[lbo-talk] Free Speech, Unfree Libraries

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Fri Dec 5 19:22:37 PST 2003


Quoting Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>:


> > Speaking of UC Berkeley, I've got to get this rant off
> > my chest: their main library denied me entry earlier this
> > year because I didn't have a student/faculty ID
>
> For all they know, you were there to sleep.

San Jose State is in the middle of a city of 1.5 million, but welcomes the public with open arms. Cal, in the People's Republic of Berkeley, welcomes visitors with the Security of the Second World. I fail to see the logic.


> Didn't you hear that California has a budget crisis?

Caused by overdue library fines? I had no idea we litcritters were so powerful!

-- DRR



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