Comments on: Colleges do not card

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:25:40 +0000

Free men do not live subject to video surveillance or electronically locked buildings.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:57:25 +0000

If you want a career in education, engineering, medicine, law, business, or the sciences, an accredited degree is mandatory.

The days when you could just sit in the back of the room and listen ended long ago, even for state schools. At most schools, private and public, key cards of some sort are needed to get into most buildings, and surveillance cameras are everywhere.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:26:01 +0000

Wow, times have changed! The recent Brown University shooting footage revealed that security cameras are common now, but the idea of locking a college down is really foreign to me.

By: Dan Kurt

Dan Kurt — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:38:58 +0000

Fellow classmate from Ivy during 1960s contacted me to say he was shocked, shocked to discover on visiting the campus EVERYTHING was locked down, security was obvious, and cameras watched over all. As to the schooling, he told me that the number of lectures given to students had decreased substantially per course since our time there.

By: Handle

Handle — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:14:28 +0000

Colleges do card now. The last five campuses I’ve been to all had many buildings with secure entry that require tapping student or staff identity cards on some RFID sensor panel to disengage the automatic lock on the doors. Even state schools that explicitly provide free “audit” access to classes for certain groups like the elderly still require more than the professor’s mere permission and one must apply for to get one of those IDs and, as I understand it, there is some vetting or background check that goes along with that.