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Most of the ceiling in Stoughton North 29 fell to the floor just before noon yesterday, sending dust and large chunks of plaster raining down on the heads of the students in the room and on their possessions.
Students pulled the fire alarm, and police and fire units responded. The Cambridge Fire Department used hooks and pikes to pull down more of the ceiling while the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) shut down the building.
Timothy L. Lyons '04 was in the room when the ceiling collapsed.
Hollis Hall resident Tessa V. Gonzalez '04 said the ceiling collapse was not preceded by any large noise or movement in the building.
The same polarity of emotional reaction took place the week before as well. A teenager, described only by his black hair with "dyed purple tips," had opened gunfire in the cafeteria of a high school conducting summer school classes. Thankfully no one was hurt because the shots had been fired...