Even though the task seemed impossible, the student body kept working towards extending visiting hours and allowing co-ed visitation in the Halls.

The first visiting hours policy put in place was established by the Inter Dormitory Council (IDC).  The IDC’s goal was to create an environment which the majority of students living on campus would enjoy living in.  In order to have the University’s approval of the IDC extended visiting hours, a floor must vote unanimously to adapt the new hours.  Since the age of majority in Nebraska was 20 at the time, the vote of any minors on the floor was yielded to the minor’s parents.  The first floors to adapt the policy- as a test run- were in Cather and Pound Halls, due in part to the Halls’ well-established compliance with other Housing policies.   The extended guest hours were met with few problems and widespread enthusiasm on the part of the students, prompting University Housing to look into adapting extended visiting hours in more Halls.

In 1971, an ad-hoc committee wrote a report on Student Guest Rights, detailing the contemporary policy and comparing it to policy at comparable institutions, such as Creighton University, Doane College, University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Iowa State University.  In this report, it was found that the basis for successful student guest policy was that both students and staff supervised the program and that the University “trust students to govern their own behavior”.

Acknowledging this, a new guest policy was put forth- with longer visitation hours.  To live on a floor participating in the new visitation policy, a student had to be over the age of twenty or have parental consent, thus freeing the University of any liabilities associated with minors living on floors allowing co-ed visitation.  As the University and the students slowly maintained and further built this fragile trust, the students’ continued campaigns for more co-ed visitation were heard by the University and more visiting hours were established.