University Day Porn Interviews

On tuesday, we got to walk around University day and talk to people about their views of porn in the UNH public library, Dimond Library. I walked around with Kenlyne. The first person that we spoke to was a Durham Police officer. I was kind of nervous to talk to him, but he was very nice about the whole thing and gave us some good insight. We asked him if he had heard of the arrest in the Library this past summer, and of course he had. We wanted to know his thoughts of this and if he thinks there should be a policy against porn in the library. His response was, "Absolutely. Once you bring your private life to public, it's wrong." I completely agree with him. We then asked if he was put in this situation and saw someone using porn in the library what he would do. He said that he would remove himself from the situation and if he wasn't on duty at the time, he would call the cops otherwise. We then spoke to some young ladies from the sorority, DXP. We asked the same questions and she had never heard of what happened in the library. she was completely surprised about it, and said that there should definitely be a policy against porn in the library. She would have told security if someone was watching it next to her in the library. We then asked a young male student who said that if saw someone watching porn in the library, he would confront him about it. He said, "It's stupid to watch porn in a public place." I agree with this man as well. Everyone we talked to said that there should be a policy against watching porn in the library or some sort of sensory with the computers in the library. Personally, i think the same thing. But the more and more i think about this issue, the more I don't know how to go about it in a way that would make everyone accountable for their actions. My roommate said to me, "what if there is some sort of sensory, and if someone is on their own computer in the library and some junk mail pops up with porn and someone happens to walk by, they could get in trouble even if they didn't mean to. I found this to be true, which is where this becomes so hard to mediate and control. But hopefully, throughout this class we can find a way to help the library come up with a plan.