W.C. Lawson |
Last semester ASUP President Quin Chadwick vetoed Resolution 13-12, which would have given off-campus students swipe access with their ID cards to all residence halls during intervisitation hours.
“With the current on-campus residence policy, the University is building community only within their dorms,” said ASUP Off-Campus Senator and author of the resolution Samantha van den. “We wanted to bring back a more communal feel on campus, but given the current residence policy, the resolution wouldn’t work.”
The sponsors of the resolution constructed a survey in order to gather data from off-campus students to gain support for the resolution. According to Chadwick, however, the results were invalid due to a low number of respondents and the construction of the survey. He believes giving all off-campus students this access to the residence halls would create many safety concerns on campus.
“The biggest thing here is security,” Chadwick said. “Residence halls are homes for on-campus students, and doubling the amount of access to them is not a risk I am willing to take.”’
The Senate did not challenge the veto.
“The reasons for the veto were justified,” van den Berg said. “We don’t want to put the students in a worse situation.”
Gerald Gregg, Director of Public Safety, favored Chadwick’s decision to veto the resolution.
“We want people to feel safe and secure in their residence halls,” Gregg said. “Reality is, without a hall receptionist, opening access to all students at the University opens an opportunity for risk.”
