Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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ALL - AFLAME Local merchants experience major fire damage As flames engulfed Tucks restaurant, the 12 years of work ovmer Rod Tucker put into paying off the establish- ment collapsed into the cin- ders with the building's woo- den walls and brass rails. The fire that destroyed T ucks, Wright's Sight and Sound and C1lenn's Shoe Store began at 10:29 p.m. Wednes- day, June 19. The blaze origi- nated in Tucks and spread to the other two businesses once located at the north end of the square. The fire caused heavy smoke damage to all three buildings. The cause was still unknoum. The flames smoldered for hours, while the north end of the square was crowded with hundreds of gawkers who watched the businesses fall to the ground. Senior Beth Ellmers heard the sirens outside her apart- ment. She and her brother watched the fire with the other people who lined the streets and the grassy area in front of the courthouse. i'It was like a huge bonfire. I thought they were going to blow up, Ellmers said. At one point, firemen tumed off all the lights on the north JUST A MEMORY Jeny McMain, owner ofTarkim Discount, rummages through the rubble as he stands in the ruins of his store. The statue was the only item not destroyed in the fire. Photo by Daily Express 2 O Student Life f Fires end of the square because it was rumored the circuitry in the building would explode. For Tucker, the fire was not a spectacular sight. UI worked the last 12 years to get the frestauranti paid for, and when I clo, it goes up in flames. I only carried enough insurance to pay the outstand- ing bills. I don't know what I'll do now. I may stay in Kirks- ville, or I may not rebuild, Tucker said. The fire that destroyed the north end of the square was just one of the large fires to be reported in Kirksville in the past year. Mister Jim's, a clothing store, received extensive fire damage April 22, 1985, and smoke damaged a room in Centennial I-Iall on Sept. 8, due to arson. Tarkim Discount, located outside Kirksville's city limits, bumed to the ground in July. The fire was started by sparks from buming trash. As far as the total number of fire calls in the past year - that hasn't changed. However, the seventy of the large fires has increased, Kirksville Fire Chief, Ron Stewart, said. Peggy Smith ,, ,,..-,..,-a,,..M,.,...W,h W , . dbfwwwswwww --M at . tat..-M.. X 71 ,NMb4f4.Q,

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RULING ' CLASS Residents use discretion out Administration enforces Hall rules lt's 4 a.m. and the 600 women of Centennial Hall are awakened to the sound of fire alarms. The resident assis- tants hurry to rush their resi- dents from the hall only to find in the rush that they have gained a few extra residents. These were men who violated the campus-wide visitation policy. l'When I got out the door the first thing I saw was a guy standing there with a blanket over his head trying to pretend hewasagirl.And he wasn'tthe only guy doing this, senior Andrea Bellus said. The visitation policy for the resident halls set the visitation rule at midnight on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends. Crreg Landwehr, director of Missouri Hall, said that visita- tion was probably the most common rule broken in his hall. 'II think the reason that this rule is broken more often is because they fthe residentsl have a problem with it be- cause, being at least 19-years- old, they feel they are adults and should be able to make their ovm decisions, Land- wehr said. Ron Craber, director of Resi- dence Life, said that although the visitation rule was unpopu- lar, there were some good reasons for its justification. i'lt reduces roommate con- flict because it is hard on one person if their roommate has a boyfriend or girlfriend there all the time. Also, it is impor- tant in some students' choice of attending here. A visitation policy appeals to parents. But more importantly, the policy is for the safety of the residents. 22 Student Lifeflrlall Policies Any time you open up a hall for 24 hours, you increase the chance of vandalism and rape, Craber said. Junior Cerise Willis, a night hostess for Centennial Hall, saw visitation violation fre- quently while on duty. i'IVIost of the time the guy and girl will be sitting there saying goodnight, and I'll look away for a second and they're gone, and I can hear them running up the stairs. One night I was on duty, and at 5 a.m. Safety and Security was making rounds. The officer came and told me that there was a guy in a four-person room on the comer on the fourth floor. I'le said that the window was open and he could see the guy getting into the shower. I called and reported it to an R.A., Willis said. A study done by Residence Life showed that while rnsita- tion was an unpopular rule, violations for 1985, were actu- ally dovm by 15.5 percent from 1984, and alcohol violations were dovm by 27 percent. But other violations, which in- clude policies such as quiet hours, cooking .in the rooms and no pets, increased by 11 percent from 1984. Junior Anne Eiken, a Cen- tennial liall R.A., said that quiet hours were controver- sial. HSome people complain be- cause it's too noisy, and others complain that they don't like the rule. As for some of the other rules, some peo- ple aren't even aware that they are breaking them. I've seen people hang their bikes on the walls and iron with the doors open, Eiken said. Senior Charlie Sorrells, a Missouri I'Iall resident, said he has seen many violations in his four years of living in a residence hall. I used to know a guy who kept an old microwave in his room - one of those models that looks more like a TV. He just put some rabbit ears be- hind it so everyone thought it was a TV. Then there was another guy who had an aquarium with one of those realistic looking pictures of fish in back of it, and behind the picture he had his pet hamster in a cage, Sorrells said. Although residents dis- agreed with some of the rules, many recognized the need for them. I think all the rules really do seem to have a purpose, Sorrells said. i'Wh en you have 600 women living in a hall, you need some rules. We fthe R.A.sJ don't go hunting for violations, but if we find them they are enforced, Eiken said. l'We hope there is a balance, a compromise, in our policies. We are realistic enough to know that people who want these rules done away with probably violate them. But we don't go looking for violations. We become aware of them when students don't use dis- cretion, Craber added. Jeanine Schaefer BREAKIN' THE LAW Scott Gruber, fr., and Mike Groves, so., relax with after-dinner-drinks. Alcohol was a forbidden pleasure on campus, whether of legal drinking age or not. Photo by Dixon Munday i 4:13 my S. 'W t 4, .imwgjf 7 1 f A