Posted on 07/24/2019 11:38:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
lyson Bender, who is going into her junior year at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, relied heavily on fans placed around her student housing to keep her cool during a recent heat wave.
Still, the temperature in her on campus apartment crept toward 91 degrees over the weekend.
Students staying at University Court over the summer are doing so without air conditioning, said Susan Isola, director of media relations at the university. Students are not permitted to use window AC units, she said, and are instead encouraged to use fans.
When it gets really hot, Bender, who is studying biology, has to leave the building. But with the library only open until 5 p.m., she is often searching for new places to study, including lecture halls and the on-campus game room.
Bender’s boyfriend, Brandon Reitz, 19, of McKeesport, said, “It’s totally inhumane to be in there.” While Reitz does not live in the building, he often visits Bender, but added when temperatures spike he tends to stay away due to the heat.
“There’s no air conditioning, and they don’t allow us to have portable air conditioners … but they tell us to run six or seven fans in the dorm room,” Reitz said. “She has gone to the director of housing and has emailed the president about the issue. No one seems to really care. They all say, ‘Oh, put fans in. It’ll blow the air around.’ No, not when its 100 degrees outside.”
Over the weekend, the heat index was slated to reach 104 degrees, according to the National Weather Service, caused by temperatures in the lower 90s and dew points in the lower 70s. Currently mild temperatures are expected to rise to the mid to upper 80s again beginning Friday and remain through early next week.
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And somebody actually considers this NEWS??
Here's a News Flash for Yinz. I grew up in a house without air conditioning, and believe it or not, it got up over 90 there many, many times over the course of umpteen Summers.
And yet somehow I survived.
And anyhow, I thought that the carbon footprint left by air conditioning was destroying the planet n'at.
Snowflakes on a 90 degree day.
Grew up in a farmhouse in Iowa surrounded by cornfields. Can’t tell you the number of July/August nights spent feeling the beads of sweat tracing a line down my chest.
Kids, be grateful that you are being given a chance to lower your carbon footprint.
To be fair, none of Greensburg has AC. Or plumbing. Or electricity. At least judging from the exteriors of houses.
Good heavens!
We didn’t even have AC when I was a kid!
We barely had electricity!..................
I placed my bed next to an open window so I could put my head in the window sill.................
I was in a college dorm during summer school, with no air conditioning.
I lived in an old apartment building in Chicago for a number of years, a building without air conditioning.
Air conditioning is very nice but there was a time when people didn’t have air conditioning, and they somehow survived summer.
I remember the WWII barracks I lived in at NAS Millington, Tennessee in August. Those kids would die.
“Students are not permitted to use window AC units,“
So buy one of these:
We have one. Works great.
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Ya, nobody worked or went to school in the heat before 100 years ago.....
Pansies.
I lived w/o air conditioning (both my apartment AND my car) in the deep south for 3 years when I was in college. Couldn’t afford it.
Went to college where the old dorms had no a/c. Yeah it sucked on the few 100 degree days, but what a story to tell: we went into the shower buck naked, went into the bed completely wet, and if you fell asleep in 5 minutes you were good for a few hours. If not, by 10 minutes your hair, sheets, and body were bone dry and you had to get up and do it again.
It was hot, particularly for these yankees who rarely feel real heat... but it wasn’t life threatening as long as you stayed hydrated and had ventilation.
I do not know, if the Pitt Greensburg campus dorms have windows that open... Many newer buildings do not have windows that open, for energy efficiency. And if you have ever been in a room with no windows lack of AC can indeed turn that into a serious situation as the building and rooms will get much hotter than the outside air.
If their windows don’t open, that stops ventilation and can be a problem. If you live in a city, look at the buildings built before AC and those After... those built after, you do not want to be stuck in if the HVAC system stops working for an extended period of time in a heat wave.
90 degrees. Lol. Poosies.
What a bunch of pansies. I don’t know anyone who went to a college with air conditioned dorms.
I actually did not have central air in my current house until about six years ago, after the furnace died. Since I had to eat the cost of a new furnace adding the AC unit was not that much more.
I don’t actually run it a whole lot though. I once worked in an office where the boss kept the thermostat at 64 all Summer. Ever since then heavy AC tends to give me a lot of respiratory problems.
Not even 100 years. I went to college in the late 70's and we didn't have AC in the dorms.
Ah, I am reminded of a summer I spent at JMU in Harrisonburg VA. Some guys from Michigan brought down a big window unit and put it inisde their open doorway at night and duct taped a sheet over the rest of the opening.
The rest of the dorm pitched a fit because it filled the hallway with hot air.
Well, it ain’t a window unit so there is that. Would they be able to figure out to dump the condensation?
“Would they be able to figure out to dump the condensation?”
I did. But I’ve never been to college so......
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