This “no-sleepover” started at 8:45 p.m. If you’re just joining, catch-up on the first three hours by reading Part I.

For everyone else, welcome back to the red-eyed observations of Tower Talk Editor Matt Cook and his conversations with Gleason Library's third-shift crew.

It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times.

It was adolescence. 

For every person who remembers a first job, car, school dance, or love with fondness, there’s someone for whom these are sources of pain and embarrassment. 

The University of Rochester Libraries adhere to the general University policies on the privacy of student records, which can be found at http://www.rochester.edu/registrar/policies.html.

All University of Rochester Library records which include personal information are kept confidential except as is necessary for the proper operation of the library, or pursuant to a subpoena or court order, or where otherwise required by law.

Higher education students taking a biology course that uses Elaine Marieb and Katja Hoehn’s textbook Human Anatomy & Physiology (11th edition), could spend upwards of $200 on the hardcover version.

A University of Rochester student taking BIO 204 with Jonathan Holz, associate professor of instruction in the Department of Biology, will spend $0 on their textbook. 

That’s because Holz is using an Open Stax textbook.

Late in 1227, Notre Dame Cathedral chapter canons assembled to name the successor of a recently deceased bishop of Paris. After contesting the first two selections, canon William of Auvergne took his dissatisfaction to Pope Gregory IX. William, a prominent theology professor at the University of Paris, made such a strong impression that the Pope made him bishop. Given that he talked himself into being bishop of Paris, it's perhaps not very surprising William would then produce an enormously influential treatise on the corporeal and spiritual universe.

Robert Foster is the Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities at the University of Rochester. 

Robert Foster is the professor of Asian studies and history at Berea College.

Robert Foster is professor emeritus of music education and music therapy at the University of Kansas.

One of the newest projects out of the Digital Scholarship Lab is Sekuru’s S

Chances are you didn’t read every issue of Tower Talk, in its entirety, in 2019. Maybe you missed an issue. Maybe you read part of an issue, decided to read the rest later, but never made it back. Maybe you became a subscriber in August and didn’t know there is an archive of past issues. 

And maybe you’re someone saying, “Hey, I have read every story.” If you’re this person, you have our sincerest and deepest appreciation.