The DePauw | Friday, April 6, 2012

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FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012

Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper

VOL. 160, ISSUE 40

TEN YEARS LATER

Today, Lucy and Mason Hall still house students in North Quad. Rector Hall, which caught fire on April 7, 2002 (archive photo shown), was torn down and the current Rector Village was constructed. MARGARET DISTLER/THE DEPAUW

Memories that can’t be burned: Remembering Rector Hall By ELLEN KOBE ellen.kobe@thedepauw.com

Eric Aasen ’02 woke up in his dorm room as the sun rose, just as he had for the entirety of his senior year. Except this time, fire alarms sounded. Rector Hall, the 85-year-old residential building Aasen and a little over a hundred other upperclassmen lived in, caught fire on Sunday, April 7, 2002 — ten years ago this Saturday. The building, situated on North Quad in

between Lucy Rowland Hall and Mason Hall, has since been torn down and turned into Rector Village, a group of seven buildings with apartment-style units. The anniversary of this disaster marks both a time when the DePauw community rallied together and a radical shift in the way the university approached on-campus housing.

FIREFIGHTING

After ignoring the alarm for a few minutes, Aasen, groggy and confused, got out of bed and grabbed his ID badge. He walked down the stairs from his third-floor dorm room, out of the building and across the street, where groups of people gathered on the steps of the Union Building. There was no smoke or flames in sight,

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