N otre Dame students voted three-to-one in favor of the pro­ posed McGovern-Hatfield bill in yesterday’s campuswide referen­ dum. Roughly one-third of the student body expressed their opinion in the referendum, with 1446 voting for the bill and 472 against, making a total of 1918 votes cast. The McGovern-Hatfield bill proposes a com plete cutback of appropriations for Southeast Asia after Decem...

Students’ residence halls have been studied repeatedly during the last decades from various perspectives (eg satisfaction). However, our knowledge is very limited in terms of students’ emotions towards various residence hall interior and exterior spaces. Besides, very little study exists on the impact of homelike furniture on students’ emotions. The question driving this research is whether the...

This study explores whether providing information on energy consumption is effective in changing energy consumption behavior. More specifically, in groups with collectivist culture, energy informatics have a significant role in inducing active participation and engagement in energy conservation efforts. Using data collected from energy monitoring competitions conducted in student residence hall...

Many colleges throughout the nation consider the experience of its undergraduates in classes, research, residence halls, dining, and community involvement. It seems that the standard method to collect data from the students is to have them complete surveys. It is the most efficient way to systematically collect information, especially with the size of some schools. It is believed that when eval...

OBJECTIVE To qualitatively describe food practices of students living in a residence hall. METHODS A quantitative and qualitative study was carried out in a drawn sample of 100 university students living in a residence hall in the city of Campinas, Southeastern Brazil, in 2004. Students were interviewed using a questionnaire to collect 24-hour food recall information including open questions ...

I n the fall of 2006, after five years of planning, the Kent State University Honors College inaugurated in the heart of the campus a new honors center: two residence halls framing an office, library, and classroom space came to life. The new center overlooked the Commons, an open green space home to student games and student protests. The hill above the Commons was the site of the National Gua...

Exeat is a generic term commonly used to describe a period of absence from a centre of learning either for entire day, or parts of a day for appointments, interviews, open days and other fixtures in privately owned academic environment. The current method of monitoring student’s movement is inefficient and brings difficulty to the University Halls management checking student’s exit/entry into t...

Purpose This paper aims to explore student perceptions of recycling and whether one university’s strategy helped or hindered in their university's halls residence. There is near-universal acknowledgement the urgency climate crisis, yet household rates remain low at 45.2%. Student-recycling have been suggested be even lower. After a brief consideration recent history sustainability recycling, th...