If administrators approve the faculty-in-residence pilot program, Campus Council members voted Thursday night to run the program in Crowell Quadrangle.
Officials announced the plan to install five faculty-in-residence apartments on West Campus last fall. Construction of the apartments in Craven, Crowell, Few, Kilgo and Keohane quadrangles was slated to be complete for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Several student leaders, however, have called into question the loss of 30 to 36 bed spaces and the $3.5 million cost needed to support the program's expansion from East Campus, where 11 faculty in residence currently live.
Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, asked Campus Council members to identify a quadrangle in which to run the pilot program, if a pilot program begins, said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior.
"This is a very big if," Ganatra said, adding that Moneta has the right to decide to go ahead with the program if he sees fit.
"This is a program some might see as more beneficial," Ganatra said. "We could try a pilot program to see if the program is successful or not."
Council members ranked quads in order of preference for the pilot program. Crowell Quad was the first pick, followed by Keohane, Craven, Kilgo and Few quads.
The members were given the proposed blueprints of the apartments-which were released in November-to help them make their decision.
Junior Ryan Todd, a Few Quad representative, said that because the quad already has a faculty in residence, relocation of the faculty-in-residence apartment within the quad would not accurately reflect how West residents would receive the new program.
"My first thought was in Crowell [Quad] because there are no rowdy living groups, so it would be a quieter area for the faculty," he added.
Todd noted that because Wannamaker and Crowell are administratively grouped as one quad, the faculty in residence for Crowell would administer both residential areas.
"We can see if Wannamaker residents will come to Crowell too," he said.
Facilities and Services Chair Hasnain Zaidi, a junior, said he would prefer running the pilot program in a non-air-conditioned quad.
"We'd have to put in AC for the faculty anyway-this way we won't be taking AC rooms away from students," he said.
Craven Quad representative Kevin Thompson, a sophomore, noted that construction of an apartment in Craven Quad would take away the space of a computer cluster.
"If they were to take [the computer cluster] out and replace it, they'd have to take out more bed spaces," he said.
Faculty-in-residence apartments in Kilgo and Keohane quads would be built on the second floor, which members said would not be conducive to student-faculty interaction.
Sophomore Molly Bierman, a Kilgo Quad representative, said she observed that the faculty in residence program was more successful in the smaller dormitories on East.
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