Students also must swipe their university identification into an electronic entry system to gain access to their dorms. At Loretto, the bathroom doors have no locks and the shower stalls have opaque green curtains, residents said. Yesterday, peepholes were being drilled into the door of every student's room. Located in a leafy part of Boston's Fenway neighborhood, Loretto Hall, which sits on the Emmanuel College campus, has been used to house BU underclassmen for three years. The four-floor brick building houses 224 men and women, mainly freshmen.
Men live on the first and third floors.
Derisively referred to as ''Loghetto'' because of its distance from the main BU campus, students say the university offers incentives to get them to live there, including free cable television and bonus ''convenience'' points that students can use to buy food and school supplies. BU also operates a daily shuttle for Loretto residents. Molloy said that the last time he could remember an intruder committing a rape on BU property was about a decade ago, in a building on Beacon Street. The perpetrator was arrested, he said. Forwarded by the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention.