The Chronicle

Issue date: 11/9/07 Section: News
Last update: 11/9/07 at 6:57 AM EST

Media Credit: GLEN GUTTERSON Campus Council members discussed off-campus living for third-year students and funding for independents.

Some current sophomores can look forward to living at The Belmont Apartments as early as next fall.

Residence Life and Housing Services has decided to waive the three-year residency requirement for a limited number of members of the Class of 2010 because of the Fall 2008 Few Quadrangle renovation.

Current sophomores who do not go abroad during the first semester of their junior year will have the option to participate in the off-campus housing lottery for Fall 2008, Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a senior, said at the council's general body meeting Thursday night.

Usually, RLHS only offers the lottery to juniors returning from abroad for the spring semester.

Sophomores who wish to participate in the off-campus lottery must submit their applications, which RLHS will make available on its Web site, by Jan. 18, 2008 and will receive notification the following week.

As a result of the early release and the reopening of Few Quad in Spring 2009, members of the Class of 2010 coming back from abroad for the spring semester will be less likely than juniors in previous years to be granted permission to live off campus.

"The reality for next year is not that everyone is going to get to go off campus when they get back from abroad," said Jen Frank, the council's faculty advisor and program coordinator for RLHS.

RLHS believe the University will be able to accommodate all current sophomores who wish to live on campus next year, Frank added.

Todd said it is vital that the council think of ways to dispel the rumor that all members of the Class of 2010 coming back from abroad in Spring 2009 will be able to live off campus.

Along with the news about off-campus housing, Campus Council passed a resolution concerning the implementation of DUKEvents, an initiative that would primarily provide funding for independent students to sponsor social programming.

Members of a selective living group will also have access to DUKEvents funds, but they cannot use the funds toward a program affiliated with their group.

DUKEvents will have a trial period next semester in one of the West Campus quadrangles, where 25 percent of the quad council's budget will be allocated to the initiative.

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