Campus housing is a convenient and stimulating option for ULM students. There is one inconvenience that every student seems to deal with at some point: the ID Access is for residents only.
Many residents find it annoying to have to let someone in the gate and no one is eager to wait around for their friend. Ironically, they always show up right as someone else is walking up with an ID.
Residential Life, however, strictly prohibits allowing gate entry to unknown persons, which they call tailgating.
Josh Albritton, a senior political science major of Farmerville, likes the ID system.
“It does make me feel safer because I know that no random psycho will be stalking the halls outside my door,” Albritton said.
“The ultimate concern is for the safety of our students. So preventing one crime from happening would make the locks worth it,” says Amber Atkins, a sophomore marketing major from Monroe.
Absent of any real way to enforce the rule against letting strangers in, Residential Assistants (RA) are at a loss.
“Nothing’s perfect,” concludes Albritton, “but at least it’s something rather that nothing.”
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