Word: alarmism
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...electrical oven in Currier House caught fire late Saturday night, filling an entire floor with smoke and forcing the evacuation of at least 30 students from their rooms for more than half an hour. According to Cambridge Fire Department Captain Bob Blake, firefighters responded to a fire alarm on the fourth floor of Gilbert Tower in Currier House at 12:57 a.m. early yesterday, set off when a pizza box that a student had left in an oven caught fire. The fire was largely contained by the oven, and Blake said the alarm had been triggered by smoke resulting from...
...some students use the bell as their personal alarm clock. Alison D. Nugent ’09 says she wakes up with the 8:40 a.m. bells and tries to shower and be back in her room by the next set of bells at 9 a.m. During reading period, when the bells do not ring, she says she almost missed her class because she is so used to leaving her room with the 1 p.m. bells in order to arrive at Sever Hall perfectly on time five minutes later...
Late yesterday afternoon fire alarm bells rang at 1737 Cambridge Street, forcing the last students still around before break to stream out of their classes in the Knafel Building of Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) and mill about a fire truck while firefighters inspected the building...
...false alarm was the latest event in a series of minor frustrations that have dogged users of the CGIS buildings ever since they opened at the start of the semester. But despite months of mild annoyances including temperature complaints, some uncompleted facilities, and ongoing construction work, most students and faculty members seem resigned to the situation...
...It’s growing on me slowly. Clearly, when they opened it, it wasn’t really ready yet,” he said. “Pretty consistently there was work going on throughout the day, but it wasn’t anything major... [The] fire alarm shenanigans were the first real technical problems I’ve experienced, although there is always a very loud banging in a pipe in the basement when I have class there...