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→The Last Chapter: Buzzer Disabling Comes to Willipedia
In the [[Fall 2005|Fall of 2005]] a student inspired by other "Door Mischief" articles, wrote an article on Willipedia titled "How to Disable the Buzzing of A Propped Door." It contained advice that students in any number of buzzer-related predicaments could have used towards the common weal . . . or evil, I suppose.
The article remained in place a goodly time, but about three months and hundreds of hit later, its proud existence was cut short, when [[Jean Thorndike]], director of [[Security]], contacted [[Evan Miller ]] '06]], founder of Willipedia and head of the [[Wiki Board]] with a request to have a frank chat about the article, which she had grown concerned about.
Though a fan of the article, in the course of this discussion Evan was persuaded that the article would have to go, and that Jean had made assurances that students with good reason to have a door disabled could have it done so by above-board channels, which are currently listed in this article.
And so we, who know the buzzer and its dread history imtimately, watch and wait. Is this the beginning of a new era, ushering in new cooperation between the forces of Order and the members of their protectorate, in which the pressing concerns of safety, reasonable access, and sleep will be balanced? Or are we returned to the Dark Ages, when a herald of door buzzers will sound again through the [[Purple Valley]], and, deprived of the wisdom of generations past, the people will wait for a messiah to divine again the secret of door buzzer disabling?
