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| VISITATION POLICY Coeducation allows men and women to contribute to one another's education and to form genuine friendships. In the proper context, visitation can facilitate personal and social development and enhance the quality of life on campus. Some limitations, however, are placed on visitation in order to protect the privacy rights of all students and to foster an atmosphere that is safe, scholarly, and in harmony with traditional Catholic moral teaching. By matriculating at King's College, you have agreed to abide by the visitation policy established by the College community. Specifically, the following policies must be observed. 1. Visitation in the living areas of each hall (any point beyond the lobby) by persons of the opposite sex is permitted only during hours approved by the office of the vice president for student affairs. The following hours of visitation have been approved: Sunday thru Thursday 10 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. 2. During visitation, opposite-gender guests are prohibited from using the bathroom facilities on residential floors since these are exclusively single-gender facilities. Public guest facilities are found adjacent to the lobbies in Holy Cross and Esseff Halls and in the basement of Luksic Hall. 3. A visitation violation that involves an overnight stay - that is, remaining in a residence hall room four hours after the end of the visitation period - is a serious offense. Overnight guests seriously infringe upon the privacy and security of students and seriously disturb the scholarly and moral atmosphere of our residence halls. Overnight stays are prohibited to all opposite-gender guests regardless of their relationship, including family. 4. Twenty-four hour visitation is permitted in the lobbies of Esseff and Holy Cross Halls and in the lounge of Luksic Hall. 5. The doors to the residence halls are locked one hour after the end of visitation hours. You can gain entrance to Esseff Hall by ringing the bell and to Holy Cross Hall via the card access reader on the side door. No unescorted non-residents of the hall may stay in the lobby. 6. Esseff Hall and Holy Cross Hall visitation policy: King's College students, faculty and staff must sign in at the desk and present their college ID to the desk attendant. Non-King's College guests visiting a student living in the hall must sign in and be escorted by their host. The guests are the responsibility of the resident and the resident should remain with their guest at all times. 7. Luksic Hall visitation policy: To gain access to the Luksic Hall residents' floors, visitors must enter the foyer through the front doors of Luksic Hall, using the escort telephone system, and call the Luksic Hall resident whom they wish to visit. The resident must meet their guest(s) in the foyer and escort them at all times while in the building. 8. Non-student guests must be escorted by a student at all times in the residence hall. The student escort will be held strictly accountable for the guest's behavior. Students who refuse to identify themselves when asked to do so by an authorized college official (i.e., resident counselor, resident assistant, etc.) will be considered non-student guests and must have an escort. Otherwise, they and any other unescorted non-student will be liable for criminal trespass and may be turned over to the proper law enforcement authorities. 9. Each hall resident has a right to privacy, which out- weighs his or her roommate's visitation privilege. If the presence of a guest is an inconvenience to a roommate, the guest must leave. However, no one may abuse the right by making unreasonable demands. 10. Emergency Key Sign Out Procedures a. The student must present a King's College identifi- cation card to the desk attendant. If the student does not have an ID card with them, the desk personnel must verify the person's identity by contacting a member of the residence life staff. b. The desk attendant must verify the student as the resident of the room according to the list provided by the Office of Residence Life. c. The desk personnel will have the student sign an emergency key lockout form and will send it to the assistant director of residence life. The student re- ceives a copy of the form. There is a $5.00 fee for signing out a key that is payable at the Office of Residence Life. The desk personnel will complete the information on the emergency lockout key log, including student's name, room number and date and time of lock out. d. If the emergency key is not returned to the desk personnel within 24 hours of the sign out, the Of- fice of Residence Life and maintenance are to be notified. The core of the student's room will be changed and new keys will be issued. The student is charged $85.00 for re-coring a room in Esseff, Holy Cross or Luksic Halls and $100.00 to $150.00 for re-coring an apartment in Flood Hall or Lane House. |