Thursday. March 8. 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Mechanical problems heat up Amini
By Sara Bouska
By Sara Bouska Special to the Kansan
Temperatures in K.K. Amini Scholarship Hall reached more than 90 degrees Sunday due to a faulty heating control, causing a fire alarm to go off. But residents of the hall say overactive heaters is nothing new.
Brad Lewis, Hutchinson sophomore and hall proctor, said residents could not directly control the temperature of the hall.
K. K. Amiini Scholarship students say heating problems are common at the hot climate. The temperature recently reached more than 90 degrees, causing a fire alarm to go off. Photo by Gabe Guilliams/KANSAN
"The main thermostat is in a locked room right off our laundry room," he said. The director of the hall would have to call maintenance to have the thermostat adjusted.
Lewis also said the problem with temperature was not limited to heat problems.
"I can remember one time it was so cold in here and our air conditioner wouldn't shut off," he said.
Before the fire alarm Sunday, residents had
opened the windows in their rooms, trying to cool the hall down, but the temperature kept rising, said Scott Chapman. Shawnee junior and Amini vice president.
"Everyone had commented on how hot it was, especially on the third floor," he said. "When
the alarm went off, someone thought the heat sensors tripped upstairs."
The heat sensor that was tripped was actually on the first floor, in the room of K.K. Amini's hall director, who was out of town for the weekend. His room was locked and
the windows were shut, so the temperature in his room had risen to 95 degrees, Lewis said.
"He's had problems with that room all semester," Lewis said. "It's been in the 80s and even 90s."
Each room is equipped with heat sensors and smoke detectors. The Lawrence Fire Department unhooked the sensor in the director's room, but left his smoke alarm intact, Lewis said.
After the false alarm, maintenance workers turned off the heat in the hall overnight to cool it off.
Phil Garito, associate director of maintenance for the department of student housing, said the heating control had malfunctioned. A system intended to switch to air conditioning when temperatures get too high was simply not switching.
"Mechanical things fail and
burn out," he said. "We've replaced it with a temporary one that tells the exact temperature."
Chapman said that this was only the tip of the problem.
"I'd like it if they actually went through and did the ventilation right," he said. "I know they made a lot of mistakes when they built it, and I think this proved that the heating system doesn't work."
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said one resident had complained to the department about the heating issue before Sunday.
"When you're making a building for the comfort of 50 people, occasionally the system will have a problem," he said.
Garito said repairs should take place before air conditioning is needed.
Edited by Jason McKee
The workshops will be at the Kansas Union and meals will be served at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Allecia Ruscin, Lawrence graduate student in American Studies, is a member of Free State Action, a local group of activists that helped bring the tour to Lawrence.
The Global Justice Tour 2001 is coming to town.
A bus carrying activists and educators from Call to Action, a Portland-based social action group, will roll into Lawrence tomorrow to conduct a weekend of workshops. The workshops will focus on organizing against Citigroup and the Free Trade Area of the Americas and educating people about effective ways to protest.
Ruscin said Citigroup was the largest
Group to teach residents protest techniques
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Ruscin said that the suggested donation for attending the conference was $15, but that no one would be turned away because of lack of money. She also said any member of the public was welcome to attend individual workshops without attending the entire conference.
She said Lawrence was a great stop for the tour.
Ruscin said Call to Action taught nontraditional protesting techniques that combined education with entertainment. She said there would be workshops on guerrilla theater, puppeteering and radical cheerleading at the weekend event.
"There's never anything like that on going in the Midwest," Weyel said.
financial institution in the United States and would benefit the most from free trade agreements.
She said the justice tour hoped to not
Bowling said the workshops were designed to be interactive and allow participants hands-on experience while learning the techniques.
"Lawrence has an awesome radical history," Ruscin said. "It's a college town, and it's easier to get people involved."
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Markus Weyel, who works for the Peace and Justice Center in Topeka, brought the justice tour to town. He contacted Call to Action in December and offered his time to make Lawrence one of the national tour's stops.
John Bowling, an activist with Call to Action, said that one goal of the justice tour was to teach protest techniques to people who might be attending the protests in Quebec where Free Trade Area of the Americas will meet from Friday, April 20 to Sunday, April 22.
only educate people about the big picture of globalization, but to help them become involved with their own communities.
"In Kansas City we're focusing on building community and solidarity with labor," Ruscin said. "Our idea is that it's better to build community here. Let's talk about the steel company that closed in Kansas City last week."
Edited by Brandy Straw
She said the workshops at the tour would use techniques that got people involved at all levels.
"It's going to be begeared toward people who haven't done this kind of work before." Ruscin said.
The tour will stop in the following cities around the country: Portland, Ore., East Lansing, Mich., Chicago, Lawrence, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Quebec.
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