We've got demand for additional services. The architecture lab lost 47 percent of its hours, and is no longer open 24 hours. Channing Rollo, a political science and sociology junior, said she went to the University of Southern California two years ago, and they had 24-hour labs there. I may have 20 papers this semester, and I don't necessarily want to get them done during the day. Sophomore Stu Jackson, who was working during the day last week to complete his assignments, agrees.
Midnight is the latest time a lab is currently open.
I'd come in at 3 a.m. to print something when my home computer was going nuts, and there'd be 15 people waiting for computers. Hale said the minimum wage increase, higher operating costs and students not being charged for e-mail all contribute to the lack of funds for extended hours. Capaldi said students have other free services this year that they were charged for last year, including e-mail, Internet access and disk storage. All rights reserved. No portion of The Alligator Online may be reproduced without the written consent of an officer of Campus Communications, Inc.