The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 26, 1985 - Page 3 Officials support student's actions in South Quad fire .s Associated rress An American flag waves at half mast yesterday at the U.S. Military Liaison in Potsdam, East Germany. A Soviet guard shot and killed a U.S. soldier who was assigned to the mission, prompting a series of accusations and counter-ac- cusation between the superpowers. U.S.U S.R. exchange accusations By JERRY MARKON University and city officials said yesterday they support a South Quad resident's decision not to pull a fire alarm when he put out a small trash can fire in the residence hall last Friday night, although other residents said a hallway was filled with smoke. "It's a good policy to always pull the alarm, but he made his decision and I'm not going to second-guess him," said Ed Soper, a fire inspector at the scene. LSA SOPHOMORE Michael Mikhail said he smelled smoke as he left a bathroom in Kelsey House at about 8. p.m. After locating the source of the smoke-smoldering papers at the top of a trash barrel - he alerted his room- mate and the two residents im- mediately put out the fire with a nearby extinguisher. "I was ready to pull the alarm, but the fire was out so fast, I didn't feel it was necessary," Mikhail said. "If the extinguisher's first shot hadn't put it out, and had there been any danger at all, I would have pulled it." Mikhail said the presence of children in the dorm for "little sibs" weekend further deterred him from pulling an alarm. "To empty the building with sup- posedly 300 little kids would have caused a panic," he said. MARY ANTIEAU, South Quad's building director, agreed that the "dilemma was with all the little siblings in the building." "Would we have created a panic by evacuating? It might have harmed more than helped," Antieau said. She added that a more serious fire during last year's little siblings weekend resulted in an evacuation that produced mild panic among some of the younger children. "I THINK HE did the right thing," Antieau said, even though dormitory staff members told students to always "get out of the building in the event of a fire" in house council meetings at the beginning of the fall term. "It's not possible to train 1,300 residents to the point where you can predict how they'll react when they see a fire," Antieau said. Leo Heatley, director of the Univer- sity's Department of Safety, said the University does not have an official policy for determining if dormitory staff members should pull a fire alarm because there are different circum- stances in every fire. "THE PERSON there made a judgement-a moral judgement-and you can't knock success," Heatley said. "Obviously you pull an alarm anytime you think there's a fire or you smell smoke," he added. But Kelsey House resident Mark Reiss, an LSA freshman, said the fire produced "enough smoke that if you were in the vicinity you were hacking." "I PROBABLY would have pulled the alarm. You can't ask an 18- or 19-year old to play God with 1,300 people," Reiss added. LSA freshman Eric McDaniel, Mikhail's roommate, said the smoke was "pretty thick-I think there was quite a bit." "If we hadn't put out the fire with the first blast of the extinguisher, we would have pulled the alarm, but the smoke wasn't really posing a threat yet," Mc- Daniel said. REISS SAID he was surprised that the South Quad staff never sent out a memo explaining to residents what to do in the event of a fire, especially since the dorm has been plagued by trash can fires this term. On February 5, four simultaneous fires in different parts of the dorm for- ced residents to evacuate to neigh- boring West Quad. Officials say they suspect arson as the cause of those fires. West Quad and the Union have also been the scene of trash can fires this term. University security and Ann Arbor Fire Department officials also suspect. arson in Friday night's fire. "That was in fact an arson-we know because of the circumstances of the fire," Soper said. He would not elaborate on the investigation. "We certainly suspect that this fire would be related to the other fires," Soper added. kinko'ys The Campus Copy Shop RESUME PACKET SPECIAL (Continued from Page 1) officer "was not in a restricted area." Both spoke on condition-of anonymity. Nicholson wore a camouflage suit and carried a camera used to photograph combat equipment, the Soviet Embassy said. "The officer was caught red-handed. by a Soviet sentry guarding that equipment," said the statement by em- bassy spokesman Vladimir Kulagin, issued in response to press inquiries. "He did not comply with his orders and, after a warning shot,while attempting to escape, he was killed." -HAPPI THE UNITED States, Britain, and France have military liaison offices in East Germany and the Soviets have three in West Germany, established just after World War II under the Allied occupation. Their main function now is gathering intelligence. Richard Burt, an assistant secretary of state, said Nicholson cried out helplessly to his driver, a sergeant named Schatz, but Soviet soldiers prevented the sergeant from using his first-aid kit to help him. Nicholson was a member of a daring cadre of American soldiers who for 38 NIGS Highlight The Central American Action Committee is sponsoring a lecture by Nicaraguan social worker, Miriam Lazo about the costs of the contra war to the civilian population. This free presentation will begin at noon in Con- ference Rooms 1 and 2 of the league. Films AAFC, GI - Tickets of No Return, 7:30 p.m., Aud. A, Angell