During final exams, students are usually scrambling to finish last minute projects and papers before the semester comes to a close. When rushing to complete a paper and still attempting to arrive at a class on time, students may find themselves inconveniently out of reach of printers or computers between classes.

We encourage the administration to give more complete and comprehensive access to these resources by installing them in academic buildings around campus.

Although the library has both printers and computers for public use, their inclusion in the academic buildings would be both convenient and efficient. Students who may not have time to go to the library or the Shapiro Campus Center computer lab before a class would be able to stay near their classes and complete their assignments without the hassle of hurrying to one of the current resource-equipped buildings in the passing period before their next lecture.

Including printers elsewhere on campus would also alleviate the traffic in the library, where individuals oftentimes have to wait for their turn to use the printer.

As students usually have to lug their computers along with their books around campus, having computers in academic buildings would allow students the option of leaving theirs at home.

For those students who don't have laptops or whose professors don't allow computers in class, additional computers in the atrium of the Mandel Center for the Humanities and the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center atrium can help decrease the need to carry around personal computers.

While we encourage the administration to seriously assess the appropriate areas where these resources would be most useful, we also ask that students take advantage of the study resources newly made available to them by the administration and Student Union.

Recently, Student Union President Herbie Rosen '12 announced in the bi-annual State of the Union address that academic buildings. These buildings, Olin-Sang and the Levine-Ross and Lurias rooms in the Hassenfeld Conference Center, will be open as study spaces starting Dec. 10. If students show interest and use these spaces appropriately, then Mr. Rosen mentioned that the Union would consider using the Mandel Center and Science Complex as additional study spaces.

As we mentioned earlier last month, according to the Union's Pulse survey, the lack of study space on campus has become problematic for students, but using academic buildings would offer a feasible solution. These new options indicate that the Union and administration are working toward addressing students' concerns.

As a next step, the administration should consider the convenience of having additional printers and computers in academic buildings to further address the student body's needs. The addition of these resources will not only help ease the stresses and anxieties of coursework but also make these important resources more accessible to students.