From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 16, 1989:

A ritual at a fraternity was interrupted this week by a fire that caused $800 in damage to the Sigma Chi house at 1439 Tennessee, fire officials said. Maj. Rich Barr of the Lawrence Fire Department said no one was injured in the blaze, which had occurred about 5:45 a.m. in a first-floor closet of the house. A sprinkler had doused the fire before firefighters arrived. The ritual, which had begun at about 12:30 a.m., involved pledges being awoken one by one and brought downstairs to kneel in a closet, where a mirror, candle, and sheet had been set up to give the illusion of “looking down a tunnel into a mirror, and all they could see was their own faces lit up by the candle,” according to Barr. Fraternity officers then read poetry to the pledges, Gatti said. Fire investigators speculated that a fraternity officer may have closed a door when leaving the room, causing a draft which moved the sheet into the candle flame.