Nine residence halls will be smoke-free starting in September, Director of Residential Life Michele Rosenthal announced this week. Abbey, 1837, MacGregor, Porter, North and South Rockefeller, Safford, Torrey, and Wilder will become smoke-free halls. (Torrey is already smoke-free).
Five residence halls (Buckland, Ham, Mead, Pearsons, and Prospect) will have two nonsmoking floors each, and Brigham and North and South Mandelle will have one nonsmoking floor apiece. Pearsons Annex and Dickinson House residents will continue to vote on their smoking/nonsmoking space.
Rooms adjacent to head resident and resident adviser apartments in all residence halls will be nonsmoking. Also, students can vote in the fall to add additional nonsmoking floors to their residence hall.
This move is part of a continuing College policy, which begun in 1994 - 95 in response to student requests, to move toward totally smoke-free residence halls. Rosenthal says each year since 1994 - 95, student surveys have indicated an increasing interest in having more smoke-free residence hall space.
Late last month, the Smoke-Free Residence Hall Space Task Force submitted its report to the College Life and Advising Committee. The committee considered the report's three proposals, which were were: make 75 percent of halls (thirteen halls) smoke-free, with no change in the other four halls, for 1999 - 2000 and make all halls smoke-free starting 2000 - 2001; make all halls smoke-free beginning 1999 - 2000; and make nine halls smoke-free, with other eight halls having one smoking floor per hall, for 1999 - 2000 and all halls smoke-free starting 2000 - 2001.
Considering general student reaction, comments made by SGA members and hall presidents, Director of Residential Life Michele Rosenthal, and members of the College Life and Advising Committee as well as the task force's recommendations, Dean of the College Beverly Daniel Tatum made the final decision.
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