Word: keycards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Princeton and Yale University both have universal keycard access on campus. Students at Harvard have been advocating a similar system in recent years...
...being defensive. The students are guilty as charged. They don't care much about the council or its agenda--and understandably so. In the competition for the precious waking hours of Harvard students, they're bound to lose. When the competition for our attention is between campaigning for universal keycard access and tutoring underprivileged kids, or between set, it's no surprise that the council will lose every time...
Accost annoyed upperclassman for key card swipe into building. Curse House master for outlawing universal keycard access, and crawl up five flights of stairs. Arrive at "party" of 10 Harvard men. Met with wide eyes. "Ooo. This is good," the so-called...
...point the College is wise to bring up is that students tend to leave suite doors unlocked. The College raises this point from the vantage of safety; people don't lock their doors, so if someone gets hold of a keycard, suddenly they can get into people's rooms with ease. Again, I think the benefits to safely from universal access outweigh this concern. A stronger argument is that people actually like leaving their doors unlocked because it makes them feel more at home, fostering a more comfortable and communal atmosphere...
...Harvard, it all too often seems, masters aren't so interested in making students' lives better. If they were, they might see that restricted keycard access isn't engendering community spirit or protecting us; it is only wasting students' time, making us feel less safe and underhandedly weakening a sense of College-wide unity in the process...