Dean's Panel On Security Ends Study

The Dean's Committee on Security will recommend in its report to be released next week that the University improve outside lighting, lock outside doors and make other changes that will vary from House to House, Thomas A. Dingman '67, director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Parents Association and chairman of the committee, said yesterday.

"The only major change in students' lives will be the University-wide placement of locked doors between them and the outside world," Dingman said.

At Leverett House, the committee's proposal to limit visitor access of Leverett Towers' two entries to one has already been implemented. Student guards presently admit visitors at F entry.

Following the rapes at Leverett House in October, the House Committee proposed that the University station student guard at both tower entrances to provide maximum protection and convenience.

"This is a pacifying move by the dean's committee that simply does not provide enough protection," William P. Lewis '79, vice-chairman of the Leverett House Committee, said yesterday.

Dingman said, "It's phenomenally expensive to have guards at every entry and we felt we could reduce the number at Leverett House without jeopardizing security."

The committee will present a synopsis of its report to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) on Monday. Formed during late November in the wake of two assaults on Leverett House women, the four-member panel held discussion with House masters and senior tutors and inspected each House and the Yard dormitories before reaching its conclusions.