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Volume 76, Issue 27 \Neh Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935 April 22, 2011
Lightning causes damage to Villages, Gym
Lightning struck a tree between tlie Soutli
Villages and Boshamer Gymnasium Wednesday
morning shattering windows and causing
extensive damage to fire alarm systems.
In this issue...
Campus News:
Profile: Amber Heck 2
Theatre presents ten-minute plays 2
This week on campus 2
News:
Tech may lessen empathy 3
Opinion:
Reader response to ‘Voice of Reason'4
Album review: TV on the Radio 4
Devil's Advocate 5
This week in history 5
Sports:
Athletic award ceremony 6
All-Sac team 6
Spring game 6
Arts & Life:
Best games I've ever played 7
Chef Boy-ar-Dave 7
Odds and Ends:
Students displaced 8
Bauslaugh sighted 8
Cartoon by Karam Boeshaar 8
Lightning struck near the South Villages
Wednesday, causing extensive damage to the
dorms and gymnasium, and displacing many
students from their residences.
As ordered by the Fire Marshall, South Village
residence halls have been closed to students
since a lightning strike damaged the fire alarm
system in the dormitories just after 10 a.m.
According to Director of Facilities, Joseph
Brown, the bolt struck a tree between South
Villages and Boshamer Gymnasium, at which
point electrical charge traveled through the
tree’s root system damaging HVAC units and
fire panels in the South Villages.
The strike damaged electrical infrastructure
in South Village 2 most extensively according
to maintenance staff Residents of South 2
have been told to vacate for the remainder of
the semester
South Villages 2 and 8 also sustained water
damage due to sprinkler systems being activated
by the smoke. North Village 8 sustained some
flooding due to a damaged waterline, said
Stan Jacobsen, Director of Safety and Risk
Management
Other residents of South Village residents
“will not yet be able to return to their rooms until
the fire alarm system has been repaired,” said
Director of Security and Student Housing, Jason
Djuren in an e-mail to the campus, Thursday.
Fire alarm technicians are working diligently
to get the residence halls affected back online.
The concussion from the strike shattered
windows along the north side of Boshamer
Gymnasium and some along the back side of
The concussion from the strike shattered
windows along the back side of South Village
and the south side of Boshamer Gymnasium.
South Villages.
Two were injured as a result of the strike
according to emergency personnel on the scene.
One student was hit by a falling branch and one
community member received a jolt of electricity
to the leg. Both were examined by emergency
responders and sent to the hospital, neither
sustained major injuries.
Emergency personnel including three fire engines and an ambulance responded Wednesday to assess
the damage. Two people sustained injuries from the strike including one student and a community
member.