If you want to know what time it is, you can simply check your wristwatch or cellphone. If you are inside a building, you would look for a wall clock nearby.
At CSDR, you have one more way to find out the exact time. If you stand outside, you look around in all directions for an electronic board mounted on the exterior wall of a building at stragegic points across the sprawling campus.
All digital clock boards operate around the clock nonstop during the school week as well as on weekends. The electronic boards were installed around 2015.
The older alumni remember certain parts of campus were dark at night. Nowadays, pretty much of the campus has light for added safety.
They also remember that if they have a wristwatch, they would need light to read the time. Today’s wristwatch can illuminate light on the watch itself on command.
CSDR seems to be more alive at night with the digital clocks everywhere and increased lights in the certain areas that were dark in the past. I can't help that I feel CSDR is a little Gallaudet University on campus.
Kevin Struxness, ‘76, MA
Editor, CSDR Old Times
7 December 2024
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