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...sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...
...current leaders of the Undergraduate Council presided over their final meeting—and passed a position paper supporting Lamont as a 24-hour library—before giving way to tearful, emotional goodbyes last night in Emerson Hall...
...Trips to Lamont reading room. It is common knowledge that work cannot be completed here—and yet we go anyway. While students in the basement and upper floors actually write papers and do course reading, students in the reading room divide their time between cruising freshman, catching up with old acquaintances, asking people to turn off their cell phones, answering calls in the stairwell and downloading pornography on wireless. And yes, for all these reasons students are lobbying to keep Lamont open 24 hours...
Getting home at night has not always been so easy. As recently as December 2003, nighttime shuttle bus service ended as early as 12:30 a.m. on weekdays—clearly too early considering Lamont Library is open until 12:45 a.m. and students routinely do homework together well past then. After administrators made the overdue decision last spring to extend shuttles into the early morning, low late-night ridership recently led University Hall to consider scaling back service to 3 a.m. or 2 a.m. But faced with a volley of student e-mails imploring them to keep the shuttles...
...students at Cornell, Stanford, and Dartmouth are able to take advantage of study space 24-hours a day, Harvard students are too often left out in the cold (literally) when their libraries close. HCL must make a genuine effort to rectify the situation by leaving its main undergraduate library, Lamont, open around-the-clock...