Word: hazardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...halogen lamps in spite of the fact that no suitable alternative has been suggested by the administration. Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans, refusing to outright ban the lights, wrote in an e-mail message, "We will tell entering students that halogen floor lamps pose a potential fire hazard and that students need to use incandescent or fluorescent lamps in freshman dormitories...
...administration (it spends roughly $156,000 per year on energy for halogens), then we sincerely hope that it will reconsider, provide better lighting in the dorm rooms, or at least have the guts to admit its motivations. As it stands now, we do not think that the potential hazard of halogens outweighs their outstanding and necessary benefit. Let there it be light, it was said, and there was light. Let there be halogens, we say, and there will be halogens...
...staff would die by the fires of its halogens. Dean Nathans has taken the reasonable step of informing parents of an emerging public safety hazard, and for this she should be commended, not condemned. The College must work to ameliorate the dismal lighting that it currently provides while preserving concern for the safety of its students...
...will tell entering students that halogen floor lamps pose a potential fire hazard and that students need to use incandescent or fluorescent lamps in freshman dormitories," she wrote in an e-mail message...
Ennis' body was found by police at about 1:45 a.m. lying in a pool of blood outside the driver's side of his Mercedes-Benz. The car's hazard lights were flashing, and both the passenger-side door and the trunk were open. He had apparently been changing a tire and had got as far as putting the spare on the car but had not finished replacing the lug nuts when he was killed by a single shot to the head. His body was discovered by a woman who says she saw a white male leaving the area...