Delta Force will try to put out fire alarms

By By Eric Sorrentino

Monday, April 11, 2005

Delta Force will try to curb the problem of false fire alarms in residence halls if it gets elected in this year’s Student Senate elections.

Fire alarms would have packets of ink that would explode in all directions after the alarm was pulled. No residence halls at the University have fire alarms with this feature.

“This is an accountability issue,” Elaine Jardon, Delta Force presidential candidate and Overland Park sophomore, said. “The people who are pulling these false fire alarms are not being prosecuted in any way.”

Student Housing offered a Crime Stoppers reward of $1,000 last semester to anyone with proof of who pulled false alarms in McCollum Hall.

One hundred six false fire alarms were pulled in residence halls last year. McCollum had 28 false fire alarms, more than any other residence hall on campus. Ellsworth Hall was second with 19.

Courtney Carabello, Brewster, N.Y., freshman, said she would be open to testing out a new system.

“I live on the 10th floor of McCollum and I can’t count the amount of times I’ve had to run up and down the stairs,” she said.

When this happens, waiting outside causes her sleep deprivation and a lack of concentration for classes the next day, Carabello said.

McCollum would be the first to test the new system because it has had the most false alarms historically. Delta Force would use funds from housing fees, Student Senate reserve accounts and Association of University Residence Halls reserve accounts. Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he was not familiar with fire alarms that sprayed ink but would be open to test the system.

Every McCollum fire alarm currently has a plastic covering. If a student were to pull a fire alarm, a purple gel would stick on his skin.

The problem with the gel, however, is that a person can wear gloves and walk out of the building unnoticed. The proposed ink would cause more of a scene and would be more difficult to clean off before the person evacuated the building, said Stephanie Craig, vice presidential candidate for Delta Force and Edmond, Okla., junior.

A person sprayed in ink would take as long for the police to find as a person sprayed in gel. But the ink would stay on for two to three days, giving police longer to search, Jardon said.

A few individuals were removed from McCollum last fall for tampering with fire equipment, Stoner said.

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