A room of her own

Mark Alden Branch ’86

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With Yale College enrollment at a near-record high, there is plenty of competition for places to study. So when Elynn An ’28 (left), a first-year from Farragut, Tennessee, took a tour of the Yale libraries during orientation, she was delighted to win a very special door prize: a private study room in the library for her exclusive use during the first semester. “I was very hyped,” says An, who has the key to the room and uses it frequently, especially in the mornings before classes. Alumni from before 2007 will recall that in Bass’s previous incarnation, Cross Campus Library, such cubicles were known among students as “weenie bins.” But that name has disappeared from the student lexicon.