Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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DANIEL FIELD PATRICIA LABALME As an alternative to the crowded dorms, some stu- dents have been known to be- come scholars-in-residence at the famed Burgess-Carpenter Library. The huge comfortable chairs provide a great place for resting your weary frame. If the social scene at the lib- rary should fall below par, the stacks provide one with suita- ble entertainment. If you be- come bored with reading the seemingly endless array of books, one can always play dodge the perverts . And thanks to the fine delivery service of The never leave the congenial atmosphere of West End, one need Burgess-Carpenter. The craziest thing about fi- nals week is not that one does a semester ' s work in three days, but rather that one does any work at all. Could it be the tension that keeps us up at all hours of the night, eating Lido cookies and talking about childhood incidents which have made us obsessive. (It doesn ' t matter what we are obsessive about, just so we are obsessive.) Those fools throwing frisbee in South Field . . . Who would believe that they have three incom- pletes and five days till graduation? So you think I am kidding? So you point to the fact that the College Library is open twenty-four hours a day during the last week. Furthermore, students are, in fact, found in the lib- rary at 3:00 A.M. Yes, it is true. They sit at the long tables, sur- rounded by coffee cups and Tastee Cakes, laughing, talk- ing, flirting with one another. And when the band marches in with a round of Who Owns New York? what is one to think?

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Top to bottom: HUBERT DORIS PATRICIA CARPENTER PETER SCHUBERT ORIENTAL STUDIES JOHN MESKILL BARBARA MILLER The all-nighter. At least once a semester, even the most sedate and conservative of students can be found trip- ping on No-Doz and caffeine. After freshman year, all- nighters are a way of life; the only hope for finishing papers and passing exams. After three or four in the morning, you no longer want to go to sleep. Your eyes are wider than usual, although ringed with red and bulging a bit. By 7:00 A.M. you are hyperactive, vacuuming your room before the Big Test with a silly grin on your face. After the test you try to sleep, but to no avail — you ' re really hopping now and muttering strange epithets. Towards evening you slow a bit, drag your feet a lit- tle, and suddenly crash, falling into a dead slumber for the next couple of days. 29