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...First Steps Toward Community” (Editorial, Oct. 12), you stated that 24-hour universal keycard access had in its favor “a powerful argument grounded in student safety,” but this is not necessarily true of completely unrestricted access. In all arguments about access, the access to courtyards and the access to entryways should be differentiated when possible because they in fact have very different implications for safety. As most of the proponents for 24-hour universal access point out, access to a House can mean safe haven for a pursued student and prevent assaults...
...indeed sexual predators in Cambridge. Are we ready, then, to increase the chance of assaults occurring within the Houses themselves? If 24-hour universal access goes through, all House areas effectively become accessible not only to other undergraduates but also to whomever has found a lost or stolen keycard that has not yet been deactivated. When I think of the people I know who tape over the locks on their suite doors and how deserted the Kirkland basement is at 5 a.m. when I’m printing out a paper, such an assault would only be a matter...
...same rationale that justifies universal keycard access should also lead the administration to extend weekend party hours to at least 2 a.m. The House Masters have made some progress by allowing certain parties—those in House dining halls at which no alcohol is served—to last until 2 a.m., but these limited cases are the exception, not the rule. The present policy, which holds that good students should be neatly tucked in bed by 1 a.m., does not reflect the schedules of today’s students. Loosening the administrative grip on student behavior...
...These suggestions—24-hour keycard access, extended party hours, House Committee collaboration—are neither profound nor revolutionary. They constitute neither a substitute for long-term reforms nor an exhaustive list of the things that could be done immediately to make Harvard more amenable to community-building. But they are representative of the small changes that will come once the individuals who are Harvard College—both administrators and students—join in an effort to create a vibrant community, one where learning is not confined to classrooms and collegiality is not the exclusive province...
...proud of the CHL’s success in obtaining the recent 2 a.m. curfew extension for non-alcoholic parties in dining halls. She said she hopes the committee will be able to apply the curfew extension to individual room parties by the spring, and continue pushing for universal keycard access and better House-based advising...