According to the housing policy, housing quiet hours are between the hours of midnight and 9am. This policy is in place in order to create a flourishing environment of academia to improve the grades and lives of the residents in the housing facilities. Without this policy it would create a rambunctious environment that would be detrimental to the learning environment and cause mass hysteria and chaos. According to a study conducted by (Maxwell and Evans, 2000, Shield and Dockrel, 2008 and Klate 2010) “ indoor noise was found to have chronic effects to attention among children. With this study we can also find the same to be with adults so quiet hours being implemented is a marvelous thing to create a prosperous learning environment. Another reason that the quiet hours housing policy is in place is to create an environment where residents can sleep. According to the book Sleep Science written by Demian Halperin who is a member of the Department of Psychiatry in the Barzilai Medical Center in Israel “ Environmental noise is viewed as a significant cause to sleep disturbances and poor sleep. Poor sleep causes endocrine and metabolic measurable perturbations and is associated with a number of cardiometabolic, psychiatric and social negative outcomes both in adults and children. Nocturnal environmental noise also provokes measurable biological changes in the form of a stress response, and clearly affects sleep architecture, as well as subjective sleep quality. These sleep perturbations are similar in their nature to those observed in endogenous sleep disorders. Apart from these measurable effects and the subjective feeling of disturbed sleep, people who struggle with nocturnal environmental noise often also suffer the next day from daytime sleepiness and tiredness, annoyance, mood changes as well as decreased well-being and cognitive performance. But there is also emerging evidence that these short-term effects of environmental noise, particularly when the exposure is nocturnal, may be followed by long-term adverse cardiometabolic outcomes.” ( Halperin 2014) . We can see by this study that noise fracas can have not only short term effects on residents but also long term effects on residents that can not only be a significant health liability but also affect mood as well as how their bodies function throughout the day and through the rest of their lives. Without this housing policy housing dwellers would experience an increase in stress levels as well as other psychiatric and social negative outcomes. This would create an unenjoyable housing experience due to the increase in tension between tenants in the housing complex. Overall the housing policy of quiet hours is beneficial to the housing community as well as those who inhabit the housing complex. This is so because it creates a learning environment that is conducive to the individuals prosperity in the future in addition to creating a community that will be physically, psychologically and mentally lucrative and beneficial.It's our duty as scholars to create an environment where not only we can succeed but we can develop others in our community to succeed as well. The pursuit of knowledge should not be hindered because of the actions of an individual but rather should be fostered in the development of the like minded academic seeking community. Our education sets us free from the bonds of ignorance and thus enlightens us as individuals; Plato’s Allegory of the Cave shows us the necessity of freeing ourselves from the chains of illiteracy to better our posterity. In the future I hope to make better decisions to create a housing environment that is delightful for all tenants. These housing policy are essential to the fabric of housing and the environment created by the employees in the community which create a better life for the tenants of the housing community and help them better their lives as well as improve the community around them to create a society that is physically strong, mentally awake morally straight.
Works Cited
Shield B, Greenland E, Dockrell J. Noise in open plan classrooms in primary schools: A review. Noise Health 2010;12:225-34
Haleprin, Damien. “Environmental Noise and Sleep Disturbances: A Threat to Health?” Sleep Science, No Longer Published by Elsevier, 15 Nov. 2014, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1984006314000601.
