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The bathroom doors are officially unlocked and I am honestly shocked at how quickly this turned around. This belongs entirely to the residents who spoke up about the situation. Please keep checking in to make sure things stay this way.

April 14, 2009

UNLOCK the Dorm Bathrooms

UNLOCK the Dorm Bathrooms

🏆 Won — 207 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 17 years, 6 months ago
PLEASE PUT YOUR ROOM NUMBER AND ONLY YOUR ROOM NUMBER in the comment box. Any further comments will only serve to clutter and degrade the purpose of the petition. This is a petition to have the bathroom doors of Eigenmann residence hall UNLOCKED. The reasons given are poor at best. One reason we are given is "ventilation," we are not asking for the doors to be propped open, or left open, just UNLOCKED. Locked or UNLOCKED will not have any bearing on the ventilation at all. Secondly, we are told it is a security issue. I quote a resident manager, "we lock the upper floors because we want to make sure that guests and/or administrative staff are not able to use them as they do not pay to live here." On floors 12-14 resident keys are needed to access the hallways. On floors 2-11 you need a resident key to access the elevators as they do not have doors restricting access to the hallways. Anyone with access to the hallway has access to the bathrooms. Administrative staff do not have access to the hallways. The hallways are locked; therefore locking the bathrooms is redundant. Further, guests are theoretically supposed to be escorted by residents, and are there by permission; therefore guests have the same access to facilities as their hosts. Therefore, locking the bathrooms is pointless. This is the same as someone living in a suburb locking their bathroom door because someone walking down the street may come in and vandalize their bathroom. Does anyone do this If you do not have a resident key, you do not have access to the resident bathrooms. Locking the resident bathroom doors places an undue and unwanted inconvenience on the residents who pay to live here every day. PLEASE PUT YOUR ROOM NUMBER AND ONLY YOUR ROOM NUMBER IN THE COMMENT BOX.

Updates

February 26, 2009

I have been going back and forth with the housing office to figure out why these doors remain locked when the arguments for security do not quite add up. It is frankly overwhelming to see how many of you reached out to say the same thing. This is entirely your doing because the administration is finally acknowledging that we are paying attention.

February 26, 2009

I truly never imagined we would see this kind of momentum building for such a simple request. It is honestly humbling to see that so many of you share this frustration and it is entirely your commitment that is pushing this forward.

Reached 100 supporters

February 26, 2009

6 Comments

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Sarah Hunt
17 years ago Featured

1405. Seriously this is so annoying when you have to run all the way back to your room just to grab your key when you forgot it for two seconds.

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Mike Jensen
17 years ago Featured

402. The logic here is completely flawed. Fix it.

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Tyler Nasser
17 years ago Featured

712

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Jessica Acosta
17 years ago Featured

1118. Makes zero sense to keep them locked. We already need a key to get on the floor anyway so what is the point???

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Emily Collins
17 years ago Featured

312. Just unlock the doors. It is a huge inconvenience for everyone living here.

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Brian Osei
17 years ago Featured

904