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Twenty-four hour universal keycard access (UKA) was the first battle...
...debate is unusual in its breadth--there are a number of seemingly separate issues under review by administrators--as well as its scope. And it is strange in another respect: no clear lines have been drawn between student and administration positions. While students are clearly pushing the UKA and party initiatives, it is Lewis and Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 who have raised the issue of MAC access...
...carousing that might lead students to want to visit their fellows after 1 a.m. Certainly they don't disapprove enough to publicly condemn student choice or push for the type of parietal curfews that existed in the days of yore. In the end, they know that denying UKA will not bar Harvard students from each other's Houses (except for the unfortunate ones stuck in the courtyards...
...cutting off access at 1 a.m. gives Masters one very subtle way to wag their fingers and say (as my own mother sometimes does), "Shouldn't you be in bed at 1 a.m. anyways?" Students will still be up at all hours, Masters know, but restricting UKA puts them in the comfortable position of closing their eyes and pretending their charges are nestled snugly in their own beds, all by themselves...
...UKA rhetoric is bound to increase in coming days as House Councils push their Masters to relent on the issue. (The Undergraduate Council's head honcho for UKA, Todd E. Plants '01, tells me he's confident students will win eventually.) But Masters needn't despair. Drunk students who misbehave will still be properly disciplined by HUPD and the ad board. And, if Masters want to express that they disapprove of students' early morning behavior, they will always have that easiest of options: They can tell...