In the past, major doors of each dorm were left open during the day so students could enter and leave their buildings freely without having to worry about pulling out their id cards to get into their dorms. After recent events, our campus has decided to lock all doors 24 hours a day. Students will now have to use their id cards to get into their buildings. The cards must be (and already are) programmed so that the card will only get the student into whatever dorm he or she lives in. If you do not live in my building, you cannot access my building. We're locked down.
Well, sort of locked down. The residents don't like this, and they've already started propping the doors open with rocks. Here are the following comments being made on our honors online forum:
The doors were locked in Farris today. Did UCA lock all the dorms for our safety?
If so, it was a little late and poorly planned. If people want to be violent, they will find ways to do so. A locked door wouldn't stop them, and neither would security checks.
The doors are locked, which makes me a tad disgruntled. If something similar to the shooting happened here, the shooter would have a key-card. All they have accomplished is making it harder to carry things in and out.
I feel very secure knowing that the glass doors have been locked to protect me from gunmen.
The locking of the dorm doors results in nothing but an inconvience to the students. The english major that shot people in Virginia was a student, so if the same were to repeat here then said student would have an I.D. and would be able to access the dorm. So what does the locking of dorm doors do? I don't really think it deters the potential future shooter....
No I would have to say if anything it impedes the students, and probably reassures parents about their "babies" safety. But really its a mute gesture and doesn't accomplish anything.
So, are the dorms just going to be locked for the next 24 hours, or 24/7 indefinitely? Because that's going to get real annoying real fast.
But yeah. I feel safe behind our lovely locked glass doors, especially when any student who decided to pull a stunt like that would have an ID and the locks wouldn't matter.
Several of them, like the last person, said that "any student (...) would have an ID and the locks wouldn't matter" but that isn't necessarily true. If an Honors student decided to open fire in the Honors dorm -- the dorm s/he lives in -- then yes, they can get in the building, and the locks won't stop them. However, you must live in the building to have access to it.
And the doors aren't glass, they're Plexiglas -- slightly harder to break.
What gets me is that some of these same people were complaining that not enough was done to shut down Virginia Tech's campus. Now, they are complaining because we are taking steps to protect them. Oh no! They have to carry their ID cards with them! How dare we ask that they carry a key to get into their building... oh, wait. They have to have their cards with them anyway -- it's school policy. Also, there are lots of gated apartment complexes, so why should this be any different?
I can't wait to get out of this dorm and away from these stupid, whining, inconsiderate, immature little pricks and bitches. I've had enough of their self important attitudes. I'm also sick of the harassment I get for doing my job. These little f**kers can do whatever they please for all I care, as long as they leave me alone and out of it. I hardly think it's fair that I get to risk my neck for them, just so they can smear blood on my door.