Study Room Sharing in Brown Building
The study rooms in Brown are quite the hot commodity, but there are currently no rules in place on their usage. Very frequently, one can walk by any of the study rooms and see:
1) A single person in a study room.
2) A whole bunch of items laying around, with no student to be found for hours, even.
There's nothing inherently wrong in the first example, but many students try and get into these rooms during the day because they don't want to sit in the common area. I think a flippable sign on the rooms that reads "Willing to share room" and "Not willing to share room" would help out with the room usage (approaching a person in one of these rooms can be quite intimidating).
The second example happens often around exam and final times. It's rude to pick up someone's belongings and put them outside, but I think a timer saying "will be back in XX minutes" or possibly a time limit on how long one can "own" an empty room should be imposed. Otherwise it's a misuse of a limited campus resource.
UPDATE:
To address your concerns we have:
1) Added a flippable sign that says “Willing to Share” and “Don Not Disturb” to allow more students to use the rooms.
2) Added verbiage on the bottom of both sides of the sign that say “Please clean the room before you leave”
If you have any other GREAT ideas please post them on What’s Your Beef.
Love,
USG
USG is currently working on language to put in the Brown study rooms to support this idea. If you have any ideas for verbiage besides what has already been shared put it in the comments below.
-USG