Several issues, including quiet hours, the 'DeisBikes program and the prospect of requiring students studying abroad next spring to live in the Village in the fall were discussed at the most recent Campus Life Committee meeting held last week, according to Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer. The Campus Life Committee was created with the goal of bringing multiple stakeholders together to discuss pressing campus issues. It is co-chaired by Sawyer and Student Union President Jason Gray '10, according to the Student Union Web site. The committee meets approximately once a month.

Quiet hours were discussed extensively at the meeting, according to Gray. Several students at the meeting advocated shifting quiet hours in certain residential locations around campus. The proposed change would affect the Foster Mods and would move quiet hours from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. on a trial basis.

Gray said, "[The Student Union proposes] extending quiet hours for a trial period in a trial area, the Foster Mods, to see the effects. ... [Changing quiet hours is] ... one of the different things we can do that administratively can change, that will allow for a better structure for people to have more fun, and there's no reason we shouldn't try it."

Blumberg wrote in an e-mail to the Justice, "We're discussing what would need to be done to shift the quiet hours in specific locations on campus. This takes into account the wishes of that community next year (we will be conducting surveys once the housing selection is complete), potential changes to [the Rights and Responsibilities Handbook] (the specific hours of quiet hours are stipulated within that document), and educating the community."

Sawyer said, "Quiet hours is an annual discussion. . The perennial nature of it is that there is a body of students, apparently, who feel that a 1 o'clock quiet hour is, really, this day and age, too early."

DeisBikes will allow students to borrow bicycles free of charge for recreation or transportation. The bicycles will be maintained by a group of volunteer student mechanics, but there will be a charge for bikes that are damaged or lost.

Blumberg wrote in an e-mail to the Justice, "At this point the discussions surround final details, such as where the helmets will be stored, where the bikes will be stored during the off season, having the bike rack moved into place, etc" and that 'DeisBikes hopes to be up and running "for the middle of March."

The Campus Life Committee also discussed the policy that all students planning to study abroad next spring must live in the Village in the fall semester. Gray said, "Students should choose whether or not to study abroad based on whether or not they want to study abroad, not based on concerns about housing, not being able to live with their friends." Gray said that this is a long-term issue that will probably not be discussed by the Campus Life Committee again until next year.