University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 26, 1988
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Greeks try to meet fire codes
Raising necessary money is still a concern for some houses
Bv Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
Many fraternities and sororites on campus still are struggling with the cost of upgrading their houses to fire code standards, although some houses have come up with ways to solve the problem.
Martin Murphy, Lawrence junior and president of Lambda Chi Alpha, said that the fraternity had been working on upgrading conditions to make them safer. They also had quite a lot to accomplish before all the codes were met.
The house was inspected about two months ago and was given an August deadline to have violations remedied.
"All together, we have about $23,000 or $24,000 of changes to be made, and we're one of the better ones," Murphy said. "Violation on campus." Murphy said.
Some of the necessary changes involve fixing the fire alarm system, including the installation of electromagnetic elements in doors so they close automatically when the alarm goes off. Other changes include the replacement of doors and the installation of fire escapes.
"We're trying to raise the money through alumni contributions," he
said, "We're going OK on it. We have said the alarm part, which amounts to about $4,700. And we have about $3,000 more left to work with."
"The fire department has been fairly flexible because of the money situation. It's not something you include in your budget, so it is not easy to come up with. They ween good about understanding that."
Lawrence fire marshal Rich Barr said that more than half of the Greek houses that have been inspected need to do major renovations.
He also said that a report was being prepared specifying which buildings meet code and what needs to be done to bring others up to code.
Fire Chief Jim McSain said yesterday that the report would be released in a couple of weeks, after inspectors have gone back through the houses to see if they have been exposed to chemicals used in fences set after previous inspections.
The Delta Chi fraternity is also still trying to raise more money needed to meet fire code standards. However, they have done a lot to try to meet the codes.
Ted Lischer, Kirkwood, Mo., junior and president of Delta Chi, said about
$10,000 to $15,000 of work had already been done.
"We've already enclosed the boiler in a flame retardant room, and we have installed fire doors in all of the open hallways. We also have a fire alarm system with smoke detectors in each room."
Lischer said he hoped that next semester the fraternity would be able to install a sprinkler system and renovate the interior of the house.
"Things are looking kind of rosy now, at least better than they were a couple of weeks ago." Lischer said. "When we were in college, the alumnus we had been working for."
A Delta Chi alumnus offered to donate $10,000 to the house if the fraternity members could match it by the end of April.
"He's bringing the check up on May 12." Lischer said. "We have $45,000 that we know of right now, and Jim Bjerkan, president of the housing corporation, said we should have about $100,000 on top of that."
Lischer said the fraternity would use the money they have as collateral for a loan to provide them with the capitaal need to complete all of the requirements.
While the Delta Chi house used
fund-raising projects to raise money to meet standards, another house had to sacrifice plans for an addition in order to meet fire codes.
"Our corporation board was planning on putting an addition on our house because we needed extra room. We just used the money put in and made sure the fire system. That's the only reason we had the money to do it."
Lisa Carison, Chesterfield, Mo., junior and president of the Sigma Kappa sorority, said, "I think we were not really surprised when she has taken care of fire code violations.
Alumni of the Phi Kappa Tau house solved any fire code problems for the fraternity by buying a new house for their dorm. A fire alarm system, at 1328 Ohio St.
Matt Brisch, Lincoln, Neb., sophmore and president of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, said that the house's coporation board is spending $200,000 on a new house for the fraternity. About $100,000 of that will be spent on a central fire alarm and sprinkler system.
"So, I would say that we're basically in the opposite position of having a serious problem meeting fire codes." Brisch said.
STUDENT RELEASED AFTER HEARING: A 19-year-old male KU student who was arrested after an incident early Saturday morning outside the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, 1602 W. 15th St., was released on his own recognition yesterday after a bond hearing in Douglas County District Court.
He had been in jail since shortly after midnight Saturday.
According to police reports, the student was waving a knife at Kelly Hanson, Kingman sophomore and a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, early Saturday.
Police said the student had concealed the knife in his pocket when police arrived on the scene. The police said that the student resisted arrest and took his knife. Police said the knife poked through his pocket and cut an officer
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The officer did not require medical treatment, and no other injuries were reported.
The student is scheduled to appear in Douglas County District Court May 2.
Pizarro, 19, native of Portugal who has studied under KU professor Sequera Costa, Cordelia Ferrari and Sergio Pizarro.
KU PIANIST WINS COMPETITION: Artur Pizarro, a special piano student at the University of Kansas, won the $10,000 first prize in the Palm Beach, Fla., International Piano Competition, April 11-17
since the age of 5. Pizarro was one of six international competitors at the competition.
ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR CHOSEN:
Wojciech Lesnikowski, professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, has been named the first Don Hatch distinguished professor of architecture at the University of Kansas.
Lesnikowski, who is working on several building commissions in Chicago and organizing a commemorative exhibit on Parisian architecture, will join the KU School of Architecture and Urban Design to part time next fall and will assume full time appointment when his current projects are completed.
The Hatch chair is supported by a bequest to the KU Endowment Association from the estate of Done Hatch, a 1930 KU architectural engineering graduate who died in 1977.
INVESTIGATORS SEEK ARSONIST: Lawrence fire and police department investigators are still looking for an arsonist responsible for the April 9 attack. The fire caused an estimated $10,000 damage.
Lawrence fire marshal Rich Barr said yesterday that investigators were still interviewing witnesses, neighbors and others connected with the apartment building.
"As far as I know, we don't have any clear suspect vet." Barr said.
Barr said that the fire was started on the floor of one apartment in the building, but he declined to give further information about the origin of the fire because of the ongoing investigation.
SENIOR WINS ESSAY CONTEST: Gregory Naron, Overland Park parker, won the first Philip W. Whitcumber Memorial Essay Contest. He will receive a prize book and $100.
Naron's winning essay, "On the Incompatibility of Marxist Aesthetics and the Artistic Mind," sketches a theory of art, based in part on the ideas of Karl Marx. He uses that theory to criticize both the official aesthetic doctrines and the artistic policies of present-day socialist countries.
Whitcomb received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Kansas in 1981 at age 89. He graduated from Washburn University in 1911 and studied at Oxford University from 1908 to 1924, when he was a journalist who covered European affairs for U.S. newspapers and news services.
KU SENATE MEETS THURDAY: University Senate will meet Thursday at 3:0 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union. All faculty and student senators are members of the Senate.
On the agenda for the meeting are one change in the University Senate Code, a report from the University Senate Executive Committee on the University Senate Code, a report from Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor
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