The Semester in Review: The Million Dollar East Asian Library That We Won't Be Using

Posted by sunshinethewerewolf 05/12/2008 3:36 PM

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The Semester in Review: The Million Dollar East Asian Library That We Won't Be Using

While you're all busy with studying for finals, BerkeleyOTR will fill you in on some fond memories of the past 4 or 5 months in The Semester in Review series. So when ADD is kickin' in hard during your study session, be sure to check back here.

The C.V. Starr East Asian Library opened on St. Patrick's Day 2008. Although this seems odd, it really shouldn't: a library that no white students really care about opens on a holiday that no Asian students really care about.

The library holds almost a million different primary volumes of East Asian texts and artifacts, and cost nearly $50 million to complete.

And what a better time to cut Asian Studies! That is right, state budget cuts are limiting the amount of classes offered at UC Berkeley, including a slashing of over half the East Asian courses offered, as early as Fall 2008 semester. Students have begun protesting as well as pointing out the irony.