Goldfarb said he was impressed with his housemates' response.

"Everybody has been really great," Goldfarb said. "People know her and like her. It was a heart-warming response. We really came together as a house."

Goldfarb said that he has approached 50 to 60 students for donations, and approximately 40 stu- dents have pledged an average of five dollars each.

He expects to amass a few hundred dollars by the end of his search.

A Real Fire Alarm

The fire surprised Currier residents late last Friday night.

Kirk said she was attending a jazz performance downstairs when the fire alarm went off. Then she and other Currier residents proceeded to the lobby to await further instructions.

Many Currier students said they thought the warning was a false alarm since they have heard many over the past few months.

"Every two or three weeks there's something like this," Gilbert resident Shahm M. Al-Wir '98 said. "We're not used to a real fire."

An electronic panel next to the Currier bell desk shows where the alarm has gone off.

Al-Wir said the panel often indicated the fourth floor of Gilbert--Kirk's floor--as the origin of Currier's alarms, so Friday evening didn't seem very unusual at first.

After about 15 minutes of confusion and waiting in the lobby, a fire-fighter entered and shouted, "get out of here; this is a real fire," according to Currier resident Lorena E. Duarte '98.

The assembled mass of students went outside at approximately 11:30 p.m. and were not allowed back into the building for more than an hour.

Currier residents looked on as firefighters worked to dissipate the smoke, break the window in Kirk's room, and dispose of burned papers and books