Following a year of student leaders bickering about how to run their own meetings and a small yet powerful funding group attempting to take control of student groups’ finances, Boston University students can enjoy this summer with something positive to look forward to.

President Robert Brown said he plans to sign off on Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore’s fairly progressive Guest Policy, announced Feb. 28. Brown’s signature will be the final step before administrators can put the new policy in place. To most students’ pleasure, the BU community will return to a much freer campus in the fall.

But administrators and students cannot forget about the imperfections of the new Guest Policy, even though it is a great improvement from the current system. It still has some flaws, such as ignoring the approximately 25 percent of students who live off campus. Under the new policy, off-campus students are treated like university outsiders.

While this page supports the work that was done to create a more acceptable dorm-stay rule set, the work is not over. After the policy passes, it probably will not be re-examined for a few years. If Elmore hears concerns from off-campus students, he should begin working with them as soon as possible to amend the new policy.

Students must also continue to push administrators to fix the policy. Although it was mostly Elmore’s doing, it probably would not have come to his attention if proactive students had not voiced their concerns to the dean of students.

It took a long time, but students will finally get a policy that reflects their demands. They must look at this as a sign of what their requests can accomplish. There are other changes that would greatly benefit students — such as a 24-hour Mugar Library — that can be made if students assemble and speak up.

Next year is the time to ensure that progress keeps coming. The changes to the Guest Policy prove that students can make things happen. It is a good start, but students can’t rest now.