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Article: U. Wisconsin students take matters into own hands over fire alarms
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- February 18, 2005
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Sam-omar Hall
University Wire
02-18-2005
(The Daily Cardinal) (U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. -- University of Wisconsin freshman Megan Beckner was sound asleep at 3 a.m. in Witte Hall when the fire alarm began to ring. Because of past false alarms, Beckner tried to sleep through the ear-splitting sound, but after 15 minutes she was forced out into the cold.
According to Beckner, the frequency of false alarms causes her and other students to respond to alarms with less urgency. She is still pretty confident that if there were a real fire, the commotion would get her out of bed. Paul Evans, director of housing, agreed that false alarms are harmful because they can dull students' reactions to a real ...