One day, while studying in the reading room of the Marshall College Library, he was disrupted as a motorcycle driven by a greaser skidded to a stop against his chair. Noticing that the motorcycle's passenger was his archaeology professor, the student asked Jones about Hargrove's normative model of culture. Jones replied to skip Hargrove and read Vere Gordon Childe instead. Hopping back onto the motorcycle, Jones gave the student a final piece of advice: if he wanted to be a good archaeologist, he needed to get out of the library.