A south Florida woman who caused the Boca Raton City Council to consider passing an ordinance prohibiting persons with offensive body odors from using that city's public library has begun using the Broward Community College's Davie campus library.
College library administrators received 65 complaints after Nancy Nitzberg, 56, began using computers for research and e-mail earlier this year, the Miami Herald reported April 9.
Nitzberg claims she smells like urine because of a medical condition, but the newspaper reported that fecal matter has been found on furniture she has used.
A policy prohibiting "disruptive" individuals—including those with offensive odors—from using the library was approved by a campus governing committee April 5, and Nitzberg has since voluntarily stopped using the library.
Posted April 19, 1999.