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...able to swipe into freshman dormitories, thanks to an initiative proposed by the Undergraduate Council (UC) and approved by campus administrators last week. Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 authorized universal keycard access last Wednesday after meeting earlier in the month with Randall S. Sarafa ’09 and Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, the UC representatives who spearheaded the initiative. The initial legislation, approved by the council on April 3, called for keycard access to the freshman dorms for all Harvard undergraduates—a resolution that the UC has been fighting...
Dingman said at a recent meeting with UC representatives that he made the decision to “take a risk” and forge ahead with the initiative, soliciting feedback from administrators and others close to the situation, Sarafa reported...
...With universal keycard access, our hope is that upperclassmen do not feel unwanted in freshman dorms, and it acts as a community building initiative by destroying that invisible barrier between the upperclassmen and freshman,” Sarafa wrote in an e-mail to the UC general list Wednesday night...
Because a tracking system will keep precise records of who swipes into each dormitory, the universal access system will keep undergraduates more accountable, Sarafa said. He added that in the current system, upperclassmen and non-students may “piggyback in”—that is, follow a freshman into a dorm—without being documented...
...there is significant abuse of it, we would reevaluate it in some sense,” Sarafa added...