Word: lamonte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While an undergrad or untitled grad student complains to the workers at the circulation desk about Lamont raising its overdue fines by 150 percent this year, an Officer can hold books for months without accumulating any fines...
...night when I was working at Lamont's circulation desk, a middle-aged man returned eleven books that were three months overdue. I took his books and smiled sadistically, thinking about how high his fine would...
...crimson I.D. card labelled "OFFICER." I was fuming. Maybe someone I knew needed one of those books for some admittedly inconsequential undergraduate assignment like, say, a senior thesis. As I glared at him, the man hastily explained that he had come by many times before, but Lamont was always closed...
...first, I thought he was insulting my intelligence, but then I remembered that Lamont is rarely open. One might assume that at a world-renowned research university, the undergraduate library would remain open twenty-four hours a day. But Lamont closes at I a.m. on most school nights, midnight on Thursdays, 10 p.m. on Fridays, and 5 p.m. on Saturdays. And still--with these stingy hours--Lamont is open longer than any other library on campus...
WITH the limited schedule, it isn't fair that undergraduates have to spend most of their extra time at Lamont trying to check out books. As grad students accustomed to the luxuries of Widener slowly learn, FAS has not yet deemed undergrads worthy of high technology (HOLLIS notwithstanding...