OISE Hit By Magnitude 7 Train Wreck

First-year Arden Dawes had just arrived at her CHM135 lecture one bright Monday morning when disaster literally struck.

“We were barely seated when there was a terrible screech somewhere below us, and then the ground started to tremble,” she recalls tearfully in front of OISE, the location of the tragedy. “I’m from the Pacific Northwest so I’ve done earthquake drills before. My first instinct was to hide under a desk, but my little desk was the size of a pizza slice!”

It was a smashing start to the class for Arden, who had just done the “Bio-Chem-Break-Your-Legs,” otherwise known as the rush from BIO120 in Con Hall to CHM135 in OISE in just ten minutes, along with several hundreds of her companions. “Some of us started to run outside when the ground started shaking, but most of us were too tired to do anything,” she explains. “I texted my mom thinking I was gonna die in OISE, for real this time. Not like the other times I said I was going to die in OISE.”

Another student, Jackson Zhou, was in their seismology tutorial on the seventh floor when they noticed the projector started swaying. “Plaster was falling from the ceiling, but my TA just continued talking about wave propagation like it was a normal day.” They gave the statement from their hospital bed, as the projector fell on their head shortly after.

The Boundary spoke to a first year at the Department of Civil Engineering, who requested not to be named. “As a civil engineering student, I think OISE is not very structurally sound. I hope my ESP client will be the TTC, so I can draft a solution for this issue,” they said. “And then Lockheed Martin will hire me to draft solutions for their target buildings too.”

OISE declined to comment.