[ScholarWarrior]

I have contended in the past that the winter heating of the B level of Regenstein was assisted by the buried atomic pile from Stagg Field. What say you?

Regenstein is definitely one of the ugliest and least useful buildings I have ever seen.

[Dr. Sivana]

I have contended in the past that the winter heating of the B level of Regenstein was assisted by the buried atomic pile from Stagg Field. What say you?

Well, it was kind of cold there. I did like the orange drink in the vending machine. Very old school. I also remember the poor level of security. During the day, all comers could come in to the first level, with security guarding the stacks. Then after business hours, security would move over to the front. However, during the day, if you entered the first floor employee area like you knew what you were doing, as long as you weren't dressed like a bum, it was assumed you were an employee. I am sure this would work even better if you had a book cart or something. Once there, getting to the stacks was nothing.

I did spend a year or so working there on work-study ($7.20/hour=HUGE RAISE) returning periodicals on the second floor at 6AM. This got me familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet, among other things. Sometimes I would see an interesting article and read it.

My last visit was about six years ago. The yearbook from my time there was in a small room as a reserve book only. It is a crime how that school treated the undergrads in those years (early '80s). The computer area was greatly expanded (it had been VT-100 terminals in my time), and not many. Serious users went to Harper's U-Site.