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...Undergraduate Council has tried with limited success to secure universal keycard access at the College. Quincy House did agree last week to a one-year test run, and three other Houses--Winthrop, Cabot and Dunster--are said to be considering joining in. But all this "progress" is on a trial basis, and leaves eight Houses with no improvement at all in the near future. So here, in the vain hope that a House master or two might be reading, is one final effort to convey the blunt truth: the fact that a Harvard ID card does not allow a Harvard...
Every argument against universal keycard access is weak. Safety will be compromised by universal access, some claim, because anyone with a Harvard ID can get in anywhere. Wrong. First, who are these Harvard ID-bearers the masters are afraid of? Harvard students? Or is it that mythic unshaven creature of Harvard Square, beer on his breath and bad deeds on his mind, who finds an ID in the crosswalk on Mass. Ave. and jumps at the chance to infiltrate the Harvard system? That is not likely to happen. People don't drop their ID cards on the street all that...
...staff is unusually free with its praise for Beth Stewart and other council members. Some progress is better than no progress, true. But despite the much-appreciated decision by the Quincy House master, one house out of 12 does not universal keycard access make...
Mountains moved this week when the masters of Quincy House agreed to open the House doors to any undergraduate with a Harvard keycard, making Quincy the first participant in what students hope will be the beginning of a House-by-House move toward universal keycard access...
...some circles still persistent, assumption that universal keycard access constitutes a compromise in students' safety is fundamentally false. The truth is that universal keycard access will enhance student safety in the Houses, for two reasons: first, students will no longer have to risk standing outside alone at night while waiting for friends or passers-by to let them in to Houses not their own and second, students will be less inclined to open doors for strangers if they know that all students should be able to enter without help via their own keycards. These safety enhancements far outweigh the added...