The clock in room 209 is being fixed.

There is a clock in room 209 which has been stopped at 10:00. I wrote an article about it on February the 19th. I also informed Mrs. Kooistra about the clock. She wrote it down, told me to see what the problem was, and put in a work order. She was wondering if the battery was dead. This is not a huge problem, but when someone glances at the clock at a club meeting in community time, that person might not remember that the clock is stopped, or worse, not know that it was stopped in the first place, and believe it was 10:00 when they had to get to class. Fixing a stopped clock is very easy.

The clock has been stopped for at least all of this school year (no one I talked to seemed to remember exactly how long). I still was concerned how the problem went unnoticed for so long, but I suppose I should have told Mrs. Kooistra first instead of Voices. That got me wondering how many people noticed the clock. I have heard another report of the clock in room 126b having been stopped. I checked, and it was working, and it seems to have been recently fixed, which is a good sign. I have gone to 209 more than 126b, but still, I have been to it during community time.

On a related note, in the Davis Center the school has chosen to tape AI generated pictures of doors shushing you. They did this because the doors were too loud when they closed, and the hope was that every time the door was closed a student would catch it. This is a pretty tall ask. The real kicker is that the things that cause doors to slam in the first place, door closers, contain two valves which determine the speed at which they close. These valves can be adjusted with a screwdriver. This is more concerning, because it’s not a case of the school being unaware. One would think that this is fairly common knowledge among mechanics and maintenance workers, and they have not been adjusted. I also wonder if the school will even bother to take down the pictures afterward.

Pictured: a door closer. Credit: Alex Tolon.