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1977-78 Dorm Leaders By Joan Stoops - . An n Ou n C e1d At an all-dorm meeting of Wilson Hall on May 3, As the Business and --Personnel Manager Linda the Resident Advisor (RA's) for the 1977-1978 will run the Business Office in• Wilson Hall. The school year were announced. . Snack Bar Manager and Switchboard Ma_na~~!, There were six people selected as RA'S, two of although they haven;t been chosen yet, will work which will act as Head RA's.. The . Head RA fo_r under Linda's supervision. the South Wing is Neil McMichael. ~- As a final part ofthe Residence Hall's Staff The other RA's that were chosen are Lorraine training, these people · will return to ACC from Manitowabi and Karen Young for the North Wing · August 29 to September 2. During this week they and Bob Osborne and Randy Potts for the South will participate in organizational activities to hel Wing. get things prepared for when the dorm residents The Head RA's are responsible for his or her move into Wilson Hall. They will also undergo wing. They collect monthly floor reports from the sensitivity sessions each night. other RA's in their wing. These reports are then ~ Listed below are the names and a short expose turned into Ms. Gail French, Head Resident at on each of the RA's for next year. Wilson Hall, and Mr. Frank Mccourt, Director of Nan H;ver--- - HeadRA - N-im will be entering her Housing. The Head RA's also meet once a week •. -soph-omore year in the fall. She is currently ,_ with Ms. French and Mr. Mccourt without the studying in the area' of . Business Management. other RA's present. Nan comes from Mayville, Michigan. The RA"s are responsible for his or her floor. Neil McMichael - Head RA - Neil will be coming They turn in monthly floor reports to their Head back as a sophomore in the Fisheries Program. RA. · They too, meet with Ms. French and Mr. He is from Capac, Michigan. Mccourt once a week. Lorraine Manitowabi - RA - Lorraine, a sophomore, T~e process that these people go through to be- comes from Sualt Ste. Marie, Michigan. She is come an RA is a very long, drawn out process currently studying in the Social Services area. which takes six weeks to complete. There are seven Karen Young - RA - Karen, a Marketing student, will be a sophomore next fall. Karen is from basic steps involved in the selection of the RA's. Clawson, Michigan. . First of all, the 14 candidates were required to Bob Osborne _ RA _- Bob will be a sophomore attend the two meetings that were held every in the Fisheries Program in the fall. He comes week, for six weeks. When the candidates attend to A.C.C. from Monroe, Michigan. these meetings they learn the rules of the dorm Randy Potts - RA - Randy will be a second sem- and learn how to handle different types of situ- ester freshman next fall. He is studying ations. They discuss how to listeo to people's pre-teaching. Randy is from Oscoda, Michigan. problems and how to remain unbiased in their Dana Marquette - Activities Coordinator - Dana is advice. Through different situation set up by Ms. - a pre-med student and will be a sophomore in French and Mr. Mccourt in an effort to help them the fall. She is from Oscoda, Michigan. realize their values and morals. Linda Knapp - Business and P'ersonnel Manager - In the second step all the candidates are inter- Linda will be a second semester freshman in viewed by Dean F. Souden, Dean of Students, the fall. She is studying in the field of Graphic Frank Mccourt, Director of Housing, anc:r-Gail Arts. Linda is from Sisstor1, South Dakota. French, Head Resident _at Wilson Hall. They are asked questions about what they have learned in the meetings and what they think of the other candidates. The third step in the process is very similar to , the previous steps. The candidates are interviewe by at least three of the six RA's. The applicants are responsible for setting up their interviews. ~_ext, each of the six RA's submit a tentative --- list in which they place each candidatP. in order of their own personal preference, one through four- teen. These six different lists are then compiled into one list. In step five, Mr. · Souden, Mr. McCourt, and Ms. French each make up a list according to their own personal preference. These are then tallied with the list from the RA's. Next, each of the candidates are given an exam over wh.at they have learned. During this exam the present RA's cause a make-believe incident and each of the candidates are asked to write up an incident report on the situation. After the six weeks of training and interviews, the RA's selected for the next year are announced. From the candidates who didn't make RA, ·the rest -of the dormitory staff was chosen. Activities Coordinator will be Dana Marquette, and the Business and Personnel Manager will be Linda Knap Although the details of these positions are not clear as of yet, a description of the main points · of these jobs can be given. · Good .Luck $30.95 THE POLEMIC, May 24, 1977, Page 3· Decrease in Violations a·t the Oorlm By Joan A. Stoops This 1976-1977 school year in Wilson Hall has shown a marked decrease in violations and inci- dents requiring action by the Dormitory Judiciary Board or Mr. Frank Mccourt, Director of Housing. There were six judicial meetings held this year as compared to approximately one every week last year. There were nine violations handled by the Board this year. There were 3 violations of Quiet Hours, 1 violation of Visitors Hours, 2 Fighting incidents, 2 incidents of throwing Snowballs, and 1 incident of Water Fighting. Last year the vio- lations and incidents were much the same but much greater in number. Last year there were 125 to 150 violations and incidents handled by the Ju- diciary and the Director of Housing. This year there were 40 violations and incidents that were handled l;>y Mr. McCourt. They were 16 violations of Quiet Hours, 4 incidents of Reckless Driving in the Dorm parking lot, 4 incidents of Misuse of Recriational Equipment, 1 incident of an Unauthorized Gun in the dorm, 1 incident of an . Unauthorized TV Hook-up, 1 incident of Fighting, 2 incidents of Breaking of Doors and Windows in the dorm, and 1 incident of Damaging a Mailbox. Mr. Mccourt said that he feels that the lower. number of incidents and violations can be attri- buted to the facts that . the Dorm Residents be- have better than the Residents did last year and that there isn't the hostiltiy that existed between the _students last yeaL Ms. French Speaks Out on Dorm Life By Joan Stoops l\/ls. Gail French, Head Resident of Wilson Hall, is just completing her first year in her position as Head Residant. Ms. French, as part of her job, lives in an apart- ment il)·,side the dorm. Although she is constantly around the dorm residents she says she enjoys living in the dorm. When asked if she knew her p_r;vate life was going to be affected w_hen she took the job, Ms. French· replied, "Yes, but it was a choice I made when I took the job." When asked if the dorm is a good place for students to live Ms. French said, "Yes, it provides experience. Dorm life is an important part of college because it enables them to make choices and find their limits." DEXTER otf e,,re jtna ¥ Grads ! Do.wntown Alpena -- Gaylord As the Activities Coordinator, Dana will act as a liason between the Student Activities Depart- ment and WRHA. She will also act as an advisor to \YR 1:-ll,, a,:id v.vjlJ ,a.tier.id . the. r,n~~ting~ of .tt,e. WR HA. I \ ; - ~ • '. \ n. 6a:;:::::;:::;::a::=:::::=a:::=:::;:::;o;:;:::==a:::====:a::====::a:::====::a:====:n====~, • • • • , • < ' • 6 a • I ' • I l .,