<p>I was at a summer program at BU last summer and stayed in Warren Towers. At the entrance to each tower there was a guard 24/7 who prohibited members of the opposite sex from entering the rooms. Was this just for the summer or is that in effect all year?</p>
<p>The guest policy is changing next year. Search this forum for the thread.</p>
<p>As Kinshasa said, the school's announced a new guest policy. It has to be voted into effect but that's believed to be a formality. The policy removes most of the restrictions and adds some other benefits, like the ability of any on-campus BU student to swipe into a dorm for food late at night.</p>
<p>i'm not too sure if i'm understanding the summer policy correctly. do u mean that everyone swipes in at the main entrance, but each individual tower's entrance has another guard just standing there? and that each tower was devoted to one sex?</p>
<p>if that's correct, then that's just the summer policy. BU houses high schoolers during the summer, so they probably want parents satisfied that dorms are single-sex. during the regular academic year, students have a lot more freedom than that. even floors are co-ed, and u can bring anyone u want into your dorm.</p>
<p>the whole guest policy debate has nothing to do with gender. in a nutshell, it's just that if u don't live in a certain dorm building, it's possible but inconvenient to swipe into that building from 8 pm to midnight, and it's impossible to swipe into that building from midnight to 7 am. these only apply if u don't live in that building. for your own building, u can swipe in 24/7.</p>
<p>yea it was that each individual tower had a guard and they really enforced the single-sex rule. but from what you said in your post it doesn't seem too bad.</p>