Campus Safety | Hillary Vance
It kind of amazes me that guests in Lehigh dorms aren’t required to sign in at the entrances. At Rutgers you were required to be signed in by a resident with the front desk worker during certain hours, and you had to have an ID on you. Granted this is not a fool proof system, but it appears there’s nothing at all here. Aside from having a record of who is in the building when, it can help deter lesser incidents by visitors if they know they could be held accountable. Even with that kind of precaution, there was still an incident at my sister’s dorm at Rutgers where a man had been sleeping in the lounge, apparently waiting for an opportune moment to assault a woman. I can’t verify this story, but even at my time there someone in my dorm was threatened by an intruder in the building. I don’t know if there have been any incidents here recently, but it is something that concerns me, probably because I’m here over spring break in a very empty dorm. Walking around in the quiet halls is not the most comfortable feeling. Walk up to a dorm entrance behind any resident and they will, out of courtesy, hold the door for you. Residential services FAQs assures residents that the only people that have access to the dorm are other residents, residential services, and maintenance, but in reality that’s not really the case, is it?





