According to Donald Tucker, Assistant Director of Operations for the University Union, the “bell tower” that can be heard chiming on the hour throughout the campus is actually a synthesized machine.

The time and volume are programmed into the computer, which is located in the University Union.

The synthesized bells that sound the hour are broadcast to the campus through speakers at the top of the University Union.

Richard Schiffers, Associate Director of the University Union, said that the system changed over to a computer years ago, but was originally controlled by a series of actual bells.