I was turned away from a nearly-empty Gaylord Hall computer lab today for failure to enroll in one of their many fine courses this semester. There were no less than 30 empty workstations at the time. The idea of shutting students out of a learning resource like that for the exclusive use of one college is contrary to the entire concept of a university.

The student worker behind the counter was kind enough to inform me that they “pay extra money” for these resources, as though my $1,700 and change for 7 credit hours is not enough to pay my way around here. My architecture class meets in that building; apparently I’m cool enough to sit in their swanky chairs, but I’m going to get my math major funk all over their Macs. She points out that JMC is kind enough to provide some stand-up kiosks throughout the building for me to do my research on. Super!

The OU Library system would not put up with this kind of discrimination. I can receive the same assistance from the Journalism library that I can get at the Math & Chemistry library. Maybe OU IT should take a leaf from their book, and not acquiesce to some clown’s irrational demand to keep ordinary university students out of their labs.

Sincerely,

Nick Brooke

Mathematics Senior