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Picken Floor Draw
We are encouraging groups of 12 people (4 triples) to apply to live in the lower level/basement and share a community restroom. Applicants for this “floor draw” do not need a theme or purpose, just a desire to live together. Applications are available at Student Development. Applications must be single-sex. Applications are due Monday, February 4.

Theme Houses
A Theme House is where a group of students apply to live together and carry out a theme and/or service projects. This year, the college will have eight theme houses and several of them will be available to new groups interested in applying. (Lottery numbers are not used.) Current theme houses include Christian Services House, Women's Basketball House, Recycling House, and the Performing Arts House. Houses will be selected based on the new application and a group interview after Theme House re-applications are considered. (Theme House re-applications are due Monday, January 21.) Every new Theme House application must have an alternate person who signs the application. If the original application is co-ed, an alternate of each gender must sign the application. The alternates would be moved into the space should a vacancy occur by the original group. New Theme House applications are due Monday, February 4.

Squatting Your Room/Apartment
Do you like where you live and want to live there again next year? Do you not want to deal with lottery numbers? Then squat your room or apartment (unless you live in Barker or Kresge). The same two people can squat a 2-person space, 2 out of 3 roommates can squat a 3-person space, and 3 out of 4 roommates can squat a 4-person space. Fill out a Squatting application and turn it in to the Student Development Office. Applications are due Monday, February 25.

Medical Single Applications
If you are required to live in a single room due to a verified physical or mental impairment please fill out a Medical Single application and turn it in to the Director of Residence Life in the Student Development Office. Applications are due Monday, February 25.

Planning to live off-campus?
All full-time unmarried students are required to live on campus until or unless they Petition to live off-campus and are approved. Petitions are automatically granted to seniors, those living with immediate relatives, those living with a dependent child, or veterans.  Permission to live off-campus for other unique circumstances are considered on a case by case basis by the Dean of Students. Petitions are available at Student Development. Living off-campus does lessen your "need" for financial aid reasons and could affect your Financial Aid. Please check with the Financial Aid office about how living off-campus will affect you. Priority is given to those who petition BEFORE Room Selection. Those who appear to "lend" their lottery number to an application knowing they intend to live off campus will be fined a minimum of $100.

More Information:

• View the Housing Calendar via the Important Dates link
• View Junior/Senior Room Selection Newsletter here
• View First-Year Room Selection Newsletter here

ROOM SELECTION INFORMATION

Lottery Numbers
Each residential student will be issued a random number by Residence Life based on their class/credit status. Students with a GPA of 3.5 or higher will have 100 points deducted (because a lower number is better) from their random number. **NEW Students with a GPA of 3.75 or higher will have 200 points deducted (because a lower number is better) from their random number. This new number becomes the Housing Lottery number used for housing purposes. Housing numbers are posted on the Student Development window by Monday, February 11. (Note: Lottery numbers are NOT used in the selection of Picken Floor Draw or Theme Houses.) If you are a commuter or part-time student you will not have a lottery number posted, but to find out yours, speak with the Director of Residence Life. Commuter and part-time students wishing to participate in the Room Selection process have 500 points added to their lottery number. Lottery numbers are non-transferable.

Room applications (all regular room applications are the same) are available at Student Development and online elsewhere on this page. Once you decide who you want to live with, fill out a Room Application and return it to Student Development. The Room Application allows you to choose a meal plan for the following year. If you do not choose one on the application, the default meal plan for apartments and Theme Houses is the 6-flex meal plan. In all other cases the 12-flex meal plan is the default plan. All residential students are required to have a meal plan. 

All Room Applications have the lottery numbers on it averaged, and then each application is ranked according to this average. After Spring Break, all the rankings be posted on the Student Development window. 

2/3-person apartment and/or Picken triple applications are due Monday, February 25.

All other applications (4-person apartment or Buxton, Picken, Worth) are due Monday, March 3

Participation in Room Selection is for current registered full-time students only. Participation can be denied for those not registered full-time for the upcoming semester, having outstanding accounts at the Business Office, having an incomplete, invalid or fraudulent application, having successfully petitioned, or having already been housed in a Theme House, Greek House, or Picken Floor Draw. Each person may only be on one application. Fraudulent applications include signing up for a space knowing that someone on your application intends to live off-campus or withdraw. Students going abroad Fall Semester cannot be on any application. Students not registered full-time at the end of Spring Semester may have their housing assignment revoked.

Room Selection Information Sessions
Tuesday, February 19, 7:00pm: Barker Hall, lower level
Wednesday, February 20, 7:00pm: Buxton Hall, main lounge
Tuesday, February 26, 7:00pm: Brenton Student Center, Gallery

2/3 person apartment/room applications
There are 9 two-person apartments and 4 three-person apartments on campus. Also, there are triples available in Picken Hall. To apply for these rooms/apartments, turn in a Room Application by Monday, February 25 to Student Development. If your application is unsuccessful, you will have to turn in another application for a 4-person apartment by Monday, March 3.

