Building a Case
"We felt it was important for students, especially women, to have access to all Harvard Houses in the case of an emergency," Rawlins says. Also, "with universal keycard access, students will be more vigilant in not letting in people who should not have access to Harvard buildings."
The failure to convince the administration to institute a blanket, campus-wide policy on UKA changed the focus of the council's lobbying efforts.
Then-council President Beth A. Stewart '00 met with individual House Masters and lobbied for change on a house-by-house basis.
The idea, says council treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01, was to convince the administration of the workability of UKA through successful test runs in some houses and campus-wide surveys of student interest in the matter.
Stewart convinced several Houses to enact some form of UKA. Quincy was by far the most ambitious, and became the only House to allow non-Quincy residents to swipe in 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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