It’s an art that students have perfected: breaking and bending the rules.
Every day students are faced with the choice to go to the cafeteria and tend to their growling stomachs, or head off the library and start that homework that’s due next mod. We skipped breakfast, and we’re not willing to sacrifice a grade. We’ve just got to have it all.
And so we sit in the back of the library looking studious as we slyly pull food from our pockets. We then dispose of the evidence by hiding it amongst books, leaving it under a table, or simply throwing it as far away from where we’re sitting as possible in hopes that we can walk out before anyone suspects us.
Mrs. Baker admitted that people sneaking food into the library is a reality, and as a result the library has had ants, roaches, and mice. Something needed to change.
And something did. We first noticed this change when we ventured into the library one mod and saw these little white paper signs bearing the slogan, “No Crumbs Left Behind.”
At first, we were slightly taken aback. We had to take a step back and look around to make sure we were still in the library. After recovering from the initial shock, we gathered that ancient library regulations have been altered, and the cardinal rules of the library that have been engrained in us since kindergarten are no more.
Now the library offers the friendly policy that we’ve all been waiting for. You can eat in the library as long as you clean up. Mrs. Baker’s intention is that the library remains a quiet study place, “It’s not that I want it to be a café environment, I just don’t want it to be a trash environment.”
We love this. People should be able to have a snack in a library atmosphere. The library is obviously still not a place to bring your cafeteria food, so we ask you not to abuse this privilege.
It looks as if this runs smoothly, it will continue in the future. We surely hope it does. It’s possible if everyone cleans up their trash, and, really guys, how hard is that?