As law enforcement officials swarmed a dorm room building at the University of Central Florida Monday, student safety was of paramount concern. Police say James Seevakumaran had two guns, hundreds of ammunition rounds and four explosive devices in his room.

Students were sent to the Student Union when Tower 1 was evacuated at 1 a.m. The students were fed, and counselors were present.

But a question arose at Monday afternoon's news conference: aren't dorm rooms checked for that sort of thing?

"Dorm rooms are checked periodically for that type of thing, from illegal weapons to alcohol to other materials that are not allowed there," said UCF spokesman Grant Heston. "But ultimately part of the responsibility lies with the individual to not break the law."

Some UCF students say "periodically" is not often enough.

"Once a semester… It’s not often at all," said student Treasure Leach. "And, they just look in there."

"It’s not like they’re really searching through your belongings to figure out what type of person you are. They’re literally just coming in to see…'wow, there’s no alcohol exposed and he’s not doing drugs in his room. Alright, let’s go and check the next one'," said student Lonnie White. "Look at how many students there are here.”

At 60,000 students, UCF is the second largest campus in the country. Tower 1, where the incident took place, is similar to Tower 2, where third-year students Treasure Leach and Lonnie White live. On average, there are about four students to a unit.

“We could be so cautious and lock our doors every night because we really don’t know who we’re living with," Leach said.

Leach and White say it’s easy to just be another number on campus but that anonymity is not a good thing.

We did reach out to the University for a response to how roommates are paired together and if background checks are done. We’re awaiting answers on that and room checks.

“It’s just weird to think that somebody can be living next door to you and you don’t really know what they have in their room," White said. "That’s a scary feeling."

An email and text alert went out at 2 a.m., forcing the evacuation and shutdown of the campus. One thing those students say the university did well is keeping them informed.

But students can request not to get the text alert.

Two students thought it was a St. Paddy’s Day prank and had no idea what was going on. The fire alarm went off for about an hour.

Sophomores Wilishia Plant and Jordan Mensah said they hid in their dorm room for hours because they got no direction from anyone. Once the alarm stopped, they thought it was okay to go back in. So, they did but they knew something wasn’t quite right.

“So we were outside in the garage for a whole hour.Then we went back in the building. I saw a couple of other girls go back in before us. So, we didn’t know,” said Willishia Plant.