Me, I feel safer already

[sigma7]

Today's Collegian trumpets K-State's new security procedures at dorms in wake of the Virginia Tech shootings: requiring students to show ID and guests to check in. ...Wait, what?

Or, as first commenter Becky Christner nailed it: "Oh good, so we'll be safe unless someone with a student ID decides to bring a gun to class!"

I'm not sure which is worse: an ineffectual policy being touted as safety, or complicity in promoting such.

Edit: It's "Furnas" (second graf), not "Furnace" (third graf). Mrgh.

Comments

[blemt.livejournal.com]

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Yeah, I think every dorm in America has some variation of that policy. Does oodles and oodles of good when the person is a student, lives in the dorm, and is a legal adult.

Honest to pete, as I listen to this stuff I wonder if any of these people have ever been on a college campus. This isn't high school. The kinds of security measures people are throwing around for colleges and universities are simply not practical. I have visions of late college students flipping out during finals because they get stuck in line for the metal detector...

Hard as it is to accept, bad things happen. Sometimes catastrophic things happen. Sometimes there's not an answer.

[erica-roo.livejournal.com]

Ummm... that's a NEW security procedure? They made us do that when I was in the dorms nearly 10 years ago... And no one ever got in by saying, oh crap, I forgot my ID... yeah, right.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm kinda glad that I'm not living in the dorms next year. You have to show your ID to get in the door and then you have to scan it to have access to the elevators or stairs as well. Because getting through two doors with bags full of groceries isn't bad enough...

One thing they're going to do next year that I FULLY endorse is they're going to make people sign their guests in. Earlier this year, one chick (and I live in an all-girls hall, remember, so guys are never supposed to be alone) let her boyfriend go to the bathroom by himself (and she was on the fifth floor and he used the girls bathroom) and he got the wrong door, walked into a room that was unlocked and tried to get into bed with someone who he THOUGHT was his girlfriend.

It WASN'T his girlfriend and the girl kept shoving him out of her bed and trying to convince him that he was in the wrong room to the point where he finally figured it out.

But yeah...I'm always seeing random guys wandering around by themselves at all hours of the night and I would rather have people just be responsible for their guests and actually have a way to get them into trouble.