ROOM SELECTION PROCESS: SPECIALTY HOUSING

Super Single Selection

We are offering Super Single rooms for women in Dolan Hall and on the third floor of Pacelli Hall.  Super Singles for men will be in Dolan Hall.  These will be larger than a traditional single room and have only one set of furniture and two wardrobes.  The cost of a Super Single is listed under the 2008-2009 room and board fees. Please note that Dolan Hall will remain open over the holiday breaks.

Buy-out Selection

We are offering a limited number of opportunities to “buy-out” a double room.  A “buy-out” is a room with one resident.  All the furniture that is available in a double room will remain in the buy-out room.  The cost of a buy-out is listed under the 2008-2009 room and board fees. During your selection time you can choose an empty double in any hall that is available with the exception of the corner rooms in Hamlin or Campion Halls.

Singles Selection

Singles for women are available on the 3rd floor of Dolan and Pacelli Halls.  Singles for men are available on the 3rd floor of Dolan.  The cost of a single room is listed under the 2008-2009 room and board fees.  

Substance Free Floor Selection

To live on a Substance Free Floor, you must be committed to a non-drinking lifestyle. Our intention is to provide space for a community to develop made up of individuals who consciously want to keep the primary and secondary effects of drinking and illegal drug use out of their lives.  Therefore, it is expected that community members will not drink on the floor and will not return to the floor if they have been drinking in another location.  You will be removed from Substance Free housing if you are found to be responsible for violating the University alcohol policy (space permitting).

Applications for Substance Free Floors are reviewed by the Residence Life staff.  You will be notified of your acceptance or denial into these specific communities.  Designation of specific floors as substance free is determined after calculating the number of spaces requested.  The location of substance-free housing has not been determined.

If you apply for Substance Free housing and are accepted, we expect you to choose a space there.  If you decide you do not want to be in Substance free housing after the application deadlines, you will need to contact Mrs. Perri, Housing Coordinator for Residence Life, at jcureslife@jcu.edu to be assigned a new selection time for housing.  

Bernet Selection

This process will remain a manual process this year.  Bernet applicants will be notified if they have been awarded a Bernet Suite by Monday, March 3, 2008.   Completed Bernet Hall applications must be received in the Office of Residence Life by 5:00pm on Thursday, February 21, 2008.  Click here for a Bernet Hall Application. 

Groups applying for Bernet will receive notification prior to the on-line housing deadline.  This will allow any student that applied for Bernet but was not accepted a chance to apply or make changes to the on-line housing application.

It is important to note that Bernet was designed with Seniors in mind.  Therefore, the Senior class has priority for the space in that hall.  Clusters not comprised solely of Seniors are welcome to apply but will be considered only if space remains after all Seniors who have applied have been housed.  Here are two examples to illustrate this point.

Example 1: You and five of your friends apply for Bernet.  You and one other in your group are rising Seniors.  The other four are rising Juniors.  There are no more groups of six Seniors left to house but there are groups of four or two left.  We would give those Seniors left an opportunity to reconfigure to take the six-person suite.  If there is no interest from those Seniors, you and your group will be eligible to take the suite.

Example 2: You and five of your friends apply for Bernet.  You and one other in your group are rising Seniors and have each lived on campus six semesters.  The other four are rising Juniors and have each lived on campus four semesters.  There is a group of six Seniors in which two have lived on campus six semesters, two have lived on campus four semesters and two have never lived on campus.  Although your group has lived on campus longer in total, the all-Senior group would get priority.

Our first priority after the Bernet application deadline will be to determine who will live in Bernet next year.  We will contact all groups that apply and indicate if you should come to the open house and selection day or if you are on a waiting list. The number of semesters lived on campus is not averaged for the group, but totaled.  This is different from the general housing calculation.

“Buy-outs” and “double with an International student” are options that will be accepted in the Bernet Hall Selection process.  Senior Privilege will not be an accepted option in the Bernet Hall Selection process.

If your group of four is notified that you have a suite and a member of your group drops out before you actually sign up, we will go to the waiting list to the next group of four. You will not be allowed to replace this original group member in order to retain your suite. This will happen whether the group disbands before your assigned signup time, at the signup table, or after contracts have been signed prior to the beginning of the fall semester.  If space is still available after the waiting list is exhausted, you will be given the opportunity to reconfigure your group with other partial groups and reapply for the space.  Please choose your group carefully.  You should have a firm commitment from each member before you enter the process.

If a group disbands before general housing selection occurs, we will replace the group with the next group on the list regardless of gender.

If a group disbands after general housing selection, we will replace the group with a same gender group.  This will be necessary in order for the disbanded group to have a good housing placement in general housing.   

Honors and Greek Options

Honors:  To support the academic standards of the students involved in the honors program we are providing a floor for honors program students to live with their roommates in Campion Hall.  If you are interested in living in this area, please mark it on your housing application.  Once we receive confirmation that at least one person in each roommate pair is enrolled in the Honors Program, you will be notified of your approval to live on the floor.  Students requesting this floor will only be able to select a room on this floor as long as there is space.  If space is full, students will be able to select a double room on another floor.

Greek:  In order to support the continued growth and excellence of the Greek letter organizations, Residence Life is providing a floor for each of three organizations this year:  Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Delta and Delta Tau Delta.  Students who select this option on the housing application must be approved by the specific Greek letter organization.  Also, once approved, students must select a room on the designated floor. 

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