Visitation
battle
centered
in dorms
By Mark Hoffman
So far, battles about coed visitation at UNL have been
waged in dormitories.
Dormitory officials at Harper Hall last week suspended
visitation for three days because they believed residents
weren't complying with the open door rule by keeping
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Schramm and Smith Hall residents also were warned to
keep doors open when entertaining guests of the opposite,
sex or risk losing visitation hours.
Meanwhile, other university-chartered living
units fraternities, sororities and cooperatives seem outside
the fght for visitation rights.
As university-chartered living units, they are subject to
the seme rules as any dormitories.
As separate living units without university personnel
living in, their visitation policies often ale self-imposed.
Where has this semi-autonomy led? Visitation from
house to house varies. In checking with seven fraternities,
four sororities, and five cooperatives, the Daily Nebrasksn
found a wide range of policies from never allowing guests of
the opposite sex into individual rooms to what amounts to
24-hour visitation.
Pioneer House, a UNL cooperative, is advertising "no
visitation policy" in the hand-printed brochures it's
distributing this year.
UNL's visitation policy allows six hours of visitation
during the week between noon and 12:30 a.m. and 12
hours of visitation on Saturdays during the same hours.
Rusty Reno, president of the Brown Palace cooperative,
said, "We don't have a visitation policy. (We) leave it up to
the individual member."
Officers of the Brown Palace and Pioneer House
cooperatives said they developed their own visitation policy
because they were basically on their own.
They said they tave had to fight vacancy problems
because UNL. ios not widely publicize the existence of
cooperatives. Offkrs said they felt that the UNL housing
office staff first worries about filling dormitories end then
cooperatives.
the freedom of the cooperatives visitation policies as more
relsxing. "You don't feel like Big Brother is watching over
you."
Rich Wall, pledge trainer at Sigma Nu, said his
fraternity's official visitation hours are from 6 to 12 p.m.
during the week and 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. on weekends.
But "(I) can't guarantee wt follow that," he said.
Some fraternities officially have sin hours of visitation
during the evening taut e!low female, guests in individual
rooms during the afternoons.
Othar fraternities have more limited visitation.
Farmhouse allows visitation for three hours on Friday
and Saturday night, and on Sunday af ternoon and evening.
According to visitation policy statements fifed with the
Interfratemity Council OFCJ, Farmhouse also has one of
the most severe, penalities for visitation violators fines up
to $25.
Of campus living units, sororities have some of the most
limited visitation and the most severe fines.
Alpha Delta PI has open house on Sunday, and allows
visitation in its television-recreation room until 2 a.m.
during the week, according to president Kathy Shorney. .
Violators ere fined $50 and social privileges are taken
away.
Kappa Delta sorority does not allow men in individual
rooms, according to vice president Donna Stone.
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