Internet outages disrupt campus

BY CLAIRE SULLIVAN @sulliclaire

Across campus Monday afternoon, students, professors and staff alike banged their keyboards, thinking something was wrong with their computers.

But there wasn’t. Internet outages had swept campus, coming on the heels of days of lost internet at Southeastern Louisiana University.

For some, it was a headache. For others, an excuse to turn away from their emails. Some students in the Himes Hall testing center were in the middle of a midterm exam when the internet took a few hours off. They were forced to reschedule their tests—some grateful for the disruption, and others annoyed their stress had gone to waste.

Some professors took to their white boards for their lesson plans. Others received students at the door and sent them away.

Monday also brought brief power outages for some buildings on and off campus.

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All the while, Facebook pages and Snapchat group chats swelled with rumors of what caused the mysterious outages. These rumors grew when the internet briefly blipped again Tuesday morning.