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I’m very happily the resident of a single in Wylie. The staff is great and the dorm is super comfortable since the renovations. However, one newly installed device is becoming the bane of my residence in the dorm: The door security monitor recording. Anytime the parking side Bell Young facing door is opened a recording, loud enough to be heard in any of our rooms on the floor, begins shouting “The door is not secure!” over and over until the door is, of course, once again secure.
While it might be considered useful if there were some sort of reasonable time delay on the proclamation, such is not the case. The device is infuriatingly loud and begins to assault one’s ears immediately as the door is opened. My departure through the door on mornings to my class in Rangeview is an exercise in students enduring ill conceived and pointless methods taken in the name of some supposed pursuit of safety from thieves or rodents. There’s no reason why a time delay could not have been installed to limit the level of annoyance without losing the efficacy of the instrument.
Since I’m on the subject of infuriatingly pointless things the school does in the name of safety, why are the gates down by the library hill still being shut at night? Two years ago when there was a security station by the Newcomb entrance to check visitors in this move made sense, but since anyone can get onto campus anyway without the security checkpoint there anymore, why inconvenience students at night and force us to have to go all the way around the hill? The campus is still open and accessible either way, so why not increase the convenience?
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