The Loyola Informer

Student residences along Katipunan Ave. enforce curfew
by Candice Montenegro



Dormitoryana and Prince David Condominium enforce strict rules on curfew and noise control.


QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Dormitoryana and Prince David Condominium, two popular student residences along Katipunan Avenue, enforced strict rules on curfew and noise control.

Dormitoryana, an all-girls student dorm, enforced a 12-midnight curfew for all dormers. Visitors are not allowed in the dorm at 10 in the evening, and all borders are expected to be home by midnight.

“If [the borders] arrive after midnight, we will still let them in,” Lanie Lalantacon, night manager of Dormitoryana, said in Filipino. “But if it becomes habitual, we’ll inform their parents or guardians."

Lalantacon said that the management decided to put a curfew because of numerous complaints received from parents.

“Some parents call long-distance from the provinces, and they are surprised to find out that their daughters are still out late at night,” she said.

Lilia Buenaventura, a Dormitoryana parent whose daughter studies in Miriam College, said that she likes the idea of imposing a strict midnight curfew, particularly for a girls’ dormitory.

“This is good because the girls will have no choice but to go back to the dorm early,” she said. “Now I know that my daughter will not stay out late.”

Prince David Condominium (PDC) implemented a new rule that prohibits excessive noise after ten in the evening.

Opedia Artiza, PDC head of security, said that the management arrived at a decision to control the noise because of several complaints from occupants.

“The visitors are actually the ones who make noise,” she said. “The occupants complain because they do not even know the people laughing and screaming along the corridors.”

PDC resident Yvette Velasco hopes that the new rule will lessen unnecessary noise at night.

“[The noise] can get annoying,” she said. “You hear people shouting and laughing at around 1 a.m., and it disturbs you when you’re studying.”

Artiza said that a stricter implementation of the new rule will be followed.

“Around 85 percent of our occupants are students,” she said. “We just want to make sure that Prince David is a place where they can study and rest.”