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Ayanna Williams
Issue date: 2/4/05 Section: News
On Wednesday, February 9, the mailroom at the O'Connor Campus Center will become a madhouse filled with a hectic menagerie of eager faces, trembling fingers and loud shrieks of joy and despair. It is lottery number time again at Colgate, as the whole campus awaits the numbers that will secure those dream suites, houses, or apartments.
In addition, students will receive an application form for campus residence. Over the next weeks, students must determine where and with whom they would like to live for 2005-06.
The lottery numbers, randomly generated by a computer system, from one to the total number of students in their class, offer those with the lowest numbers -and their prospective roommates - first pick of housing until lottery number 700-something finds a place to live.
The system of room selection works from the top down, considering first seniority and then lottery numbers. Juniors and seniors will have their choice of College Houses, Greek Houses, University Apartments, Town Houses and (for seniors) Off-Campus Housing. Incoming sophomores will have their choice of room or suite in Cutten, Bryan Complex, Drake, Curtis or certain College Houses. There will, however, be some important changes.
The application process for the class of 2008 will work the same as it has for past classes, with one small difference.
"We were very happy with room selection last year," Assistant Director of Residential Education and Broad Street Program Coordinator Joe Leo. "But this year we're going towards a more application-based housing process."
This year, a greater emphasis will be placed on making sure students get to live with or near their friends. Under the old system, if four sophomores who applied for a suite were denied, they may have been forced to split up into two random doubles in different parts of Drake. This year, if the four could not get into a suite, they could simply sign up for two adjacent doubles and be next-door neighbors.
In addition, students will receive an application form for campus residence. Over the next weeks, students must determine where and with whom they would like to live for 2005-06.
The lottery numbers, randomly generated by a computer system, from one to the total number of students in their class, offer those with the lowest numbers -and their prospective roommates - first pick of housing until lottery number 700-something finds a place to live.
The system of room selection works from the top down, considering first seniority and then lottery numbers. Juniors and seniors will have their choice of College Houses, Greek Houses, University Apartments, Town Houses and (for seniors) Off-Campus Housing. Incoming sophomores will have their choice of room or suite in Cutten, Bryan Complex, Drake, Curtis or certain College Houses. There will, however, be some important changes.
The application process for the class of 2008 will work the same as it has for past classes, with one small difference.
"We were very happy with room selection last year," Assistant Director of Residential Education and Broad Street Program Coordinator Joe Leo. "But this year we're going towards a more application-based housing process."
This year, a greater emphasis will be placed on making sure students get to live with or near their friends. Under the old system, if four sophomores who applied for a suite were denied, they may have been forced to split up into two random doubles in different parts of Drake. This year, if the four could not get into a suite, they could simply sign up for two adjacent doubles and be next-door neighbors.