2008 Woodie Awards
ID Policy meets greater enforcement
Kate Czaplinski
Issue date: 11/13/04 Section: News Stories
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Many students have recently noticed that when visiting a dorm or apartment building on campus over the weekends, the desk workers have been asking to see identification. Even students who live in the building have been asked to show I.D. when coming in and out. For many students, this is a new nuisance, which they never had to deal with previous years.
However, this policy is nothing new according to Director of Residential Life Conway Campbell, Campbell believes the policy of desk worker's checking identification has been around for about four or five years now. The Student Life general policy on checking identification is that all students are required to carry a valid Assumption I.D. with them at all times, to be presented at the request of any official of the college, including Residential Life staff members.
Resident Assistant Sophomore Shayna Reed often works the desk in Alumni on Thursday nights.
"In training to be a desk worker, checking IDs was mentioned but never stressed," she said. "When we actually picked up our binders from public safety, we were given signs as reminders to check IDs even if we knew the individual."
Reed also mentioned that Resident Director of Salisbury Hall, Mike Borek, comes around to make sure desk workers are keeping with the policy and desk worker supervisors have been instructed to do this very same thing.
Conway Campbell believes that since Assumption is a very open campus, especially on the weekends, the desk workers add another level of safety and it is important to make sure the job is getting done right.
"There is more supervision on the desk worker policies now than there had been previously," said Campbell.
According to Campbell, an off-campus visitor must show their sign-in sheet from Campus Police and a photo I.D. to make sure both match up. Campbell also said that new stickers for Assumption ID's are going to be issued in either the coming Spring or Fall semester. These stickers will have class year and the residence hall of the student. It is supposed to make the checking of ID's a much faster process.
However, this policy is nothing new according to Director of Residential Life Conway Campbell, Campbell believes the policy of desk worker's checking identification has been around for about four or five years now. The Student Life general policy on checking identification is that all students are required to carry a valid Assumption I.D. with them at all times, to be presented at the request of any official of the college, including Residential Life staff members.
Resident Assistant Sophomore Shayna Reed often works the desk in Alumni on Thursday nights.
"In training to be a desk worker, checking IDs was mentioned but never stressed," she said. "When we actually picked up our binders from public safety, we were given signs as reminders to check IDs even if we knew the individual."
Reed also mentioned that Resident Director of Salisbury Hall, Mike Borek, comes around to make sure desk workers are keeping with the policy and desk worker supervisors have been instructed to do this very same thing.
Conway Campbell believes that since Assumption is a very open campus, especially on the weekends, the desk workers add another level of safety and it is important to make sure the job is getting done right.
"There is more supervision on the desk worker policies now than there had been previously," said Campbell.
According to Campbell, an off-campus visitor must show their sign-in sheet from Campus Police and a photo I.D. to make sure both match up. Campbell also said that new stickers for Assumption ID's are going to be issued in either the coming Spring or Fall semester. These stickers will have class year and the residence hall of the student. It is supposed to make the checking of ID's a much faster process.