Star Tribune

Byline: Mary Jane Smetanka ; Staff Writer

The three boys who crept into a new science building at the University of Minnesota-Duluth last month intended to do damage. Not content just to turn on dozens of faucets in the building, they connected tubing to the taps and ran the tubing past sinks so water would pour all over the floors. Pour it did, pooling on floors and soaking walls and ceilings for 36 hours. By the time it was done, the $33 million building had sustained an estimated $8 million in damage. Two months after they toured the nearly completed Swenson Science Building, a Board of Regents committee on Thursday saw pictures of the damage done on the ...