When it comes to areas of campus that are more secure than others, McCoy said it depends on the residents and visitors in each area.

“There are different maturity levels of students,” McCoy said. “It impacts the choices they make and what they do.”

Although Akers and Hubbard halls are officially closed for summer, some student conferences and camps are scheduled to come throughout the summer, said marketing junior Christina Crawford, student supervisor for Akers and Hubbard halls.

Additional security staff are chosen to chaperone each floor for student conferences, as well as daily and nightly checks that already are performed around the buildings, Crawford said.

“If anything goes wrong, the staff has been trained to know what to do,” Crawford said.

Trespassers would very likely be charged, she said.

Last week, university employees discovered an unidentified subject sleeping in two vacant rooms of Van Hoosen Hall on two separate occasions, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. The case is still under investigation.

McCoy said depending on the severity of the situation, the Department of Police and Public Safety would be contacted immediately if an unauthorized person was loitering in the halls, even if they were homeless.

“We want to help them, but they can’t be hanging out in residence halls,” he said.

Doors around the halls are unlocked during the day only when necessary, said Carol Noud, housing manager for Holmes Hall, and Tim Knight, housing manager of Brody Complex.

“Locking of doors depends on the day and the circumstance,” Noud said.

Individual dorms may be unlocked to perform maintenance, said Noud.

The security staff for each hall does rounds for additional security.

In South Complex, comprised of Case, Holden, Wilson and Wonders halls and where most Academic Orientation Programs take place, security staff reside on each hall floor and do rounds of the entire building several times a day, said Angela Fox, pre-law junior and office assistant in South Complex.

“If they find anybody that looks suspicious, they call DPPS right away,” she said.

Students looking after one another also helps with security, McCoy said.

“Here in the residence halls, there’s so many eyes,” he said.

“When it gets serious, there’s a lot of people looking after each other.”