Campus safety measures increase

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

University of Kansas students living on campus may feel safer this year.

Security in campus housing, which has ranged from desk assistants to hand scanners, has undergone major changes this year.

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Security Measures Across Campus

Residence Halls:

-Lockdown after 11:00 p.m.

-KUID scanners

-Deskies

Jayhawker Towers:

-KUID scanners

-24-hour locked doors

Fraternities and Sororities:

-Varies from keycodes to hand scanners

Scholarship Halls:

-Keycodes

-24-hour locked doors

At the beginning of the school year, scholarship halls moved to a system where the doors were locked 24 hours a day. Residence halls are in the process of having KUID scanners installed. They also have desk assistants that watch the door 24 hours a day.

Diana Robertson, director of student housing, said she sees no problem with the scholarship hall security. She said the keypad system was installed long before the keycard system was installed at the residence halls.

She also said the closeness of the community helped with security.

“The scholarship halls are also a close-knit community of only 50 people per building, so everyone knows one another in the building, meaning that the monitoring of security takes place on a more individualized level there,” Robertson said.

Liz Winter, president of the All Scholarship Hall Council, agreed with Robertson.

She said that she knows all the friends of the residents in Douthart, the hall she lives in.

“I feel really safe here,” Winter said.

She said that each hall has a keycode that only residents of that hall know. The residents of each hall must escort guests 24 hours a day.

Winter said security varies from hall to hall. Some halls have people on phone duty in the front room, and residents of Douthart can buzz in guests from their rooms.

There haven’t been any security issues at any of the scholarship halls, Winter said.

She also said that residents feel safe; some don’t even lock their doors.

Since the residence halls have recently upgraded to the keycard scanners for entry, Robertson said the scholarship halls will upgrade soon as well. The scholarship hall upgrades are part of the same safety additions that the residence halls are part of. She said the upgrade will most likely happen in the next school year.

Justin Fredrick, the complex director for the scholarship halls, said the scholarship halls were in a phase of the KUID scanner upgrade.

—Edited by Nick Mangiaracina

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