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Final exams for the winter quarter are about to get underway at UC San Diego, a period so stressful students get together and let out a collective scream to cope with it all.
That’s not going away. But this year, there’s also some happy chatter. The university has acceded to student demands to restore 24-hour weekday access to Geisel Library, the heart of a school where most students are studying science, engineering, technology or medicine.
It was pushed by Associated Students, which represents the school’s 35,442 undergraduates — the largest number of undergrads in the University of California system.
“We appreciate the partnership and dialogue with Associated Students and campus leadership that made this change possible, and are grateful to Chancellor Khosla for ensuring we have the resources needed to deliver this service,” the library said in a statement.
The new 24-hour access will begin in the spring quarter.
Campus officials did away with 24-hour service two years ago to deal with budget cuts. Students have pressured them ever since to overturn the decision as it applies to the library’s second floor, a focal point of last-minute group cram sessions during finals.
The second floor is also known as a place to see and be seen. Or, as political science major Kaleb Truchan put it Tuesday, “It’s where you go to mingle — wink, wink, nudge, nudge.”
Truchan worked with William Simpson, president of Associated Students, to pu...
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