Office of Residential Life

You are invited to our annual Block Party!

Block Party: April 27th, 2013

When: Saturday, April 27th
Time: 1-5pm
Where: Fauver Courtyard

Please bring two canned good to receive a free t-shirt. One t-shirt per person. Until supplies last.

Tags: Block Party, free food

Come meet and talk to pre-frosh about queer life at Wesleyan! Refreshments will be served.

Donnie Collins is a transgendered student who attends Emerson College and is a brother of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity. Donnie and his Tau brother John will be coming to campus on April 19th to talk about Donnie’s positive fraternity experience as a transgendered student as well as how their fraternity raised money for his top surgery. This event is being hosted by multiple organizations including DKE, Beta, Alpha Delta Phi, AEPi, the QRC, Film Hall and Open House to name a few. The event will be about an hour in length and will in a question and answer format, so bring questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

Sponsored by the Adelphic Educational Fund
Brought to you by the QRC Interns

The first room selection night will take place this Monday, April 8, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Students will check-in at Usdan 108 at the appointment time designated later in this email. There is no need to show up any earlier to Usdan 108 than when you are scheduled. This year, we have smaller numbers of groups coming to Usdan which means less waiting time. It is imperative that you come with a list of your choices of housing, in order of preference. We will have floor plans, laptops, and staff to answer your housing questions in Usdan 108. Once called into Usdan 110, you will be making your selection with our staff.

Due to the new split and merge policy for rising seniors, the only groups that need to attend Monday’s selection night are 2, 4, 5, 6 person GRS groups between the ranks of 1 – 189 and 3-person groups before rank 156. GRS groups that are comprised of 1 person and the 3-person groups that have ranks higher than 155 will come on Tuesday, April 10th and select before the senior mixed groups and rising juniors. Groups that can select Monday, April 8, 2013 ( 2 – 6, except 3-person higher than 155)

The good news is we have enough units (exception of 3-person groups) for the number of registered group sizes, so everyone will receive a house or apartment in their current group size. Please remember that you will not be able to reconfigure your groups during this first selection night. If you arrive at your selection time and do not want to select the units available in your size, you may pass, reconfigure your group, and return on Tuesday night to select housing. Reconfigured groups will go through selection in rank order. Please remember if you do pass and reconfigure, we cannot guarantee you will receive a unit that matches your new group size. Groups that can select Tuesday, April 9, 2013 (1-person groups and 3-person higher than 155).

If you are after rank 155 and are in a 3-person group, you will need to reconfigure your group and select one of the available units on Tuesday, April 10th. The senior 1-person groups will also be attending selection on April 10th and we would like you to come to Usdan 108 at 5:30 so you can reconfigure your groups and select housing. We encourage you and 1-person groups to attend Mix, Mingle and Merge on April 5, 2013 to meet people who may want to join your group. Monday, April 8, 2013

Appointment Times

6 p.m. Ranks 3-30

6:30 p.m. Ranks 31-61

7 p.m. Ranks 62-92

7:30 p.m. Ranks 93-123

8 p.m. Ranks 124-154

8:30 p.m.Ranks 155-189

Good Luck in the Process!

This message is for students who want to live in a wood frame house for 2013-2014.

All students living in wood frame houses are expected to abide by the Community Standards which were developed by students, faculty, staff, and Middletown neighbors in order to help students and neighbors live amongst each other peacefully.  At least one member of each group interested in selecting a wood frame house must attend one of the following four Community Standards Workshops. All will be held in Science Center 150, 12 p.m. – 1p.m.:

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Students attending a Community Standards Workshop should plan on the following:

• Arrive 5 – 10 minutes early, students that come after 12 p.m. will be turned away
• Must present a WesID in order to enter Science Center 150
• The WesID will be collected at the door, logged in during the workshop, and returned at the end
• During the session, students need to shut off all electronics (laptops, tablets, cell phones, etc)
• Students who are observed as not paying attention can be asked to leave and/or not receive credit for their attendance
• Groups that do not have at least one representative that attended a workshop will be unable to select a wood frame house during room selection.
• If the entire group attends a Community Standard Workshop, it will be entered into the first pick drawing

First Pick Drawing
ResLife holds a drawing for the first choice of housing for rising senior groups whose entire group attends the Community Standards Workshops.  As long as each group member attends a session, they do not need to attend the same workshop to be eligible. Each member of the group must be a classified rising senior. Five groups will be chosen in the drawing (one for each housing group   size – 2 through 6). 

