NEWS BRIEF
ASUO will rally in Salem
for education funding
ASUO will hold a lobby day in Salem
on Monday to gamer support among
lawmakers for Gov. Ted Kulongoski's
budget which ASUO officials said does
not cut higher education funding.
Students are invited to attend the
lobby day, which will run from 10
a m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Capitol;
ASUO will provide transportation to
all interested students.
"This is our last chance to push for
higher education funding," ASUO
Legislative Associate Gabe Kjos said in
a press release. "This budget will affect
all students — rich or poor — and
will be a huge indicator of future in
creases in tuition."
ASUO has said it does not support
the alternative state budget drafted by
the co-chairs of the Joint Ways and
Means Committee, because it includes
$74 million in cuts to higher education.
For information on transportation
or the event itself, contact Kjos at
asuoleg@gladstone.uoregon.edu.
— Jan Tobias Montry
Fire
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looms and most of the hallway, char
ring doors and walls and burning
holes through the ceiling and roof.
The fire also burned through the
floor to a room on the second story
raining flaming material on the
room below.
Deputy Fire Marshall Mark
Thompson, the Fire's lead investiga
tor, said the department estimated
$250,000 in structural damage and
$ 10,000 in property damage.
While the results of the fire are
clear, the cause remains a point of
contention for the house's residents.
Glenn Potter, a public informa
tion officer with the fire department,
said "smoker carelessness" caused
the fire. He said a cigarette can on
the sun deck caught fire and the
flames ignited the adjacent wall.
Thompson confirmed the cause,
saying residents "found a plastic
bucket used for cigarette butts
burning," and that the fire eventu
ally spread to the interior of
the building.
But resident Ian Harvey, who
took a break from packing his car
with his belongings Tuesday, said
he didn't 'buy that.' He said he was
one of the residents who originally
discovered the fire.
"We think the fire was electrical,"
he said. “The people that live here —
none of them smoke.'
And if a cigarette bucket caused
the fire, he said, the flames would
n't have gone through to the sec
ond floor.
"Fire doesn't normally go down
ward," he said.
Andrew Barr, another resident at
the house, agreed. He said the cause
of the fire was electrical and added
that the whole building has "bad
electrics." While the house has never
had electrical fires, Barr said they
have had lights fail to work without
apparent explanation, and circuit
breakers often blow.
Thompson agreed that there were
some "pretty unusual circum
stances* involved with the fire. Nor
mally, fires do spread up and out, he
said. But, in this case, the plastic
bucket containing cigarettes melted
and the flaming plastic flowed into
a crack where the deck meets the
roof. That ignited the tar on the roof
and allowed the fire to flow down to
the second floor room.
Thompson added that he also has
evidence that burning material fell
and expanded the fire to the second
floor room.
Thompson said the only possible
source of an electrical fire would be
an extension cord used for an exteri
or light. That was unlikely, he said,
adding that "By all witness accounts
it was unplugged."
The building does not have a
sprinkler system, Ihompson added.
In May 2002, the University re
quired greek houses to install ap
proved fire sprinkler systems by
fall 2004 or lose their school affili
ation. By the end of spring term,
six of the eight sorority houses had
complied, as well as six of the 12
fraternity houses, according to the
Greek Life Office.
Closing the house until repairs
can be made won't hurt the chap
ter, Funes said. The number of in
dividuals living in the chapter
house predictably drops in the
summer, so the chapter pays the
mortgage during the summer with
"school-year incomes," Funes said.
He added that because of the loss
of personal possessions they may
have to "dip into a few extra pock
ets," but there "shouldn't be trou
ble financially."
Ultimately, Funes said the fire
has demonstrated just how tight
knit and supportive the chapter is,
which he added could help their
future membership.
"I'm hoping it won't (negatively
affect membership). In fact I think
it could improve our membership,"
Funes said. "1 think it really opened
(members') eyes to how close we
were to losing everything It could be
a blessing in disguise."
Jared Paben is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
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