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...many false fire alarms prompted Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to send out a courteous but stern letter to undergraduates last week, reminding them that they could be expelled for tampering with fire safety equipment. The day after Gross penned the letter, a prankster sprayed a fire extinguisher throughout Canaday D, leading to the evacuation of the building and forcing students in D entryway to sleep elsewhere for the night. Although campus administrators state that the number of false alarms has not been abnormally high this year, a fair amount of controversy has surrounded...
...prankster pulled a fire alarm a few hours after midnight, rousing Eliot House’s approximately 450 residents and forcing them outside. While Cambridge firefighters scoured the building in search of the non-existent emergency, Eliot residents yawned and shivered in their pajamas...
Other Houses have also had their share of fire extinguisher troubles. Residents of the Kirkland annex could not go back into their rooms because a prankster discharged a fire extinguisher last Friday night. Firefighters argued it was a safety issue—the powder given off by the chemical extinguisher is harmful, they say—but students, weathering 21-degree temperatures that night, disagreed...
...entire entryway in Eliot House was left homeless late Saturday night after a prankster sprayed a fire extinguisher, flooding the entryway with powdery chemicals and leaving students searching for a place to sleep for the night. Cambridge firefighters responded to an alarm in Eliot’s D entryway at around 2 a.m. yesterday, causing residents to gather outside the building. After about 30 minutes outside, tutors informed the residents of D entryway that they would not be allowed back into their rooms—and told a frigid crowd that any student found in the closed entryway would...
...young bride who, after storming out of a screening room at the end of that shower scene, literally went home to her mother, telling her husband, "I don't want to live with someone who thinks that is funny.") Altman continued to be pursued by this reputation as a prankster on all humanity, depantsing people of their pretenses and setting up an impregnable barrier between the hip and the square. And, as it happened, he earned...