By TASHA BAILEY

lba011@latech.edu

 

New visitation hours have been set for Harper Residence Hall.

Former visitation hours for Harper were from 10 to 2 a.m. New hours are now from noon to midnight.

“The reason the rules have changed is because we have freshmen now staying in the dorm,” Amy Baker, a resident assistant at Harper and a junior human resources management major, said.

Melanie Peel, coordinator of assignments, said another reason for the change had to do with some floors being double occupancy.

“The hours were changed because it would be difficult to monitor residents from just the third and fourth floors,” Peel said.

The third and fourth floors have been changed into double occupancy since Graham Residence Hall is now occupied by males.

Kristina Hall, a resident at Harper and a senior health information management major, said she is unhappy with the new hours.

“The new visitation hours suck,” Hall said. “I have been staying in Harper for three years, and I can’t believe they are now trying to change things.”

The price for a private room is $990 and the price for regular room is $730.

“I don’t understand how they make us pay nearly a $1,000 and the students who are living on the third and fourth floors are still paying regular price,” Lindsey Simms, a resident at Harper and a junior finance major, said.

During the first week of school, the hall director and resident assistants held a mandatory meeting for all residents of Harper to talk about the rules and policies.

“The residents wanted to know why the hours had been changed,” Kim Mazier, an RA at Harper and a and senior education major, said. “We were trying to explain to them, but they seemed too upset to actually listen.”

At the meeting, the residents questioned the staff numerous times about the new visitation hours.

“If they were going to put someone in the rooms, they should have put upperclassmen in them, so that we could have our same visiting hours,” Hall said.

Peel said rooms were offered to upperclassmen first.

“The ones that were left were given to whomever paid their deposit first,” Peel said.

The rooms of Harper are considered a suite; two bedrooms are adjoined by a bathroom that consists of a shower and toilet.

“I don’t understand why their board didn’t go up just a little bit because now as opposed to about 30 girls sharing a restroom they have only four,” Simms said.

Man checks have become popular to some of the residence halls, such as Mitchell Residence Hall, but never to Harper. During a man check the RAs search the resident’s room to see if any male visitors are there after hours.

Shequita Brown, a resident at Harper and a senior biology major, said, “I have been staying in Harper for two years and we have never had a man check, until now.”