This difference in temperature has to do with the way the air flows, Bucciantini said. The air seems to start in the middle and flow to the ends of the halls, she said. So the middle rooms are going to be cooler, but the ones at the end will be hotter. Some of the dorms on campus don t have this ongoing problem because there are individual controls in the rooms. We can control the air in our own rooms, said Tonya Avery, a sophomore computer science major and resident of Elam Arms.
People don t complain about the air here.
This system of individual control should be used in all of the dorms, Alan said. We should have our own controls like in Scott Hall, she said. However, Bucciantini suggested a much easier way to solve the problem with air conditioning. I just tell the residents to close their vents or tape a piece of paper over the vent if their room is too cold, she said.