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The Daily OrangeCampus Briefs: Multiple buildings on campus lose power on Friday
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Posted: 9/23/07, 11:34 PM EST Section: News
Students who lost e-mail service on Friday can blame an event experienced by National Grid, energy provider to Syracuse University, which took out the power of 14 buildings on campus, according to a release from SU News Services.
When National Grid's Temple Street substation went down for 20 seconds, a safety shutdown was triggered at Haven Hall's substation, which then led to the shutdowns in the other 14 buildings. SU's Physical Plant reset the Haven station 33 minutes after the initial failure. It was then Physical Plant's task to see which buildings needed to be manually reset and which had been automatically restarted, the release stated.
The majority of the buildings affected were on the northern end of campus including: Booth, Bird, Day, Flint, Haven, Hinds, Kimmel, Link, Lyman, Machinery, Marion, Smith, Walnut and Watson halls.
SU's MyMail service was down because it is based in Machinery Hall. "Power was restored to all of the affected buildings by about 1:15 p.m. E-mail service resumed at about 2:30 p.m. and BlackBerry service at 3 p.m.," according to the release.
- Members from SU's swimming and diving teams are expected to make a presentation at tonight's Student Association meeting in Maxwell Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., said SA President Ryan Kelly.
During the summer, Athletic Director Daryl Gross announced the program would be cut after this season.
Two members of the team will give a presentation, which includes a history of the team, famous alumni, how the decision to cut affects the university and other points, Kelly said.
"I'm hoping alumni will be there to help support them," Kelly said.
When National Grid's Temple Street substation went down for 20 seconds, a safety shutdown was triggered at Haven Hall's substation, which then led to the shutdowns in the other 14 buildings. SU's Physical Plant reset the Haven station 33 minutes after the initial failure. It was then Physical Plant's task to see which buildings needed to be manually reset and which had been automatically restarted, the release stated.
The majority of the buildings affected were on the northern end of campus including: Booth, Bird, Day, Flint, Haven, Hinds, Kimmel, Link, Lyman, Machinery, Marion, Smith, Walnut and Watson halls.
SU's MyMail service was down because it is based in Machinery Hall. "Power was restored to all of the affected buildings by about 1:15 p.m. E-mail service resumed at about 2:30 p.m. and BlackBerry service at 3 p.m.," according to the release.
- Members from SU's swimming and diving teams are expected to make a presentation at tonight's Student Association meeting in Maxwell Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., said SA President Ryan Kelly.
During the summer, Athletic Director Daryl Gross announced the program would be cut after this season.
Two members of the team will give a presentation, which includes a history of the team, famous alumni, how the decision to cut affects the university and other points, Kelly said.
"I'm hoping alumni will be there to help support them," Kelly said.
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