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Alcohol-Free Residence Hall
24-Hour Quiet Floors
9-Month Residence Halls
Nontraditional Student
Single-Sex Housing
Co-ed Suites
Gender Free Housing
Thatcher Language Program
For more information about these housing
options, please call the Housing Assignment Office at (413) 545-2100.
Alcohol-Free
Residence Hall
Brooks Hall is an alcohol-free residence
hall. Students and their guests may not possess or consume alcoholic
beverages in this residence hall. The commitment of all residents
to maintain an alcohol-free environment forms the basis of a respectful
and encouraging community.
24-Hour
Quiet Floors
Residents of quiet floors live in an environment
that has the maximum number of study hours. All noise (television,
music, talking) must be maintained at a level agreed upon by quiet
floor residents. Consideration for others is essential on quiet floors
and forms the basis for a cohesive community.
9-Month
Residence Halls
NOTE: There is an additional fee per
semester for all residents who live in Brett, Lewis, Prince and Crampton
Halls. Brett and Lewis residence halls are open from
September through May. All other residence halls are closed during
Thanksgiving, Wintersession, and Spring breaks. Students who require
housing during any or all of these periods should select one of these
9-month residence halls. Prince and Crampton, 12-month residence
halls in Southwest, are also billed as 9-month residence halls for
the
academic year. Residents of Prince and Crampton are eligible to apply
to continue their residency through the summer months.
Nontraditional
Student Program
Students who are 23 years of age or older
can apply to live on what is a typically quieter floor with your
peers in Crampton Hall, a co-ed facility for upper-division and nontraditional
age undergraduate students.
Single-Sex
Housing
Knowlton
Hall in Northeast is an all-female residence hall. All-female
floors are available in some Central, Orchard Hill and Southwest
halls. Hamlin Hall in
Northeast is an all-male residence hall. All-male floors are available
in
some Southwest halls. All of the suites in Sylvan residence
halls are single sex.
Co-ed Suites
In McNamara
Hall, you can request a suite
to share with friends of any sex. While students assigned to a double
room must be of the same sex, the suite can house male and female
students who share one common living area and one bathroom. Interested
students should visit the Housing Assignment Office to complete a
Co-ed Suite housing application. Suite housing application.
Gender
Free Housing
The Sylvan
Area also offeres suites for
students who would like to live in a gender-free environment. This
option is ideal if you do not want to identify a gender, if your
gender identity is in transition, or if you are a friend or ally
of those in transition. Students assigned to the suite will share
a common living area and bathroom. If you are interested, you should
visit the Housing Assignment Office to complete a Gender Free Suite
housing application.
Thatcher
Language Program
The Thatcher Language Program is an ideal
choice for upper-division students seeking fluency in another language.
You must demonstrate proficiency in the language you wish to study
(Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish) to be admitted
into the program and, once in, speak the language in the residence
hall. A comfortable, small-group setting allows you to practice your
conversational skills at your own pace while enjoying a variety of
social and
cultural activities. Students in the program must also enroll in
a two-credit conversation course conducted in Thatcher. For more
details, contact the Thatcher Language Program Coordinator at 413-545-1659
or email thatcher-language@acad.umass.edu or
visit the Thatcher
Language Program web site.
