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As a non-engineering, non-law, non-architecture student, I
find it exceedingly difficult to find a quiet place to study
on campus after Mullins Library closes. Granted, this is not
the most dire issue facing our campus, but to a select few,
it is a big one.
Oh, sure, the new addition to the Student Union is open 24
hours a day, but while trying to study late one night last
week I went there and found myself smack-dab in the middle
of a paper-ball fight. And the noise is maddening, to say
the least. This is no good.
My question is this: why is it that engineering students have
24/7 access to quiet, cushy study rooms while liberal arts
students are forced to herd themselves into a room that is
not conducive to actual learning?
Again, if we were law students, we would be allowed the comfort
of not only a quiet, comfortable study area, but also as much
free coffee we could drink. You may think this is perfectly
natural, as law students require so much extra time to study,
but I call it an atrocity.
My proposal is this: Keep Mullins open all night. How hard
could that be? The need for staff would be minimal - one person
at the door and no more than two people at the desk to help
students. With all of the desperately poor students in our
university praying for work-study positions to open up, finding
willing workers would be no problem.
Where should the money should from to pay these nocturnal
research assistants? I'm sure our fearless leader, Chancellor
White can find the resources somewhere.
Opening up Mullins to students who would certainly make use
of it would not only solve the problem of a quiet place to
study late at night, but it would also give those people who
work immediately after school the opportunity to do their
necessary research in a more relaxed manner instead of in
ten minute intervals between classes.
We owe it to ourselves to use the resources available to us
(and also pay for) at our disposal.
I
am the Shadow, and somebody had to say it! 
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