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Hoffdqy-hoii; uu By Bernard Sinkler Oamacock Staff Writer Residents of Thornwell Dormitory, tenement 26, have begun a petition protesting the use of the dorm during holiday recesses to house students who remain on campus during these breaks. According to Mike Chibbaro of tenement 26 who started the petition, the residents are displeased because use of the dorm to house stay-over students has become a great inconvenience for many of the residents of tenement 26 and possibly violates an agreement that use of the tenement to house such students would be on a rotating basis. "It's lllttt Bnm ofVl in rf Iira'f" ? - Mr J ?UVIMWIIlllg TT A C concerned about," Chibbaro said. Every holiday, residents of tenement 26 must take extra precautions by locking their valuables in their room closets. There is not guarantee that the closets will not be broken into while the residents are away, he said. "As for as I know, the university assumes no responsibility for any valuables left in your room," Chibbaro said. Tenements 31 and 35 of Woodrow ^ ? l>vi mi wi j at v clio\f uacu lu IIUUS6 students remaining on campus for the holidays. Jimmy - Walsh, a resident of tenement 31, said, "It has been a nuisance. They (Residential Life Services) said we knew that when we signed our (housing) contracts that people would be staying in our rooms during the holiday. They say Hours: 10-9:30 Mon. ? Sat. 788- 2915 |?j| Athletic Attic CI \ ?i 20 % n pKSiA"d< Bring this ad in for jof your choice.Offer ENTIRE IN REDUCED 101221 mn? (NgxttotheVy fflBl lii'ir? - sing policy pr >rm resi it's got to be done this way. They give us an excuse that we are the only tenements (26,31,35) on campus with large enough closets to lock up our possessions," during the breaks. "It's a definite nuisance," Walsh said. Brett Friedlander of Woodrow tenement 35, said, 4'the problem is every time they close the dorms . they leave these three tenements open for people who are staying on campus. Every time we go away we have to tear everything down and lock up. I don't care who they rotate with, I just want it to be rotated." Tenement 35 has also started a petition. Tenement 31 has not done so, although Walsh said the residents of the dorm would probably do so. Richard Wertz, vice president of student affairs for Residential Life Services, said "normally it (the holiday living arrangement) is rotated." Tenements 26, 31, 35 are used because, according to Wertz, these dorms have large closet space to allow residents to lock their valuables in. Other dorms are deficient in such space, he said. Wertz also said if a closet was broken into, the person living in the room would be held. "There would be responsibility there." In tenement 26, members of dormitory government have said that a few weeks before each holiday closing residents would ! receive notices of an agreement maae Detorenana witn dormitory Upper Level | 'tSftr Columbia Mall j nf j I by Penny s iristmas Specials ff all Tennis Rackets lis on shoes, running shorts and tops ans and accessories 20% off 10% off on warm-up expires Dec.13,1978 rmnTTTTTmTTTmrrro VENTORY /^v ? upyil 50 ^Zo M?n 1 1-7 pm i Sat 10-6 4 STREET *^T| ??t <xde Hampton) otested dents b representatives that tenement 26 is one of the dorms to be used by student staying over the holidays. No one in the recent dorm (JnVPrnmPnt nnr onma roai/lnntn IAMIIV I VOlUdliO who have lived in the dorm for five or six semesters remember being party to such an agreement. "The agreement went back sometime between the Horseshoe (and housing). It was a longstanding agreement. The alternative is if we don't provide something then we're going to have to shut down the system," Wertz said. This would leave international students without accommodations during the holidays, L ~ lie SU1U. David Macaulay, associate director of Residential Life SerATTENTION F Here is on opportunity Plan to participate ii SEMINAR during se I communication, I relations, etc. ? Al Call 77 ps ll Gam Ik A ft f?r I ^ 1 M Mm >egin p< vices, said the holiday arrangements agreement between the Horseshoe and housing "was made about three or four years ago." The Horseshoe government district consists of Maxcy, Thornwell and the dormitories on the Horseshoe. Woodrow dormitory is in anotner district but MaCaulay said it was really an agreement with student representatives of Woodrow and Thornwell dormitories. "At one time we used only one building. It use to be always (tenement) 26," Macaulay said. According to Macaulay, residents of tenement 26, when it was the only dorm used for holiday stay-overs, inquired about their RESHMEN AND SC ' to develop your own le n the STUDENT LEADERS cond semester. 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