The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 20, Ed. 1, Tuesday, November 4, 1986 Page: 1 of 8
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Flaming around the fountain
GATA social club members gather on the GATA fountain while their
pledges circle outside them Friday after Chapel during one of their
Sing Song chairmen
David -Chrane and Kris Fanning
were named Sing Song 1987 co-
.jtoirmtn Thursday after conduc-
55qg final interviews with the Sing
.Song executive committee which is
Composed of club and class presi-
dents said Fanning senior public
relations major from Stephenville.
Preliminary interviews were con-
ducted Tuesday and Wednesday
with Jeff Nelson director of univer-
sity events and Greg Holt assistant
director of university events said
Fanning.
Chrane junior art major from
Abilene said he thinks he and Fan-
ning will work well together.
Hre Code
Cafeteria corrects
By DEM STEWART
Optimist staff
A violation of the Uniform Fire
Code may have occurred several
times this semester in the East and
safest Dining Rooms two ACU
5aents said.
Karl Olson and Yancy Vestal said
they saw emergency exits chained
together or locked during business
hours several times since fall regis-
tration. Blocking emergency exits violates
not only the fire code but also state
and building codes said Chief In-
spctor Thomas C. Goblc of the
Abilene Fire Department. Refusal
to comply with a request to unblock
exits is a Clats C misdemeanor.
Doors equipped with crash-bar
Je installed In the cafeteria before
9f beginning of the fall semester to
regulate traffic and prevent people
from eating meals without purchas-
ing them said Bill Fowler assistant
vice president of finance. People
cannot enter the doors from outside
the building but can exit through
them in an emergency he said.
"The doors are not to be chained
and they will not be chained"
Fowler said.
Vestal sophomore public rela-
tions majqr from Longview laid
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D Precinct 4 voting box
Residents south of East
North 10th vote at University
Church of Christ.
4We have strong points Tn dip
ferent areas" said Fanning.
Chrane served as a host in Sing
Song '86 has written a class song
for Sing Song and has worked in
Summerstage and other theater
works he said.
Fanning has worked on
choreography for the freshman class
and freshmen ushers as well as for
hosts and hostesses. In addition
Fanning said she has been assistant
house manager for Sing Song and
in Sing Song '86 she was house
manager.
Fanning said both she and
Chrane know what it takes to make
that during fall registration he and
Olson noticed one of the emergency
exit doors in the East Dining Room
was locked.
"Nobody had told us you had to
go out the way you came in" Vestal
said.
Students who have attended ACU
for more than a year might try to
exit through the double glass doors
during an emergency because that b
where students exited until this
year said Olson sophomore crimi-
nal justice and law inforcement ma-
jor from Austin
At the time of the first incident
Olson worked for Campus Security
He showed his badge to a cafeteria
employee and asked that the door be
unlocked. It was then unlocked
Vestal said.
"All I wanted unlocked was the
main bolt because even if you push-
ed the crossbar you couldn't open
the door with the main bolt lock-
ed" Olson said. "When the main
bolt is unlocked all I have to do is
hit the emergency bar. The little
alarm sounds. They know I'm leav-
ing through the door and it opens.
I can get out if there's a fire or
whatever."
Both Vestal and Olson said they
saw the main bolts on emergency
exits locked at other times. Both
Voting boxes on the
Precinct 9 voting box
On-campus students and
residents north of East North
16th vote at Hillcrest Church
of Christ.
club songs "Flaming." Tho tradltlonalgerJngjpccurB every Fri-
day and is a chance for the club to porfonfi tHoinsongs and chants.
a great Sing Song.
"The interviews went really
well" said Holt.
Many applicants for co-chairmen
put a great deal of thought into
their applications and came up with
some good ideas he said.
Because many areas of Sing Song
need the attention of dedicated peo-
ple Holt said he encourages all the
applicants who were not chosen as
co-chairmen to get involved in these
areas.
Auditions for hosts and hostesses
are scheduled for Tuesday beginn-
ing at 6 p.m. in Cullen
Auditorium. Auditions will be clos
violations
said they saw doors located in the
back corners of the East and West
Dining Rooms chained. The glass
doors on the east side of the East
Dining Room were chained one
time for as long as three days Olson
said.
Tom Minor director of food ser-
vices said a surprise inspection was
conducted by the Abilene Fire
Department two weeks ago. Minor
said the inspector told him the cafe-
teria was up to standards but would
not have been if the cafeteria was
open for business.
Minor said he wasn't cited for vi-
olating any fire code regulations
and if any violations occurred he
wasn't aware of them.
Chains are used to secure exterior
doors at night because the doors
don't shut tightly Minor said.
An investigation was conducted as
the result of complaints received by
the Abilene Fire Department said
Lt.PatBechtcl.
The cafeteria wasn't open for
business when it was inspected
Bechtel said but the doors now are
unlocked during business hours.
Problems with blocked emergency
exits are common tliroughout the ci-
ty and usually result from over-
sights made by owners or occu-
pants Bechtel said.
