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The Sewanee Purple FEBRUARY 11, 1991 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH VOLUME 170, ISSUE 2 SEWANEE. TN 37375 DISASTERS STRIKE TWO DORMS Courts Ravaged by Fire Sprinklers Quench Quintard By Bill Hamner Attempts by Lewis and other by Barbara L. Harris The student who accidentally News Editor residents of Courts to quench the flames News Staff broke the sprinkler said that "the football proved to be futile. The fire, which At 9 pm on Monday, January hit the sprinkler, which made a loud bang A fire desnoyed two rooms in began in room 215, had blazed out of 28, fire crews were summoned to Quin- and went off. I took the elevator down to Malon Courts Hall and forced residents control before they could reach it. tard dormitory because a sprinkler head [Matron) Miss Jackson's room to tell of the dormitory to evacuate the building "We opened the door to the had been broken and water was flooding her, but when I got out of the elevator, the for almost five hours on Thursday, Jan. room, and we were engulfed by a dense the fourth floor. "Some students had fire alarm started going off. The fire 31. University officials have yet to re- cloud of black smoke which smelled like been throwing a soft football around in crew came and took care of it." lease any information concerning the the combustion of synthetic matter, it the hallway, and one student inadver- Matron Patricia Jackson had cause of the fire. was too much to handle, so I knew it was tently hit the sprinkler head," said Robert high praise for the fire department. "The " At approximately 5:25 p.m., the time to call the fire department," said Pearigen, Dean of Men. The sprinkler fire crew was great! They got it turned dormitory fire alarm sounded for about Lewis. head broke and all the water pressure in off and the custodians got everything 90 seconds and then mysteriously ceased. Residents observed the blaze that entire system came out of that head cleaned up within a few hours. Mr. It was not until dorm officials announced from the lakefront lawn of Courts. High until disengagement." The water flooded Mooney and his custodial staff deserve that the alarm was not false that dorm pressures caused by the heat burst the the fourth floor and ran down through accolades for their efficiency." Proctor residents took actions to evacuate the windows of room 215, hurling glass onto the walls to the third and second floors as Bert White agreed, saying, "The clean- premises. the front lawn. The Sewanee Volunteer well. "We were lucky," said Pearigen, ing crew was very efficient. They got "I knew I smelled something, Fire Department arrived on the scene "the water flooded through the infra- most of the water cleaned up that night almost like a big electrical flame," said near 6 p.m. and eventually doused the structure and not directly into students' and they came back the next day to clean Michael Lewis, proctor of Courts Hall blaze. Dormitory residents were not rooms below. It could have been a lot some more. The hallways smelled hor- and a junior in the College. see Courts, page 3 see Quintard. page 3 Bye Bye Champagne New ISC Rules Clarify Rush, Shake Day Procedures by Ashley Heyer ternity to rent its house after they have assigned house by Ihe ISC. The News Staff been a sororities cannot negotiate terms of the Three new rules passed by the conliact with their designated fraternity approved by Inter-Sorority Council (ISC) last week after it has been signed and will include will eliminate the presence of cham- the ISC. The contracts provision of heat and water for the soror- pagne at sorority Shake Day parties and available, eliminating the prob- give additional structure to sorority rush ity when fraternities failing to provide in 1991-92. lem of available services which are not dis- "I think that every rule that was contracts are signed. passed was needed In the past, a lot of cussed when While sororities will not be things were left unsaid or slated cun- allowed to negotiate for houses on their learly," said Hannah Turner, rush chair- accord, ISC president Lucy Cianci- man for Theta Kappa Phi and a member own "before draw for houses, of the ISC. olo notes that we vote ensure that each sorority The new rules are a reaction to we will to will satisfied with each possible several problems encountered this past be sight next year due to new ISC rush season. The champagne rule states This type of bacchanalia should be an uncommon house." The final rule, which affects the that only beer may be served at Shake rulings. Photo by Lyn Hutchinson. drinking on Shake Marks, president of Alpha Delta Theta, bid lists, slates that no first, second or Day parties. Champagne is illegal, volume of underage decision one of the sororities that did not provide bid lists be disclosed to any whether provided by the sorority or as a Day to a controllable level. The third may primarially liability con- champagne to new pledges this year. sorority members except for the presi- gift to pledges from individual active was based on Another rule states that sorori- dent, rush chairman and two designated members of a sorority. cerns. not negotiate with another fra- This move aims to calm the "It's a lot safer," said Honor ties may vote-counters. February 11. 