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...incidence of one too many false fire alarms prompted Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to send out a courteous but stern letter to undergraduates last week, reminding them that they could be expelled for tampering with fire safety equipment. The day after Gross penned the letter, a prankster sprayed a fire extinguisher throughout Canaday D, leading to the evacuation of the building and forcing students in D entryway to sleep elsewhere for the night. Although campus administrators state that the number of false alarms has not been abnormally high this year, a fair amount...

Author: By K. blair Harshbarger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alarms Prompt Dean’s E-mail | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

...Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson, says there has not been a spike in phony fire alarm pulling...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: False Alarms Raise Tempers | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...prankster pulled a fire alarm a few hours after midnight, rousing Eliot House’s approximately 450 residents and forcing them outside. While Cambridge firefighters scoured the building in search of the non-existent emergency, Eliot residents yawned and shivered in their pajamas...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: False Alarms Raise Tempers | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...loudspeaker and went on a tirade about how horrible it was that somebody did this, and if somebody ever pulled an alarm again, he would come to Eliot during finals and leave the alarm on,” says Maya E. Frommer ’07. “He even said, ‘People are dying in Iraq, how can you do this?’ Most of us were kind of dumbfounded at why this fireman was screaming at us. Some people were yelling back. It was a hilarious event...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: False Alarms Raise Tempers | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

When a mischief-maker discharged an extinguisher in the basement of Lowell in September, firefighters allowed the alarm to sound for half an hour longer than necessary in retribution, according to the N-entryway resident tutor, Uche O. Nwamara...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: False Alarms Raise Tempers | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

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