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Six floors MB flooded in Bates W est By Danny Powell Oamccock A vandal discharged a fire hose on the sixth floor of Bates West : early Sunday flooding all the lower M floors. Campus security was notified at B^Mlr - flhrttlf 4 ' 30 a m SnnHou hu Mami '' ??wv wuiium^ mm j Mendini, a Bates West resident, that someone was "tampering with her room door," according to a MBBBSMglii report said the "door tampering" was apparently water leaking (BByBBWiliSB down the hallway walls and beating against the door as it Sgt. R.D. Robertson, of Campus Police, said an officer was on the scene at Bates West two minutes W&mM|S|^fv|g after Mendini's call. He said when the officer got to Bates West, he turned off the water and removed the fire hose, which he placed in a room on the sixth floor. CAMPUS SECURITY then contacted Jim Oxley, area University < manager for Bates House, Bates Sunday to va< West and the Roost. started here Arrangements were made by Oxley started. for a crew to come in and clean up the water Friday night the fire hose used to ^ stu(*ifniiat4?< flood the first six floors was Pf removed from its wall container, left out encourage Residents of Bates West's sixth Besides pie watei floor said the person or persons "c who removed the hose from its tinqwsher was r piace naa lei some water flow ,u(l,,wc ta"u,cl down the stairwells, but not onto The security p the halt itself. ?? obby of ,Batf One of the resident assistants of " Bates West said she noticed some during the time o flooding at 11 a.m. Saturday and that no one had a located the source to be on the sixth "IT PROBABL floor. Oxley said he was notified of happened on a we the hose being pulled out early the university Saturday afternoon. here," one of the the weekend, or CAMPUS SECURITY Ruirt thou ?? had no account of the hose being "I doubt if it w pulled out. Oxley said the general this hall," a six procedure for an incident such as said. "Because y tampering with fire equipment is to do it to your c to call security whenever there is a "I hate to see i problem. He said security takes happen in my b care of putting up the hoses, or at said. least they see it gets done. "The university However, the hose was left out all involved for dam j - aay. student," said 8 Hi Ladies'Lea 1 Boots Dross HP Casu L $24.9 L ^ Famous Name IB TOM'S SHOE CEN Rotrwood Shopping Clr.-Rowwood Dr.-Colun mammmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmammmmmmmaammmm BMrl T TT"t r ? S ' mmMmm f ?^:"-:-:>?:::-" ' ? jh| k^M JPlI mk wm:wm m i 'SS^ \< I Dav? Robick ? GAMECOCK employee George Jennings had to get up early :uum the water off the floor of Bates West. He under the fire hose box where the flood was sites West said it director of business affairs for it the hose being Residential Life Services. He said d the vandalism. the university would not pay for * damage done to any damages to student's pernors, a fire ex- sonal belongings. [lissing from the erson on duty in [] 3 West said about I iu. w..ii j;?. rJ uic uuiiuiug f the flooding but fire extinguisher. rara ? ga Y would not have H P ek night, because gOTH E ISLa R employees are ' RAs said "On ily the RAs are | as anybody from I th floor resident I ^ ou wouldn't want 8 ?wn hall." I Mm 111 At-! _ I miming line tills ^ uildings," Oxley |? / has no liability te|| age caused by a Robert Stewart, M therj J i * lal 15 Applyi mm Brand I ? ITER J | We'vo g< yamecock I General Staff I Meeting I Tonight at 7, | Isii-n, nusseii House u Rll present employees 1 I persona interested in I working should attend I Important IZ! | JteteetSttwIW fyeaMi Bkuuk. Ptapniekeit 5205FetMlDiuic Goufimt Kitchen Skap ^exf Sigsk & r% I r ?? ? " cia^ea cmy I kutMay f Ca?? J&t tegcahafieii 787-0847 Suiedi&k lAJ imuUk Bi^lc Racto Cnplf&i fauifa - Fondue Setd SllwMIJll]fill]Jli I ftptww (ftt Hten and ornate*. 1 P WANTED n person after 2:00 1211 College St. ># the fees# darn burger... I WWII? WW Ml mini *