By Stephanie Vosk and Michael Naughton

When afterHOURS manager Jacqueline Indrisano woke up to a puddle of water in her North End apartment Monday morning, she did not expect to find the same thing at work.

At around 8:45 a.m., a 4-inch sprinkler pipe burst over the on-campus nightclub, causing water damage in the kitchen and Indrisano’s office, and forcing the Curry Student Center to close.

“I came from water, walked through water, into water,” Indrisano said. “I’m going to build an ark.”

The club itself had little damage. While the rugs were soaked, the newly-installed dance floor and the food preparation areas were spared.

Most of the damage occurred in the dish washing area of the kitchen, the stairwells and Indrisano’s office, said Bob Grier, the Director of Operations of the student center.

As water dripped down from the ceiling onto a computer and printer in her office, Indrisano was able to get the money out of the safe and spare her paper contracts.

“Things that would have been worse for the wear got rescued,” Indrisano said.

With water dripping into the Chartwells kitchen, Director of Food Services Mike Vigna was worried that the water might not be clean.

“One of my concerns at first was that it might be something from one of the bathrooms and we’d be very concerned and probably have to sanitize the whole kitchen,” Vigna said.

The water, however, was clean, just as it was Sunday when a pipe burst in Speare Hall, where the Chartwells catering service is operated.

The damage on this occasion occurred only in an adjacent storage room, Vigna said.

Associate Dean and Director of the Curry Student Center Gail Olyha blames the recent water damages on the unusually cold weather. Grier said the sprinkler pipe burst after an ice plug thawed out and expanded.

She said, however, that closing the student center was “more of an inconvenience than anything.”

Some students felt the inconvenience as they were prevented from cutting through the center, grabbing their breakfast in the food court or going about their usual business in the many student offices housed in the center.

“It’s just a hassle to walk around kindof because you didn’t know where you were going really,” said Vivian Nguyen, a sophomore psychology major.

When Nguyen arrived early for class and tried to get into the student center, she was told it was closed.

“I just went to the library,” she said.

The student center reopened at around 10:30 Monday morning, but afterHOURS remained closed until Tuesday.