As the fumes billowed out of the community bathroom on second Bolt, Andrew Robinson, a sophomore who lives on second, was leaving his room when he smelled the smoke. He then alerted the RA of his floor, Cory Hugen, and pulled the fire alarm. Kurt Steiner, another second Bolt resident squelched the small notebook-fire that had been started in the bathtub. This is the third early-morning fire alarm that has been pulled in the last month in Calvin residence halls. According to the Campus Safety report, the fire alarm was set off as a result of a cigarette being used to light a book of matches.
Some students say that the message and the fire alarm are connected.
However, neither that assertion nor the people involved have been discovered. Although Campus Safety has no leads as to who is pulling the fire alarms, or who started the fire Tuesday morning, some students worry that the recurring pattern of the pulling of fire alarms could be causing a trend in the dorms. Another student, Jeff DeKock, a sophomore on third Bolt, recalled a time last year when there was a similar problem. Many students are frustrated about being woken up in the early morning hours as a result of childish pranks.