Burnt Orange Report

Why that's just terrible. Get those guys back in session so they can raise my taxes so we can pay for UT students to procrastinate. If there's nothing I'd like more, it'd be to get a second job so I can afford to underwrite the lollygagging of the UT student body.

What are you guys doing studying at that hour anyway? You supposed to be on 6th Street then.

Seriously, maybe that tack will work with students, but for the people footing the bill, I don't think you'll find a whole lot of sympathy.

It doesn't hurt the lazy students as much as it does the poor. Many students have jobs that force them to do school work late at night, and many of those students don't own computers and are forced to use the university's.

What do you mean poor? When I went to UT I had a job, everybody I know had jobs. We weren't poor. We just didn't have any money.

Let's say you have 15 hours/week of class. And you work 40. There are 168 hours in a week. Let's say you sleep 6 hours/night.

168 hours total

- 15 hours class
- 40 hours work
- 42 hours sleep

= 71 hours

You've got 71 hours/week to get to the library. Eat on the run.

The time management in college is good prep for the real world where peole aren't interested in reasons why someone can't get something done. They just want results.

And back in my day, we didn't have your fancy-schmancy computers, we typed! :->

I like the way you divide up your hours, but its under the assumption that you have a nice clean schedule and it's still under the assumption that the library is open 24 hours. Let's go with this example:

Let's say the new library is open from 7am to 12pm and on weekends, 10am-6pm Saturdays and 12pm to 12am on Sundays: that gives you a total of 105 hours out of the 168 hours during the week that you have for the library

Since we only have 105 hours for offical library time, let's use your example how many real hours students have for the library if we consider your example:

105 hours minus your 40 hour job= 65 hours left

65 hours minus sleep time (6 hours)= 30 hours left

30 hours minus class time (15 hours) 15 hours left

This is the dilemma we students face at schools like UTEP and even my previous school at the Univ. of New Mexico (go lobos) who have limited time for the library and are non traditional students with families and jobs. UT was very lucky to have their 24 hour library and its a travesty that a school like UT must lower their library time.

Before Mr. Booth responds, i do have a couple of corrections (this is what happens when you are math deprived)

I did the same mistake as Mr. Booth did, I was under the assumption that the library was open 24 hours, so sleep time needs to be taken out.

But I will go back to say that it is under the assumption that you have a nice, clean, orderly schedule, which we students don't.

I'll go by day:

Each day Monday through Friday the Library is open 17 hours (7am to 12): Now lets say, on MWF, you have 3 classes plus 6 hours of work, would leave you with 8 hours of library time, and again depending on your personal life.

On Tues. TH: You have 2 classes plus 6 hours of work, this would leave you with five hours of library time:

MWF= 24 hours (or 8 hours per day)
TH= 12 hours (or 6 hours per day)
Sat= 7 hours
Sun= 12 hours

Which should equal to 55 hours of library time, not 71. Again, under the assumption that a student will be glad to wake up at 7am.

I'm only a political sci major, who needs simple math.

So, if my choices are:

1. Pay more taxes
2. UT students have to get up at 7:00 am

I'll take 2. please.

You should go for choice three: Vote for Democrats and push for an increase in the higher education budget.

Rob,
I wish that you were a Republican elected official, because you would make it so easy to recruit Democrats with that comment. Obviously, it's been awhile since your college days, because every college graduate ought to respect the art of procrastination. It's an art form, and I've gotten very good at it over the past two years.

I just received my Masters Degree at Southwest Missouri State University. Our library closed at midnight Monday-Thursday. It closed at 7pm on Friday and Saturday nights. It never crossed my mind that the library should be open longer. I knew I had to get there when it was open. This sounds like students have gotten use to a benefit that is nice but unnecessary.

Byron,

Well I am an all-powerful precinct chair in Harris County. I was appointed this term but hopefully I will be re-elected in the spring. If you want to make me an "elected official" I won't object. :>

The idea of approaching person A and saying "we'll give you something and someone else will pay for it" works until person A starts making some money and realizes that he's "someone else." And there's person B, person C, etc. who all want something.

It gets tiring when Mr. Taxpayer (like me) is driving to work at 6:00 am.