Faculty finds fire system alarming

Brittany Claramunt @BrittClaramunt bclaramunt@foghornnews.com Faculty and students in the Venters Building may have seen a security guard monitoring the building recently and wondered why. It’s because for several weeks, the fire alarm system has been offline. According to Robert Duffie, director of Physical Facilities, the fire alarm system is still functioning, but it is not being monitored by the monitoring company. “It is an older 1980s system for which parts are no longer available,” Duffie said. Other parts have been used to keep the system functional temporarily, Duffie said. Because the system cannot be maintained with original parts from the…