Profs could be sued for overcrowding | 
     
    
   
   
    
     by Neil Godbout 
     
    
   
   
    
     OTTAWA (CUP) — Pro- 
     
    
   
   
    
     fessors teaching in over- 
     
     crowded classrooms may be 
     
     legally liable for ignoring fire 
     
     regulations, says an execu- 
     
     tive of the faculty association 
     
    
   
   
    
     at Carleton University. 
     
    
   
   
    
     George 
     
     Neuspiel, president-elect of 
     
     Carleton’s Academic Staff 
     
     Association (CUASA) said 
     
     CUASA brought it to ad- 
     
     ministration’s attention dur- 
     
     ing an early January meet- 
     
     ing. 
     
    

    
     The association was re- 
     
     sponding to a memo from 
     
     the Ontario Confederation of 
     
     University Faculty Associa- 
     
     tions warning of potential le- 
     
     gal problems for a professor 
     
     who teaches in a class he or 
     
     she knows is unsafely over- 
     
     crowded. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The memo refers to The 
     
     Building Code Act which 
     
    
   
   
    
     states that the occupant load 
     
     for classrooms is one per- 
     
     son per 1.85 square metres. 
     
     The memo also recommends 
     
     that “faculty should refuse to 
     
     teach in overcrowded class- 
     
     rooms.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Neuspiel said that ad- 
     
     ministration may post new 
     
     Fire Marshall notices, mak- 
     
     ing them plainly visible to 
     
     those entering the class since 
     
     the old signs have been cov- 
     
     ered up over the years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     UBC prof turns garbage 
     
     into student bursary 
     
    
   
   
    
     VANCOUVER - Geol- 
     
     ogy students at the Univer- 
     
     sity of British Columbia now 
     
     have access to a $600 bursary 
     
     because one professor be- 
     
     lieves in the principle “waste 
     
     not, want not.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Professor Wibert Dan-- 
     
     ner of geological sciences do- 
     
     nated $7000 to a bursary 
     
     with money he raised by col- 
     
     lecting empty cans, bottles 
     
     and loose change from UBC’s 
     
     beaches and grounds. 
     
    

    
     “This fund really shows 
     
     students what a waste of 
     
     money it is to throw stuff 
     
     around on the beach,” Dan- 
     
     ner said. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Danner said “there is no 
     
     stigma attached” to collect- 
     
     ing bottles and cans and said 
     
     he knows of other faculty 
     
     who do the same thing. 
     
    

    
     But Danner’s’ bursary, 
     
     aptly named the “beer, pop, 
     
     can, bottle, deposit, refund 
     
     bursary,” almost never got 
     
     off the ground. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Senate awards com- 
     
     mittee 
     
     thought Danner’s bursary ti- 
     
     tle inappropriate and named 
     
     it the "department of geologi- 
     
     cal sciences bursary.’ Danner 
     
     objected to the renaming. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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