The hall councils, in coordination with the residence hall staff, develop and implement programs to satisfy the needs of hall residents.

Composition, Role, and Authority of the Residence Hall Council
The Residence Hall Council shall be composed of all of the duly elected officials and the hall staff in each hall. Hall councils shall meet no less than once each month.

The Residence Hall Council is charged with creating an environment in the hall, which supports the growth and learning of all residents through the promotion of student rights, and ensuring adherence to student responsibilities as outlined in the Philosophy of Residential Living. It is expected that each member of the hall council will contribute to this mission within the scope of his or her position.

Within the framework of other College regulations, halls may modify their own community standards in the following manner:

• The hall council may, by majority vote, place their hall on party moratorium for a specified period of time. Tie votes shall be forwarded to the associate dean of students for residential life for adjudication in consultation with the president of SGA.
• Quiet hours may be increased by a unanimous paper vote of all residents. They cannot be reduced below the College standard.
• Lounge status may be determined in the following manner:
  • Lounges designated by the College as substance-free will remain substance-free.
  • Other lounges that were designated substance-free by the hall residents for the previous academic year and received improvements from the College will remain substance-free unless voted out by the hall (see item c below). Improvements to these lounges may be removed if the lounge does not remain substance-free.
  • By a two-thirds vote of the hall (paper ballot, all residents offered a chance to vote), a hall may change the status of a hall-designated lounge space for any given amount of time or for the entire year.

By a two-thirds vote of the hall (paper ballot, all residents offered a chance to vote), a hall may prohibit parties/events allowed on specified weekend nights or limit the number of events during a semester.