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Room Entry Policy

The following is an excerpt from the Student Handbook (part E, section 24: Residential Regulations)

While the college respects a studentŐs right to privacy, it reserves the right to enter any room when the interests of the college, safety, repair or maintenance urgently necessitate. Ordinarily, when students refuse to cooperate with a security guard, in the interest of health/safety issues and/or pursuing an investigation, the security guard will begin procedures to enter the studentŐs room without permission. This procedure requires the security guard:

  1. to identify him/herself and formally state the reason why a studentŐs cooperation is necessary, (e.g. suspicion of college regulation violation);
  2. to communicate that if the door is not opened, a master key will be obtained and the room entered;
  3. to make efforts to have a house officer and/or the house fellow/administrator present when the room is entered.

For normal repairs the college will continue to notify the occupants 24 hours in advance of performing scheduled maintenance.