At the circulation desk, on Wednesday November 10th, I was greeted not with the normal glum
“how may I help you” from the staff behind the desk, but rather with a quite excited and frazzled
“…so I bet you’ve already heard.” Curious and quite interested at this point seeing as DH Hill is quite possibly the most boring place on campus, I responded with,
“heard about what?”
This is when he told me about a “naked guy” who was running around on the ninth floor in the book stacks “throwing books everywhere.”
Odd as it may be, this student who turned the library upside down Wednesday night is just like us. Going through the motions of school life, dealing with the stresses of papers, projects, work, family, friends, change, pressure and trying to keep a clear head along the way.
So maybe sometimes we crumble. We snap. We question ourselves, our ability, our potential and our purpose.
Dazed and confused, though we may be, in our own way at some point in time we have all done our own rendition of stripping and ripping hundreds of books off of their rightful place on those stagnant shelves.