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BloodBonesVoiceGhost t1_j58o7nq wrote
It's not an East Coast thing. I went to school in Massachusetts, and interviewed at schools in Maine and New Hampshire. Visited friends at Dartmouth, Brown, George Washington, American. Went to sports competitions at Whitman, Reed, Pacific, Gonzaga, Stanford (on the west coast). None of them are gated. Gating an entire college campus would make no fucking sense (except maybe in very rare exceptions). You seem to not understand how large many colleges and universities are.
Can you show some pictures or provide some examples or evidences of schools that are fully gated?
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BloodBonesVoiceGhost t1_j58pclb wrote
You said TWO examples. Out of 4,300 colleges in the country. TWO. And yet you claim that, let me quote you:
>Almost all campuses are gated…what?
...and your evidence... so far, is TWO. Out of 4,300.
aroc91 t1_j58niuh wrote
East coast thing maybe? I don't know what to tell you. I can drive freely through any major university here in TX and have done so through quite a few.
Teantis t1_j58yzos wrote
I went to college in the east coast. Visiting friends at other schools all up and down the east coast. I've never seen a gated campus, like the whole campus.
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aroc91 t1_j58o0jh wrote
I was originally simply responding to your assertion "Almost all campuses are gated", which was a bit of a bold claim and entirely contrary to my own experience, not denying there are gated campuses.
BloodBonesVoiceGhost t1_j58p108 wrote
Which other colleges have you been to that have this? Since you have been to so many that do. I really believe you that some do, but there's just no way that it's the norm. No way. I have been to schools in huge cities, tiny towns, mid-sized cities. It just isn't practical to gate a massive school and direct all traffic through an individual gate. Most college campuses are bustling hubs of activity, with people coming and going all day long. It just doesn't make logistical sense to throttle traffic at a gate around the entire thing (rather than, for instance, having card readers on individual doors on individual buildings).
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BloodBonesVoiceGhost t1_j58pghz wrote
...so are you just talking about swiping an ID card to enter a building??? Because that is pretty clearly not what the rest of us are talking about.
Yes, obviously needing ID cards to access certain buildings is common. (And I bet that even on the campuses you've talked about, there are certain buildings that certain times of day require no ID to access... eg the student union building or the administration offices).
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BloodBonesVoiceGhost t1_j58prz2 wrote
Okay then no. That's not remotely common.
You think a university of ~50,000 students like University of Michigan can hire 4,000+ security guards to stand at all entrances at all hours of the day???
And it certainly isn't common at smaller private schools like my alma mater or Sarah Lawrence (both of which have student bodies around 1500).
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BloodBonesVoiceGhost t1_j58qa64 wrote
It totally does make sense for some campuses in rougher parts of some cities to do this. I didn't know that any did, but now that you share it, and I have clicked into your link, I can see how it makes perfect sense for some schools. Thank you for sharing your experience. It's cool that we both got to learn something today.
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