Lawless

Most of you are aware that the Hunter Building is going to be demolished in stages because of the apparent earthquake risk it poses. The Law Faculty has been advised that it will be among the first to go so at the end of this year the Law Library will have to be shifted.

What is disturbing a large number of law students is the probably re-siting of the Law Library on the sixth floor of the Rankine Brown Building. There is the impression that once there the University Establishment will not endeavour to relocate the Library as an individual entity.

My grizzle is this: representations should be made by some authoritative body to obtain a resolution that we will not have to remain as part of the Rankine Brown Library. I do not wish to evoke class consciousness between law and other students on campus, but people must realise the significance a Law Library is to law students as a lab is to the chemists.

A permanent Law Library in Rankine Brown immediately brings to mind a lot of disorganisation and upheaval. We need an assurance that with the progress of new buildings on campus we will be allocated a new hideout.