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...light of this, Nathans says the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) is unwilling to adopt 24-hour UKA, which she described as a proposal that “seems more likely to compromise the safety of more than 1600 students, than to enhance...
Relatively little attention, meanwhile, has been paid to the first-year dorms, and it would be irresponsible of the University to ignore the issues of safety within the Yard and near the Union dorms. The FDO is concerned that UKA will mean the end of first-year dorm life, but simple administrative rules can take care of regulating the use of first-year common space. Unfortunately, the FDO does not have the same influence over Cambridge criminals. And frankly, the FDO should be more concerned with the possibility of a student getting raped in Thayer’s backyard than...
...also seems the FDO ignores the fact that the students who walk through the Yard are not just first-years, and that they are equally at peril. We should not forget that a sophomore making the long walk back to the river is no less vulnerable than a first-year walking home from the Carpenter Center at 3 a.m. Just because we get a little bit older and move out of the Yard, it does not mean that we should be banned from relying on our former homes as areas of safety...
Furthermore, it is mildly offensive for the administration to imply that upperclass students are a danger to first-years. All first-years have 24-hour access to other first-year dorms. Yet as sophomores, students have no access to first-year dorms at any level. Does the FDO really believe that students become dangers to society in the negligible few months between their first and second years...
...shuttles, as well as increased lighting and call boxes in Cambridge Common. But now is the time to eliminate these arbitrary, irresponsible UKA restrictions. The past several months have shown us all that we live in a potentially dangerous urban setting. It is the responsibility of House Masters, the FDO and administrators to protect Harvard students from the violence that pervades the city in which we live, work and play, and to ensure all of us a safe Harvard community...