The Inter-Residence Hall Association passed an order Thursday that calls for discussion on the 24-hour door locking policy between student government and the Department of Residence.

After lengthy debate, the order replaced a previous order that had called for the doors to remain open during the day.

Dave Breutzmann, Towers Residence Association president and author of the bill calling for the doors to remain unlocked, said his bill was responding to what his constituents wanted.

“To say [door-locking] is going to happen is not an attitude I like to hear in this room at all,” he said. “When [my constituents] tell me to fight, I fight — it’s my job.”

Andy Tugan, Linden Hall representative and author of the bill calling for discussion, said a condemnation of the Department of Residence is not the best way to resolve concerns. “There’s going to be a door-locking policy,” he said. “We might as well be involved in such a policy.”

Tugan said an open dialogue with the DOR is needed to determine which doors should remain unlocked.

President Keith Twombley said the DOR’s decision to enact the policy without asking IRHA if the policy was needed was “a slap in the face.”

Union Drive At-Large Casey Harvey said parliament members needed to do a better job of talking to constituents about the policy. “We’ve lost a valued opportunity to give the DOR our opinions,” he said.

Government of the Student Body President T.J. Schneider was also at the meeting to discuss the dining service merger and the Memorial Union agreement.

He also asked for residence hall student input on the agreement, which places the Union under university control.

“Students will still be in control of day-to-day activities [of the Union],” Schneider said. “We’re putting together a task force of students to see how we can renovate this building.”

Also, a bill restricting the type of questioning members could ask during the initial read of a bill was defeated.

In other legislation, a bill was introduced that requires any funds taken from the special accounts fund to benefit all IRHA constituents, and a bill that would allot $250 to the Fall Blood Drive was passed.