But DeYoung said she did not feel the change would decrease the likelihood of another attack.
"[The FDO's decision] wasn't rational," she said. "[The assailant] wasn't a tourist."
Patrick F. Morrissey '04 said he didn't think the stricter coverage would affect his Annenberg experience.
"I felt perfectly safe before the cops, but I'm a big fella," he said.
Sergeant Kevin P. Bryant of the HUPD's Yard Community Policing Team said that police eat in the dining halls and "are pretty much around [as is]. There are 11 community policing officers in that particular area."
"It won't be a huge, dramatic thing; you won't see officers stationed there on a shift basis...but whenever anything happens to a member of the community, we take that personally," Bryant said.
Quasha also downplayed the significance of the new restrictions.
"That is such a miniscule part of the tour, and only on the three o'clock tour," she said.
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