Currently, only eight residence halls offer 24-hour hall visitation, but a recently approved proposal will expand that number to 13 this fall.

Berry Hall, Becton Hall, Bagwell Hall, Carroll Hall and Wood Hall Building A will be added to the list of buildings with the 24-hour option.

According to David Meyer, a sophomore in first year college and vice president of administration in the Inter-Residence Council, 24-hour visitation means a student can have a person of the opposite gender in the dorm room at any time throughout the day for up to three consecutive days, or 10 days a semester.

The Emerging Issues Committee within IRC conducted a survey in several residence halls regarding 24-hour visitation, and then presented the results to the University Housing Advisory Committee, according to Jordan Lohn , freshman in mechanical engineering and IRC representative, said.

The survey indicated that 90 percent of on-campus residents who did not already have 24-hour visitation would be in favor of expansion of the regulation. The survey also said 73 percent of respondents claimed visitation hours to be a key factor in choosing where to live the next year.

“The halls wanted 24-hour visitation, but students wanted an option for not 24-hour visitation,” Lindsay Skully , president of the IRC and senior in marketing, said. She said some of the buildings surveyed already had 24-hour visitation, so their results were used to evaluate the system already in place.

“IRC started working on this in the late 1980s . The first building didn’t get 24-hour visitation until 2010, for the 2010-2011 school year,” Skully said.

Before the decision was reached in 2010, N.C . State was the only university in North Carolina that did not have a 24-hour visitation policy. During the fall of 2010, three residence halls — Bragaw , Turlington and North — acted as trial runs for the regulation. In the spring of 2011, the trial period ended and the final decision was made to continue allowing certain residence halls 24-hour visitation.

Currently, residence halls such as Tucker and Owen, which cater mainly to first-year students, will not have 24-hour visitation regulations.

“Down the road, it’s important to have halls that aren’t 24 hours,” Skully said.

One issue students and University Housing face is non-compliance to the 24-hour regulations already in place.

At IRC meetings, Skully said there were comments along the lines of “It’s a rule that’s not enforced.” Susan Grant, director of University Housing, said enforcement falls to resident advisers.

“Students live on floors where RAs live. It’s the RA’s responsibility to communicate what the rules, policies and regulations are,” Grant said.

While 24-hour visitation is an option for students in certain residence halls, Lohn said it is important for roommates to discuss visitation when making roommate agreements.