University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 24. 1977
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Scholarship residents share responsibility
By DIANE PORTER
Staff Writer
Scholarship halls are a living alternative to living in residence halls, Greek housing or apartments. Scholarship halls offer people a chance to attend school groups in a setting of own living arrangement.
Scholarship halls house about 400 people each year. Not all residents have scholarships and not all have 4. averages. All on the eastside of campus, make up the group.
Scholarship halls are run cooperatively. Each resident is required to work within the hall at least seven hours a week. About 80 students and two resident directors live in each hall.
are the four women's halls, and Battenfeld, Grace Pearson, Stephenson, and Pearson are for men. Some halls are arranged with four students sharing a three room suite, two living room, and living room. Two of the halls are set up with two people sharing a single room. Three halls have a sleeping dorm for the residents, with varying numbers of students sharing a community kitchen. Two are divided into seven small kitchen groups. Two are divided into seven small kitchen groups.
jobs they will take on to fulfill their duty to the hall. Some students cook, some clean and others take care of inaundry and linens. Each resident also has phone duty for one or two hours each week.
Students who live in the halls decide what
Miller and Watkins are divided into small kitchen groups. Each kitchen group prepares its own menu. Students in these two halls buy their food individual to the other hostesses in the hall for a same thing. This keeps the price of living in Miller and Watkins from $250 to
Hall government is left up to the residents to enforce. They elect a president, proctor or a housemanager, and other officers to take charge of the staff and balls. The proctors or housemangers are given the responsibility of assigning the shifts and seeing that the jobs are done. Proctors are paid by the office of the dean of men. Housemasters and presidents are
$300 a year, while the other halls must charge from $850 to $900.
Each hall has a residence director who
plans meals, enforces standards set up in the contracts of the halls, and offers counseling. The resident directors are chosen through a screening process by the deans of men and women and some of the residents in the halls.
Open house, quiet hours or study hours are set up by the residents themselves. Some hills elect to have 24-hour open house, which means that guests of the opposite sex are allowed any time. Other hills may choose to restrict their hours. The residents also make their own policies on whether to have study hours or quiet hours.
The All Scholarship Hall Council (ASHC) governs matters which pertain to all the halls rather than to individual ones. Its officers are elected representatives from various colleges and universities to budget activity money. An ASHC judicial board, made up of representatives
from each hall, acts when a resident is accused of violating the terms of his contract or when other troublesome situations arise. The Board of Judicial board for concerns within that hall.