CSUN Student Melts Down in Library During Finals Week

Remember when you were little and your teacher told you to be quiet, it turned out that the loudest, most obnoxious kid was always the teacher's pet shushing everyone?

Well, this video captures what happens when that kid (sort of) grows up and has a meltdown during finals week in the CSUN library. It's not clear what prompted this one-woman Crusade Against Talking in the Library and Against Disrespecting the One Who Shushes, but there's no way it was any more entertaining (or distracting) as what came after. The user that uploaded it to YouTube crzdcole claims someone else shot the video.

The video starts when someone tells the shusher off: "This isn't a scary movie. You need to calm your dramatic ass down."

The shusher marches back and whisper-yells: "Do not tell me that. It's rude and disrespectful okay? It's finals right now."

The Loud, Disrespectful Table fires back: "Oh hell no!" and that's when things escalate.

Shusher, who has now twice been disrespected, stretches out her arms and asks the entire library — the universe, really — why they can't just be quiet when she's trying to study: "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? What is wrong with all of you? What is wrong with all of you?"

Someone points out that she's being a shushing hypocrite, which is really the worst thing you can say to a shusher. She responds: "I'm not being louder than all of you, am I? AM I TALKING LIKE THIS? Can you please just stop talking?" Then it sounds like she might start sobbing but instead she starts banging on something and the video fades to black.

We wish Shusher the best during finals. Hopefully, she'll move on to more effective tactics like looking over her glasses sternly or leaving petty passive-aggressive notes. But if she really wants to go off the deep end, we would like to suggest that she not put together a racist response to loud people in the library on YouTube like some people. In the meantime, it unfortunately looks like Shusher herself is going to be the target of racist bile from YouTubers.

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By Emma G. Gallegos in News on December 8, 2011 4:30 PM 0 Comments

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Sara Ostrovitz

FYI, the girl has Aspberger's, her meltdown is justified.

Circe Poo

I had a similar problem in the library once. I was in a section that was fairly isolated and there was a group of students who were being quite loud.

However, instead of going over there and asking them to shut the hell up, I went to the library website to the "ask a librarian" feature. It's a wonderful gadget that allows you to live chat with a librarian. I explained the situation and a few minutes later a librarian popped her head in and told the group to shut the hell up.

It was wonderful and I never had to leave my seat.

lax2hnl

they should have an officer on each floor of the library to eject loud students

frmore

The noisy "students" are not in school precisely to learn or work. Same with affirmative action make-work scheme employment in which many pretend to "job". And libraries offer an irresistible social setting for these loud students. If one intends to study in a library, move away from them. If more than two are seated together, they lack the focus to concentrate on the task at hand and fall easily into work avoidance. Obviously, the female student who lost her temper was uninitiated or not previously exposed to these facts or realities. Now she is. Live and learn.

Andrew Nethery

cant believe you wrote about this.. and cant believe i read it

Cal Fire News

They set her up for the lulz... I thought she held it together pretty well considering she was being harassed so someone could videotape it...

Jim Smith

The irate girl was absolutely correct. that pack of black girls was being really loud. when she's asking everyone "what's wrong with you?" she's really asking them why they won't stand up for themselves and tell the loudmouthed black girls to shut up. but you know...typical white college students...too afraid to stand up for themselves.

Crusty Johnson

A "pack of black girls". You're sounding like Mel Gibsaon there, Jim.

Also if you read the comments on the youtube page it turns out she's an autistic kid. So thanks for the snarky link there LAist, everyone needs a good laugh at the expense of the disabled.

Do you know where I could find a video of a fat crippled kid falling down?

Doran

Thank you LAist for covering such important topics.

lax2hnl

this story blew up, showed up on the TheBlaze.com!

David Carstens

Yeah, the poor girl's stressed out, and the obnoxious girl behind the camera wasn't helping. It seems there are many rude sociopaths who, rather than alter their behavior when asked to, are only emboldened in their behavior out of a phobia of "backing down". This is the type of person who would start a fight rather than be told to stop talking in a movie theater (or library it seems).

guysmilie

btw, this is a really sh*tty article too

guysmilie

obnoxious people in the library asked to be quiet and then become increasingly more obnoxious? poor girl couldn't handle it, they video tape her and then she looks like the crappy person. people are douchebags.

filmobsessed

I'd like to know the ethnicity of the person she was upset w/. Sounds like some loud mouthed black girl. I'd be pissed too.

lax2hnl

race baiter

Gabriela Worrel

It seems like the people she was complaining about were acting pretty rude, judging from their response to her. I mean, it IS a library.