Good intentions gone awry: Librarians at Winthrop College, in Rock Hill, S.C., warned that President Carter’s energy-saving order to keep public buildings hotter in summer would ruin their books. “Mold began to grow and spread through the library’s collection,” we reported, “soon after the college adopted a voluntary energy-saving program much like the one the White House was developing.” Limits on the library’s use of air-conditioning were soon dropped. Today, Winthrop University’s library houses more than half a million volumes. Meanwhile, in something of a prelude to current events, representatives at a conference of church-related colleges were urged to resist “secularization” and undue government regulation of their institutions.
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