Buxton 8-person applications
If you are planning to live in Buxton, consider affiliating your application with another four-person application of friends. Groups of eight will have their applications ranked higher than groups of four. You can affiliate your application with another one right on the Room Application. Room applications are due Monday, March 3.

The Room Selection Application is the same no matter when you want to live (apartments, Buxton, Picken, or Worth).

Need a roommate(s)?
If you don't have a roommate and need one (or more), add your name to the centralized "Roommate Wanted/Needed" list available at the front desk of Student Development. (To make any housing application complete you must have as many people listed as the type of room you are requesting.) Residence Life will not make matches for you, but you can check the list as often as you like.

Roommate Social and Open House
Everyone who needs a roommate (or two) should come to the "Roommate Social" to be held on Sunday, February 17, in the Buxton Hall lounge at 6:00pm. Please watch for flyers and emails about this event. We will help you introduce yourself and hopefully find a roommate that will be a good match for you. 

Also, the "Open House" for Buxton, Picken, and Worth Halls will also be Sunday, February 17, from 4:00-6:00pm. Feel free to visit the lounge and designated first-floor room in Buxton, Picken, and Worth Halls.

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CHOOSING WHERE TO LIVE

More specific details of each building are located on our Housing Options page.

Barker and Kresge
Barker and Kresge will house only first-year students and Residence Life staff.

Picken
Picken will continue to be co-ed by suite and substance-free, but will be for upper-division students. Picken Hall has 30 doubles and 8 triple rooms with suite-style accommodations, except for the lower level (4 triples) which share a community restroom. Picken Hall also has a large basement lounge area as well as study area and a computer lab on the first floor. (Lottery numbers are not used when applying for the basement floor draw, but will be used when assigning the rest of Picken Hall.) See information and link to the Picken Floor Draw application above.

Buxton
Buxton will continue to be co-ed by suite and substance-free. Buxton houses 134 upper-division students in suite-style accommodations. Each unit features a large room and a separate sleeping room. The units share the restroom with an adjoining room. For the first time priority will be given to groups who sign up as 8-person suites. 4-person applications will select their rooms after the 8-person groups. Also, every 4-person application should have an alternate who signs the application. This person would be moved into the space should a vacancy occur by the original group.

Worth House
Worth House will continue to be co-ed, but have single-sex floors. Worth houses 36 residents including three visiting language assistants (German, French and Spanish) each year. Worth is the smallest of the traditional halls, remains substance-free, and has a new full-size kitchen in the basement.

The Apartments
The Clinton apartments are the most recent acquisition of the College and will house residential students for the first time in Fall 2008. The Clinton apartments are located 1.5 blocks West of the Hamilton apartments on Clinton street, and have both 1 and 2-bedroom designs.

In all, the seven apartment buildings (Clinton, Colonial, Washington, Station Square, Hamilton, Detroit, and Weinman) are primarily 4-person apartments, but 2- and 3-person apartments do exist. (2/3- person applications are due 1 week earlier than other applications, see above.) Station Square will remain both a quiet and substance-free building. Students wishing and eligible to live in Station Square must sign a “Station Square Agreement" outlining your willingness to live in a Substance Free and 24-Hour Quiet Hour environment. This agreement outlines your responsibilities as well as the consequences for violating this agreement. The "Station Square Agreement" must be signed and turned in by each resident BEFORE choosing an apartment in Station Square at Room Selection. There is no GPA requirement for living in the apartments. Students on Disciplinary Probation are not eligible to participate in Room Selection for an apartment space.

How Many Apartments Are There and Where Are They?
There are a total of 97 apartments generally available at Room Selection:
9 two-person, 4 three-person, and 84 four-person apartments
(8 apartments are occupied by CA's (Community Advisors) and their roommates)

Clinton	Colonial	Washington	Weinman	Hamilton	Detroit	Station Square
15 - quads	7 – quads	10 –quads	10 – quads	11 – quads	11 – quads	20 – quads
	2 – triples				2 – triples
2 -doubles	4 – doubles	1 – double	1 - double			1 – double

Theme Houses on Campus

Language & Culture House (903 North E Street)
If you are interested in living in the Language and Culture House (Theme House 4), please talk with a Foreign Language faculty member.

Women's Resource Center (707 North C Street)
If you are interested in living in the Women's Resource Center (Theme House 9), please talk with Stephanie Krauth in Student Development.

College-owned Greek Houses include Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG), Kappa Theta Psi (KTP), Lambda Chi Alpha (LXA), and Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE). All Greek chapters generally expect members to live in their chapter house (college-owned or not).

Any questions can be directed to your
Residence Life student or professional staff member!