Security
All large dormitories have 24/7 security and require all students to swipe and show their school identification before entering. Bay State Road brownstones and many of the apartment-style residences on South Campus (such as those on Park Drive and Buswell Street) do not have such security and require students to have keys to the front door instead or on Bay State Road the Terrier Card acts as a swiped entry for the vestibule door. Every dormitory has at least one resident advisor. Large dorms have at least one on each floor.
The security system on campus (while safe and effective) was considered a nuisance by the student population prior to a major overhaul which took effect in Fall 2007. Students (and residents) of Boston University could not enter a dorm other than their own after 8 p.m. without being signed in, and were expected to leave the premises (unless allocated for a special study session, called a "study extension") by 2 a.m. Study extensions allowed students who live on campus to remain in a dormitory other than their own until 7 a.m., at which time they were required to sign out of the building.
Starting in September 2007, a new guest policy relaxed most of the rules that have frustrated Boston University students. The new policy allows for overnight guests to be signed in until 2 a.m. of the first night of the stay with consent of a student's roommate. Previously the guest policy did not permit overnight guest approval to occur less than 24 hours prior to the beginning of the stay. In addition, there is now a difference in the guest policy for those students living in the mostly freshman/sophomore dorms versus those living in the Student Village at 10 Buick Street, an exclusively upperclassman apartment complex. Residents of the Student Village will be allowed to have guests at any time of the day without any approval process, as long as the guest is accompanied by a Student Village resident. The new policy is likely to increase the percentage of students who want to live on campus, which is already a substantial majority of the undergraduate population.
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—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
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—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)