[Peace-discuss] Reaction to closing of the UCIMC performance space

[Charles Smith]

I was outraged about the closing down of the
performance space of the IMC. I also heard about the
temporary closing of another nightclub near Roosevelt
University (Chicago, downtown), but the IMC closing
is the thing that should not had happened in the first
place.

Here is my speculation of this recent shutdown
of this space by the Urbana Fire department:

Perhaps, the incident involving one New England
nightclub (followed almost immediately after the
disaster at the U2 nightclub in Chicago) had caused
the Urbana
fire department to crack down on fire violations,
treating the IMC as if it is another nightclub--
although it is not almost like regular nightclubs.
You heard those two nightclub disasters in the news.
But the one in New England was the straw that broke
the camel's back to fire inspectors in the U.S. That
disaster happened about 3 months ago.

The famous disaster involve the White Horse band--
a rock band few people except its die-hard people know
about. 
The White Horse band was trying to act like the band
KISS. KISS, of course, is that famous rock band
(famous in the 1970s and 1980s) known for
its stage pyrotechnics. White Horse was trying to
imitate a little of the pyrotechnics used by KISS. You
might have saw the video
from the local news. The home video footage (you might
have seen it) shows the crowd packed like sardines,
(the beer was flowing, conversations are building up,
and the bartenders were skipping from customer to
customer )eager to see and hear the White Horse band
concert,
and when the first chords from the White Horse band
came in, the
pyrotechnics (consisting of rainshower sparklers
that went to the ceiling) started, and the crowd 
liked it. But after the pyro went out (it lasted about
20 seconds)---the heat
from the pyro hit the top of the wall insulation, 
causing combustion first with smoke, and then almost
immediately--a fire that started to quickly rage out
of control. The crowd thought that the ensuing fire
(after the pyro when out) was part of the show. But
as the fire turned into a much bigger flashover fire,
the crowd panicked and some of the crowd were trampled
against one another. In less then 2 minutes, the whole
bar became a flaming inferno. Hence, the result was
100 deaths
after the disaster was over. The Urbana fire
department
(in my opinion) closed down the IMC performance space
so there would not be a repeat of what happened in
New England.

I think the Fire department overreacted to these
nightclub incidents by keeping the IMC space closed
indefinitely.

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