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Visitation policy for on-campus residents to change

 VSU Hall residents are going to see big changes with the visitation in the fall, and some aren’t too pleased with it. 

 On Monday, on-campus residents received an email from the Director of Housing and Residence Life, Thomas W. Hardy announcing the new visitation policies that will begin Fall 2011.

 The new policy states “Hopper Hall will house only upper-class students for 2011-2012. Visitation will be same as it is in Centennial now, except no overnight visitors of the opposite gender will be allowed. Georgia will not be available to upperclassmen for 2011-2012.”

 As of this semester, the visitation policy allows students to have overnight visitors. Hopper and Georgia Hall are also available to freshman and upperclassman. Some students were upset when they heard the news.  

 “I wanted to stay in Georgia Hall – one of the nicer dorms,” Chyna Willford, freshman nursing major said. “It’s stupid, we’re grown and as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone it’s our choice.”
 Some students believe that with the new policy, many students will leave and start looking for places off campus.

 “What’s the point of staying on campus and can’t have someone stay in your room? “ Thesus Jackson, junior sociology major said. “Everybody is grown now and you can’t tell grown people what to do these days since they are paying for school on their own.”

 “I was upset, I planned on staying in Georgia Hall,” Dijon Henry, freshman psychology major said. “Now I don’t.”

 Hardy also included in the email that upperclassmen would not lose any spaces due to the new visitation policy.

 Room selection for the 2011- 2012 school year will begin Feb. 28- March 2 in the Student Union Ballroom C.

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  1. This new “policy” is ludicrous. First off, Hopper was always supposed to be for upperclassmen only, as is Centennial. Has there ever been only uppperclassmen in these halls? The answer to that would be an emphatic no. Housing has always and more than likely will continue to put freshmen wherever they feel like squeezing them in. As to the visitation part- it’s almost as ludicrous. They will now have the same basic policy all over campus now, yet will it be enforced? CAN it be enforced? The answer is, yet again, no. They have rarely enforced the rule as it has been. How will applying it to upperclassmen help this out? Centennial has three entrances, none of which have “guards” like the other residence halls do. So how will anyone really ever know or prove it unless the RA stands in the hallway 24/7? Also, how do they define “overnight”? During quiet hours? From dusk til dawn? Let’s say it is the latter since quiet hours don’t apply on the weekends or breaks. Does this mean that someone can bring a visitor of the opposite sex in at midnight and they leave at 4? That is far from the conventional idea of overnight, so it must be allowed, correct? Also, why have students absolutely no say in this, whatsoever? I and my family are paying about $2,000 for me to live here, why can’t I have who I want to have (within the law, of course) in my own room during Housing and Residence Life’s unspecified time period? On that topic, what exactly defines a visitor? But why is this rule being created now? For security purposes? How does having an overnight visitor of the opposite sex compromise security? It makes NO sense. If someone is going to visit their boyfriend, girlfriend, or friend-of-the-opposite-sex, why choose the night to commit a crime against them? There are fewer people around, therefore someone is far more likely to be caught, whether on the security cameras or by whomever they are staying with. The only logical reason I can see for this rule to exist in this fashion is to prevent “immoral” things from happening. And if this is so, why is this rule biased against heterosexuals? Also, in general, what happens at night that can’t happen during the day? Unless Housing has documented cases of vampire attacks in the area, there is absolutely no real reason for this part of the policy. I, for one, would very much like to know their reasoning (if there is any) behind this, because nothing about it makes sense. The whole tone of it seems reactive to things that are happening, and I have heard little that warrants this “policy.”

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