This past year the University renovated the smaller half of the PAC computer labs, and I admit that it is now well organized and a nicer environment to work in than the unorganized space that previously existed. However, the University decided to avoid the complaints of students (and one Argus Wespeak by Steven Maroti) for more computer lab availability. While I should be writing a paper for tomorrow, I discovered something new. While I was taking a cigarette break from my writing, when I tried to reenter, I found myself locked out. I was previously aware that they closed to new computer lab space, which I assumed was to preserve the “newness” of it, but what I just discovered was that now, ALL of PAC lab is supposed to closed by midnight and open at 8 a.m. I know for a fact that they have not been closing the larger side of PAC because I am in it right now and it is 3 a.m. and have previously arrived at 5 a.m., but what they have done is tried to lock students out so that no new people can come back inside. Frankly, this is outrageous. They have now limited the university of 3,000 students to really only one twenty-four hour lab… Apparently, the school does not want its students to study.
I live in a small room that is sometimes stifling and I rely on the computer labs to offer an alternative studying space. They already close Olin Info Commons, Kek lab, SciLi lab, Language Lab, and the CFA media lab at 10 p.m., 11 p.m., 12 a.m. or 2 a.m. HAS lab is apparently open 24 hours, but where is that anyway? I believe it’s in the part of the Science Center that they will be knocking down anytime soon. Is the University really so cheap, that they do not want to keep any nice facilities open? Do they really want students to fail? Do I really pay over $50,000 a year to go to a university that decides to leave only one (or two) computer labs open to a student body of 3,000 people?
Either open more labs, or build more rooms at a larger size so that freshmen aren’t sleeping three per room and so that people can study in a non-claustrophobic bedroom.
– Another curmudgeon from the Wesleyan student body
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