Word: keycards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work to get rid of the grade gap. I was wondering whether you had made any progress." Since that time, I have received a handful of similar e-mails--questions about the possibility of opening the MAC earlier, a few rants about dining services inflexibility, a suggestion that keycard access be the top priority. All referred to a single issue raised during the campaign...
...Universal keycard access. We have been unsuccessful in the past on this issue, I believe, because we have too strongly emphasized the safety factor. We have done this partially because we have had to; opponents claim that keycard access will be less safe because it will increase the traffic in any given dorm. We have had no choice but to respond with the assertion that increased keycard access will in fact increase safety because students will be more leery of piggy-backers...
...students know the houses do not provide a common space, and the fact that my keycard will not give me access to my friends' houses reminds me of that. So do interhouse restrictions. Moreover, I have seen randomization dilute house character bit by bit. With the gradual dissipation of that character, houses have also been less likely to reach out to non-resident students who used to share the interests of specific communities with a base in the house. The houses cannot compensate for the lack of community feeling at the College; at the most, they offer 13 disparate communities...
...first, it doesn't seem like a bad vision. If idle talk about grapes and American foreign policy is standing in the way of universal keycard access, away with such hot air by all means. But in reality, numerous fallacies undergird the Stewart-Cohen program for change...
...expect Stewart and Cohen to drop their campaign pledge--"Action, for a change"--and embrace the council's bully pulpit. But at the least, if they are going to set aside "political" causes, they could work for things that really do matter to all students--universal keycard access, Core reform, advising reform and meal-plan flexibility...