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Show B4 Monday • June 30, 2008 SANS SOCKS from LIBRARY- B1 Above: Emptied shelf after empty shelf with only o handful of books not yet packed. Right: One of the 400 plus full book carts transported to the Digital Learning Center. Below: Empty shelves in the old library never again to be reshelved. Once the old library is completely emptied, the building will become a student-learning center where some counselors will set up offices. I'm constantly amazed at our library's huge selection of books. As a writing tutor in the Academic Center, I see many English papers where students have settled for Geocities or Wikipedia as source material when there is a nearly unlimited - and more authoritative - wealth of accurate sources right here on campus. There are books on nearly any subject needing to be researched; you'd be surprised how obscure and how specific some of our books are. There's a book about Hindu terrorism. A book about how slavery contributes to societal progression. And for you Dane Cook fans out there, we even have a book called NAM. Day 8 Am I the only gay guy who was unaware that the spines of Cos/no make pictures of men? That's what I said to myself as we began loading the volumes of periodicals. It was interesting to learn that our library has copies of Cosmo at all. In addition to that, there are a wide variety of several magazines and newspapers such as The New York Times, Newsweek, People and Rolling Stone, as well as topical journals ranging from medicine to aviation. I wonder again why some students seem too lazy to utilize these library materials. We had loaded enough books in the new library that we had started spending a lot of our time shelving them. Thus far we'd had over 300 cartloads total for the move. I felt like someone had fired a SCUD missile at my back. Day 9 There may have been some irony to my iPod playing "You Gotta Move" by The Rolling Stones, as three of us slowly pushed the last and heaviest of the book cart loads from the third floor. Except for some encyclopedias, the old library was nearly empty. However, after that we ran- into a few problems. First, we needed tp cart off the CD racks, but the wheels were finicky.v. The jazz and ragtime anthologies accidentally toppled Over during the.move to the truck and we had to sort through them. Once everything was fixed, we began putting CDs on the second floor' which is where the DVDs are as well. In addition to being the circulation and entertainment floor, the second floor will also house the new writing center. It's at least twice the size of the current one in the LA building. Day 12 We had been removing shelves all day in the computer lab and running them to the new library's storage rooms. Much of the new library was nearly finished. The carpets seemed finished. most of the lights were in place - they were kind of futuristic, like something out of a Kubrick movie - and the elevators had been completed. Day 13 Today was the last day for most of us. There wasn't much construction or moving left, but we had run into some more problem s. For one thing, the second floor needed to finish more bookshelves, and we'd exhausted our carts - having moved more than four hundred loads - making it difficult to move more books. Additionally, we'd been moving things out of administrator's offices. One in particular smiled as she told me, "I'm the boss, only listen to me!" The most interesting part of the day had definitely been room 102. We were supposed to move shelves into room 102, but after searching all over, the closest we'd found was 105. 103 is right next to 112. 102 didn't even appear on the floor plans or blueprints,-quite bizarre. We all said goodbye and good luck and resumed our normal lives. Personally, I knew that in the next few days I'd be job-hunting again and attending the library's open house. To sec UVU's new library completed would be very interesting. Public tours of the Digital Learning Center begin June 30 at 1 p.m., continuing to 6 p.m. with free activites all day long. Digital Learning Center The newest addition to UVU Tie one on Brandon Scheling| Features editor Summer seems to have a tendency to bring with it many abominations to the sartorial world. Flip-flops. Under normal circumstances, the overall trend of casual dress that accompanies summer doesn't bother me in the least, I wouldn't, however, consider these normal circumstances. A Gallop Poll taken over the past five years has reported that the number of men wearing neck ties daily has fallen from ten to six percent. A seemingly ridiculous topic for a poll, however surrounding the decline of the tie is the general decline of formality. Today it's the necktie, but tomorrow it could lie collared shirts, or the blazer and before you know it the world is clad entirely in jeans and t-shirts. Not to say there is anything wrong with jeans and t-shirts, in fact the two can be worn quite successfully, but there is a time and place. Many designers today find themselves on the front lines of the casual battle. None more than the uberconservatively styled Thorn Browne. Though his designs are seen sometimes as eccentric and ridiculous, Browne stands firm in his belief that nothing beats a close-cropped suit and tie. Slightly less eccentric, Michael Bastian supports there being an occasion for everything. Even labels such as J. Crew and GAP have begun creating more well rounded lines, in hopes of saving formal wear. While in general, disturbing this trend has spawned an even more interesting side-effect. With the necktie losing it's grip on the corporate world, it has begun to be adopted by the youth "counter-culture" and worn as something of a middle finger to the corporate world. And while that is all well and good r really ,'who isn*t excited to flip off the corporate world - the •necktie *ris becoming more ;pf a girritnick than anything. •A sad state of aftaifs given the already limited''amount of accessories available to men. Not surprising,- trends among woman have; if anything become increasingly [ess casual. While men embrace the ultra casual life, woman -^already typically better dressed than men are embracing a resurgence of formality. With many designers and labels introducing more formal lines for woman, the fairer gender continues to excel in all matters sartorial. To read more from Sans Socks visit www.sanssocks. blogspot.com The new State of the Art Digital Learning Center has captured the eyes of students who watched construction begin on the day of its groundbreaking. The 190,000 square foot building has five levels full of access to books, computers, eds, study areas and classrooms. Completion of the new library also completes the process of becoming an official university. Photos by Trent Bates/UVU Review •v/f-rteTs i |