Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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LEFT Brian feels right at home in Gardens C. BELOW Kara is blown away by the size of her Garden Apartment. one of my roommates had the nerve to try to tack up a ' Go, Ollie North, All American ' poster just days after our first ' family style sit-down ' din- ner this year. Learning to live on campus means learning to live with others while learning to take care of yourself. It means getting up in the middle of the night to take care of a roommate with mono and having the luxury of walking three doors down to borrow a cig. It means growing to love those people you live with because you ' ve seen the best and the worst of them. And that ' s so much more than you could ever fit on a little yellow card. BY Chris Morris LEFT “It could be worse - you could be a commuter. ABOVE How would Mom react to the McAuley style ? FAR LEFT The Wynnewood laundry room doubles as a study lounge. Living On Campus 23

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p-Living On Campus . . . Someday we will both look back And have to laugh We lived through a lifetime And the aftermath This is the time to remember Cause it will not last forever These are the days Billy Joel, The Bridge I remember the summer before my freshman year I filled out a little yellow card from Residence Life. There were neat little boxes for my smoking and music preferences, study habits, and neatness tenden- cies (or lack thereof). I remember struggling over that card because it was the first time ' living away from home ' meant anything more to me than an overused phrase. I could pic- ture my roomie instantly becoming my best friend for life. After all, we did have the same eating and sleep- ing habits . . . Fourteen roommates later I ' ve learned that there ' s more to living with someone than just living away from home. Each person who lives away from home will by definition grow more independent. At the same time, however, the individual must learn to function as part of a team. Within each apartment, each suite, and each quad a family is being formed, shaped by everyone within it. Housing plays a big part. Different parts of campus offer different living arrangements to fill very different in- dividual needs. Ideal housing for new students who want to meet many people quickly can be found on East Cam- pus. Home to 299 freshmen during ' 87- ' 88, Butler and Hammerman es- tablished community within the class of ' 91. With the system of quads, which are four rooms and a bath in a hall off of the main corridor, you meet not only your roommate, but seven other people as well, cited Jodie Dobbeleare. Because every- one is new, we ' re all adapting to college, and each other. Ahern and McAuley, on the other hand, are geared toward students who have already adapted to college living. For the disciplined student this once ' seniors only ' housing pro- vides apartments with easy access to McDonald ' s, the Derby, and, of course, the Loyola Notre Dame Library. With its own convenience store, the Garden Apartments are the lat- est in luxury housing for the starving student. Mary Ryan, a sophomore, complained that perhaps the Garden Grocer is too convenient. It ' s too easy for me to just go down and get something to eat while I ' m studying. Grad student Maura Reed, who is currently a Wynnewood RA, point- ed out, Every area offers something different. When I lived in Hammer- man freshman year the dorm aspect was very important. McAuley was great as a senior. Charleston was neat - we used to sun in the courtyard. This year Charleston ' s courtyard was kept busy hosting the Crab Feast and Peace Concert. Charleston res- idents are very outgoing, Sheril Sil- va explained. Because there ' s more privacy, you have to make an effort to get to know the people outside your apartment . . . but there is a real community atmosphere here. Community doesn ' t stop with res- idents alone. Hospitality is extended annually with the Host-a-Commuter Weekend and regularly many stu- dents invite commuter friends to spend weeknights. Commuter Rosa Quattrocci said she feels as if she lives here. Residents really open up their apartments to us. Rosa con- fessed she spends many nights in Wynnewood Towers. Junior Maureen Murphy, noted floor diversity and community as Wynnewood ' s greatest assets. She explained, Not only are the floors co-ed, but every academic class is represented. Freshmen live next to seniors who live next door to a professor. As a Wynnewood veteran I can vouch for community between the most unlikely characters. In my own apartment I ' ve come very close to witnessing nuclear holocaust when 22 Living On Campus

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ABOVE Satisfying the McAuley Munchies RIGHT Girls ' night in :4 Living On Campus