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STUDENT TRAVEL & BEYOND
Nicole Barker | Photographer
John Gardner of Delta Sand and Gravel works Tuesday on the construction of The Living Learning Center, which is being built next
to the Walton Complex.
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.
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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