University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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30 campus life ...in the scholarship halls was a lesson in cooperation for many residents. by laura veazey. Is anything worth having to clean dozens of toilets? For several hundred students, less expensive housing and many other advantages made living in scholarship halls a Worthwhile endeavor. Nicknamed schol halls, the nine schol- arship halls at KU offered alternatives to traditional student housing. The halls housed about 450 students, collectively. Students worked two to six hours a week in the hall, and usually paid 51,000 less than students in residence halls. Scholarship halls had many characteristics that attracted students like Stephanie McNeil, a Topeka sophomore who lived in Sellards Hall her freshman year. My high school counselor gave me infor- mation on it, McNeil said, The school halls are right behind Fraser and that close prox- imity to campus was a factor in my decision to live there again. McNeil normally worked four to six hours a Week as her hall's dessert cook. Students took on household responsibilities, including cooking and cleaning. Each hall also had a director, usually a graduate student, Whose responsibilities were similar to those of residence hall assistants. Students had to maintain 28 hours during the academic year with a minimum 2.5 GPA to qualify for life in the schol halls. The halls also organized inter-hall parties and other ac- tivities, including a spring formal. The scholarship halls were a growing com- mimityp with plans for an additional hall to open in the fall of 2000, due to a sizable do- nation received from K.K. and Margaret Amini. photos by krista kuban.

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