that he said was emanating from the Democrats and said the polls would change as he began to establish his own political identity.
"When we get through in the fall talking about opportunity and peace and numbers of jobs and how much better things are and what I'll do to keep it that way, I think I can overcome that deficit," he said.