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I f t University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Vol. 24, No. 34, January 15, 1980 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmm^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmfmm State agencies halt campus ambulance by Gary Behlow or Larry the Legend at radio ing the month of January. Col­ of The Post staff station WZUU to publicize the lins said he expects 400 convey­ situation. ances to be made in 1980. Efforts to preserve UWM's am­ A major blow to the future bulance service, including a stu­ of the ambulance came in late Collins said there is still hope dent petition and a police re­ December when the state Departs that the ambulance service on quest for a temporary extension ment of Transportation refused campus could be reinstated. The of the service, have failed. The UWM police chief Paul Collins' original request to the state De­ partment of Administration has s srvice was discontinued Jant 1. request to extend the service through the second semester. been resubmitted for possible New state and federal regu­ approval. lations went into effect at that Collins said the DOT told him time. These regulations, coupled that approving a temporary ex­ "Now all we can do is wait with the state government's belief tension would be a gross violation until the DOA decides what it will that the. service was unnecessary, of the DOT's power. do," Collins said. terminated the service. As a result of this denial, the campus now will be serviced by Collins said all campus re­ private ambulances and the Mil­ quests for ambulance service The student petition, spons­ should still be made to the campus ored by Widge Liccione, head waukee Fire Department Para­ medic squads. police. Officers would then be housefellow of Sandburg Halls, dispatched to the scene and the was sent to Gov. Lee Dreyfus, Collins said he felt a temporary call would be relayed to another state Senator James Moody and ambulance. state Representative Barbara extension was needed to allow the private carriers to become famil­ Ulichny. Liccione said over 2,200 Ambulance changes students sighed the petition. iar with the campus over the sum­ mer months, when campus activ­ The new regulations make the Liccione said if the petition ity is relatively slack. UWM ambulance obsolete in sev­ failed to attract attention in Madi­ The police ambulance usually eral ways. Ambulances now must son, she would go to Contact 6 makes about 40 conveyances dur­ [turn to p. 5, col. 4] 1980's balmy weather keeps the two-wheeled form of transporta­ Centerfold tion in evidence on campus. { unlatches •l^ minds eye No deportation by Jim Stingl for Iranians here of The Post staff by Paul Jakubovich On a certain Wednesday night about five years of The Post staff ago at what was then the Mad Hatter night­ club, I met a girl. She was as shy as she was About 15 Iranian students in Wisconsin have been found to be beautiful, but I managed to secure a few dances "out of status," but that number apparently does not include any with her and to kindle a conversation over a UWM students. couple of drinks. , All Iranian students in the United States were required to renew At the evening's end, wfth her girlfriends coax­ their student visas with the Immigration and Naturalization Service ing her toward the exit, she scribbled her name by Dec. 31, 1979. Iranians here on student visas but no longer and telephone number on a slip of paper and attending school face federal deportation hearings. handed it to me. I tried the number a few times Jane Crisler, UWM deputy assistant chancellor of student services, during the next couple weeks, but I was not. to see said that to the best of her knowledge none of the approximately sweet Sandy Cagle again for a while. 80 Iranian students who attended UWM last semester had any problem with the immigration office. Until a week ago, when I opened up the Crisler and Meredith Watts, assistant to the chancellor, are the February issue of Playboy magazine. There she official UWM spokesmen on matters relating to Iranian students. The was, spread, out over three glossy centerfold University administration asked that other staff members refrain pages, wearing only a pair of knee-high red boots. from commenting on Iranian matters because of what one UWM official There was Milwaukee's own Sandy Cagle, my called the "sensitivity" of the matter. 17-year-old companion for one evening, now Playboy's so-called Playmate of the Month. Missing banians James Rink, assistant officer in charge of the immigration office Sandy's glossy essay in Milwaukee, said about 400 Iranian students reported to his office I turned the pages and discovered front shots, -. [turn to p. 4, col. 1] back shots, side shots and close-ups. There were pictures of Sandy on a bearskin rug warming herself by the fireplace in a mountain cabin, smiling at whoever cared to look. She posed Explosive threat naked in a candle-lit bed with a glass of wine within easy reach. proven unfounded A "Northern Delight," the magazine called her. She'd become "entertainment-for men." It's a strange feeling to have the "entertain­ » by Dawn Grubor Codes, a boiler that size must be ment" be someone you know or. even someone of The Post staff monitored by a licensed high- you spent just a couple of hours with. pressure boiler fireman or engin­ ^ But whether you or I like it or not, whether Complaints that UWM has been eer 24 hours a day. negligent in leaving a high we criticize the magazine and what it stand for Until late last semester, there or plunk down $2.50 every month, the fact re­ pressure boiler in the Kenilworth Building illegally unattended have was continuous monitoring of the mains that over six million copies of Playboy, boiler. But this monitoring was each containing 12 pages of Sandy in all her un- been proven invalid by a check of state safety codes. cut back to eight hours a day in appareled splendor, are now on sale in drug December. stores, truck stops and university bookstores all The building, at 1925 E. Kenil­ worth PI., contains an 80 pound The complaints, made to the over the country. Building Inspector's Office and February's "Playmate of the Month" posed in the pressure boiler. According to city UWM Union recently. [turn to p. 14, col. 1 j of Milwaukee Building inspection [turn to p. 2, col. 1] • uwm post page 2 a 1 ^slfcte Boiler neglect a claims invalid [from page one] Power Plant. The system uses the Post, said that the water in natural gas as its primary fuel, the boiler was reaching danger­ but during certain peak periods of ously low levels and that this demand the gas supply is cut off. could result in an explosion cap­ Then, a switch must be made to able of leveling the building and coal or oil. damaging the surrounding neigh­ borhood^ Automatic gas system The building is used by the When gas is used, the system is Anthropology Department as a re­ virtually automatic. Until several search lab and for storage. It months ago, the boiler was run on also houses studios for graduate heavy heating oil and operators students in Art. monitored the boiler continuously. Morock said operation of the boiler Danger of explosion is more complex when oil is used, A spokesman for the Building and more attention is required. Inspection Department confirmed When the switch back to gas was the possibility of danger. "If made, constant monitoring was no it (an explosion) could level the longer necessary, he said. building, it could harm others in the area," he said. Several sources questioned the motives of the persons making the He said many other cities across Complaints about an unattended high-pressure boiler in the Kenilworth building have been proven original complaints, hinting that invalid. the country have similar boiler the complaints may have been monitoring regulations, but in made out of concern for job secur­ Wisconsin the rule is fairly un­ ity, not out of fear of a harmful common. explosion. Red Cross After receiving complaints a- "I won't make conjecture as to is counting BLUEGRASS bout the Kenilworth boiler, the why complaints come in," one Building Inspection Department source said,' 'but if it was danger­ on you. passed the information along to ous, it would be on the code, and officials in the UW System. Since operators would be on duty.'' the building is on state property, BANJO it is not under the jurisdiction of the Milwaukee Building In­ spector, and city codes do not apply to its operation. A check CLASSES was left up to Jim Knocke, in charge of Risk Management for SELECTED TITLES the system. Knocke referred the matter to FROM OUR (Banjo rentals available) Dick Worock, boiler specialist for the UW System. also: Worock said the state has no laws requiring continuous boiler guitars and accessories maintenance, and the boiler in the li^iiia Kenilworth building is not a high- lessons pressure boiler. 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