Beyond the dorms: Two types of affinity housing
When filling out applications for housing this year, freshmen, for the first time in Dartmouth history, had the option of choosing between not two but three different types of housing. In previous years, first-year students could choose between regular housing and the Butterfield Alcohol and Drug-Free Affinity Housing. Students who opted not to select Butterfield housing were randomly placed in one of the College's 28 other dormitories. Now, thanks to an experiment aimed at better integrating intellectual and social life at the College, the East Wheelock Cluster, otherwise known around campus as "the New Dorms," can also be selected as an alternative affinity housing. Twenty-one freshmen have been randomly selected out of 78 applicants to live in Butterfield, Associate Dean of Residential Life Beatty said.