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13 Sep 2007 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minkhollowSo today I was reminded why I keep picking up the school paper, even though it's not the world's greatest reading material. There's a scathing editorial on the attempted guest policy change that starts: "This week, Res Life virtually suggested that all Mount Holyoke students should be promiscuous and gay."
Basically, they want to change the rule governing how long guests can stay. Previously, it was 'no more than seven consecutive nights'; now, they're saying 'no more than seven nights a semester.' For any individual guest.
As the editorial points out, basically the only guests who would visit more than once are of the boyfriend or girlfriend variety. The policy would go particularly hard on boyfriends, since the campus reaction to a guy in a dorm is "Whose are you?"
And besides, guests are primarily a disturbance concern in rooms with more than one resident, in which case the roommates should be hashing it out first. There's no sense in changing the rule in an attempt to cope with doubles-and-above living situations when the policy, at least in theory, affects students in singles as well.
I'd ask the representative Res Life Adult about it tonight, if they were likely to be there for more than 'hi, I'm in charge of your quad, gotta run to another dorm now!' (which... they may stick around longer, but that's not the usual pattern).
Basically: If they wanted to overhaul the policy, why didn't they ask the students about it? I'm disinclined to accept safety issues as an excuse, since all guests have to be escorted when in the dorms.
Basically, they want to change the rule governing how long guests can stay. Previously, it was 'no more than seven consecutive nights'; now, they're saying 'no more than seven nights a semester.' For any individual guest.
As the editorial points out, basically the only guests who would visit more than once are of the boyfriend or girlfriend variety. The policy would go particularly hard on boyfriends, since the campus reaction to a guy in a dorm is "Whose are you?"
And besides, guests are primarily a disturbance concern in rooms with more than one resident, in which case the roommates should be hashing it out first. There's no sense in changing the rule in an attempt to cope with doubles-and-above living situations when the policy, at least in theory, affects students in singles as well.
I'd ask the representative Res Life Adult about it tonight, if they were likely to be there for more than 'hi, I'm in charge of your quad, gotta run to another dorm now!' (which... they may stick around longer, but that's not the usual pattern).
Basically: If they wanted to overhaul the policy, why didn't they ask the students about it? I'm disinclined to accept safety issues as an excuse, since all guests have to be escorted when in the dorms.