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 McSwan, Lawrence fire chief, said in a videoed press conference on May 5 that after the April 26, 1987, fire at the Sigma Phi Epstein fraternity house, the Lawrence Fire Department developed a program to bring all KU克群 houses into compliance with the fire code.
The department inspected the 37 active greek 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 house on May 2, he found that none of the changes had been made.
'The only course of action that the
"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 prosecutor's office, Barr said.
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 in meeting the December deadline.
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
"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."
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.
The project involves obiterating grandfather clauses, under which older structures do not to have to comply with fire codes enacted after they were built, he said.
"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."
Tau Kappa Epsilon and Phi Kappa Tau fraternities also have been submitted for investigation.
Dave Nieherzall/KANSAN
Give it a twirl
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
Official reverses Hoch ruling
Kansan staff writer
By Monica Hayde
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
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 water is also of acceptable quality going into all the 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.
By Paula Messbarger
Kansan staff writer
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.
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.
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Work in progress
Tom Tom Club: Frantz and Weymouth at the studio control board
next six weeks developed in a similar way. While in Paris, Byrne would sit down with a tape recorder and improve vocally along with a fairly finished instrument track. What came out of his mouth were something between gibberish and real language. "Sometimes words come out, but usually it sounds almost like words," says Byrne. "For me, they could stay that way. The emotion and feeling are all there. It's just putting those darned words in there." Byrne began to develop the damsms first in Paris and then later in London and New York. "I listen to the music we've done and think of the various subjects I've been thinking about or concerned about and see if any of them fit with the mood of the music. In some cases I would write words to the music without an attempt to get any meaning out of them. Then I would look at them, and keep the two things that had a meaning for me and throw out the rest of them. I go through that process about three times."
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 athleticism, and University's decision to build a new performing arts center within the next few years.
One week after the lunch, Jerry Harrison rehearses with the Casual Gadget (keyboardist, drummer, bassist, guitarist, two backup singers) in a Manhattan studio. They have successfully thou-
He said not having a sprinkler system above the stage would not make it necessary to close Hoch.
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spend a lot of time creating the way we’re going to work. Thinking about that first. We know that the way we choose to record an album has a great effect on how it turns out in the end." The quartet started with 10 days of jamming in New York last May. Says Frantz: "We started with a figure, like a beat or a bass part or something, and then people would add to it, and then we would turn on this little cassette player, and then play it until it fell apart, and then stop the cassette recorder. And then repeat the process again. Then we’d listen to all those things and choose the most promising bits." These edited jams were the basis for nearly everything that was recorded for the next six weeks in Paris.
"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."
dered through most of the tunky "Rev It Up," and now they don't know how to end it. After jamming in place for about a minute, the players stop abruptly and compare notes. "Let's do it again," says Harrison. "I would like to know how to get out of there." The guitarist, Alex Weir, scat-sings a suggestion. The band tries again, and toward the end, Harrison abruptly switches from synthesizer to guitar for a fiery solo to conclude the song. Only the band doesn't know he's finished until he announces, "That's the end." Four days from now, Cosal Gods starts its tour.
Ten days after the lunch, David Byrne sits by himself in a room in Los Angeles. On the wall next to him are 60 index cards, arranged into eight columns. Videotapes, books, scripts and records take up the shelves in the room. At the desk, he writes out scenes for "The Forest," a movie that will transplant the Epic of Gilgamus from prehistoric Mesopotamia to 19th-century Germany. (The movie "True Stories" was the first feature-length film he directed.) The same story will be told on the stage by avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson. Byrne has been writing out ideas longand for the past few days. Now he gets up and rearranges the cards on the wall.
Two weeks after the lunch, Tina Weymouth and Chris Fristz watch an electric violinist, Heidi Berg, in the control room of a Manhattan recording studio. She's attempting a solo for bridge No. 6 of a Tom Tom Club song called "Little Eva." After she plays along with the intense, broad-recorded track (drums, bass, keyboardes and guitar). Weymouth and Fristz decide that her dancing riffs don't fit the tune. The violinist thinks it want more Indianish music; "because we going to be feared," says Weymouth, "I think it would be nice if we did it spruce." It's the end of their studio time, so a two-track cassette of the song is made to be listened to overnight. They arrange for the violinist to return the next morning at the beginning of recording, 11 a.m.
As furiously creative people, the Heads have naturally looked beyond the group for artistic satisfaction. Says Byrne: "The group doesn't take my
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.
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"The sprinklers are there to protect the buildings," he said. "We care about the buildings, but our main concern is getting the people out."
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.
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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-to-1 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.
Dukakis 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," Dukakis 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 Mondale, 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.