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False alarms Saturday forced students to evacuate Dunster House and part of the first floor of Canaday C-entry.
James Vorenberg '49, master of Dunster House, said yesterday the alarm went off in Dunster twice early Saturday morning.
"The indicator in the House superintendent's office showed an alarm had gone off in the G-entry on the first floor, but after that had stopped, the alarm in K-entry went off," he said.
Vorenberg said intruders may have caused the alarms.
"Last fall we had a full-scale fire drill on every hall and people took it seriously, but this is a lousy thing," Vorenberg said.
Canaday residents said yesterday a visitor accidentally threw the alarm.
About 11 p.m. Saturday night, someone banged on a fire door and it set off the alarm accidentally, Jonathan Band '81, a Canaday resident, said. Band said the alarms usually go off when someone presses on the lever to open the door.
Residents in both buildings reacted differently to the alarms.
"I was asleep, so I didn't respond too quickly, but I was astounded, drunk, and sleepy--not mad," Richard I. Anders '79, a Dunster House resident said yesterday.
"The entire entry didn't have to get out so it didn't bother me," Robert J. Davenport '81, who lives in Canaday, said yesterday.
"I thought it was an alarm clock. It wasn't too bad since we only had to stay outside about 10-15 minutes," Keith Laskin '79, a Dunster House resident, said yesterday.
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