Word: alarms
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...three students at Seton Hall University died in a dormitory fire. Such tragedies are avoidable, however, and we call upon the University to raise awareness of fire safety—and for students to react more responsibly when they hear the shrill wail of a fire alarm...
...residents of Eliot House can attest, there are few greater annoyances in Harvard student life than the dreaded fire alarm. There have been three fire alarms in Eliot since the start of the semester, a fact that has caused many Eliot residents—and undergraduates at other Houses—to grumble that the University should do more to prevent these false alarms. To a certain extent, we agree that the University’s physical resources departments should do whatever they can to reduce the number of unnecessary alarms, but we recognize that no fire prevention system will...
Nevertheless, the University can and should do more to enhance student safety by taking steps to eliminate the commonly held attitude of indifference toward fire alarms. Some of this indifference is caused by a lack of information—a fire alarm will go off, students will go through the motions of evacuation, and then life will continue as it did before, with students being no more aware of why they should even bother to evacuate in the first place. We recommend that each House send an e-mail to its students following each fire alarm that details what caused...
Ultimately, however, the responsibility for student safety falls to the students themselves. “It is each student’s individual responsibility to evacuate in case of a fire alarm,” said Dean Nelson, a statement that reflects both University policy and the law, which requires that all persons in a public building evacuate in the event of a fire alarm unless it’s unsafe to do so. The rationale behind these policies is irrefutable: regardless of the annoyance of having to leave one’s room, it’s infinitely better...
...virus, which is known to have killed just 60 people worldwide, will mutate into something more easily spread among humans. Makers of flu vaccines can't simultaneously produce both bird-flu and regular-flu varieties in sufficient quantity. Shift gears too early, and it could be a false alarm, and millions of Americans who get the normal flu vaccine every year would have to go without, probably resulting in thousands of preventable deaths. Shift gears too late, and there would be no time to produce enough vaccine before the bird flu hit, potentially killing millions. Both before and right after...