Lucy Diggs Slowe Hall Blackout - Howard University, Wash, D.C.

Just recently at Howard University the lights and heat inside of Lucy Diggs Slowe Hall which is a dormitory at Howard University electricity went out at 3 AM in the morning. This left students frantic and in the cold and dark for hours in unsafe conditions for hours, causing many to miss class, no access to the internet, and confusion. Many of the students were not happy with the university's protocol in trying to solve the problem as they act as if nothing occurred. Students stated that there was an email sent out telling all of the students inside of Slowe Hall that if they did not want to stay in the dorm for the night, that they could go to another dorm and spend the night with a friend of the same sex. "This is a horrible way to solve a problem as a community director or administrator at Howard University.", stated a student who wished to be anonymous. "To be quite honest it was around the time for midterms and major projects were beginning to be due, so who would really want to have to leave their dormitory to waste more time?"

After about 24 hours without electricity the students that stayed in Slowe are not convinced to stay there next year and is looking forward to moving into a new and improved apartment or condo. Its sad to see the university reacting slow to the event as Bush did when Katrina hit New Orleans and therefore the administration and the office of residence life should be concerned about the procedure that was not carefully thought out in a situation like this. When I asked a student for a closing thought he stated, "Once again a rare occasion that is yet to be fix or thought about at Howard University", located in, Washington, D.C.