Hall. AAFC - Le Plaisir, 7 p.m., La Honde, 8:45 p.m., Nat. Sci. Performances Ark - New Talent Night, Bob Brozman, 8 p.m., 637 South Main Street. Eclipse Jazz-George Winston, 8 p.m., Hill Auditorium. School of Music - recital, trombone students, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Speakers Chinese Studies - Shigeru Ishikawa, "On Sino-Japanese Economic Cooperation," noon, Lane Hall Commons Room. Computing Center - Forrest Hartman, "Beginner's Guide to the MTS File Editor," 3:30 p.m., Room 171 Business Administration Building. International Center, Ecumenical Campus Center - Martin Einhorn, "Star Wars Controversy," noon, 603 East Madison. Near East & North African Studies - Ann Kilmer, "Reconstructing An- cient Near Eastern Music: Theory & Practice," 4 p.m., Rackham Am- phitheater. Committee Concerned with World Hunger - Allen Roberts, 8 p.m., Room 1209, Michigan Union. A. Alfred Taubman Program in American Institutions - Bruce Wasser- stein & William Lambert, "The High Powered World of Corporate Mergers," 2 & 3:30 p.m., Kuenzel Room, Union. School of Social Work - "Domestic Violence," noon, Room S9410, Hospital. Meetings Alanon-no smoking men's group, 6:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 512 East Huron Street. University Alanon- noon, Room 3200, Union. Ann Arbor Go Club - 7p.m., Room 1433 Mason Hall. Michigan Student Assembly - 7:30 p.m., Assembly Chambers, Room 3909, Union. AIESEC - International Business Management Club, 5:15 p.m., Room 131, Business Administration Building. Bicycle Club -8 p.m., Room 1084, East Engineering Building. International Center - "The Nitty Gritty of Travel in Europe," 3:30 p.m., 603 East Madison. Society of Minority Engineering Students, 7:30 p.m., Room 311 West Engineering Building. GASP-7 P.M., Commupity Room, Maple Health Building, 501 Northi Maple. Center for Eating Disorders - 7:30 p.m., Human Growth Center, Suite 13, 2002 Hogback. Polish American Student Association -7 p.m., Union. Miscellaneous His House Christian Fellowship - Bible Study, 7:30 p~m., 925 East Ann Street, Program in American Institutions - Workshop, Pond Room A & B, Union. Turner Geriatric Clinic - Women of all ages join the Intergenerational Women's Group, 10a.m.,1010 Wall Street. Chemistry - Seminar, Arne der Gen, "The Relation Between Structure Bioconversion & Genotoxic Potency of Halogeated Alkanes," 4 p.m., Room 1300, Chemistry Building. Museum of Art-Art Break, Portraits by John Hoppner & Sir Henry, Karborn, 11:10 p.m., Museum of Art. English Language & Literature - Reading, Charles Baxter, 4 p.m., Rackham West Conference Room. Oral Biology, Dental Research Institute - Seminar, David Beighton, "Progress Towards a Vaccine Against S. Mutans," 4 p.m., Room 1033, Kellogg Building. Men's Baseball - Grand Valley.1 p.m.. Fisher Stadium. years have used a loophole in the Iron Curtain to gather intelligence on the Red Army. THE PENTAGON won't call the pur- pose of the unit spying because it is done openly. "We'd go in at 90 miles per hour bet- ween 11 at night and 1 in the morning to try to keep the Russians from seeing where we were going," one former member of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission in Potsdam, East Germany' recalled yesterday. WARM bill splits council (Continued from Page 1) Mandatory requirements, he said, would only have adverse effects. "This is a voter initiative," said Council member Kathy Edgren (D- Fifth Ward), who voted against the; resolution. "Four thousand people signed a petition to put this on the ballot," she said. "There is no reason to think the. WARM proposal will conflict with the voluntary program," said Council member Jeff Epton (D-Fifth Ward). "In the case of the particular rentals that are affected in the WARM proposal, I happen to think the (volun- tary program) will not work," Epton said. Progrram wins support (Continued fromPage 1) "It is unfair to those who committed themselves to Michigan to participate in this program," said Dolores Slowiejko, whose daughter Diane is a freshman. She argued it is the respon- sibility of the University's executive of- ficers to take care of the students who are here now and the program should be continued until 1988 "I don't really understand all the politics behind that, but it's clear to me you don't understand the value of the program you're considering discon- tinuing," said Christine Connent, a senior in the program. POLICE NOTES Wallets stolen A wallet containing less than $5 was taken from the men's locker room at the North Campus Recreation Building late Sunday night. During the afternoon on Sunday someone broke into an NCRB employee's car and took a wallet valued at $15 and a car stereo worth more than $90. Intruder apprehended Campus security apprehended a man who forced open a door at the music cooperative at East Quad Saturday morning. The man apparently had taken some cassette tapesfrom the store, and was turned over to the Ann Arbor Police Department. - Thomas Hrach 50 BOND COPIES " 5Q BLANK SHEETS " 50 BOND ENVELOPES ALL FOR ONLY $6.00 * SPECIAL PRICES FOR GROUPS OF 25 AND 100 " Open 7 days a week/Mon.-Thur. till midnight. 540 E. LIBERTY ST. 761-4539 Corner of Maynard and Liberty Hillel has purchased a block of 50 tickets to this once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to view the Judiac treasures from the Czechoslavakian State collections. Leave Hillel at 10:45 A.M. sharp for the Detroit Institute of Art. Buy your tickets now ($2.50) - they are going fast. 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