ASUO Exec-elects Sam Dotters-Katz and Johnny Delashaw have submitted a Senate over-realized request to allow Knight Library to operate 24-hours a day, five days a week with regular hours on the weekend. The request for the amount of $54,000 would fund the extended library hours for a one-year trial period, during which student usage will be monitored. According to the request, “should the data indicate the extended service is worthwhile, funding for institutionalization of the program will be solicited from a variety of sources, including the University Administration, the Library Administration and the ASUO.”

This seems like as good a use of the over-realized fund as any. Actually, it sounds better, since it will benefit the whole campus. I’d be a fan of 24-hour library service, seeing as how I’m a raging insomniac and procrastinator. The request also noted that a previous library study found that “demand for extended library hours come disproportionately from non-traditional students who are busy during the library’s daily hours.” So there you go: 24/5 library service would also help minority students. And if it doesn’t work out, well, we can just scrap it after the trial period. Wait, a sensible plan coming out of the ASUO? Pardon me, I have to go find something to be curmudgeony about.

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