Keep Quiet Housing Options at Randolph College

Please leave moore as a quiet dorm for anyone to enjoy.

I am a first year who lives in a living learning community. I currently live in Webb hall. I am a student that is diligent and studious, while those on my hall are very much...not. (For other Webbies that I hope will read this petition, I am NOT complaining about your way of living, just making a point.) My hallmates can get very loud very late at night, which hinders my studying and sleeping schedules. Because of this, I am planning on going to the dorm with quiet hours. A comment on living learning communities in general. They are awful. There is no cross class interaction, which was one of the big selling points for the school in my opinion, and you get irritated with your room and hall mates quite quickly, seeing them both in class and at home. This causes a rediculous amount of people changing room mates and moving floors and buildings. On my floor alone, there have been up to 5 changes in room mates and hall mates. While I believe I am one of the lucky ones, this is unnaceptable and too much to worry about when you should be worrying about school.

Moore's quiet hours were a significant factor in my decision to enroll at Randolph. Also, a major part of campus interaction is based around the fact that first years are not separated from the upperclassmen.

My thoughts are that the school is doing this to try and keep the next first-years from dropping. By giving them the nicer dorms, they are trying to bait them with the halls. It is not just the hall that has students decide to not want to come back.

I lived in Moore for three years, and the quiet hours were a large part of that decision.

The living communities are a bad idea, ask someone who's ived in one.

As concerned Moore resident, I would like to see the continuation of the quiet dorms.

Fraternity between classes is an essential part of life at Randolph College. I am currently a sophomore, I am living on a floor of mixed classes. This arrangement allows me and everyone else on this hall to interact and get to know one another. I believe that if the current plan is implemented, of grouping first years with their First Year Seminar groups only the school is effectively creating a class of students who will have a more difficult time reaching out to the other classes, thus creating an isolated group. Perhaps even worse than a group of students whom do not socialize with other classes, the school would create a strong division between classes. For example, if this plan was taken into action for the next four years, many classes would behave the way they do at other universities, the majority would only socialize with each other, and leave our once integrated community in pieces.

I got through my first year here because of the strong interclass community. If I hadn't known as many sophomore, junior, and senior classmates I would have been totally lost.

I have been an RA here at Randolph since my first year, before any of the new administration came in and when ResLife still supported the RA. I would thus like to share my thoughts on this change from a senior ResLife perspective. The change that the administration is trying to do within Moore hall is a direct result of their lack of understanding of our community. The administration desires these changes because they have read studies where, at other schools, first year only floors have had great success. As someone who has been a part of this community for the past four years it frustrates me greatly that these new administration, without even trying to get to know how our hall communities work, at Randolph, are trying to make such drastic changes. I have been living on halls with class diversity since my first year and I can honestly say that it was through the help and support of the upper classmen that I was able to become the student I am today. When first years live on the hall with upper classmen they are able to see what a Randolph student is, how active they are in clubs and organizations and what it takes to succeed as a student. Just ask some of the first years living on the two “living-learning” communities we have now- Webb 2nd & Webb 3rd- almost all of them love the support that the one senior on their hall gives them. Sarah Kass is adored by the first years she lives with because when they come to her with the problems and challenges- that we all go through as first years such as home sickness and fiting in at RC- she is able to support them because she’s been there and she knows what it was like. I have heard tons of 1st years thank their lucky stars that Cam Garrison is on their hall because he is able to help them with their biology homework. Cam is a bio major and has been through these class and knows how to study for these professors tests so the first years use him as a resource and are incredibly grateful for him! In the proposed chang

All of my current extracurricular involvement resulted from the friendships I made with upperclassmen after living on the same hall my first year.

When first years are isolated from upperclassmen they are not getting the Randolph experience that makes Randolph what it is. I mean no disrespect by this, but I do not see how separating first year students from the rest of the student body will help the Randolph community. Our school is known for our unique community and rich traditions with the dorms set up like this I fear that these principles will no longer carry on.