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...library??€™s atmosphere makes a Sisyphus of every present student. They strive for new knowledge even as the steady crush of clammy air and ambition-on-Adderall inexorably overwhelms them. Even as one seeks to comprehend Kierkegaard upon entering Lamont, he will leave knowing only that philosopher’s existential despair...
Most Harvard students are already aware of the library??€™s more salient shortcomings: the place is heated like a poinsettia nursery and the reading rooms prematurely compel students into the very cubicles that will erode their souls after their emigration to the office. More subtle drawbacks include an Escherian array of staircases, and the Language Resource Center, the only place on this continent to still rely heavily on cassette tapes...
...academic abattoir at Quincy and Mass Ave. nonetheless teems with students, pale and wretched beneath the library??€™s oppressive fluorescence. The overcrowding does wonders for the place’s Dantean ambiance, but it forces us to consider why people are so compelled to return to Lament (I hope this catches...
...that student sometimes encounters a guard who will rustle through his affairs with silent, fascist intensity, as if the library??€™s DVD collection housed something worth stealing. This, however, does come down to luck, and a portion of Lamont’s staff is quite friendly considering the amount of time they spend in the horrible building...
...While these financial constraints may delay the long-promised renovations, that delay does not justify taking the space away without so much as asking, and although we do not know all of the details, it is hard to believe that this is the best solution to the Fine Arts Library??€™s relocation. The gulf between decision-makers and those affected is reminiscent of the University’s oft-maligned decision to place a library administration building and a center for archival preservation on the prime real estate of 90 Mount Auburn Street instead of putting the space...