Yale preps for danger 2.17.09
If a violent ice storm, electricity outage, pandemic flu, bomb scare or shooting spree were to hit campus, Maria Bouffard will have planned Yale’s response.
If a violent ice storm, electricity outage, pandemic flu, bomb scare or shooting spree were to hit campus, Maria Bouffard will have planned Yale’s response.
The Yale School of Nursing has purchased the building in which it currently resides, creating permanent housing for the historically mobile institution.
Eighteen years ago, Yale was a different place. Advertisements and flyers broadcasting the events of the University’s hundreds of undergraduate organizations covered every available surface on campus, said Cyril May FES ’89, Program Coordinator for Yale Recycling.
The University’s Internet service went dark Friday for more than an hour after a power failure in an Information Technology Services equipment room.
Frequent exclamations of “Oh My God!” could be overheard Sunday evening as Elis, braving piercing winds in their walk across Cross Campus, noticed a large fallen tree between William L. Harkness Hall and Calhoun College. The tree had fallen onto the grass, leaving all paths unobstructed.
In a bizarre chain of events, the chilling temperatures led to a massive explosion at the power plant early in the morning on Friday, Jan. 5, only to be followed by an unrelated two-alarm fire in another part of the plant just three hours later.
Hot-water pipes burst in Davenport College’s K and E entryways last week, damaging three suites and forcing Gosnell and eight other students to relocate to different dorms for up to two months. The cause of the plumbing failures is still unknown, Davenport Master Richard Schottenfeld said.
Updated Friday 9:14 p.m. A two-alarm fire broke out at Yale’s Central Power Plant on Tower Parkway early Friday morning, sending flames shooting high into the air just across the street from the Hall of Graduate Studies.
With regard to construction around campus, the University is playing a “large game of dominos,” according to School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern.
With the dust barely cleared from the last round of intensive renovations at the Yale Bowl, the cranes and construction crews are set to return to the historic facility at the end of the academic year.
Having expanded wireless Internet access in three classroom buildings over the summer, administrators are preparing to unveil a new initiative that will offer a connection to the Web wherever it is needed.
Fears of a possible fire yesterday at William L. Harkness Hall turned out to be a false alarm, but officials responding to the call said they were truly alarmed by students’ lack of fire safety.