All in favor of allowing the library to be open for 24 hours say “I.”
It looks like SFA is encouraging students to speak now or forever hold their peace. A petition was held by Surfin’ Steve last week allowing students to fight for their right to be studious. The library currently closes at midnight each night and it puts a strain on students who treat every test like it’s finals week.
For some, studying in the library is more efficient than studying at home because there’s less distraction. One can’t possibly stay focused if they’re lying comfortably in bed. What happens next? You wake up five hours later confused about life. If your TV is around, the access is too easy for it to be turned on, and then everything instantly becomes interesting during study time versus when you have free time and nothing is on. Moreover, if you live in a dorm and/or have loud roommates, it makes it difficult to focus. And being that a large amount of students have the most time to study effectively at night, it only makes sense for the library to be at one’s disposal.
Time is of the essence; study resources should never be a convenience issue. This means the library.
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If the library remained open throughout the night, it would allow students to adjust their schedules. Many students spend the first half of their college career just learning how to create an effective schedule designed just for them, let alone actually sticking to it and maintaining it. Upperclassmen may have jobs and more often than not it will require them working a late shift. Students are humans too, not robots. If students don’t have to revolve their schedule around library hours, it could surely lesson the load.
For instance, if the library wasn’t an issue for time’s sake because it’s always available, students could be more accountable of their sleep, class schedule, work and extra curricular. Again, the library is a main study resource.
However, the library being open 24 hours will inevitably require an all-night staff which requires more hire and more pay (because who’s going to do that for free? No one). There’s more than likely several additional factors in which opening the library all night will be a dilemma; those issues, however, are unknown to the general public.
If students are granted all night sessions in the library, it is also unknown when this will take effect. If the petition is declined, students will have to finesse and keep pushing just as the classes before them have done.