By Talia Adry
Staff Writer

As an English major, I type every day. I have eight, ten, sometimes 15-page papers that I have to write, rewrite and have drafts of. The English department offers a host of creative classes like Writing Fiction, Creative Writing, Prose Writing and Poetry Writing, and having a hard copy of a story, poem or draft is almost always required.

It seems absurd, then, that the one building on campus that is dedicated to words and writing should not have a printer.

Walk by an open door to a classroom in May Hall and you’ll hear teachers discussing works of literature and poetry. Students sitting on the couches on the ground floor are usually found putting the finishing touches on a paper, typing quickly on their Dell or HP. But where to print?

It is important to note how other buildings around campus do have access to printers. In the Whittemore Library there are printers on almost every floor, understandably. In Hemenway there are entire computer labs, usually full of students working on homework or racing in to print something before class. Even in the McCarthy Center there is a printing lab (although that printer is less reliable, considering there is seemingly no one around when it stops working or is out of paper).

Take it from me: it is never fun when it is 10 minutes before class and you have to run to another building on campus to print your paper – when, really, aren’t you heading to the English building? Why would you have to go to the science building or the McCarthy Center, to print something?

To frustrate English majors even more, there is a perfect place for a printer in May Hall – right by the couches on the ground floor. As most of us English majors already carry our laptops with us regularly, a whole computer lab is unnecessary. Just a printer, some ink and a stack of paper.