The problem with running the slave unit of those Simplex clock systems by itself; is that unless you have the master clock, you can't really set the time on the thing by itself.
At least one of the ones I saw in my old school (some professor had it hanging on a nail on the wall in his office and connected to a 110 volt socket via a chopped off piece of extension cord) didn't have a time-set knob on it.
The prof said he had to wait until it was about the right time that was showing on the clock and then he'd plug it in.
So...unless the students at Syracuse knew how to trigger the setting mechanism on these clocks, I wonder if they were probably stealing them just out of mischief?
EDIT: Couldn't whoever did this knockup of a job have just used a replacement female cord connector? Just as non-code but at least it would have been a bit...safer than an exposed in-wall receptacle.
[This message has been edited by SvenNYC (edited 10-19-2005).]
