University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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To Study or Not to Study The question is: What else goes on in the library? 'T'he library: a place for researching, reading and studying the three R's. These were always the academic reasons for going to the library, but then, there are the three S’s: socializing, scamming and sleeping. Anyone who’s taken a social science class learned that humans are social animals. And although it was not its original intent, the library has been a popular haven for the UW social animals. In Odegaard Undergraduate Library, also known as OUGL, monitors make sure students keep the noise down and that the socializing doesn’t disturb others in the library. Frank Seabeck. a monitor for five years, doesn’t mind the socializing, saying. It would be difficult to keep the students from doing it. so I just tell them there’s a lot of competition on this campus and you ought to be studying fiercely. That usually quiets them down.” During Seabeck’s five years of monitoring, he has dealt with interesting situations. Once he threw out a group of young men who brought roosters into the library. Another time he came upon a lottery game with approximately $150 on the table. Seabeck told the participants to take it outside. Several times he found papers pasted over the study room windows and remarked, You never know what goes on behind closed doors. Along with socializing, the library is a favorite place to scam on people. A popular activity among students, scamming is the practice of checking out members of the opposite sex. Students had discovered long ago that the library was a convenient place to scam with the benefits of not being obvious. Friends of Yumi Nakamura found their convenient spot. My friends always want to go to the second floor of Odegaard because of all the cute guys up there. Sleeping students have always been a familiar library scene, especially in OUGL. Between classes, it provided students with comfortable chairs on which to catch a few Z’s, but according to Seabeck, students aren't the only ones using the library for napping. I see a lot of staff members come in just to catch up on their sleep. Somewhere through the years socializing, scamming and sleeping became part of the library scene. More than likely, more imaginative things have already happened or will happen in the library. By Usa Matsumura Kevin M. Lohman photos 24 library FORGET ECON. Butch Marley would rather hear the scoop from Jill Ichryama THE STAIRS TO HIGHER EDUCATION, where people go to socialize, scam, sleep, and even study.

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IT THE NEWSSTAND candy counter. Denine Anton helps a customer with a purchase.

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iCOND FLOOR OUGL « the perfect place to study and retax tor student Kelly McEl sin. Here. McElwem takes a break from Calculus 124 rEVE GLOVER experiments with the theory ot osmosis as he attempts to soak his iychotogy up through his arm library 25