Campus Emergency Whistle

Altaica · **Posted:** Wed 09-19-2007 7:33AM

http://www.therolladailynews.com/articles/2007/09/19/news/news05.txt

Ummm... k...

jthxv · **Posted:** Wed 09-19-2007 7:34AM

There is an article on the UMR homepage also...

Altaica · **Posted:** Wed 09-19-2007 7:39AM

jthxv wrote:

There is an article on the UMR homepage also...

Oh, you know... I saw that icon for the article yesterday as I was scanning the page and thought it was a wireless symbol of sorts and didn't even bother to read the caption. I guess it makes sense now... sort of.

aroth87 · **Posted:** Wed 09-19-2007 11:21AM

I was here when they tested it the first time over the summer. IIRC it was a total failure.

Quote:

the volume of a smaller whistle was not loud enough to penetrate to the interiors of many campus buildings

That would be an understatement. I was expecting to hear some cool new noise and got nothing. Granted I was working in the back of Comp Sci but I still expected to hear a little something.
Hopefully the new whistle isn't as god-awful annoying as the alarm that went off in EE yesterday...

Adam

el_lorenzo · **Posted:** Wed 09-19-2007 11:53AM

I will be sleeping. If it wakes me up... I guess it works... mind you, i'll also be pissed about being woken up by a damn test whistle

but for the sake of the greater good, i am willing to sacrifice the time it takes to wake up and go back to sleep... i guess

jthxv · **Posted:** Wed 09-19-2007 12:09PM

If you can hear it in the basement of McNutt, anyone nearby will have their ears start bleeding...

atm314 · **Posted:** Wed 09-19-2007 3:10PM

I have class in ME216 (right by the power plant), so I plan to bring earplugs to class tomorrow and put them in around 0955......

MWag · **Posted:** Thu 09-20-2007 9:53AM

so did it work? i had set my alarm to wake me up right around 10, but i don't remember hearing anything.

el_lorenzo · **Posted:** Thu 09-20-2007 9:55AM

anyone know how it went? i was in the quad, awake (unfortunately), and i didn't hear anything. am i deaf or did it just blow again (pun slightly intended)

Altaica · **Posted:** Thu 09-20-2007 9:58AM

MWag wrote:

so did it work? i had set my alarm to wake me up right around 10, but i don't remember hearing anything.

I barely heard it in my class in the CS building. Could have easily been mistaken for a lawn mower or just construction noise perhaps.

Oh, by the way... I love the "reminder" e-mail from Andrew Careaga I received at 10:35AM...

aroth87 · **Posted:** Thu 09-20-2007 10:12AM

I didn't hear it at all in EE, but Dr. Zoughi talks kind of loud. I wasn't thinking about listening for it but if it had done its job that shouldn't have mattered.
Third time's a charm maybe?

Adam

Altaica · **Posted:** Thu 09-20-2007 10:17AM

aroth87 wrote:

I didn't hear it at all in EE, but Dr. Zoughi talks kind of loud. I wasn't thinking about listening for it but if it had done its job that shouldn't have mattered.
Third time's a charm maybe?

Adam

If they buy a third whistle, perhaps they should distribute the other two among the campus to ensure better coverage. That's assuming they keep the ones they've already bought, I guess. I don't know if you can return something like that... lol.

ShadowCat38 · **Posted:** Thu 09-20-2007 1:26PM

aroth87 wrote:

I didn't hear it at all in EE, but Dr. Zoughi talks kind of loud. I wasn't thinking about listening for it but if it had done its job that shouldn't have mattered.
Third time's a charm maybe?

Adam

I'm in that class too.

I didn't hear it either. So much for "campus-wide notification even within buildings"

jthxv · **Posted:** Thu 09-20-2007 2:57PM

Someone was telling me you could hear it very faintly on the top floor of McNutt.... So, ya, big floparoo again.... I wonder who is in charge of this joke...

BlackDragonHunt · **Posted:** Thu 09-20-2007 3:37PM

Not a sound in the RC area.

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