1991 Page 2 The Sewanee Purple NEWS Peace Coalition THE LEMON FAIR, U/vrvERSirf AVE, SEWAGE, TE/Y*i73'7S moNOM TWto-ji. S~tuM*y Members March on Houfts: M Art fo fff" Washington according to park officials and By Ann-Elise Lewallen strong 200,000 strong according to organizers News Staff of the march. one of "There are many voices in Amer- "Peace is pauiolic!" was those voices the and it's important that many pleas for peace waving on ica, on heard on every issue. Therefore, I banners of marchers in the March be curious that some reporting gave Washington held Saturday, Jan. 26 in the find it about members of more time to a pro-war group of nation's capital. Fourteen and Peace jour- 100 people who were combative the Sewanee Coalition for than to seemed to be against our cause neyed to the demonstration. people," commented The three-mile march departed almost 200,000 the from the Capitol and continued past Carlos. expressed it Members of the group While House to the Ellipse, where which over several of the day's culminated in a three-hour rally in displeasure marchers voiced their support for the developments. of the biggest problems with United States' troops engaged in the "One was that people thought Persian Gulf crisis as well as their frus- misinformation were against the troops—which we tration with government policy. we Chapman, a sophomore in Speakers at the rally included the weren't," said soldier in his right Reverend Jesse Jackson, NOW Chair- the College. "Any home. We woman Molly Yard, and Peter, Paul, and mind would want to return and diplomatic resolu- Mary's Peter Yarrow. want a cease-fire soon as possible. TSHIRT5 AND The Sewanee Coalition for Peace, tion to the problem as SWEM"SH»K+S their of the let the Arab world work out ADULT cfti. cttH-DHENS SUES the newest charter organization Let's Student Assembly, was formed when own problems." of the most disturbing sights students gathered in protest of the United "One in the day was at the end of the rally when States' Desert Storm procedures of the Editorial Policy The Sewanee Purple Washington, line of police officers, carrying gas Persian Gulf. Travelling to a The Sewanee Purple is owned and Editor John David Rhodes the first and brandishing billy clubs, DC, to express these views was masks aperated by the students of the Univer- Associate Editor Michael Cass House," formed at the end of the White Bill action taken by the group. sity of the South. Editorial and financial News Editor Hamner stu- Cohen. College of Arts and Sciences said matters are directed by the Editor, in Arts and Entertainment Editor Eargood, Assessing the overall experience, dents Lesley Chapman, Neel ;onsultation with the staff, and under Mary Grace Gibbs Ann- said, "It was democratic action at Charlotte Holdsworth, Leo Hwang, Carlos authority granted by the University Sports Editor Kit Walsh trav- and an image of America's true Elise Lewallen and Tatjana Terauds work Publications Board. Design Editor Kate Rehkopf professors elled to the rally, along with power." Letters to the Editor are welcomed Editorial Assistant Ashley Heyer- Carlos; "In the first moments I was so Thomas Spaccarelli and Edward and should be mailed directly to Jhe Business Manager Leslie Trimble Kai Thurbach, excited and elated that there were so Saint Andrew's students Purple. All letters must be signed by the Circulation Manager..Tim Grindstaff Julia Alvarez; land many people there supporting the same Sung-won Park and author, no unsigned letters will be printed residents Stephen Alvarez, cause," added Hwang. "The comments every Sewanee The editors reserve the right to. edit let- The Sewanee Purple is published Carlton Young. of both the widow of a soldier killed in Sharon Cohen and ; ters for reasons of length or if letters two weeks during the academicyear by reasons for Vietnam and Jesse Jackson compelled Commenting on his contain material deemed to be poten the students of the University of the to Spaccarelli said, "I am you to look beyond the day's march 1 making the trw, tially libelous or in excessively poor South.