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I'll Take "Problem-Solving at Boalt" for $500

Answer: Giant blue robots, noisy fans, free drinks, and meteorology.

Question: What is, Boalt's response to a heatwave?

CORRECT!

This post has been brought to you by Professor McGonagall's Vand*n Heuv*l's recent email regarding the building's utter lack of a functioning A-C system, swelteringly hot classrooms, and the steps being taken to solve the problem:

Subject: Giant Robotic Devices in 1st Floor Hallway

The weird, multi-armed turquoise machines in the first floor hallway are actually portable AC units. As you know if you teach or have a class in 100, 105, 110, these three rooms have no AC (all other classrooms are now air conditioned). We have no way to bring the AC units into the classrooms, since they have to be vented outside and also because they are too noisy. So we are cooling the hallway and hoping the cool air will make its way into the large classrooms. To do this, however, you'll need to keep the doors to the large classrooms propped open. So it's important to try to keep talking in the hallways during class times to a minimum.

Predictions are that a cooling trend is starting today and that our fog will return by the end of the week. Once that happens the ventilation fans will pump in cool, rather than warm, air and things will get better.

Finally, around 12:30 or 1:00 today there will be cold drinks available in the 1st floor lobby. Please feel free to stop by and cool down.

Why we can't just soup up these "ventilation fans" in the classrooms to include A-C capabilities is beyond me, but since we're thinking outside the box, I have a suggestion or two for how we might solve this problem intuitively and with minimal disruption to normal classroom activities.

If all else fails, we can always admit more LLMs.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).