The Oklahoma Daily Online Edition - Don't burn the books, but don't sit together, either

No PDA in the OU Library? Could go back to all those myths I heard about the stacks when I was in library school.
The Oklahoma Daily Online Edition - Don't burn the books, but don't sit together, either:

..." I don’t have too big a problem with cameras. I like books, too.

And I liked the cameras in the library until last week when....

During a two-hour break between classes, I head to the library’s second basement to read The Daily. When I arrive, my wife is there; no big surprise.

Finding her there awake is unusual, but I soon see that both of the couches are inhabited by sleepers.

I sit in a wide leather chair about four feet from my wife. I open The Daily. My wife takes two steps toward me and sits in my chair. We fit easily.

We whisper to not disturb those studying hard on the couches. Our legs touch — that’s it.

Seems pretty normal, right?

A literal 30 seconds pass. The elevator doors split open to our left. A lone man stands in the center of the cabin wearing what resembles the get-up of a mall security man.

His head is bald and sleek, and for some reason I like him more than your average mall security guard.

He stands in the elevator for a minute with a determined look on his face. I admire him — what purpose.

Then he is a mystery. I ask myself what the mall security man is doing in our library. He is young enough to be a student. It makes sense that he might work in the mall after class.

He walks toward me and my wife. He is serious, but he seems nice. I smile at him. Maybe he’s lost.

I wait for his question, but instead he says, “We can’t have that here.” And for a second I have no idea what he is talking about. He seems to sense that and says, “You can’t sit together.”...