Locks on Dorm-Room Wardrobes?
This “Dean” has no clue where in the university universe Tanoche Hall is located. I suggest that you go to your college’s Web page and find an email address or telephone number for the “Office of Residential Life” (or a department with a similar name). Then contact a staff member there to ask your question.
The majority of college dorm-room closets do not have locks (only the rooms themselves have locks) but there are some that do … especially in the newer dorms or in the most recently renovated ones.
But this is a question that is so very specific that you have to ask an official at the college you are attending. I’ll also post this on College Confidential on the outside chance that a CC member recognizes the dorm name (Google didn’t) and can weigh in.
Sally Rubenstone
Sally Rubenstone knows the competitive and often convoluted college admission process inside out: From the first time the topic of college comes up at the dinner table until the last duffel bag is unloaded on a dorm room floor. She is the co-author of Panicked Parents’ Guide to College Admissions; The Transfer Student’s Guide to Changing Colleges and The International Student’s Guide to Going to College in America. Sally has appeared on NBC’s Today program and has been quoted in countless publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Weekend, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, People and Seventeen. Sally has viewed the admissions world from many angles: As a Smith College admission counselor for 15 years, an independent college counselor serving students from a wide range of backgrounds and the author of College Confidential’s “Ask the Dean” column. She also taught language arts, social studies, study skills and test preparation in 10 schools, including American international schools in London, Paris, Geneva, Athens and Tel Aviv. As senior advisor to College Confidential since 2002, Sally has helped hundreds of students and parents navigate the college admissions maze. In 2008, she co-founded College Karma, a private college consulting firm, with her College Confidential colleague Dave Berry, and she continues to serve as a College Confidential advisor. Sally and her husband, Chris Petrides, became first-time parents in 1997 at the ripe-old age of 45. So Sally was nearly an official senior citizen when her son Jack began the college selection process, and when she was finally able to practice what she had preached for more than three decades.