A much-anticipated vote that would have changed the residence hall door policy was put on hold at last night’s Inter-Residence Hall Association meeting for two weeks because there were questions about specifics in the bill.

Towers Residence Association President Jeremy Williams said he found a number of problems with it.

He said he felt it would be difficult for all of the residence hall associations to agree with the proposed one-fourth vote needed from house members to decide whether to remove a questionable item from a student’s door.

Williams also mentioned that in many cases only a small number of house members attend house meetings, a potential problem. Appeals of a house decisions would have to go through individual halls’ judicial processes, but there are different set-ups between the halls.

Union Drive Association and Richardson Court Association judicial processes are relatively similar, but TRA’s is somewhat different. This could create problems with consistent enforcement.

Some of the other problems with the bill involve whose responsibility it would be to clean up items that fall from the door. In addition, some wondered what would happen if a door was vandalized.

If the proposal passes the Inter-Residence Hall Association, Director of Residence Randy Alexander will have to give his approval and then the university’s lawyers will have their input.

“I don’t even pretend to know how lawyers think,” Alexander said.

IRHA bylaws state if not all residence associations approve the entire proposal, the bill will be dead.

In other business

An emergency legislation bill added an additional $500 to the reward for any information leading to the arrest of the assailants who reportedly assaulted a black student security officer Oct. 18. The reward is now $3,200.