New policies have been instated this school year for the residence halls at Colorado State University-Pueblo. All four residence halls, consisting of Belmont Hall, Crestone Hall, Culebra Hall, and Greenhorn Hall are affected.
Junior business major Jonothan Stephenson, a former desk assistant, says that one of the major changes in Resident Life and Housing is concerning guests.
“If you have someone over in your room that you did not sign in, it would be considered as breaking housing policy,” said Stephenson.
The Resident Life and Housing Handbook under Visitors and Cohabitation states:
Visitation is when a guest (any person who does not reside in the same hall as the resident) visits a resident in their room. All guests must register at the front desk and be accompanied by a host/hostess who lives in that Residence Hall. A student may only register a guest in the hall in which they live. A resident registers their guest at the front desk by presenting their CSU-Pueblo identification card and their guest’s picture ID.
“The dorms seem to be more tense with policies as such,” said Stephenson. “When the cameras were installed, everyone would walk by the desk and say how they felt invaded and a lack of privacy.”
Mitchell Tenorio-West, a junior sociology-criminology major said the new policies in the dorms are awful considering it’s such a hassle bringing in guests simply to hang out or study.
“I understand that they are trying to keep security up and all, but it’s making it difficult to get around,” said Tenorio-West.
Tenorio-West has lived in the dorms since his freshman year. This fall semester will be the beginning of his third year in the residence halls.
“It isn’t allowing people in the dorms to branch out or have fun with the other dorms if your friends are there or just want to hang out,” says Tenorio-West. “It’s now complicated where you have to sign the person in just to have fun for a little.”
Barrington Burnett, a freshman living in Culebra Hall said he enjoys living in the dorms.
“I have met a lot of people, which is nice,” said Burnett. “I feel that not being able to go to other dorms is a little weird, but I like that I can do laundry for free because older students have told me that used to not be the case.”
For more information regarding the new policies at residence halls, call 719-549-2602 or email Housing@csupueblo.edu.
Dust • Sep 9, 2014 at 1:43 pm
How stupid is this !! Please get rid of the Dean of Students and Residence Life. She’s ruining everything.
John Holcomb • Sep 9, 2014 at 12:59 pm
I respect what the university was attempting to do with all these policies but I am very skeptical on how they decided to go about putting these policies into action. Obviously I don’t need to talk about how these policies infringe on our rights and effect our lives directly. But enforcing all these different polices so fast, and all at the same time puzzles me. Really I am contemplating how this plan was decided upon. So lets see if these policies were just imagined ideas, or thoughts thought through and executed to a point that no matter what would happen it would have a positive outcome on residents.
John Doe • Sep 9, 2014 at 12:40 pm
It’s disappointing that these problems continue to come up in discussion but nothing is being done about it. If only we could of slowly tried each of the rules out, oh wait we could of! But instead all the new policies just thrown on to residents. It looks like more more people are aware of these problems, will someone in power attempt to solve these problems? I would guess no
Henry • Sep 9, 2014 at 12:04 pm
I think these new policies are rather ridiculous, we’re a state school not a private christian college. Last year there was a major push from ASG to allow Walking Stick residents access to the various dorms, now that the new administration has taken over the Dean of Students and Housing has walked all over them and completely ignored all efforts made.
How can the school administration make these policies that directly affect our life here at Colorado State University-Pueblo without even asking for our input? This seems to be a recurring problem on this campus and its seriously making me reconsider my choice to attend this university.
Mike Lins • Sep 9, 2014 at 10:42 am
The new policies are really unnecessary. We’ve scored extremely well on safety tests for the last decade…. http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20120219/NEWS01/702199906/How-safe-is-Fort-Lewis-College#/storyimage/DU/20120219/NEWS01/702199906/EP/1/7/EP-702199906.jpg&maxw=620&maxh=400
Sorry for the long link, but that is the 10 year study that the Durango Herald conducted about safety in CO campuses. For all seven categories (Drugs, Forced Sex, Weapons Possession, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Arson, and Liqour Incidents) we scored in the lower half of the spectrum for them.
Lovs2splooge • Sep 9, 2014 at 8:29 am
The policies mentioned here aren’t half as bad as the over night guest policy. Take a look:
All overnight guests must be checked in at the front desk regardless of the length of their stay. 24 hours prior to an overnight guest’s arrival, the resident must turn in an Overnight Guest Form. This form needs to be signed by the resident, his/her roommate, and their Resident Assistant before turning the form into the Residence Hall Director. Only guests of the same sex are allowed to stay overnight in the resident’s room.
If I wanted to go to a private Christian college I could have. I wouldn’t have expected this at a secular public University. Very disappointed we seem to have to be babysat as adults still. Another step back to the dark ages.