By
Daniel Brown
Nov. 30, 2018
Students
living in Holland College’s residence were more social during yesterday’s power
outage, says a residence life adviser.
Adam
Shambe is an RLA at Glendenning Hall. He’s in the Sports and Leisure Management
program.
Students
living at the campus residence in Charlottetown were interacting with one
another more during the citywide power outage on Nov. 29, he said.
“It
made it a good vibe.”
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Holland College student enters Glendenning Hall on Nov. 30, 2018. Daniel Brown
photo.
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Students
were talking, playing cards and listening to music in the hallways. Some were
getting to know new people, he said.
Students
normally stay in their rooms, especially during exam time. Because of that, Shambe
feels it was good there was an outage.
“[It
got] all the students out, you know, interacting with one another. Getting to
know each other,” he said.
Terry
Chand played UNO, a Crazy Eights-style card game, during the power outage. He
lives at the residence, and is studying Computer Information Systems.
He
and a group of friends wanted to play hide and seek throughout the building,
but unfortunately it wasn’t allowed. They settled for playing UNO, he said.
The
residence hallways are normally empty, but that wasn’t the case during the
outage, he said.
“On
each floor you might see one or two people sitting in the corner with their
flashlight, probably talking.”
Most
people didn’t want to risk leaving the residence, as the room key device wasn’t
working, he said.
“The
power turned the front door off.”