Under Cross Campus, a bustling Bass
In just five months, a new underground culture has taken shape at Yale — literally.
Last fall, students may have passed over Cross Campus on their way to class or to Commons without a second thought. But ever since that October night when the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library formally opened its doors at midnight to a crowd of over 1,000 students, the library has been bustling, to say the least.
Any given night, the scene is the same. Bleary-eyed students plod from carrel to carrel in search of an open seat. Crowded tables of coffee sippers engage in discussion at the...
WOW - do we get a prize for making it to the end of this article?
The one thing i dont like about the new CCL (haha) is that it's just WAY TOO QUIET - the old CCL was more open to people like me who like to chat quietly while studying as opposed to the hardcore studiers who sit in scary silence in SML reading rooms/stacks. I hope the life of the place returns soon and not just to the cafe area.
As this article mentions, the single biggest problem with Bass is the reduction in the number of "weenie bins" from the CCL days.
This becomes more of an issue when a--holes leave their books inside the weenie bins for hours in an effort to "call" them for when they actually want to use them. The Library staff needs to crack down on this, because it's a huge waste of resources and leads to more crowding around the main tables.
Other than that, Bass is pretty sick.