Subject: Removal of Duplicate Card Readers
   Date: Fri 9/27/2002 1:22 PM
   From: Housing <univhous@andrew.cmu.edu>
     To: Donner-Residents@wgs.housing.cmu.edu <Donner-Residents@wgs.housing.cmu.edu>
     	 Mudge-Residents@wgs.housing.cmu.edu <Mudge-Residents@wgs.housing.cmu.edu>
     	 Resnik-Residents@wgs.housing.cmu.edu <Resnik-Residents@wgs.housing.cmu.edu>
     	 WestWing-Residents@wgs.housing.cmu.edu <WestWing-Residents@wgs.housing.cmu.edu>

Dear Mudge, Donner, West Wing and Resnik Residents,

Several of you have commented to the housing office this week regarding the
removal of the Diebold card reader at the entrance to your buildings.  I
apologize for not communicating with you in advance regarding this change.

Diebold card readers have been in place on five of our residence halls for
several years.  When the TESA card reader system was implemented in all
housing buildings, these Diebold card readers became duplicative of the
TESA card access control function.  Recently, the costs of maintaining
these readers has become prohibitive, and because they offer no additional
security to our buildings, they have been removed in all housing areas
except the Morewood Gardens entrance.  That Diebold reader has been kept
due to a limitation of the TESA reader in that location.

TESA readers remain in these five locations and provide card key access to
residents of your buildings.  The goal of the Diebold readers was never to
allow greater access to all campus residents to your buildings, it occurred
because that was the only way those readers functioned.  The TESA readers
restrict access to authorized residents, consistent with what has been
happening in all our other residence halls since 1999 when TESA was
installed.

Visitors to your buildings will have the same options as visitors to all
other residences, use of the entrance telephones to call the person they
are visiting for access.  Your buildings also have service desks, so any
CMU ID carrier can still enter your buildings by showing their ID to the
desk attendant.

As residents your access remains the same by use of your TESA housing card,
or you can come to the housing office and have your housing access placed
on your CMU ID card.

I'm sorry for the surprise if you preferred the Diebold reader for your
personal use and the use of your guests.  Their removal allows us to better
steward your rent monies while maintaining our building entrance security.

Regards,

Tim Michael
Director of Housing Services




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