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Time to get crafty
If you haven’t heard, Columbia has a new policy when it comes to getting locked out of your room. According to those Columbia emails that you don’t read, “residents are granted one complimentary key assist and one complimentary proxy escort per semester.”
A key assist is when a faculty worker comes to open your door, and a proxy escort occurs when you authorize housing (by emailing them from your Columbia email address) to let someone else into your room. As for key loans, “each resident is granted three complimentary key loans” for the semester.
After locking yourself out three times you will incur a $50 charge. Additional proxy escorts and key assists have a $20 charge. For other questions, read the Guide to Living.
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@Do you hear yourself? What are you even saying?
@because we all need this during hell week, when you have twelve papers due, it’s raining, and you’re in a bathrobe, and none of your hallway acquaintances are answering their doors.
Dear Columbia, why isn’t assistance in accessing our 100 square-foot home-sweet-homes ALWAYS complimentary?
@JJ13 Fuck this new policy. The renovated john jay floors dot have deadbolts
@Dear Freshman None of the columbia dorms have deadbolts.
Love,
Senior
@Hwat It’s a $5 charge, not $50.
@Guide to Living “Each resident is granted three complimentary key loans per term. Once a resident exceeds three key loans, s/he is referred to the Residential Life conduct process each time a key loan is issued”
No $50 or even $5 charge for locking yourself out 4+ times.
@research, or nah? “…a proxy escort is a Columbia service where students can call to have someone walk with them, when they feel unsafe. ”
Lol, what?
According to the actual policy (http://housing.columbia.edu/policies/keys-and-locks), “a proxy escort occurs when, with the permission of the resident to whom a room is assigned, a staff member grants a non-resident entry to a room or suite in order to retrieve something left behind.”
Did Bwog just guess what a proxy escort was without reading the actual policy? LOL
@Eric Cohn You’re right; the post has been updated!