Books-and-Learning or Pure Power

The death of the written word must be near, because City College wants to build a power plant inside its library. Via the Columbia Spectator, the school wants to build a 16,700 square foot power plant in the 20,722 square foot Morris Raphael Cohen Library - an 80% reduction of space. The power plant would be used to support two new science facilities, which begs the question, why couldn't they build the power plant in the Science and Engineering Library?

Students and faculty are worried about crowding as well as health issues. Another weird thing about this: Because of the power plant's size, the school would have to move 200,000 books. City College's paper, The Campus, reports that books might be dumped because it would be expensive to relocate them. Sell them to Google!

And in downtown college news, some shredder-less NYU kids caused a room fire after burning receipts. The roommates thought the fire was out, so they went to watch 24 - only for the fire alarm to go off 10 minutes later.

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By Jen Chung in News on February 13, 2007 3:06 PM

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wha?

While science is more than necessary for the life of a college, how are books not?

200k books being chucked? yard sale, grad gift to students, as the article says, you could sell to google... or, you know, not build a power plant INSIDE the library.

As for the students who set the fire - f*ckin freshman. I remember standing outside NYU's dorms in my day because of jackasses like you. Don't own a shredder? rip them with your own hands... would've even been faster than burning.