University of Virginia Library

Housing Deficiencies Criticized

"We stopped writing back
to Mr. Main. After all, he
hadn't responded to our
requests yet. This really made
Housing furious. At the end of
the first semester our dorm had
the most complaints of any
dorm," the senior resident said,
"and that's when I found out
that my future in the program
was dim. Now they say that
this will go on my record,
whatever that means."

"Nothing has really gone
wrong in our dorm, though,"
he added. "It's all intact, and
the deficiencies that are there
are usually Housing's fault."

He has been in the program
for several years, and has
enjoyed it, he says. Given the
chance, however, he would not
reapply for a staff position
next year because of his recent
problems with the Housing
Office, he said.

Students in his dorm say
that he has done an excellent
job of maintaining order in the
dorm yet he has not let the
enforcement of a few petty
rules overcome the community
spirit not always common to
dorms.