Students said they saw and heard fireworks outside the Cokesbury Court Apartment Complex about 8:30 p.m. March 3.
This is the third time in three weeks that students have heard fireworks around the campus.
Beth Woodall, vocal music senior, was in a friend’s apartment in Cokesbury when she heard the fireworks.
“I was at Paige’s apartment and her roommate, Carly, stepped outside for a minute,” she said. “And I just hear this really loud pop, and Carly screamed, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, what is going on?’ I looked outside, and it was fireworks.”
Woodall said she was angry because she got scared. She said she called campus police immediately.
“I said, ‘someone is setting off fireworks again around Cokesbury apartments,’ and they said they would send someone right over,” she said.
Woodall also called campus police when fireworks were set off in the Oklahoma United Methodist Hall Courtyard on Feb. 22. She said hearing the fireworks and not knowing what they were was scary.
“I know I’m not the only one whose first instinct was to run into the bathroom and hide,” Woodall said.
Woodall said she was in Building 10 in the apartment complex. She had a clear view of the fireworks, which she said were coming from behind the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house.
Ike Schmiedel, biomedicine sophomore, lives in the Lambda Chi house. He said he was taking a nap when he was woken up by the fireworks.
“Later, there was another brother in our fraternity house, and I was like, ‘hey, did you guys hear a bunch of popping?’ and they were like, ‘yeah, it was some fireworks,’” he said.
Schmiedel said he was concerned when he was woke up.
“For a second, I thought, you know, maybe they were gunshots,” he said.
Schmiedel said Barrett Cahalan, dance junior, saw the fireworks coming from the apartment complex northwest of the Lambda Chi house.
Cahalan was unavailable for comment on March 4.
Woodall said people should think about what they are doing and how it affects others.
“I don’t know why people are doing this, especially with the recent climate with gun violence, it’s just not funny, it’s not a good prank to have when you scare people,” she said.
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