Residents of some North Campus dorms may not enjoy being interrupted by noise on South Limestone Street when they are sleeping or studying, but business owners say they were unaware of a problem.

Though it is likely they are not intentionally being disrespectful, these businesses should be more conscious of their student neighbors. Try turning down the volume during shows in the middle of the week. Or really, does a sound system even need to be used? The Awkward Moose’s patio is about the size of a dorm room. It should be easy to hear without a microphone.

As Jonathan Erwin, a resident of Holmes Hall, said in a Kernel article Wednesday, the good neighbor policy should extend beyond students. Non-student neighbors, including businesses, can be loud and obnoxious too, believe it or not.

“There should be regulations at certain times when people are sleeping or studying,” said physician assistant studies freshman and Holmes Hall resident Raushawna Jones in Wednesday’s article.

While this would be ideal, these are still bars. People drink, and sometimes do so excessively. People tend to be loud when they drink, and they like to hear loud music as well. It can only be expected. Since the nature of these businesses can only be modified, the dorms need to change.

The real solution to this problem is so simple that most of us take it for granted—air conditioning. If these outdated dorms had air conditioning installed, there wouldn’t be a need to have windows open. With the windows closed and the constant hum of 71-degree air blowing from a window unit, students could listen to their own music, and not whatever set the loudest bar band is playing.

Even though it should ultimately be up to the university to correct something like this, students living in these dorms need to step up. Tell someone— a resident adviser, a hall director, Student Government or even the police. As long as it’s someone who has some authority.

Students who are really affected by this noise need to be the most vocal about it.  As people who pay tuition and help support the university, these students have a right to quiet conditions in their dorm rooms for sleeping and studying. They also have a right to basic commodities like air conditioning. But nothing will get accomplished if the right people don’t know about the problem.

Maybe if enough complaints are filed, the university will finally install something in these dorms that has been mainstream for decades.