When I was in college and the thermostats were turned down at Jimmy Carter's request, our department secretaries used to fill their coffee cups with ice and set them on top of the thermostats. It kept the heat running more so that normal people could work. Creative people can usually find ways around laws.
Yep. Take a paper towel, soak it in cold water, drape it over the thermostat. Works like a charm. We used that in high school in the early '80s, but that wasn't an energy-crisis thing...that was a 1950s high school building that leaked cold air like a sieve!
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When I was in high school (only 3 years ago) We would place wet paper towels on the thermostats because every room was diferent in temps. We had rooms over 80 and rooms around 60.
It was maily beause we had a boiler from the 1930s which still had a blast door and was converted to natural gas.
Amazlingly it tooks years to get this fixed but we had new computers and updated software every single year.
Because wearing a sweatshirt in class was tooooo burdensome?