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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964
Residence Hall Counselors Fill Many Important Roles
The position of assistant resident hall director or counselor in a large men's dorm can be a peculiar situation. He is an adviser, an authority, an information booth, and even the butt of practical jokes.
Don Eversmeyer, Wright City, Mo. senior, and assistant resident director at Joseph R. Pearson, has closing hours every night at 11 p.m. Eversmeyer said that he must be in his room when the hall switchboard closes to answer any emergency calls that come into the dorm, until the switchboard opens in the morning. The emergency line is plugged into his room.
Eversmeyer said: "It isn't inconvenient because the phone doesn't ring too much since only the parents of the boys have the number. Since the beginning of the year I've only had to answer the phone four times."
Eversmeyer said his duties included helping the resident director supervise the counselors, keeping the hall records straight, and advising the student dorm council. He said he offers information to the council only when they ask him.
"My girl is in St. Louis and she likes the situation very well. During the week I can get my studying done and in that way it's very convenient."
"It PUTS a slight cramp on my social life when there is some campus activity going on but usually the resident director will take my place and have the emergency line plugged into his apartment.
Eversmeyer said: "It's their government and organization and I should say as little as possible. I don't feel that it should be a lab. These boys are not practicing living, they are living now."
IN RETURN for his work, Eversmeyer is paid a salary by the Dean of Men's office.
Franklin Jacobsen, Delaven junior, is a counselor in Ellsworth and is one of the youngest boys on his wing.
Jacobsen said: "I'm only 19 years old and I have three graduate students on my wing which consists of 45 boys. I have to be respected by the boys on my wing as a counselor and yet I want their friendship."
"I've only been a counselor since the school year began and it's quite an experience. I have to be available to the boys when they want to talk to me and I have duty at the main desk every month for a 24-hour period."
JACOBSEN SAID that he's discovered one thing, the hallways on
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his floor are well-suited for playing frisbie. The boys stand in the hall tossing the red disc back and forth and it becomes a game of dodge when anyone wants to walk through the corridor.
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These reports take a long time to write because the counselor must be observant and unbiased in his reports.
The counselors help the boys sift out the facts, organize his thoughts and in this way help him come to his own conclusions.
JAY JARVIS, Chicago, Ill., senior and counselor in Ellsworth, said: "My relationship with the rest of the men has been different since I've been a counselor. I can't be one of the boys. I have to be respected as a
counselor and I want to be respected as a friend.
"I have a duty to the Dean of Men's office to encourage the thoughts and ideas of my men, I have a duty to the housing office to look after the dormitory property and a duty to the resident director to watch after the boys and know what they are doing."
"I'll go along with the practical joking if it doesn't detract from the studies of the other men on the floor.
ULBRICHT SAID that he has had some jokes played on him by his men. One night they brought a dog into his room at 3 a.m. and put it in his bed.
Last year he was awakened at 2 a.r. by loud music that seemed to becoming from the intercom. One of the residents had hooked his record player to the all-hall intercom system and everyone had music in his room.
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