This year has been a really bad year for fire alarms at Anderson-Letts-Centennial Halls. The fire alarms keep getting pulled as a prank forcing everyone to evacuate at all hours of night into the cold. It is disrupting sleep before athletic games, tests, midterms, and finals. It is so bad this year, that many people are looking to transfer.
As students who are looking at attending next year, I think you all should be aware of the issue. When you tour the campus or go to a college fair, ask about the fire alarm situation in the dorms. The issue needs to be corrected before a new group of students starts next fall or this spring. If the school starts hearing from potential students, maybe they will do something about the situation.
My son has lived in a dorm on the north side of campus since his first year, and this has not been a problem in those residence halls at all (Hughes, Leonard, McDowell, Cassell). But for those students on the south side in the residence halls named above, it’s been very disruptive. Too bad they can’t shame their peers into behaving more appropriately!
Lived on Southside for my freshman and sophomore years. It was awful my freshman year, slightly better my sophomore year, but now it looks like it’s back to the way it was freshman year. I think we had about the same number go off–some legitimate because there was a fire, some being pulled as a joke, and some glitches in the physical bell system. And yeah, it sucks, but there’s not really much that can be done.