I can’t decide if This Sun-Times Article is sad, or inspiring, but students are donating time to a volunteer program that will restore some of the hours sliced at ISU’s library because of state budget cuts over the last two years.
They say The pilot program will keep the library open 3-1/2 hours longer most days, but student and campus leaders say it offers a sad commentary on the state of financial affairs at public universities these days.
About 40 student volunteers will each donate five hours a week stocking shelves and doing other odd jobs, which will free up paid student workers for extended hours, Tucker said. The library will close at 2 a.m., rather than 11:30 p.m., next spring and will open an hour earlier at 6 a.m.
Bravo for the students
As an alum of ISU, I’m really tickled at what the students are doing. It’s sort of a hobby for alums and currents students to bash ISU, a large, state, midwestern, not-very-competitive state, for being for being a model of mediocrity. ISU still can’t live down its infamy as the site of the 1984 Beer Riots that made Time and Newsweek. I’m glad to see this making news outside of Bloomington-Normal.
It’s also a pretty subversive way of illustrating the budget crisis in Illinois.
Speaking of models of mediocrity…
don’t read my comment too closely. Spell check doesn’t cover just plain sloppy writing. Must remember that comments can’t be edited.