LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS
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Housing accommodations at the University of Kansas are provided through residence
halls, fratermities and sororities, esoperative houses, rooming houses and private
homes.

Through the conmittee on Student Living Conditions, the University supervises
the housing and the health of the students, {ach year, under the direction of the
committee, a list of approved rooming houses for women is prepared by the adviser
of Women, and for men by the Dean of Student Affairs. Members of fraternities and
Sororities usually live in their chapter houses,

Room rent ranges from #8 to $20 a month, depending on nearness to the campus,
and number of students in a room. The average will be from $12 to $15. Rent in
cooperative houses and scholarship residence halls is much lower, running from
$3 to $7 a month.

FOR MEN

RESIDENCE HALLS. During 1945-46 two residence halls for self-supporting men
are being operated—Battenfeld and Carruth, The houses are operated as a single
enterprise under supervision of a faculty committee and resident managers, The
halls are operated cooperatively, each resident scholar doing part of the house—
hold work and paying his proportionate share of actual living and maintenance costs,
The privilege of living in the halls is granted as 4 scholarship to young mentof
excellent character, high intelligence and studious habits who need assistance to
attend the University. Applications should be addressed to the Committee on Men's
Residence Hall Scholarships, room 228 Frank Strong Hall, at least two months prior
to the beginning of the semester, For the 1946-47 school year it is anticipated
that at least five residence halls will be operated for men.

COOPERATIVE HOUSES. Through the K,U. Studentst Housing Association, a number
of cooperative houses are operated. Students reduce the monthly cost to a minimum
by doing all the work, under direction of an adult sponsor and by sharing expenses.
Applications for admission should be sent to the Dean of Student: Affairs, room 228

Frank Strong Hall.

FRATERNITIES, About twenty social or professional fraternities normally |
maintain houses which provide good homes for about one-fourth of the men students,
Membership is by invitation, but most students who are interested usually find
accommodations, Further information can be secured from the pean of Student
Affairs, Room 228, Frank Strong Hall.

ROOMS AND APARTMENTS. A list of approved rooms and apartments in private homes
is maintained by the Housing Bureau and is available on request to students who
prefer this type of living accommodation, s

FOR WOMEN

RESIDENCE HALLS, Ten residence halls for women are being operated by the
University in 1945—@t46. Corbin hall provides complete living quarters, including
meals, for 145 studentsy Foster, Jollife, Locksley, Sleepy Hollow, and Tipperary
halls are operated on a basis similar to Corbin hall, and accommodate a total
of 190 students. Hopkins and Briar Manor halls will accommodate 40 students
with rooms only, ; .

Watkins and Miller halls are <cholare!., residence halls for self-supporting
women, ach hall accommodates 42 women, who do their own housework and share :
living expenses, Applications should be sent to the adviser of Women, room 121
Frank Strong Hall, at least two months in advance of the opening of the semester.