During summer quarters, students had to sweat it out, using open windows as a substitute for air conditioning. However, this method of cooling off was not without its downside. Sometimes professors were forced to stop mid-sentence to wait for a roaring siren or rumbling train to pass. Trains can be felt and heard passing through the new campus, but they don't seem as loud. The two rundown elevators that operated inside the Perkins building had a tendency to shake and make strange noises.
Alumni have no shortage of elevator stories.
Connie Tollefson remembered being locked in one of the elevators for 45 minutes until someone came to her rescue. Linda Hendrickson said it was like rolling the dice to figure out which elevator would work. Lana Venera recalls vividly the time she found herself stuck in the basement of the Perkins Building. I had pressed the 'up' button, but the elevator just kept going down. I ended up in this dark basement at night completely alone.