Students prepare for housing process

Jo Teeters
Managing Editor
April 1, 2004, Page 1

Housing preferencing for the 2004-2005 school year begins April 12.
Preferencing is the process by which current students, who have pre-registered for the 2004 fall semester, can request a desired room and roommate for the upcoming academic year. Students use their lottery numbers, randomly assigned according to class rank, to bid on the rooms they want.
Lottery numbers are posted in Tiger Inn and are available at tiger.doane.edu.
All full-time students are required to live on campus. Doane students have several options for on-campus housing.
Doane has three traditional residence halls. Frees is a co-ed hall, while Sheldon is all female and Smith is all male.
Students who want to preference these halls must fill out a housing confirmation sheet, which is available in the Residence Life Office, and attend the appropriate preferencing sessions in Tiger Inn.
The Quads (Burrage and Colonial) are another option for students. Each Quad is comprised of four two-person bedrooms that share a bathroom and living area.
Students who want to preference the Quads must complete the following requirements:

• Pick up a housing form.
• Select a spokesperson for the group of students that are preferencing the Quad.
• Complete a Quad Priority Preferencing sheet for the group. The sheet is available in the Residence Life Office.
• Obtain signed housing confirmation forms for each Quad member.
• Complete and sign a “Memorandum of Understanding” form.

Doane also provides Alternative Housing with Fairchild and Faculty apartments. Fairchild has two and three bedroom apartments with living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms and air-conditioning. It is located on the corner of Boswell and East 4th Street.
Faculty contains three two-bedroom apartments with living rooms, kitchens and bathrooms. It is located on East 4th Street, adjacent to Fairchild.
In order to live in Alternative Housing, students must submit a written proposal and Alternative Housing contract to Residence Life. The proposal must include the name of each student seeking Alternative Housing, where they want to live, why they want to live there and each student’s signature.
The final housing option is Hansen Hall. Hansen has 12-, nine-, eight-, seven-, six- and four-person suites with a living room and bathroom in each.
Students who want to live in Hansen must complete the following requirements:

• Pick up a housing form.
• Choose a spokesperson to collect lottery points, names and social security numbers of all prospective suite members.
• Print off a copy of your leadership transcript.
• Find alternates willing to move into the suite if a space opens up.

For more information on housing, visit tiger.doane.edu/StudentResources/Res%20Life%20pac/welcome_to_doane_college_residen.htm or call Russ Hewitt, director of Residence Life, at 8111 or Residence Director Kristina Pajeda at 8662.