Show u 09 o G '' j tt PQ y 1 " 1 &&? lY! ?y & 1 x Hub I 7 : rW V - fire” the Hub spread pea Studmoke throughout the Taggart ent Center Friday night and forced die cancellation of the remainder of Moser and the other employees pre- sent at the time used a fire extinguisher to put out the (lames in the fry pit After the fire (in the deep fryer) STAB in the Dark which was underlwas the time out Moser said “we could at ay hear the (lames in the vent above the There were no injuries in the modal cooking area Our extinguisher was ” out but it didn’t matter since we According to Hub manager Brent couldn't get to the fire in the vent Ogdens the fire which started at giproximately 1030 was apparently anyway ” At that point employee Brian auied by a malfunctioning thermostat Israelsen called the laigan City fire on a deep fryer which was being heated for the preparation of breakfast department which arrived moments hichwai to be served at the conclu-sceo- f later and extinguished the blaze in the the STAB function vent According to Hub employee CourtnThe SC was temxrarily cleared until the extent of the fire could lie ey Moser who was on duty at the time "We had just turned the fryer determined onto warm it up and were busv back Assistant fire chief Danny Dever a the kitchen Jackie (Madsen) tame decided to take the precaution Urry Aragon I'lah State University will di MI w offering the four-yebu hr JMoence degree in aeronautics welding teihnolo to the dean of the Colic Attnotive and wiling ihpneering k memorandum issued Feb ‘JwMiddlebrooks dean of US Engineering (M J1 and budget the said facul pressures 1 cut necessary Ijtddlebfooks said the P1 ' ' ? - - x L'yU- JguiriSl a grease fire in the Hub Friday jj r: night Al Hartmann photo There was smoke in many areas of the building and we felt it would be best to clear (the SC) We weren’t sure in fact that everything was completely out “Had some of the flames gone up through (the ductwork) it could have caught combustibles on the other Bows" Dever explained -- ' Firemen checked ail floors of the building and determined that the fire was completely extinguished he said The final decision to end the STAB activities and close the building for the night was made by campus fire marshall Dewitt Birch who had jurisdiction in the area Birch explained his decision “We didn’t know and we wouldn’t know the products of combustion going through the building (If the building was not evacuated) we’d have somebody coming back later and say they were affected by the smoke and weren’t told to get out Liability” People were allowed back inside long enough to gather their belongings Checketts said the thermostat that is believed to have caused the blase had been malfunatyoninc' earlier bus was repaired The normal cooking temperature of the grease a mixture of vegetable oil and animal fat is 350 degrees according to Checketts but Dever estimated that such a mixture would have to reach a temperature of 450 to 500 degrees to ignite Checketts agreed with that estimation The damage was basically limited to the grill and storage area behind Checketts estimated that the Hub might reopen by Tuesday with a limited menu t officials disag ree on degree cancellations JJSU ij ' fire puts early end to STAB in the Dark fire in the A '" J out to check the cash register and saw Waynt Adair by - gathered to cheer the effort of Logan firemen as they Quickly crowd quickly A - V‘ ' industry program enrollment h up with engineering enrt become necessary to du technology program” J baid "This doesn’t me V“da“ "°n’t be allowed “udy- The program vi to continue until curre - ?? Jjjpaduate” “id he he si didn’t w nC bw students toe 'n a BB day Fifty studenl I met that afternoon and organized a committee to see if something could be done On Feb 17 student representatives met with Garth Hansen USU provost According to Hansen the program hasn’t been canceled yet “The program is under review by the Educational Polu ies Committee" Hansen said He also said the committee would have to make recommendations for the program to be discontinued “Also” Hansen said “the Institutional Council and Board of Regents would have to agree to discontinue the four-yeprogram before it could be done away with” “The program is in the process of being discontinued” Middlebrooks said “But as far as I’m concerned it has been done away with” Middlebrooks said students would have no effect in opposing the decision “It's simply a matter of ar Dave Warien is head representative for the student committee fighting the decision to discontinue the program "The College of Fngineering doesn’t have the facts to substantiate the reasons the dean has presented” Warren said Keeping a highly technical two-yea- r program and program is not banishing a four-yeinstitution consistent with a four-yeaccording to Warren ar ar A College of Engineering memorandum says it will cost $500000 over the next 10 years to usupdate the current equipment now ed in the technology program in order for the program to be competitive with colleges in the state Warren also said the students and of faculty should have had some type two-ye- ar input in the decision One professor who requested his name be withheld said “The memorandum (from the College of is Engineering) issued to the faculty not consistent It contradicts itself and is totally invalid” he said “Ever since Dean Peterson former dean of the College of Engineering came to USU the program has had a tendency to be downgraded in finances and staff” the professor aid He also predicted that if USU goes to a two-yeprogram in place of the four-yeprogram the program will fail in three years Sam Merrill department head of aeronautics technology at USU said that in a survey of 33 industrial technology students only four would be interested in a two-yeprogram If the industrial program is cut it I won’t be the first The maouiacturiej engineering program and speeefc ptw that tvm gram are examples of those yean been cut in the past Russell Hotdiedge assistant dean of the College of Engineering said “These things are not pleasant But somehow we must operate within our i - ar ar ar budget” - r $ 4 |