Word: keycards
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Today all 12 House Masters will meet to decide whether universal keycard access to the Houses will be extended until 2:30 a.m. The Masters rejected a plan for 24-hour access in February, and today’s meeting offers the first real chance for progress on the issue in months. We urge the Masters to approve the proposal and to allow undergraduates to enter the Houses after...
...urge students to contact their Masters on the issue, and we hope that today will bring the approval of later keycard access as a step toward 24-hour safety and convenience for all students...
Student safety and House community are legitimate concerns. But the Masters should address them directly and refrain from using keycard access as a proxy for other issues. The students who seek entrance into a House during restricted hours are not thieves or sexual predators. Most students simply want a convenient way to study, socialize or seek safety. Given these needs, universal access is not too much...
...series of small (and sometimes not-so-small) successes—subsidized concerts featuring name-brand bands, boxes to help with move-out, later hours for some Harvard parties. Even the disappointments of his administration, most notably its failure to persuade the House Masters to support 24-hour universal keycard access, have set the stage for real progress on issues that in the past have served as little more than election-season slogans...
...Barkley says that Lee’s work with administrators in the realm of setting up concerts does not measure up to Gusmorino’s discussions with Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 about issues like universal keycard access...