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STUDENTS are unimpressed with either Hall's security mechanisms or his student police force. They realize that the student watchmen are no substitute for trained patrolmen, and that in a time of real emergency the baby police force will be not only useless but inhibiting...
...Houses in the future, it might not be as efficient in Houses like Adams that have many different street entrances. Currier House is the only one of all the Houses that was built specifically with security in mind. The one entrance to the House is guarded by students or watchmen 24 hours...
Finally, the inevitable solution of increased manpower always comes up. Harvard will almost assuredly continue to increase the size of its police force in coming years and probably will continue to fund more student watchmen. Although Hall thinks that a larger police force could vastly reduce crime at Harvard, he is aware that such an increase, like automation, would bring howls of protest. Many students feel that increased numbers of police on campus would be a threat to their "enjoying" themselves and would lead to increased efforts to interfere with their private affairs...
...students and have intimate knowledge of the dangers and needs of the House areas. Four years ago they had already asked Police Chief Tonis to meet with them in special session to suggest increased police patrolling. They have resisted repeated attempts in the last three years to eliminate watchmen in the Superintendents' offices after 4:30 p.m. Masters of several Houses began asking some years ago for better locks for student rooms, especially locks that couldn't be left open. They were told that buildings would be done one by one beginning in the graduate areas...
...House staffs have been for several years acutely aware, through personal experience, of the increasing danger of theft and violence in their area. Incidents similar to recent troubles have occurred more than once during the past three years. They have fought bitterly for security measures they deemed proper--watchmen, lights, police, locks, peepholes. Now suddenly an awakened central administration has offered all this and much more, urging the locking of entries, too, and the installation of gates. I should not want to be thought ungrateful if instead of locking everything up I should like to pause a moment to consider...