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Universal Keycard Access (UKA) would change this. If everyone’s ID let them into the place they wanted to be, the scenario would be different. I would be more cautious about letting people in late at night. In its hopelessly mangled state, Harvard’s swipe system allows access to anyone willing to wait to be swiped in. In fact, the only people who don’t benefit from this system are those who need it most—those seeking fast security from a nighttime threat. The lack of UKA on campus is an issue...
Despite our concerns regarding assault on Harvard students by outsiders, the greatest threat to Harvard students is actually other Harvard students. In the past, House Masters have used this fact to argue that UKA would promote assault. A Harvard student fleeing a Harvard stalker would find safety in his or her own House, where the stalker could not follow. In theory, UKA seems an appropriate way to provide all students their own space from which to escape a threat. But in practice, Houses are not the insular places that Masters might wish them to be. As students are constantly attending...
Debate about universal keycard access (UKA), Fallfest, and dining services was temporarily suspended for perhaps the most extraordinary event ever to take place at an Undergraduate Council (UC) meeting—a marriage proposal...
Most spoke of the need for better advising, better dining services and UKA, about which the council has been battling a reluctant administration for nearly a decade...
...Students have been calling for UKA for a decade, because students actually experience being locked out of the Houses,” he said...