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Volume 77 Issue 7
Pony kegs only; no horsing around
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Main campus and CCE students were stopped
and asked who they support for president and
what they consider to be the main election
issues for them.
New access policy placed in effect
Susan C. Roberts
Staff Writer
Following a decision made by
the Security and Safety Advising
Committee last year, the Division
of Security and Safety has devel
oped a new policy to control the
access of students to academic fa
cilities on campus after the facility
that houses those areas has been
closed.
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facilities such as the chemistry lab
and art building, and student orga
nizational offices such as Union's
office and the Publication Suite,
will be regulated by the system. It
will not be a general building pro
cedure but an access control for
specific areas.
This new access policy is now in
effect, according to Director of
Security and Safety Mary Ann
Weedon. Students who are granted
regular access to buildings and fa
cilities will have to get an I.D. card
from security along with a key.
The student is responsible for the
deposit of $25. Any additional
charges for keys will be billed
againstthe student's initial account,
said Weedon.
The I.D. card will be provided
by Security. It will not have a bar
code like the regular student I.D 's,
but it will include information re
ferring to the particular facility the
student will be accessing. It will be
a laminated, personalized card
which will enable security guards
on duty to know and control who
has approved access to the areas
after hours.
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
Matthew Levy
News Editor
The Administrative Council
met Wednesday morning to dis
cuss the fate of private keg par
ties on Guilford's campus, decid
ing to retain the current policy
but limiting students to half-kegs.
The pre-existing policy gave
Residential Life authority to ac
cept or deny student petitions for
kegs, if stringent guidlines for
safety and legality were observed,
according to Provost Dan Poteet.
"Ad Council decided today to
support the current practice of
George [Segabade] and Helen
[Mulhern] in reviewing keg party
applications," said Poteet.
"We made one change. Given
that the rooms that these parties
can occur in sometimes have a
small capacity for people, we
decided to instruct George and
Helen to permit only one pony or
half keg rather than full kegs."
Senate President Jen Hill, who
represents the student body in
Ad Counil, dispatched senators
to their constituents with
questionaires prior to the meet
For safety, at least two stu
dents will need to be in the build
ing at a time if labs and facilities
are to be used after-hours.
Students who need access to a
"I would think it's an
insult to our faculty
that they need to seek
Kathy's permission
just so they can give a
key to their student
assistants."
--Justin Cohen,
student assistant
faculty office will need the sig
nature of that faculty member
and then the signature of Aca
demic Dean Kathy Adams.
Security hopes this procedure
will be beneficial to individuals,
as well as to the school's prop
erty and organizations.
"No one individual act spe
cifically" has triggered the cre
ation of this policy, Weedon re
ing to gauge student opinion.
"Most people agreed with the
policy as it was. A couple said it was
too lenient but more said it was too
strict," said Hill.
"The majority of the surveys said
that they wanted keg.... But there
was a lot of hesitance in Ad Council,
because they think kegs encourage
drinking and that there is a problem
with drinking on campus.
"The big question was, 'Should
we have no kegs on campus at all?'
So what we were arguing for is to
keep the policy the same and to keep
kegs on campus."
With the threat of losing the
privilige altogether in mind, Hill re
gards the decision as an acceptable
compromise.
"Today was a big step," she said.
According to Hill, thequestionares
showed that students are unaware of
this policy and confused it with the
subject of last year's deliberations.
"When we asked people if they
agreed with the policy or not, they
said 'What policy?' and so I think
the first step is, now that we've de
cided upon a policy, to publicize it to
the students so they know exactly
what's expected of them, so they can
ported. "It is an effort to make this
campus a safer place for every
one."
While acknowledging the need
for safety, Justin Cohen, who man
ages the Peace Studies reading
room as a studentassistant, pointed
out some "peculiarities" in the new
system.
"I have an enormous amount of
respect for Kathy Adams, but I
have trouble understanding why it
is necessary to have her ultimate
approval on key distributions.
"What wonderful piece of en
lightenment is Kathy privy to about
my character that security or my
supervisor couldn't access as well?
She doesn't know me well, and I
doubt she knows most of the people
whom she is deciding about keys
for at all," said Cohen.
"I would think it's an insult to
our faculty that they need to seek
Kathy's permission just so they
can give a key to their student
assistants.
"Morever, I'm sure Kathy has
better things to do with her time
than to sign forms for keys. Itseems
on the surface, at least, to be an
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abide by the rules.
"No one understands that it is a
different issue this year. Last year
they were dealing with kegs at
institutional functions. Which
would mean that the college would
supply the keg, which is huge li
ability for the College. So they
can't do that.
"Now were talking about pri
vate parties where students pro
vide the keg and everyone is 21
and its a lot more under control and
its a pony keg not a full keg."
While Poteet expects Res. Life
will be less reluctant to okay keg
petitions, he explained that the
policy does not guarantee approval.
"I don't think satisfying the mini
mum stipulations would automati
cally turn into permission; the
people being asked to provide per
mission still have to use their own
judgement. I would imagine per
mission would typically be
granted," said Poteet.
"Ad Council doesn't think for a
minute that keg policy—permis
sion to have alcohol or permission
not to have alcohol—that these
particular decisions have any sig
nificant impact on alcohol use."
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Weedon
unnecessary layer of bureacracy,"
he added.
Tracy Davis, an art student, also
expressed frustration with the new
policy, and skepticism about get
ting her deposit back.
"The controlled access policy is
going to be a big hassle. Essen
tially, it's tacking on a $25 fee and
a lot of red tape for the right, not the
privilege, of using facilities at
Guilford.
"That means a lot of classes,
including all the art classes, will
cost extra money to take. I'm not
aware of any incident that has
prompted this, at least not in the art
building. It's unnecessary," she
said.