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Letters to the Editor
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Dear Editor,
I would like to draw your attention to a serious problem in the library, related to the journals section. The fact is, it is frequently impossible to access the latest issues of frequently read journals (e.g. leisure reading or economics journals).
People generally want to read the latest issues of popular journals. When librarians are reshelving the journals, they often do not pay attention to which issue of a journal they are placing on the shelf. They simply pick up any issue (generally, an issue two or three months [or weeks] old) and put it on the shelf. Thus, when people want to read the latest issue, they have to search through a bunch of old issues. Often no one in the library seems to know where the latest issue is. Your assistance in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Çağlayan Melih Alıcı (EE/III)
Response to the letter:
As Mr Alıcı points out, the shelves for journals allow for the latest issue to be visible and earlier ones to be stored underneath the current ones. The library staff tries very hard to keep them in that way, but often readers return issues to the shelves in a haphazard manner.
The library also recognizes that it is sometimes impossible to find the latest issue on the shelf. Some of the readers take journals to another floor or even to the other library building to read, and do not return them when they are finished. Items are also taken to the photocopy center. Although the latter are retrieved regularly, those journals which may have been left elsewhere sometimes are not spotted until the next day.
If a reader cannot find the issue he or she needs, the staff in the periodicals office is ready to try to be of assistance.
Library Management
Dear Editor,
Bilkent University should make a greater effort in preventing dangerous driving. I live with my family on East Campus, near the Bilkent primary and secondary schools. I have two infant children, whom my wife and I occasionally take for walks in a stroller along Bilkent 1st Street. When we are walking, we routinely witness cars zooming past us and schoolchildren who may be crossing the road. The speed of these cars is well above 100 km/hour. That is reckless and dangerous.
Bilkent should post and enforce a safe speed limit on East Campus. Hopefully it will not take a tragedy for the issue of dangerous driving to be appropriately addressed.
Tim Roberts / Department of History
Response to the letter:
Dear Mr. Roberts,
We agree with you that safety everywhere on campus is of the utmost importance. However, it should be pointed out that Bilkent 1st Street is off campus and is therefore not under the jurisdiction of Bilkent, but the Jandarme in its capacity as part of the Ankara Public Safety Department.
For the problems and issues relating to traffic on Bilkent University property, you can contact the Traffic Committee directly at http://www.traffic.bilkent.edu.tr/.
Bilkent News Editorial Board
Dear Editor,
Occasionally I visit my friends in the dormitories; each time I go security asks me for my identity card and does not allow me to stay after 10:30 p.m. I can’t understand this. Many students have group projects and other assignments which need to be accomplished in co-operation with other friends. I think more attention should be paid to this matter.
Agah Hınç (IE/II)
Response to the letter:
We are pleased to hear that the personnel have asked for your ID everytime. The measures are for the security of students living in the dormitories. Although regular visiting hours end at 10:30 p.m., this can be extended for group study sessions or group projects until 2 a.m. if permission is obtained in advance.
Bilkent Dormitory Administration
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