Emerson College - Emersonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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R.A.s-in-training: Suzy Kennedy, Stephan Henry, Elaina Pilotti, Bob Lindscott, and Elizabeth Hooper. Charlesgate R.A.s Chris George, Carolyn Freyer, and Bob Linds- cott are happy they ' re not on duty. Meredith Greenburg is distracted from studying. Photos by Bob Lindscott. 17

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Residence Life For students living on campus, time spent in the residence halls is just as important as time spent in the classroom. Whether you choose to live in Charlesgate or Fensgate near Kenmore Square, or in 132 or too closer to campus, your building becomes your home. Your neigh- bors become your closest friends or sometimes your worst enemies. R.A. Sue Knill offers some advice to a resident in Fensgate.

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The Union Emerson’s Living Room WECB broadcasts live from the lobby on Union Day. The Student Union at 96 Beacon Street is “home”, the core of student-run activities on campus. Union staffers dedicate many hours to maintaining order at the desk. They endure early mornings and late nights opening and closing the Union. They run the front desk, ansvi er phones, sort mail and handle room reservations. The bulletin boards cover the walls of the Union, provide information about meetings and events sponsored by the SGA, the Programming Council, the Greek community and other organizations. Union staffers aren’t the only ones who “live” in the Union. Since several student offices are housed on the third floor, the people who run them are in the Union as often as staff members. The Union is one central place to go between classes. Commuters may have an early morning class and then two to four hours before their next class. Since it is inconvenient and costly to go home between classes, they go to the Union, where they can store their books in the lockers, grab a bite to eat at the UnKommon and watch “Rock World” In the lobby or soap operas in the fourth floor lounge. The Commuter Club was recently given an office in the Union. This was an important step for them, because they now have one concrete place to work out of as they try to unify Emerson’s commuter population. The assistant Dean of Students and Student Life moved into the space vacated when the school store affiliated with the campus bookstore at the beginning of the year. The Student Life committees that work on Hatch Shell, Orientation, Programming and Parents Weekend work out of the first floor offices. The Berkeley Beacon and the Emersonian both have their offices on the third floor. Their staffs spend a large amount of time in the Union. The one problem they have with their office space is that they can only work in it when the Union is open. Since they both work on deadline, there are times when it is inconvenient to leave, but they have to because the Union is clos- ing. 18