Wed 8 Feb 2006
The results of the co-op lottery are available and the draw is tomorrow night. Comments:
1) See below the break for the e-mail announcing the results. Alas, I can’t find any updated information on how many rooms/houses are available. I made a special plea to increase the number of co-ops this year, but I doubt that this happened. Where can students in the lottery go to find out what their choices really are?
2) Thomas Kindred suggested coordinating the picking process by sharing information about pick numbers and likely selections. Great idea! I created a Willipedia page to help out but my attempts to point this out in the discussion failed because I (like all alums?) can’t login to that part of WSO. Perhaps a reader could provide a pointer in the thread.
3) By my count, there 189 participants. It is a shame that the College — as well as the students representatives on bodies like CUL and College Council — do not provide more co-op spots. It is an excellent program, beloved by all and largely unique to Williams. From a fund-raising point of view, there are few ways to bind Ephs more tightly to their friends (and future class agents!) then having them live together intimately senior year. How many spots are there?
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:43:59 -0500 (EST)
From: getaroom@williams.edu
Reply-To: getaroom@williams.edu
Subject: Co-op/Off-campus Lottery Results Posted
To: students-07@williams.eduFor those juniors who applied, the results of the Co-op/Off-campus Lottery are now available at the Office of Campus Life, Hopkins Hall 1st floor. You can also find out your individual results by visiting the following webpage:
http://www.williams.edu/admin-depts/bg/housing/
…click on “RoomDraw/Lottery” on the left, then sign in.
Remember that the Co-op/Off-campus Draw is on Thursday night, February 9, beginning at 7:30pm, in Bronfman Auditorium. Please be on-time and make
sure you have your Williams ID with you.Questions? Reply to getaroom@williams.edu or stop by the Campus Life office
in Hopkins and ask Gail or Aaron.Thanks!
-your GetARoom Staff
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108 co-op spots
I am pleased to see that the co-op page I created is seeing a bit of action. It would be nice if some of the higher picks let people know who they are. It would also be nice if there were some handy on-line reference to the list of houses and the number of spots in each. I also wonder if the College is flexible about a group squeezing in an extra person if they are willing to have a double.
I also think that the whole process would work better if everything were public. That is, instead of having to watch poor Ali Beswick et al beg for information, it should be public who was in each group and what their pick numbers are. (I realize that, after the fact, the housing office won’t release the data this year, but the rules for next year should be changed so that, if you want a co-op, you agree to have the results of the lottery made public.)
There is, right now, way more tension then there ought to be in the process. More complete information would lead to a better outcome for all. Note the need to ensure that everyone is on the same party page in Milham.
Thanks for the info on 108 spots. By my count, we hit 113 at the 18th sot in the list; so I expect that people lower than this are out of luck, although the small groups at spot 19 and 21 might get lucky.
Long time co-op fans will also recall the “scandal” a few years ago when the random draw was totally messed up and had to be redone, resulting in much complaining and paranoid mutterings. Anyone who knows the tale ought to tell it to us.
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