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Harvard’s current keycard policy allows all College students access to the Houses, except between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. During these five hours, first-years can only swipe into the first-year dorms, and an upper-class student can only swipe into his or her own House, with one exception—Quincy House alone offers 24-hour access to all students...
Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 said last night that closed sessions—during which discussion minutes are withheld from the public record—this semester have focused on “sensitive information” regarding Springfest and universal keycard access...
...advancing campus safety, however, Harvard cannot afford to have tunnel vision and focus solely on its existing safety resources. Currently, students who feel unsafe near residential Houses other than their own are denied keycard access between 2:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.; upperclass students who walk between the Science Center and River Houses at night cannot swipe into first-year dorms even at normal hours. Although students who feel uneasy can phone HUPD, waiting for the cruiser outside in the dark puts them in danger...
...order to avoid leaving students stranded, Harvard must establish Universal Keycard Access (UKA)—24-hour keycard access to every undergraduate residence hall. Although none of the recent assaults took place near the Houses, Harvard must not wait for such an incident to occur before instituting...
...would allow students to take responsibility for their safety and swipe into a Harvard building if they feel threatened. Contrary to administrators’ concerns, UKA would neither increase crime nor the “piggybacking” of non-Harvard students. Since Quincy House instituted 24-hour keycard access in 1998, residents have not witnessed an upsurge in nighttime crime. Likewise, last year’s hour-and-half extension of keycard access from 1 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. in upperclass Houses did not affect the crime rate. Rather than furthering in-House crimes, extending keycard access...