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Now that it’s midterm season, you may be just discovering that the campus libraries have made a few changes. Moffitt and the Main Stacks are now the only libraries open on Saturday (but at least they open at 9 a.m. instead of 2 p.m.) and finals 24-hour study hall is now a thing of the past. That’s right, no more Anoncon marathons or Main Stacks hookup fantasies.
Maybe students are still caught up in the spirit of protest due to the recent walkout or just really downright incensed that they can’t go to the Anthropology Library on Saturdays anymore (it is our favorite library on campus), but for whatever reason, the Anthropology Library has become the location for a 24-hour “study in.”
The tagline for the event is “last time we walked out … this time we’ll study in.” Students are encouraged to arrive between 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. and “bring a pillow.” There’s gonna be a faculty teach-in, spoken word poetry, an open discussion on the “issue of privilege and inequality in our struggle” and space to study for midterms if you can read through the noise.
We’re not sure if the “study in” is a protest against the closing of the smaller libraries on Saturday or just a continuation of the struggle against the budget cuts in general. The flyer also doesn’t mention whether you have to stay for the full 24 hours or not. Bring a few granola bars, just to be on the safe side.
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Tags:AnonCon, anthropology library, Main Stacks, midterm season, Moffitt, walkout
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Oct 9, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Yes–this event is both a continuation of the protest against budget cuts and the closing of most libraries on Saturdays and restriction of hours, as those budget cuts have been the justification in restricting the time for using UC Berkeley’s smaller libraries. Additionally, there are many books that are only available in the Anthropology library and the many other libraries that are now closed every Saturday, and the taking over of this particular library is to be seen as a general statement about how the money UC Berkeley does have, despite the cuts, is used or not used (as Professor Paul Rabinow said, for example, in the opening teach-in at this event today: do you wonder about why the building project at Boalt nor that of the athletic facility next to the stadium have not been halted in the midst of our “budget crisis?”). So come out and support our mission to make it clear that the UC budget should be used to fund the education of UC students!! We’ll be here till 4pm tomorrow!