Say the words ''fire alarm'' to any current or recent freshman at any state university and chances are you'll get the same reaction. They'll tell you that kids pull the fire alarm all the time.
People pile out of rooms in their underwear.
Some think it's funny, others are disgusted. Bad business, but then so is a lot of what goes on at college. The prime example is the guzzling of alcohol on a scale that shocks even those of us whose college behavior was shocking by standards of 30 years ago. What happened early on Sept. 18 on the fourth floor of Murray State University's Hester Hall was in a different category. It was the deliberate taking of a life.