Ham Hall

Students pilot residential hall compost program

Behind the Talcott Greenhouse, by the community garden, stands a blue barrel mounted on wooden posts. This contraption is the new compost tumbler piloted by students from Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies Jennifer Albertine’s class: Environmental Entrepreneurship Campus Sustainability.

Ham Hall evacuated after bulletin board poster set on fire

Ham Hall evacuated after bulletin board poster set on fire

BY ALICIA WINOKUR '16

Early Wednesday morning, at 1:34 a.m., Campus Police responded to a fire alarm that went off on the second floor of Ham Hall. A poster pinned to a bulletin board was intentionally set ablaze, creating a small fire that burned through to the cork board. According to the Campus Police crime log, “A pull station was activated and the building was cleared.”