The weekend before classes started at Eastern Kentucky University this semester, Clay Hall was flooded. Students accidentally damaged the emergency sprinkler system, resulting in a majority of residents being forced to move into a different dorm for the semester.
“We can’t control what happens to us, but we can control how we react, how we respond, and how we can take a situation and ultimately make it better,” says Brian Mackinen, the chief campus operations officer.
Mackinen tells me the school finished its demolition process on Wednesday and the whole process has cost the school around $525,000 so far…