New study area on first floor.

A new lounge and study area was open to students on the first floor last week. The area includes couches and tables placed along the southern library's wall which provides power and Internet connection outlets for students using computers laptops. Biology major Anthony Tran, 18, finds he new area helpful to student because it will relieve some of the congestion on the other study areas. For Tran getting access to a power outlet on the third floor was "like a competition" and now "it (the new area) has help because I don't have to walk up to the fourth floor," he said. Political science major Jocelyn Gomez, 20, is glad the library is finally offering student more comfortable space to study. " Once when I went to the basement and I couldn’t find an outlet to connect my laptop and I had to move around because the construction people said that I was in their way. It was also hot in the basement," said Gomez.