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...Provost a announcement followed agitation by 500 freshmen petitioners, the Union Committee, and the Student Council. All insisted that facilities after Lamont's 9.45 p.m. closing hour are inadequate...
When the bright glare of publicity focused on the inequities of applying Lamont's 9 p.m. check-out time to commuters, library officials uttered a quiet tut-tut, but that was all. As early as October, the Student Council presented them with a solution: allow commuters to take out one of every five conies of reserved books at five o'clock, these books being marked specifically for non-residents. But after two months, both the books and the ratio plan are still shelved...
...librarians also fear that resident students in the library will keep reading the books marked for commuters past five o'clock. By this reasoning, why not keep all the books inside the library? With its high fine rate, Lamont has considerable success in extracting its books from bleary eyed students at nine each morning. With similar penalties within the library itself, the staff could easily force residents to return commuters' books at five...
...because it would give commuters "special privileges." A commuting student may be forgive an unamused smile when he hears "commuter" and "special privileges" linked. Those commuters who must retrace two to five miles after dinner for their books have a considerable inconvenience, not a privilege, in their use of Lamont...
Partially as a result of such protest, and partially because the library's donor, Thomas W. Lamont '92, obliged with funds, the University merely decided to uproot, rather than destroy, the yellow wooden structure. Since 1947 therefore it has squatted between the Union and the Faculty Club, and, provided with a permanent hostess and various pieces of period furniture, has housed an estimated three to four hundred visitors to the University--all of them official guests of varying status...