The second outage was chosen to disrupt academic schedules less significantly, as it bridged over two class periods. During the second electrical outage, electricians discovered the source of the electrical disruption, which was a failed bushing in the electrical transformer serving Holloway [Hall].

The failure affected the entire campus-some lights went dim, some heating ventilation equipment turned off. The Physical Plant needed to open up and access the high voltage equipment. In order to do that, all the electricity needed to be turned off twice.