Central Campus resident halls cope without electricity Saturday

Residents work together with electric generators running

Joanna Banegas

Staff Writer

The electricity went out Saturday morning around 8:15 a.m. in Central Campus residential halls Bowen Hall, Carroll Hall, Metcalf Hall, Owen Hall and Tucker Hall.The electricity didn’t come back on until 4 p.m. when a power generator was supplied.

Manisha Patel, resident adviser for Tucker Hall, said when the resident advisers figured out that the electricity went out, they immediately called the resident director.

“We worked together to make the students feel comfortable,” Patel said. “We weren’t entirely sure when the power would come back on.”

Patel said understandably a lot of residents wanted to know when the power would come back on.

“If the power didn’t come back on we would of had all the residents come together in the basement lounge to play board games,” Patel said. “We know having the power out isn’t fun. We want the residents to feel like they’re home.”

Colin Bradley, a freshman in biological sciences and a resident in Metcalf, said he felt really annoyed about the whole situation.

“I was in a glazed stupor after the Krispy Kreme Challenge,” Bradley said. “After realizing that the elevators weren’t functioning I had to walk up a flight of stairs.”

Samantha Franklin, a senior in international studies and a community assistant for Metcalf, said the residents were angry their things were shut off.

“If they weren’t here it really didn’t bother them but the ones that were here were obviously displeased,” Franklin said.

Tanya Godsey, a freshman in First Year College and a Tucker Hall resident, said she woke up her neighbors around her hall notifying them about the power outage.

“No one knew what was going on except for the people that woke up early,” Godsey said.

Godsey also said she only thought the electricity was out in Owen and Tucker, but later found the Tri-Towers were affected as well.

“A friend from Metcalf had to shower in my dorm because he didn’t have running water,” Godsey said.

Godsey said no one knew what was going on Saturday afternoon.

“We didn’t feel like staying here so my friends and I decided to leave for the night,” she said.

Patel said the residential advisers suggested to the residents if they wanted to go somewhere else they could leave.

“We are trained on these types of situations,” Patel said. “We all worked together and are still working together to get through all this that we are going through.”

The residential staff still does not know what caused the outage.