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Department of Student Housing announces 2008-09 student leaders

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LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of Student Housing has named its 2008-09 student leaders, including resident assistants for KU’s eight residence halls, proctors and food board managers for 12 scholarship halls and top officers for the five university housing organizations.

“We are grateful to these student for their outstanding leadership,” said Diana Robertson, director of the Department of Student Housing. “At a time when KU housing has received national and regional attention for its increased occupancy — and KU has experienced record enrollments — these students have stepped up to fill important leadership roles. Not only is that indicative of their character and personal achievement, but they truly make a difference in the lives of their fellow students.”

For the 145 students chosen as live-in resident assistants, proctors, desk managers and food board managers, duties include serving as role models, handling administrative and programming duties and performing paraprofessional advisory functions for residents. Food board managers also coordinate menu planning and food purchasing for their assigned halls.

Housing organization officers are elected to represent their fellow student residents and organize and facilitate shared social, intellectual and cultural concerns and activities.

About 5,000 people live in KU student housing facilities, Robertson said. The top 1 percent of these students, based on community leadership, are eligible for membership in the KU chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary.

Other student housing groups:

— The Association of University Residence Halls includes representatives from Corbin, Gertrude Sellards Pearson, Ellsworth, Hashinger, Lewis, McCollum, Oliver and Templin residence halls, which house single male and female students.

— The All Scholarship Hall Council comprises representatives from Douthart, Margaret Amini, Miller, Dennis E. Rieger, Sellards and Watkins scholarship halls for women and Battenfeld, Grace Pearson, Krehbiel, K.K. Amini, Pearson and Stephenson scholarship halls for men.

— Jayhawker Towers Tenants Association includes representatives from KU’s four single-student apartment buildings.

— The Stouffer Neighborhood Association represents residents Stouffer Place Apartments, which are designed to house students who are married and/or have children. Students or nonstudent spouses are eligible to hold office in the association.

The student leaders are listed below by home Kansas county, state or country; level in school; position or positions held; major; and parents’ names and high school attended when available.

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