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Dotters-Katz, Delashaw stump for 24-hour library

ASUO Exec-elects Sam Dotters-Katz and Johnny Delashaw have submitted a Senate over-realized request to allow Knight Library to operate 24-hours a day, five days a week with regular hours on the weekend. The request for the amount of $54,000 would fund the extended library hours for a one-year trial period, during which student usage will be monitored. According to the request, “should the data indicate the extended service is worthwhile, funding for institutionalization of the program will be solicited from a variety of sources, including the University Administration, the Library Administration and the ASUO.”

This seems like as good a use of the over-realized fund as any. Actually, it sounds better, since it will benefit the whole campus. I’d be a fan of 24-hour library service, seeing as how I’m a raging insomniac and procrastinator. The request also noted that a previous library study found that “demand for extended library hours come disproportionately from non-traditional students who are busy during the library’s daily hours.” So there you go: 24/5 library service would also help minority students. And if it doesn’t work out, well, we can just scrap it after the trial period. Wait, a sensible plan coming out of the ASUO? Pardon me, I have to go find something to be curmudgeony about.

  1. Insider says:

    The extended hours will be exactly like the extended hours during dead and finals weeks – so there will be a security guard at the door checking ids.

  2. Vincent says:

    Tom: Has the UO historically had a problem with stranglers??

  3. orwellduk says:

    An RFID SMARTDUK card is the mandatory final solution to your looming crisis.The GPS enabled card will allow you to study the whereabouts of all your groupy friends at all times. Your new UOAD electronic ticketing will further inform your smart lab rat u.o. test lifestyle/”education”.

  4. tom says:

    I have been talking about this since 2003, I hope it happens. There have been many times, especially during midterms that I needed to be in the library later than 12 and before 730. Make it happen!

    One way to keep stranglers out is to require your student ID after 12 midnight, I am pretty sure that is possible.

  5. Vincent says:

    Or just call it “Clancy Thurber’s”…

  6. orwellduk says:

    Lets stick with more realistic and conservative goals like letting the frats/barbys drink at home again.The car shops and organ donor lobby will be furious and may discontinue their payments to the UO foundation but who cares.Then we can investigate why the alternative transportation friendly(crawl home)beer garden in the EMU was closed.Then on too seizing control of the underutilized former UO presidents house next to Johnson hall. Name it Animal House 2 or Sudsy’s swamp.

  7. Chris Holman says:

    If you build it, they will come.

  8. Timothy says:

    For all five students who will be in the library after 10pm, I am sure this is a major boon.

  9. Sam Dotters-Katz says:

    Also, a huge amount of credit for this plan should go to Tom Bode who put in a lot of time and energy getting this proposal off the ground. Tom is basically the man.

  10. Sam Dotters-Katz says:

    It’s a good idea. But the problem is that the library can also be used by students from other higher educational facilities. In total, something like 30 schools can send their students to the Knight, like LCC and PSU and what not. So it would be real complicated and maybe impossible to get all the schools ID cards in sync with the way it is done at the Rec Center.

  11. Chris Holman says:

    Can’t they just enforce entry more…like the Rec Center with a card swipe? That does nothing for the self-pleasure fiends, but the homeless would be taken care of. Unless they have library cards too?

  12. 8 year olds dude says:

    The 4th floor masturbators will be thrilled.

  13. Vincent says:

    I’m pretty sure that’s already being considered.

  14. Sakaki says:

    From my previous experience being a worker bee in the Knight Library, this would be a pretty good idea. There is one big thing that needs to be done, though:

    There have to be more security people in there, walking around, and putting a foot in the homeless people’s asses (to paraphrase Red Forman).

  15. tham says:

    perfect. this will give me one more reason to never start work until the last minute humanly possible

  16. orwellduk says:

    Yeah man a 24 hour solar sustainability energy drink crack house of intellectual excellence. Well be able to keep up with the newly entrenched segregated athletes now in a new academic ARMS RACE!! Appoint Eyster immediately and form a public private focus group . Can a new state of the art CYBER CAFE be formed? Assign a task force immediately …… restart the 25 cent pizza slice sustainability duck buck laundering binge.

  17. Chris Holman says:

    Don’t most major universities have, at least, library hours that are more expansive than what is currently offered?

    Sounds like a great use of funds to me as well.

  18. human nature says:

    tight, I no longer need an apartment.

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