Housing on campus too protected
Maggie Willis, Columnist
Issue date: 3/20/07 Section: Editorial
The Alestle published an article on Dec. 7, 2006 about a investigation into dorm security. According to the article, KMOV's Steve Chamraz and his investigative team went undercover to four different universities and "at each campus, the producer attempted to enter a residence hall and reach a common area within that building."
SIUE was the only school to stop the producer's entrance.
Safety is an important issue on college campuses and SIUE has tackled that issue with stringent security plans: enforcing ID scans, locking doors to the residence halls after certain times, having security cameras and checking to see that students have their keys and Cougar Cards after fire alarms prior to re-admittance.
This helps protect students from strangers sneaking into the residence halls, but do we need protection from other students living on campus?
Why is it that when campus residents want to spend the night at another residence hall they have to check in their guests and stay attached at the hip?
For instance, about a month ago, a friend from Woodland Hall stayed the night with me at Bluff Hall.
I got up early to finish a take- home test for a class, but needed my ID card - which must be left at the front desk upon checking in any guest - to print something out.
It was pretty early, about 7 a.m. or so, and my friend was sound asleep. So, leaving him behind to sleep, I went to ask for my card.
The person at the front desk could not give it to me because the guest was not with me. In order to get my card, to print out the needed material for my class, my exhausted friend had to be woken up and dragged to the front desk at 7 in the morning.
At 18, students can go off to war - but they apparently cannot be trusted in a different residence halls on the college campus they too inhabit.
The need to regulate non-resident visitors is understood, but it is not understandable why fellow campus residents are not trusted in different halls.
SIUE was the only school to stop the producer's entrance.
Safety is an important issue on college campuses and SIUE has tackled that issue with stringent security plans: enforcing ID scans, locking doors to the residence halls after certain times, having security cameras and checking to see that students have their keys and Cougar Cards after fire alarms prior to re-admittance.
This helps protect students from strangers sneaking into the residence halls, but do we need protection from other students living on campus?
Why is it that when campus residents want to spend the night at another residence hall they have to check in their guests and stay attached at the hip?
For instance, about a month ago, a friend from Woodland Hall stayed the night with me at Bluff Hall.
I got up early to finish a take- home test for a class, but needed my ID card - which must be left at the front desk upon checking in any guest - to print something out.
It was pretty early, about 7 a.m. or so, and my friend was sound asleep. So, leaving him behind to sleep, I went to ask for my card.
The person at the front desk could not give it to me because the guest was not with me. In order to get my card, to print out the needed material for my class, my exhausted friend had to be woken up and dragged to the front desk at 7 in the morning.
At 18, students can go off to war - but they apparently cannot be trusted in a different residence halls on the college campus they too inhabit.
The need to regulate non-resident visitors is understood, but it is not understandable why fellow campus residents are not trusted in different halls.
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