At I-House we believe that we can *live, learn, collaborate and grow together in a values-based culture of empathy, respect, and moral courage". Yet our administration does not seem to care about those values they want us to follow.

They drastically changed the guest policies without heads-up and without considering our needs. A summary:

Before:

• 7 free nights limit
• up to 7 additional nights WITHOUT prior approval (paying extra fee)
• Potentially more nights in emergency situations, if Public Safety grants authorization
• fee per extra night (exceeding 7): $20
• 10 guests per resident allowed at any time (non-overnight)

Now:

• 6 free nights limit
• NO additional nights without prior approval
• Potentially more nights in emergency situations, if Public Safety grants authorization
• fee per extra night (exceeding 7): $30
• 5 guests per resident allowed at any time (non-overnight)

This means, the amount of guaranteed overnight stays was reduced from 14 to 6. Additionally, if someone gets the 8 extra nights (to get to the 14 granted before), that resident would have to pay an additional $100 (for nights 8-14: $10 more; full $30 for previously free 7th night).

This is just unacceptable, especially

• in a time without resident council
• right after signing the new membership agreements
• in the middle of a semester / residence period
• without heads-up and time to prepare for it

Many residents need the full 14 nights (or at least way more than 6) and relied on the previous policies to decide whether or not to move into Ihouse.

We are therefore asking the administration to revoke the changes - at least until the next semester when most residents get to decide again whether or not to stay at Ihouse.

>>> Please sign the petition (if you are not directly impacted yourself, please sign out of solidarity with fellow residents and the community). If possible, add your room number in the comments section. Also, please feel free to add to the text above in the comments. Thanks.