Last year, one of the residence halls at Seton Hall University caught fire, killing three students. Junior Dave Parr, an Aikens resident and a transfer student from Seton Hall was not too happy with the fire incident in his residence hall two weeks ago. Coming from Seton Hall, in which three people were killed from a fire that fire alarms did go off during, makes me worry about the fact that our fire alarms did not sense the fire. I don't care what the size of the fire is. A fire is a fire, and there better be detectors going off in my hallway when one happens again.
Fires do happen, and students on campuses do die as a result.
Our campus was lucky two weeks ago because it wasn't a severe fire. I hope Susquehanna's administration, staff, faculty and public safety are looking into why the fire alarms did not go off in Aikens, so that something like this does not occur again. I believe that all the dorms on campus should have ultra sensitive fire alarms and they should have a fire alarm in each room and many throughout the hallways just like in Smith Hall. Seton Hall was just a name of a college. It could have been Susquehanna or any other campus.