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[quote=Anonymous]Contrary to what some posters have said, I find what Howard University is doing no different from what some other urban colleges/universities have done. 
Some posters referenced Columbia and its "openess". On the part of Columbia's campus that most resembles Howard's Quad there are gates, some of which Columbia chooses to keep open 24 hours a day. But that is at Columbia's discretion and it can change its policy at any time. At night, there are guards at those gates and they will stop people that they don't think "belong" on campus. Yale used to lock the gates at night to their equivalent of the Quad. Only students who lived on that quad had the ability to enter after certain hours. Pratt Institute in Brooklyn grew tired of the growing number of people with babies/toddlers using their equivalent of a quad as a park.  Partly because there were sculptures on campus on which children were climbing like they were playground equipment but regardless, Pratt told people that children were not welcome unless they were on campus for an event or were affiliated with the school. There were no protests. People who lived nearby were fortunate to have a gem in their neighborhood. Some of them abused the privilege so a broader group of people lost out.

Howard has the right to decide on the environment it wants to create for the people who study, teach and work at the University. It is also the University's right to decide who has access to its campus. For those unaffiliated people who live in the neighborhood and are granted periodic access, they should be thankful to the University for sharing its space and follow the policies the University sets. But that is the University's choice and if it chooses to restrict access to its campus, then so be it.[/quote]

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