THE MICHIGAN DAILY acrge Twelve Tuesday, l tarch 15, i'9? t wage Twelve THE MICH~~~IGA AL usaMrh1,17 _..... Students ascend to elofty' heights i Why paya lot for SOFTNSS When you can get it for a lot. LESS I + //, r /I'<, .,,' jig f, , , . - .. } f %i / . , . / r ti 4 , R .. a V f',' \ i , ,.., ~ . f { .. ,i/ t ,,/ .wti: j/j h ... :.* 1 + t !:: ,... ..::: 'r .: _ - Z .o -. a i f t y f .- t :. } .,. " .. . . ; . : .' '°ti;. Va ' - :ai , (Continued from Page ) shelves. Deluxe!r "Disadvantages are very few," Szczechowski continued,E "except for hitting your head.1 We've got a score sheet for head bopping. I hit my head 73 times in the first four months. No one's ever been 'cut, but some- times you feel the bumps for a couple of days."' SZCZECHOWSKI anticipates' difficulty in selling his loft next year. The University has in-' structed him and other loft owners in his wing to dismantlec the structures so the rooms can' be painted this summer. "A few friends of mine might I ask the building director if we' could paint the room ourselves, but I don't think he'll let us." he said. "It'll probably end upr as firewood."' "To me," said Tom Schwarz' of Markley, "the loft has justj made it a hell of a lot nicer to' live here. These rooms are so . well, just concrete. We've, got a couch and tables in here, it's nicer to party in and'there's a lot more room." SCHWARZ'S structure is a. prime example of loft construc-j tion. Its floor, walls and ceiling are carpeted and cost him and his roommate a hefty $300. "Leroy (Williams, Markley Bailding Director) has brought a lot of people from the housing departnent around. They pret-l ty much agree it's the nicest loft here" Schwarz said. "The guys who built it did a terrific job. They came about a weekI before school strated with just crates of wood. I never have to worry about it crashing in the night." However, that hasn't always. been the case. Williams, the Markley building director, -told this story: "In the last couple of years (lofts) have become overly popular. Looking at some of them, I couldn't help but won- der how they could support bodies. "IT WAS THE end of the school year ,and we were check- ing rooms for damages. I was under a loft. I heard a crack, quickly backed up from under- neath it, and it crashed. The tenants had stored bricks up on top." Although Williams said there have been no loft-related injur- ies yet, he urges implementa- tion of a University-wide policy to ensure students' safety. Such a policy is already in its' final stages of preparation and may be implemented is soon as next fall, according - to Paul Bowyer, University coordinator of housing maintenance. "Our policy,' he said, "is ba- sically one of information. There is nothing that says 'You shall not, for ever and ever, have a loft.' According to Bowyer, the policy states that the loft wood should have no greater burning { capacity than Douglas fir, and* the rug should have no greater capacity to catch fire than wool carpeting. The recommendations, Bow- yer said are geared to the safe- ty of loft owners and their neighbors. One recommendation requires each room with a loft be equipped with a smoke de- tector, because of the flamma- bility of he wood. Bowyer points out that in the event of a fire, the smoke and fumes would rise to the ceiling. HE SAID the policy would also protect -the potential loft buyer from "having someone come along and say, 'Hey, - we're going to take this loft out because. we're using the build- ing this summer.' "The guy comes back in the fall thinking he has a loft, but there's no loft there," Bowyer continued. That won't be a big problem, according to Schwarz. Although Markley is scheduled for use this summer, he and his room- mate have arranged for some- one to buy their loft. 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