Rising seniors currently abroad or on leave that are a part of a formed Room Selection group will be exempt from attending a workshop.  However, if more than half the group is abroad or on leave, the group does not qualify for the drawing.  The group does not need to be present at the drawing to win.

Studying Abroad during Fall 2013 and have questions about selecting housing for when you return Spring 2014?

Join Stacey Phelps, Assistant Director of Residential Life for an information session specifically for students applying to study abroad for Fall 2013. The session is Tuesday, March 5, 2013 from 6-7 p.m. in Usdan 108

Please contact sphelps@wesleyan.edu if you have any questions.

The first Study Abroad GRS webchat is Monday, February 25 from 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.!

You can access the chat by going to our blog at http://reslife.blogs.wesleyan.edu/ and logging in on the right side of the blog under “WesPresent”. You should use your Wes email handle for your name and the password is sachat1.

We look forward to chatting with you on Monday!

The first GRS webchat is tonight from 8 p.m. – 9 p.m.!

You can access the chat by logging in on the right side of the blog under “WesPresent”. You should use your Wes email handle for your name and the password is chat1 .

We look forward to chatting with you tonight!

Office of Residential Life will be hosting a series of chats for students to ask questions or receive information about General Room Selection. The Assistant Director of Residential Life, Stacey Phelps, will be available to answer your questions about General Room Selection (i.e.  program housing, Copenhagens, study abroad, selection nights and more). The chat schedule is as follows:

Thursday, February 21, 2013: Chat #1, 8 – 9 p.m. EST (password: chat1)
Dan LaBonte & Brian Nangle, Area Coordinators for Program Housing will be available for questions during this chat

Tuesday, April 2, 2013: Chat #2, 8 – 9 p.m. EST (password: chat2)

Sunday, April 7, 2013: Chat #3, 8 – 9 p.m. EST (password: chat3)

Wednesday, April 10, 2012: Chat #4, 8 – 9 p.m. EST (password: chat4)

We will also be having two web chats for students who are currently studying abroad on February 25 & April 8^th from 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.  Information about these chat will be sent via email by Gail Winter later this week.

To log in to one of the chats, please select the appropriate chat room on the right hand side of the page under “Wes Presents”.  Please use your Wes email handle as your name and the log-in is listed after each of the chat times.

This is a great opportunity to ask questions and get information if you cannot make any of the information sessions!

Have you applied to Program Housing or are you thinking of applying but aren’t sure what our Program House spaces look like?!??!?  Well don’t worry – because this Sunday, all of our Program Houses and Program Halls (as well as WestCo) will be hosting open houses — you can stop on by, see the spaces, and meet some of this year’s incredible residents!!  You can visit anywhere between 12pm-5pm on Sunday… here is the list of all of our Program Houses and Halls and a map that may help you to plan out your day.  Happy House Hopping!!!

Alpha Delta Phi, 185 High St.

Art House, 230 Washington St.

Asian/Asian American House, 107 High St.

Beta Theta Pi, 184 High St.

Buddhist House, 356 Washington St.

Chinese House, 34 Lawn Ave.

Community Service House, 28 Lawn Ave.

Delta Kappa Epsilon, 276 High St.

Earth House, 159 High St.

Eclectic, 200 High St.

Farm House, 344 Washington St.

Film Hall, Nicolson 6

French Hall, Nicolson 7

Full House, 202 Washington St.

German Haus, 65 Lawn Ave.

International House, 151 Church St.

Japanese Hall, Nicolson 5

La Casa, 240 Washington St.

Lighthouse, 230 Washington St.

Malcolm X House, 345 High St.

Music House, 316 Washington St.

Open House, 154 Church St.

Outhouse, 132 High St.

Psi Upsilon, 242 High St.

Russian House, 163 High St.

Science Hall, Hewitt 8

Sign Language House, 64 Lawn Ave.

The Bayit, 157 Church St.

Turath House, 73 Pearl St.

Well Being House, 250 Court St.

Womanist House, 44 Brainard St.

Women of Color House, 227 Pine St.

Writing House, 202 Washington St.