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Precinct 14 voting box
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Trales and Country Place
Apartments vote at 221 Oak
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ed to the puMicj only judges and
personnel approved by the co-
chairmen will be allowed in the
room
Holt said about 35 students had
applied for host and hostess posi-
tions as of Friday.
Applicants will perform
choreography with a quartet they
sign up with. Each member of each
quartet will first audition individu-
ally; then all four will perform the
choreography. Last each quartet
will sing a hymn.
After the judges make their deci-
sions the co-chairmen will notify
each applicant.
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Tammy Ledsomo places some candy into the bags of Lanny and
Logan Speights ages three and five respectively while the two
children were trick or treating with their father Wes Speights former
head athletic trainer at ACU
Persuasion
to be sent
to Cosby
The Students' Association's
package to help persuade Bill Cosby
to come to the ACU campus will be
mailed Tuesday or Wednesday said
Blaine McCormick junior
management major from Lamesa
and chairman of the SA entertain-
ment committee.
After many weeks of organization
McCormick said he is sending the
package Federal Express to a vice
President at NBC Studios in New
orkCity.
The NBC executive will deliver
the package to the Cosby studio he
said.
McCormick said he hoped having
a vice president deliver the package
would ensure that Cosby receives it.
"It's our best shot" McCormick
said.
The final package wrapped in
white with a big purple bow will
contain six items said McCormick.
First he said several petitions
have been signed and the total
number of signatures is almost
2000. McCormick said he con-
siders that a great response.
Second he said the package will
contain a purple ACU sweat suit
because "Cosby loves sweat suits."
Third the large piece of butcher
paper that many students signed
after Chapel a couple oC weeks ago
will.be included in the package
"I think the Chapel letter is one
of the highlights and ft shows so
much individual creativity more
than any yearbook I've ever seen;"
he said. "I just hope Cosby takes
the time to read it."
Fourth the package will contain a
"comical creative writlng""by
Stephen Cervantes graduate --student
of marriage and family therapy
from San Antonio said McCor-
mick. Cervantes' work is entitled
"Pre-Fatherhood" and he wrote it
after reading Cosby's book Fa-
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therhood said McCormick.
"I think that is the ultimate com-
pliment" said McCormick. "Steve
was inspired by Cosby to write his
humorous work."
Fifth the package will include the
videotape Kent Roberts senior Bi-
ble major from Iowa Park has been
working on said McCormick.
He said the video contains a "rap
session" several interviews with
students from Taylor Elementary
School Roberts' "Mr. Cosby" song
and the local TV station KRBC's
newscast about ACU's attempt to
bring Cosby to the Hill.
Sixth McCormick said he intends
to place a letter on top of the con-
tents in the package to explain how
the "Bring Bill to the Hill" cam-
paign started and why ACU wanted
to send Cosby a package that
"displayed personal warmth and
was not so business oriented."
McCormick said as soon as the
package is sent "we'll have played
our last card and we'll just have to
wait for a reply it will be in
Cosby's hands."
Phil Cheves senior biochemistry
major from Albuquerque N.M.
and vice president of the SA said
he wants Cosby to come "but even
if he doesn't the project" has "ide-
ceeded in involving the whole cam-
pus and everyone is interested."
McCormick said the campus-wide
support surprised him.
"I really didn't expect the project
to take off like it has" he said. "If
Cosby comes it's because we all did
it the whole student body not
some talent agency."
McCormick said he believes ACU
will get a reply from the comedian
"I can say boldly that we'll get a
reply because I don t see how Cosby
can ignore this package" he said.
McCormick said based on "real-
istic optimism" he believes Cosby
will come.
Dorm
scene
of fire
ByNEALftRADSHER
Optlmlat staff
A fire in Smith-Adams dormitory
Thursday morning filled much of
the second floor with smoke said
Arnold Shaver dorm director.
The fire started Thursday morn-
ing in Room 256 of the dorm where
an unplugged iron was placed on a
stove set on high heat and left unat-
tended said Shaver. The plastic
handle and frame of the iron melted
onto the burner and began the fire
which was mostly smoke.
Firemen responding to a call
about the fire broke into the room
because neither the occupants of the
room nor the dorm director could
be found. Though gas masks were
used because of the thick smoke the
fire did not spread and was extin-
guished quickly Shaver said.
Firemen exhausted the smoke
through windows and air vents.
Brian Cade senior music major
from Fort Worth was napping in
his room next door to Room 256
when an unidentified student
pounded on his door.
"I tried to ignore him at first but
he kept banging and banging until
finally I answered it and be said
that the room next door to me was
on fire. Then he went around to all
of the other rooms trying to get
everyone else out" Cade said.
Alter checking the temperature of
the door to the room Cade called
the fire department and reported
the fire.
"The most Important thing is
that no one was injured and that the
fire alarms intHhe halls and the
rooma went off like they were sup-
posed to" said Shaver
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