LIBRARY CARRELS KILLED Students Program for Understanding 
     
     Drinking (SPUD) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Library carrels will no longer 
     
     be assigned to students for a 
     
     semester. The senate. library 
     
     committee met last Tuesday, 12 
     
     September 1988 to discuss the 
     
     problems associated with as- 
     
     signed carrels in the library. The 
     
     noise associated with students 
     
     and assigned carrels often pre- 
     
     vents serious studiers from get- 
     
     ting much done. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The committee decided that 
     
     “all carrels in the Robertson Li- 
     
     brary will be open to all library 
     
     users on a first come first served 
     
     basis.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' Many students use the library 
     
     carrel as a sit-down locker. The 
     
     committee is now looking at ways 
     
     to provide a replacement for the 
     
    
   
   
    
     assigned carrels in the library, but 
     
     no firm plans have been made. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Another problem addressed 
     
     by the committee is the lack of 
     
     a ‘quick work area’ in the library 
     
     for students. If two or three stu- 
     
     dents need 15 minutes to work on 
     
     a problem,- they currently have 
     
     the pit as their only place to meet 
     
     in the library building short of re- 
     
     serving a study room. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The committee, chaired by 
     
     Professor John Smith, decided 
     
     that “two study rooms (room 
     
     202, 203) will be open for sponta- 
     
     neous discussion to a maximum of 
     
     1 hour. Conference room B, be- 
     
     hind the circulation desk, will be 
     
     available to students by request 
     
     at, the circulation desk.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     by Ellen Perry 
     
    
   
   
    
     Students Program for Under- 
     
     standing Drinking, (SPUD) is a 
     
     new program set up by the Stu- 
     
     dent Union to promote responsi- 
     
     ble drinking. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tony Doyle, coordinator of 
     
     the program, says its the main 
     
     goal is to teach students that if 
     
     they are going to drink, they can 
     
     do so without abusing alcohol. 
     
    

    
     “Students should know they 
     
    
   
   
    
     can have fun without feeling they 
     
     have to drink excessively.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     The idea came from other 
     
     universities which already imple- 
     
     mented it. Doyle was hired by the 
     
     Student Union in June. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Some of the ideas he has in 
     
    
   
   
    
     -|mind include an Alcohol Aware- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ness Day, as well as possibly hav- 
     
     ing a dry event on Sundays at the 
     
     Panther Lounge. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Doyle says the program is 
     
     very much needed since studies 
     
    
   
   
    
     | have shown that 80% of students 
     
    
   
   
    
     drink and 10% of these suffer neg- 
     
     ative effects from alcohol. Doyle 
     
     noted that so far there has been 
     
     little student feedback, but it is 
     
     early and he expects little nega- 
     
     tive reaction to it. 
     
    
   
   
    
     footwear and clothing 
     
     for the life you want to live. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Patagonia, Woolrich, Sierra Designs, Far West, 
     
     Sun Ice, Di Trani, Nike, Vasque, Brooks, Reebok, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rockport, Sporto ‘Duckies’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     and much more. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “We are not telling people not 
     
     to drink; we are simply suggest- 
     
     ing ways to do it responsibly.”