Student housing getting upgrade to prevent dangerous fires
By Mike Monson
Sunday February 11, 2007
John Dixon
Head resident assistant Ann Marie Tschanz, left, and fellow RA Morgan Zeeb stand in front of a closet in Room 355 at Newman Hall.
CHAMPAIGN – Morgan Zeeb, a University of Illinois junior, was in her room on the third floor at Newman Hall last summer when another coed burst into the room.
It was 10:40 a.m. Aug. 20, a Sunday morning, and the student told Zeeb that smoke was pouring into her room. Zeeb, a resident adviser, rushed down the hallway and saw that smoke was coming out of a shared vent in the girl's closet. That meant a fire was occurring in the next room.
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