Hartley Hospitality Desk

Kitchen smoke sets off fire alarm in Hartley Hall

The fire alarm bellowing through Hartley Hall awakened residents at around 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning, after smoke from burning food in an eighth floor kitchen set it off in the wee hours of the morning.

Hartley laundry room to be closed until Monday, April 27

Residents of Hartley and Wallach received an e-mail on Monday afternoon from Housing Services informing them that they will not be able to use the Hartley laundry room until Monday, April 27th.

Oh, Those Laundry Machines!

If you’re a student living on this campus, then you’ve probably had to deal with one of Columbia’s most incorrigible problems: laundry machines. Given the persistence of such problems, why is it that week after week (or month after month) we return to the laundry room, encounter the same problems, and do absolutely nothing about it other than curse, kick, and grudgingly move to another machine?