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Construction creates havoc for honors dorms students The Living Learning Center site work has taken longer than expected, to the frustration of residents BY MORIAH BALINGIT NEWS REPORTER Ruckus in the residence halls is nothing new, whether it be a fellow resident’s death metal or a late-night game of hall soccer. But many of the residents living in the halls close to the construction site of the Living Learn ing Center said they weren’t expecting the noise of jackhammers, breaking rocks and other construction noise. “I can’t sleep. It wakes me up. 1 can’t nap. 1 can’t study,” complained freshman Joseph Mintzlaff, who lives in Carson Hall. The site preparation phase of the construction began July 22, according to the Living Learning Center Web site. Director of Facilities Housing Nancy Wright said the preparation was origi nally slated to finish before the end of the summer. “Had we not gotten rain and we had gotten the city permit sooner, we would’ve had (the site preparation) done before summer,” she said. Freshman Charlie Beckers of DeCou Hall in the Walton Complex said the excavation sounded “almost like ex plosions.” Additionally, residents complained that the 8 a.m. start of the construction was much too early. “It has woken me up in the morning when they started doing the hammer ing,” Beckers said. Freshman Sibyl Geiselman of Dy ment Hall in Walton Complex said studying in her room is nearly impossible. “It’s right outside my room,” she said. “I can’t go up to my room to study because there’s a bunch of noise ... and those windows don’t block the noise.” Freshman Dominique Devnam of Adams Hall in the Walton Complex said the noise was “loud, beating, drumming,” and made it difficult to study. “You can’t really study with con struction going on,” she said. “It’s hard to concentrate.” The noise is especially troublesome because the three designated honors halls — DeCou, Dyment and Hawthorne — are some of the closest to the construction. Students often choose these halls for their ex tended quiet hours and studious environments. University Housing Director Michael Eyster said that he would consider moving these halls. Eyster said University Housing did n’t inform the residents of the con struction until after they signed their contracts. Residents said they weren’t antici pating noise at this level. Some said they might have reconsidered living in the halls if they had known about the construction. “I would have preferred not to (live in the halls),” said Devnam. Only one student has transferred to another hall because of the noise, Eyster said, adding that University Housing has done what it can to reme dy the problem. “We can limit the times of day,” he said. “We can tell students when the noise will be most intense. ” He said University Housing offers earplugs to help students deal with the construction noise, though earplugs have always been offered to residents to help them cope with noise in the residence halls. Some students said they feel that compensation, in the form of discount ed room rates, should be in order. “1 think that would definitely be fair,” said freshman Ryan Hastreiter of DeCou Hall, who has considered trans ferring to another hall partially be cause of the construction. “There’s al ready enough distraction here.” Eyster said compensation would not be offered, given that University Hous ing is supported exclusively by room and board rates. “That would be taking money out of one student’s pocket and putting it in another’s,” he said. Mintzlaff said though the noise is bothersome, compensation should not be in order. “I guess I’ll have to take the bad with the good,” Mintzlaff said. Freshman Jared Slesnick of Hawthorne Hall in the Walton Com plex has found a creative way to cope with the construction. “Sometimes I like watching the big machines,” he said. Site preparation is slated to end Monday, Oct. 18, and construction of the building will begin in January. moriahbalingit@ dailyemerald, com IN BRIEF TV set aspired to higher things, emits distress signal CORVALLIS — Chris van Rossman's flatscreen Toshiba TV came with a built-in VCR, DVD and CD player. Still, the 20-inch color TV aspired to higher things. On the night of Oct. 2, it began emit ting the international distress signal. The 121.5 MHz frequency signal was picked up by an orbiting search and rescue satellite, which informed the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Before long, van Rossman heard a knock at his door. Outside were men in Air Force uni forms, a Corvallis police officer and a Benton County Search and Rescue deputy. The international distress signals are usually emitted from electronic locator transponders that help search and res cue workers find overturned boats or crashed airplanes. It’s said that more than 90 percent of these signals are false alarms, but each is checked. From time to time Benton County Search and Rescue Deputy Mike Bam berger is dispatched to the airport to lo cate a transponder in a plane that has been bumped by a mechanic or set off by a rough landing. But this case was different: The signal was coming from a Corvallis apartment building. “1 have a pretty spotless record, so I wasn't overly concerned — just a little confused,” van Rossman said. After checking in with van Ross man, the group continued the search. “We narrowed it down to a spot on the wall in the hallway,” Bamberger said. “Whatever was behind that spot is what it was.” They knocked on van Rossman's door again, and the signal abruptly stopped. “When he answered the door he turned off the TV, and the guy in the hall said, ‘It just stopped,’” Bamberger recalled. The Associated Press
