Yes, Bowles has been a problem for Housing & Dining. As part of their effort to address this, they severly limited the amount of returners to Bowles for the 04-05 year. This makes sense, since the majority of consistent policy violations are made by only a small percentage of the overall population of Bowles. During the 03-04 year, with support from a brand new RD, there was a serious attempt at a crack-down on the questionable behavior at the hall, and from what I understand, there was stronger pressure on RA’s to write up residents that were caught violating housing policy. This was especially apparent during the Halloween party. According to an RA friend of mine, Housing was toying with the idea of limiting Bowles to freshman only in order to start with a clean slate cut down on the less desirable traditions, but ultimately decided to screen returning applicants based on whether they had ever been written up. Instead, many model residents were also denied the opportunity to return, instead being offered a triple in Unit 2 or something similar. A friend of mine went to the Housing office and was able to convince them to let him return to Bowles for 04-05, however, and it’s possible that others did this as well. There were also no returning Bowles RA’s for the 04-05 year.

Unfortunately for Housing, the problems from Bowles did not stop. Since screening returners did not work, the next step was to limit Bowles as a freshman-only hall.

Bowlesmen should have been told of this plan, as it seems likely that the decision was made prior to the initial application date.

Living in Bowles can be a very rewarding experience, and while incoming freshmen have always been quick to complain at first, until recently Bowles has consistently had the highest percentage of returning residents. Hopefully Housing & Dining won’t lose track of this fact.

I am really sad and depressed at reading this news and feeling helpless at being able to do nothing to repair the damage.

I read a good idea that the Housing & Dining should be elected people.

Since the late notice of not being assigned Bowles Hall has placed some in limbo, can a class action lawsuit be forward against Housing & Dining?

Also, what was this survey the Housing & Dining gave out to students? Were the results ever published? What was the sampling? Were the respondants self-selecting? (I suspect only those two or three people who did not like living in Bowles completed this fabled survey. 3 out 3 people claiming XYZed is not what I call a conclusive survey study.)

What steps can be done to reverse this bad idea? If anything is worth protesting, this is it.
I’ll fly up from UCLA, if you need help.

The I-Houses runs independently from the university Housing & Dining office.
How much would it cost to buy Bowles Hall from the university?
I for one would chip in all that I have just to relive Bowles from university control.

Where do I sign-up for the campaign to take back Bowles Hall?

Sheldon Ross
Once a Bowlesman, always a Bowlesman. 1989-’91, 1999

They also told me I have a single (hopefully they won’t change their mind about this as well), so I’m pretty happy. I’ll probably be keeping it.
I took some time last week to take a look at Bowles Hall, and it doesn’t seem all that bad. I really won’t mind living there at all, now that I’ve had some time to think about it. Singles are nice…

However, I will ask around and see if anyone else is willing to trade for a Foothill double, if that’s still possible this late in the game.

This new layout sounds really stupid, as the singles really aren’t large enough to handle two beds. Furthermore, this doesn’t allow Housing to fit more people into Bowles Hall. Sure, it might make things more equal, but at the cost of making everyone less comfortable.

We need to replace Housing and Dining with elected officers who answer to the students whose college lives they’re messing with.

According to housing and dining:

“All of the rooms in Bowles are being converted into doubles because of equity issues. So, your bed and your roommates bed will be in the smaller side room and all of the other furniture will be in the center room. I’m pretty sure you and your room mate can work out the storage issue and talk to your other roommates in the other room about securing your quad. ”

Great. This just gets better and better…

What you can do is contact Housing and Dining and ask them for your exact room number. If it ends in an ‘A’ or ‘B’, you have a single. If it ends in a ‘C’, you have a double.

As a side note, if you do get a single, would you want to trade for a double at Foothill? I currently have a space in one of the few Foothill Hillside (next to the Dining Commons) double rooms in an all-male suite that has access to an elevator and is a couple floors above the laundry room.

The hell you say. Oh, wait, that is what we were smuggling up to the fifth floor every week. As a witness to the original birth of the Keg ‘O’ Rater (1996) and former Hall president, I’m glad to see this website. Life at Bowles is what you make of it. I hope that the opposition to all things Housing and Dining still remains and lives on through even the most hairbrained schemes they can come up with.