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Stude By Andy Thompson A shrill buzz pie: mitory's halls, sendi trudging down the sta ground below and ir bodies. Such an occurence new to most reside housing. It's just anol When the Col Fire Departn* answers false at USC9 it cos * f rfk n mm mem or someone has pul alarm to make a little students take the alar or want to leave theii Lawrence E. Beauf USC's Safety Services concerned about fa vandalism to f eauinmpnt ariH chirlon leave their dorms whi | ! I v & I S1 % m 35 A % M rl# SLA i 3?#hal I rets ignt sounds. It*! rces a dor- because of ng residents the things irwells to the said. ito a sea of "We ha buildings on problem wh J 1C nnfKinrr n. % ? meir aorms nts of USC off," Beaufc ther fire drill that don't trapped." ii "They tei , . alarm. This umbia student. It's are concern Beauford lent vandalism c ment and I centrated n rpcir\onpo hi W1\4V/I1\,V 114 a la rm 8 don 'l Play w the boys set would appea ts Besides i prevention, one part-tin Safety Serv aiso nanaie ?and maintai lied a false systems, in i noise. Few conduct safe ms seriously inspections. * rooms. Beauford ladder in Col ord, chief of a fire breal i Division, is building ai lse alarms, ignored thea ire-fighting only reach ts who don't floors to brii en an alarm added. THE PI JQJIJI rooTro! SOLD ur> V9* t NOTHIN CKS -SKIF TERS *SWE LXi SAX Wfimmm 1120 SHOP R Across From Near S.C. Hi< Open 10AM - <yre a la s a serious problem, not money, but because of that could happen, he ve some high-rise campus and we have a ?en people won't leave > after an alarm goes ?rd said ''Thncn nonrtla ? . - vrw? leave could become i an actual fire. id to ignore the fire ; is our concern for the i their welfare that we ed about," he added, said the incidence of >f fire fighting equipfalse alarms is connainly in the men's alls. "The girls just ith fire equipment and ' it as great sport, it tr," he said. their work in fire the five full-time and ne employees of the ices Division at USC bomb threats, repair ice of fire equipment idustrial safety and sty classes and safety said the longgest umbia goes 100 feet. If cs out in a high rise nd some residents larm, the ladder can to the fifth or sixth ig them to safety, he ??WB???? mn -rs a ?Hs? ?JIl! JOu @10 3M 3 SI IDER CO o A G HIGH ^TS ! ATERS , jXSS FI wwmw IOAD 771-7029 Fairgrounds 3hway Department 7PM DAILY irms; v "It is to their advai ahead and evacuate tl even if they don't se smoke," he said. "For the past few ye? been working to get v? fire equipment down s have fire protection in 1 ocduiuru saia. Damage to fire equi year amounted to more he said. There were 8 alarms, 224 fire ext discharged, 16 fire ex stolen and other damaj "We have a pre leave their dot W w -- Lawrence t Director During September, damages to fire equip: recorded, he said. Twen extinguishers were di two stolen, 13 glasses 1 exinguisher or hose thprp u/orn A ^ ? vuitl uailld To cut down on the i fire extinguishers discharged, the Safety vices Division has bee break-glass fire extingui on extinguishers. Th were installed in Doi Laborde dormitories H summer. In September of these were discharged four glasses in the ca broken. lCK rnM 1 ORES S ST E pp I BLOUSES 1 JEANS Z* MAX | andals SMS ??!SV e or smell alarms car irs we have ^isdemean* indalism of T^s: ?eau^ o we could Umversitj xt j. Pnnrpminn me aorms, evacuating I pment last fjarm is dist than $3,000 through the 7 false fire Beauford sa inguishers sur ! a11 tl tinguishers Setting to th< ^es hall adviser tblem when peoj ~niH aftgtr /in In Beauford, SaJ 1IMU1 ^UWRWaBCHMCW $487 in At f. m . ment was 1 the ' , was residents of schanrVede West' the T woken in' "orseshoe.ar . damaees ripr masses ana ? ?* ees * area dePen lumber nf dama8e was h/ini Robert ste and Scr housin?' said n placing sher cases when dar ese cases equipment 01 lgtas ana informs the uring the ticular hall c 1975, none being assess , although Stewart said ises were the damagei this $10 depc >o jl! University lersun nav< j political in selection of Medical Scho fear such selection of h president ha: assurance th appointment without the !j faculty," Fos p Foster woi | reasons for hi * he had been * most deans o * country. W1 * clashes with had caused 1 "I'm r.^.; & lit II Ul wasn't a m decision, but dominant. Fi tends to caus< the teaching a ; person out." Kston T. of the board of nn iHpa u/hnf ^ ' 1 Foster was k I resignation 1< , I discussed it u ! letter or any James W. chairman of tl board of tru school comir comment at a Patterson < . Foster for hi 'physical J development < the major par released by I dealt with fori committee replacement. create h aught vandalizing fjre "We ipment or pulling false deterr i be charged with a or and fined $100 or 30 ord said. Housi ' policy information ex*'n8n procedure in in thed buildings during a fire experir ributed to the students alarm resident hall advisers, and w? id. He said he wasn't added, lis information was e students through the s* Thes have b< ? wuf? i m woo rm goes off." fcty Service* Per ca 1J oeri7fce* stallatii ginning of this year, Bates House, Bates . owers area and the ea were charged a $10 ?J5?? , >osit. "Its levied by hawTfX ding on what the . the previa* year," tmKulsf wart, director of aage occurs, to fire We hi r other items, housing started students on a par- extingu >r dorm that they are Stewart ;ed for the damages, extingui Tlin ~ * . inc iiiuuey 10 cover ine > would come out of tinguish sit. it," he ! ster?1 trustees and Pat3 been accused of terference in the a dean for the USC ol but Foster does not interference in the < is replacement. "The tfk s given me absolute $ iat there will be no of a law school dean X consent of the law iter said. jld not specify the s resignation, saying as dean longer than f law schools in the A len asked if resent the administration his action, he said, H ng to say that that ajor factor in the ? it ccertainly wsn't JB ive years in this job 3 one to lose sight of spects. It can burn a Will Marchant, Chairman | trustees, said he had 1 lifferences of opinion 1 rpfprrint* tn in hie Q etter. "He hasn't JBrtl rith me by phor.e or mn? other means." SSL?I Cothran, former 1 le recently abolished opia stees standing law ?r?*M littee refused any 83 *** li I tlmh jxpressed thanks to is advancements in I and intellectual* I JUJJJ >f the law school, but I dtmn t of his statement as I J?#!? nformation Services mation of the search J * ? for Foster's I %jr" ? azard hope that this will serve as a ent," he said. ing has been installing fire ishers in break-glass boxes lorms, he said. "We are now nenting with putting the fire swithches in glass cases, i hope that- will help," he e glass encased fire alarms jen installed experimentally drow and they are getting to install them in Bates Stewart said. They cost $18 ise plus the cost of inon, he said. re is a fine of $100 for g around with fire equipStewart said. "That's stiff and we would like to iople aware of it when they around with fire exlers." ave had cases wherp ? ?* *? and someone grabbed an isher and it was empty, said. Shooting off an isher is funny "until you guy that grabs the exer and there is nothing in said. from Page One ' - *- - ' H m liam H. Patterson ? tmmcmcM h <M miiw m* hpmitin twtea IIIIMI, llwri^ km m wM mm mmSLm ml twr UM?anWjj????1 C?i?*wi It ? I (H Mi adwr MrrMpSSlli r A. UK C.U.i>.uJ^y ?i ctow pcHat? poM M Ma, u.