Finally, a library ; The gem at Metropolitan State: [METRO Edition]

By the score, students sprawl across armchairs, stare at computer monitors and huddle over homework tables scattered throughout the new library and learning center on Metropolitan State University's St. Paul campus.

One cannot see so many people so earnestly at work in one brand- new place and not wonder: Where did they study last year? Or during all the long years that Metropolitan State pleaded and waited for that most basic of academic buildings, a campus library, to be built?

Finally, the days are over when Metropolitan's 10,000 students had to shuttle to the University of Minnesota or a public library for research or plop in a scarce vacant classroom or fast-food restaurant to study. Even if...