Campus Life and Activities 76 Special Summer Programs Student Affairs The mission of Student Affairs is to create opportunities and challenges for students to broaden their intellectual, spiritual, and emotional horizons; and, in so doing, to engage them with the widest range of persons both within the university and beyond in striving towards a community that fosters social responsibility and reflects the highest aspirations of all its members. The Division of Student Affairs complements the educational mission of the university by helping to relate many of the nonacademic components of the university to the academic experiences of the students. The residence halls, the athletic fields, the Chapel, and many student organizations play an important humanistic and holistic role in the students' university experience by developing leadership qualities, skills in interpersonal relationships, and appreciation for the care of the physical self. Thus, the university experience encompasses collectively the life of the mind, body, emotions, and, indeed, the spirit. Residential Life Duke enjoys a long tradition as a residential university and supplements the formal academic education of students by providing a comprehensive residence life program. A primary goal is to facilitate the creation of residential communities in which there are common interests, free-flowing exchange of ideas, relaxed social activities, and active recreational opportunities. Students, faculty, and staff work cooperatively to provide programs and activities in keeping with these guiding principles. Leadership opportunities, faculty dinners/discussions, community service opportunities, and intramural sports are but a few of the offerings in which students may choose to become involved. First-year students, with the exception of those who petition to live at home, are required to live in university residence halls. After the first year, students may elect to reside in selective and independent residence halls or the Central Campus apartments. Nearly 90 percent of the undergraduate student body lives on campus each year, a clear indication of student appreciation for and satisfaction with the residential experience. Students enrolled beyond their fourth year and those who attend part-time are not eligible for university housing. First-Year-Student Residence Halls. First-year students reside on East Campus in first-year student houses, the majority of which are coed. A faculty member lives in-residence in all but two of the first-year houses. All housing assignments are made by random lottery. Within the residence halls, single, double, or triple rooms are available. Upperclass Residences. Upperclass students live in coed and single-sex residence halls on West and North Campuses and in the Central Campus Apartments. There are two types of residence hall living groups, independent and selective. Independent living group spaces are filled by a general housing lottery. The selective living groups, which include residential fraternities, select their own members. Also included among the selective houses are academically sponsored theme houses such as the Decker Tower Languages House, the Mitchell Tower Arts House, the Round Table, and the Residential Life 77 Ann Firor Scott Women's Studies House. Other selective houses include PRISM, a multicultural theme house, and the Women's Selective House (Cleland). Each living group or house is governed by a House Council elected by the group's membership. Within all upperclass houses, except those located in Edens, there are triple as well as single and double rooms. Central Campus provides another housing option—a community of university-owned and operated apartments which accommodate more than 800 undergraduate students. The remainder of the complex houses a cross-section of 200 students from various graduate programs. University housing is considered to include all residence halls as well as Central Campus Apartments, and assignment to any of these areas fulfills the university's four-year housing guarantee to eligible students. Since the 1995-96 academic year, entering students have been required to live on-campus for three years, and after that commitment has been met, they may consider moving off-campus or continue to enjoy their four-year housing guarantee option. Eligible students who choose to live off-campus may retain their resident status and eligibility for university housing if they follow the proper procedures as published by the Office of Student Development. The university provides free on-campus bus service, connecting East, West, North, and Central campuses. All residence halls have resident advisors who live in-house and who are members of the Office of Student Development staff. These graduate and undergraduate students have broad responsibilities in the residence halls which include advising the house leadership, serving as valuable resource persons for students with a variety of questions or personal concerns, and enforcing university policies when individual or group behavior fails to conform to the standards set forth by members of the university community. Each house is located within a residential quadrangle, and a quadrangle council is elected from its constituent members to perform the dual roles of programming and governance. The primary purpose of the quadrangle system is to establish and sustain a vibrant residential community, facilitated by a rich blend of intellectual and cocurricular pursuits. All residential students will pay dues as a means of supporting the programming initiatives designed for the enrichment of the community in which they live. Representatives from each quadrangle council shall comprise the Campus Council which serves as the governing body to support and provide direction for residential life. A subcommittee of the Campus Council also will serve as an advisory body to the dean of student development, and will seek, through its action, to foster an environment of responsibility, initiative, and creativity on the part of all individual students and groups living in residence. Residence Hall Programming. Educational and cultural programming is planned and presented throughout the year in the residence halls through the cooperative work of the Office of Student Development, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering, and resident students. In all but two of the first-year residence halls, faculty members live in the halls and participate in house activities during the academic year. The Faculty Associates Program pairs faculty members with living groups in an effort to facilitate engaging and intellectually stimulating endeavors within the residence halls. There are a number of seminar rooms located in several of the first-year houses. The goals of these various residentially-based programs are to enhance the quality of intellectual and social life for the residents on campus, to facilitate student-faculty interaction outside the formal classroom setting, and to develop a greater sense of community within the individual residence halls as well as within the greater university. 78 Residential Life Dining Facilities All students living in campus residence halls are required to participate in a dining plan. Several dining plans are available that allow a student to make purchases in a wide variety of dining locations by accessing a prepaid account carried on the student identification card, or DukeCard (see 'Food and Other Expenses' in the chapter ''Financial Information''). First-year plans include both board and debit accounts; plans for upperclassmen are debit accounts. Duke Dining Services provides three cafeterias, nine fast food locations, three restaurants and three coffee bars. Facilities on East Campus include The Marketplace which serves the first-year plan (featuring fresh baked goods, rotisserie roasted meats, steamed vegetables, stir-fry specialities, pizza, pasta grilled sandwiches, and an extensive salad bar) and Trinity Café (gourmet coffee and pastries). West Campus options include The Great Hall (cafeteria), Han's Fine Chinese Cuisine (restaurant), the Oak Room (restaurant), the Cambridge Inn (featuring Chick-fil-A, Alpine Bagels & Brews, and Fresh Fare to Go), the Rathskellar (Tex-Mex, pasta, and sandwiches), Mean Gene's Burgers, Le Grande Cafe and The Perk (gourmet coffee and pastries), LSRC Pratt Dining Commons (cafeteria), and fast food outlets,Sanford Institute Deli, J.D.'s, and Cattleman's Subs, Etc. North Campus is home to Grace's Cafe, and on Central Campus there is Duke's own sports bar, The Devil's Den. Additionally, University Catering accepts dining plan funds from individual students or student groups and will provide food and/or catering services for cookouts, study breaks, banquets, parties, or any other campus event. Students may also use the funds in their dining plan to purchase food items in three campus convenience stores: Uncle Harry's General Store on Central Campus, The East Campus Store on East Campus, and the Lobby Shop on West Campus as well as concessions at athletic events, sodas and snacks from vending machines, and late night pizza and sub delivery from local commercial vendors. Religious Life Two symbols indicate the importance of religion to this university since its founding: Eruditio et Religio, the motto on the seal of the university, and the location of the Duke Chapel at the center of the campus. People from all segments of the university and the community gather in Duke Chapel on Sunday morning to