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...three intruders mentioned had gained entrance to first-year dormitories, and universal key card access to those dormitories is already a fact of life first-years. As upperclass students have no need for very easy access to the first-year dormitories, it seems that the dormitories already constitute a microcosm of what we might expect to happen if universal key card access were instituted for the whole College. On that basis, these incidents actually lead one to the opposite conclusion, that universal access will not make students more likely to challenge persons trying to gain entrance...
After years of lobbying, undergraduates may finally be granted 24-hour universal keycard access to a limited number of entryways in each of the upperclass Houses...
That night we learned a valuable lesson: When visiting friends at Winthrop, make sure they escort you from their rooms to the gate. That night we also experienced the disappointing realization that as upperclass students, we faced significant barriers between our friends and ourselves. Unlike the universal key card access we enjoyed as first-years in the Yard, where we could freely and spontaneously visit one another, it is now necessary to make detailed plans well in advance of every social encounter...
...school with such a dynamic and diverse student body, students should be encouraged to broaden their associations rather than to narrow them. The University, in instituting the randomization of house selections, responded to concerns that students were limiting themselves to particular groups and circles. However the failure to give upperclass students universal access still encourages students to limit their associations to a small group. Universal access to the houses would improve campus unity and social interaction...
What is the procedure for a guilty student caught without a card? "If we catch a student trying to pass us, we just go to him and say 'Give me your number,'" says Vicente, while speedily grabbing cards with both hands. However, in the upperclass houses, the checkers find that students are more careful about bringing their cards to each meal. "All my students are very good here--I might even say excellent," says Mariya Gerolimatos of Eliot House. "If any try to get by me, I just call them back and get their number. Or I tell their friends...