Visitation: Changing hours a good idea

Dear Editor,

Recently, there was an article in The Colonnade about changing the visitation hours in the residence halls.

While I understand that the current hours are intended to help the students living in the dorms with such things as study habits and excessive visitors, I believe that these hours need to be changed.

Whether or not a visitor of the opposite sex has to leave at a certain time does not help a person’s study habits. Someone could just as easily waste away time that would otherwise be used for studying by talking to roommates and amusing him/herself on the computer.

I think that 24-hour visitation everyday of the week might be a little excessive because that would invade the normal studying days and would not provide the quiet that now exists on weekday nights. And besides, the roommate consent might become a hassle, and it’s hard to draw a fine line about when you’d want someone in your room and when you wouldn’t.

The suggested idea about 24-hour visitation Thursday through Sunday is the plan that I believe would be best for the residence halls. This would allow more than half the week to consist of 24-hour visitation hours and give people the ability to have friends come hang out later.

At the same time, however, it would not infringe on all the hours during the beginning of the week, where people might be trying to sleep and study more.

Sincerely,
Tara Holder

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Sep 30 2005. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry