Following months of debate that stretched across three New College Student Alliance (NCSA) administrations, a new agreement concerning the official cutoff time for Walls has been reached between students and the administration. Walls no longer have a mandatory cutoff time of 2:00 a.m. and may now run until noise complaints shut them down or until the events naturally wane.
“It’s a flashpoint for a lot of student self-governance issues,” President Gordon “Mike” Michalson told the Catalyst. “It has important features in and of itself but it is also representative of the wider issue of the balance among all interests in student self-governance issues.”
Students were informed of the change via an e-mail sent on April 22 announcing the formal lifting of the presidential decree issued in response to the battery of two students during a Wall in September 2008. The decree mandated Walls to end by 2:00 a.m. as an effort to prevent such events from happening again but became a major sticking point for students wishing to have more of a say in campus affairs.