By Capri Gahr
Student Reporter
NWOSU’s housing department is making a few changes to benefit student life. Not only has improvements and updates been made to the dorms, but a new position was also created in the housing department to oversee aspects of student life.
This summer, housing had maintenance make some improvements to South Hall. This included correcting minor inefficiencies like old showerheads and lights in the bathrooms. Older showers had heating light bulbs to help the room dry out after showers.
These bulbs were outdated and had been having a negative effect on ceiling tiles. Maintenance removed the lights and replaced the tiles.
These minor improvements will help keep showers and bathrooms running smoothly, and create a cleaner and updated environment for those students living in the dorms.
Another way the housing department is trying to benefit student life is by creating a new position that concentrates on making dorm life more fun. This position is called the resident life coordinator and is currently held by Macie Malone, a senior who was previously the head resident of South Hall.
The person in this position will create event ideas for the dorms.
These events are designed to help students meet each other and, hopefully, add some excitement to students’ daily lives while living on campus.
Kaylyn Hansen, the director of the housing department, explained why the creation of this position was necessary.
Coordinating events that could bring residents of each dorm hall together was a struggle.
The housing department wanted to create ways to have all the dorms participate to help new students meet and make friends.
These events are also a way of getting students together, and hopefully makes healthy social interaction more prevalent that partying.
Hansen believes this position will make it easier to create and produce new ideas to benefit student life. Hanson and Malone both explained why they feel this position is a definite prospect of creating a fun and happy atmosphere for students.
Malone will focus on campus and dorm events. In the past, dorm events were small in nature. Some examples of events include a cereal bar for students to enjoy different cereals with their friends, movie nights and even some lighthearted s’mores making.
Malone believes her effort directly associates with any dorm events. As the semester goes on, students are encouraged to continue to participate in these events to distract from some of the stresses related to being a student.
Malone and Hansen both hope creating this position will allow some much needed attention to these events, making them bigger and more available to students.