With the rising cost of room and board for living on campus, many students look for off campus housing as a better financial alternative.
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Living on or off campus, the economic dilemma for college students
Tags: housing and residence life, housing costs, off campus housing, on-campus houseing, umass housing
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Students seek involvement in administrative decisions on campus
A group of over 50 student protesters from the Involve Us campaign protested at a meeting outside of Chancellor Robert Holub’s Office.
Tags: housing and residence life, Involve Us campaign, Protest, Working Group on Student Success
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Transfer students lost in the housing shuffle
Columnist Billy Rainsford draws our attention to problems with the University’s new policy of not guaranteeing housing to transfer students.
Tags: amherst, Commonwealth Honors College, housing and residence life, UMass
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The Hull Doctrine
Columnist Roy Ribitzy calls out Residential Directors on the new changes to the Residential Life department.
Tags: Apartment living advisors, Eddie Hull, housing and residence life, peer mentors
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Are peer mentors really a big loss?
Columnist Kellie Quinn questions the uproar taking place over the removal of the peer mentor position from University of Massachusetts Residence Life.
Tags: housing and residence life, peer mentors, Student Government Association
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Amherst group heads to Cambodia for water project
Sokha and Ny Mao are a couple on a charitable journey. As maintainers for Housing and Residence life at the University of Massachusetts Sokha and Ny left with friends on Jan. 5 for Cambodia in hopes of seeing the progress of a project they were compelled to start back in 2003.
Tags: Cambodia, Foreign Aid, housing and residence life, Water Project
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Hull to take up residence as housing director
Eddie Hull, former dean of residential life and executive director of housing services at Duke University in Durham, N.C., will be taking over as the new executive director of housing and residence life.
Tags: Eddie Hull, housing and residence life, Jean Kim
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