A crowd gathers outside of Tech after a faulty smoke alarm caused the building to be evacuated.
Photo: Peter Jackson
No, the hordes of students between the front doors of Tech and Sheridan Road weren’t protesting the first day of Intro to Sociology. The crowd was actually due to an evacuation of the building, caused by a faulty smoke alarm that went off in one of the hallways on the basement level of the massive complex, NUPD Sargent Tim Reuss said.
Engineering students milling around outside speculated that perhaps chemistry professor Eberhard Zwergel, “whose job is to blow stuff up,” did just that.
Tech was reopened about thirty minutes later.
