Newsworthy?
If it lasts long enough, a power outage actually can have a crippling effect on a university, especially if it occurs at a library in which all of the books are accessible only through automated systems. Students and faculty can't do their research in a timely manner, and library staff would have to work extra hours either retrieving the materials from the basement by hand or filing extra requests for books from other libraries.
None of these issues were reflected in the article... and the power outage lasted only 2 hours. I'd expect this story on a local mailing list, but not on Wikinews.
Wikinews:Content guide doesn't prohibit the more localized news, though. And qualified editor has already looked at the article and approved it, so Wikinews seems to think it's ok... :/
But then again, the "Content Guide" does say that the significance of local news needs to be explained more fully to the international audience that Wikinews writes for. Perhaps I didn't do that quite well enough :(
I'm more surprised that they just spent $81m on a new library. It is a private university, I suppose, and since it's run like a corporation it shouldn't have any trouble with funds... unlike public libraries, which are closing all over the country. Do they open their membership to the public?