03.21.08

Please evacuate the building…

Posted in Blog at 20:15 by vchan

Quite an interesting day yesterday, right before the Easter long weekend.

I get an email from the listserv that goes to everyone in my building saying we will be in lockdown mode start 1245 as there will be a student protest right outside. All the doors will be locked, you need your keys to get around etc. So I think fine, not a big deal.

A while later, I hear a lot of noise and thinking its coming from the outside, it sounded like a few hundred or thousand students protesting. I walk around to the front of the building and I’m quite surprised to 15-20 people running in yelling and waving banners with a video camera going. So much for our lockdown.

Anyways, around 330 I get another listserv saying that they’re kicking us out early. I ask around and find out that the protestors just aren’t leaving and causing a disturbance. I wanted to go upstairs and check out all commotion but the 5-0 said it wasn’t a good idea.

An interesting day I must say.