University Daily Kansan, April 17, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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New trap to stop gap in whistle
By PATRICIA SKALLA Staff Reporter
That sound you might hear as you walk between Stauffer-Flint Hall and Watson Library is not a giant bug zapper, and no one around you is spitting — it's only the whistle that some people depend on to release them from class and to let them know what time it is.
Robert Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance, said yesterday that the sound was caused by an impulse trap that was put on the whistle about a week ago. The trap was installed to eliminate air turbulence and prevent the hesitation the whistle used to have when it began to blow.
Steam, which operates the whistle, could condense in the steam line, blocking the whistle and causing the resitation. Porter said.
"That kind of spitting noise is a drop of water getting out of the line," he said.
A TIME-OPERATED electric switch in the whistle interts to let out a small amount of steam. Porter said. The steam forces open the pilot — a valve that releases more steam — until the pressure, creating the whistle's blast.
"We will get a better sounding whistle for the full seven seconds, instead of one that drowns out at the end," he said.
"I think it's extremely obnoxious," she said. "I like the concept, but the noise is awful. It sounds sick."
The new trap operates on impulse to release the steam more often, Porter said, thereby relieving pressure on the system. The same suction that it doesn't rise and fall,
But not everyone appreciates the whistle or its new tran.
Jan Scott, Shawnee senior, said she had not heard the spitting noise but always heard the whistle when it blew.
ALTHOUGH SHE doesn't use the shet to remind herself where she should be, Scott said she did it to seer watch so she could keep on喉
Melanie Wood, Emporia freshman,
said she was apathetic about the
whistle or any sound it ever made.
"I really don't care about it," she said. "I wouldn't miss it, but I don't."
If something ever happened to the whistle so that it never sounded again. Wood said she would find another way to get to class on time.
For those who do depend on the whistle to warn them of how long they have before class or when their misery in a class will end. Porter told me that whenever the new trap would stop the whistle from blowing its top.
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