Student Life introduces new special interest housing options for 2010-2011
Alternative housing options may boost students' chances of staying on campus
Issue date: 2/9/10 Section: News
By Briana Berg
Staff Writer
It is true - there really is no place like Loyola housing. Whether you started your housing journey in Campion, Flannery O'Connor or Butler Hall, and ended in Newman Towers or Gardens, students at Loyola University have some bragging rights when it comes having the best housing in the country; Princeton Review ranked Loyola's dorms number two in the country calling them "dorms like palaces." With rumors of a housing shortage for the class of 2012, more and more students are looking for places to go off campus or finding alternative ways to stay on campus.
Before students go to the extreme and move off of Loyola's beautiful campus, students should think about alternative housing. The Office of Student Life is offering two new programs for the 2010-2011 school year, in addition to the two that already exist. Mission House and Empowerment house will be joining the Ad-Infinitum Living-Learning Community and Wellness House at Loyola, creating a many different atmospheres for students to live in.
Mission House is a community that strives to live out the core values of our Jesuit education. The students who live in this community will participate in "activities that will strengthen their commitment to service and spirituality. By going out into the Baltimore community each month, the students in the house will try to live out one of the values in Loyola's mission statement.
Lauren Janniello, the leader at Mission House, noted that the house is a way for students "to experience the Jesuit Spirit as St. Ignatius intended." The house as a whole will "promote these values on campus," and by "participating in service activate and social justice events that relate to living out the Jesuit values." Students who should participate in Mission House are those who want to be apart of a community that will "connect to Loyola on a deeper level" and want to be challenged "to live out their college experiences fully and authentically," Janniello said.
Staff Writer
It is true - there really is no place like Loyola housing. Whether you started your housing journey in Campion, Flannery O'Connor or Butler Hall, and ended in Newman Towers or Gardens, students at Loyola University have some bragging rights when it comes having the best housing in the country; Princeton Review ranked Loyola's dorms number two in the country calling them "dorms like palaces." With rumors of a housing shortage for the class of 2012, more and more students are looking for places to go off campus or finding alternative ways to stay on campus.
Before students go to the extreme and move off of Loyola's beautiful campus, students should think about alternative housing. The Office of Student Life is offering two new programs for the 2010-2011 school year, in addition to the two that already exist. Mission House and Empowerment house will be joining the Ad-Infinitum Living-Learning Community and Wellness House at Loyola, creating a many different atmospheres for students to live in.
Mission House is a community that strives to live out the core values of our Jesuit education. The students who live in this community will participate in "activities that will strengthen their commitment to service and spirituality. By going out into the Baltimore community each month, the students in the house will try to live out one of the values in Loyola's mission statement.
Lauren Janniello, the leader at Mission House, noted that the house is a way for students "to experience the Jesuit Spirit as St. Ignatius intended." The house as a whole will "promote these values on campus," and by "participating in service activate and social justice events that relate to living out the Jesuit values." Students who should participate in Mission House are those who want to be apart of a community that will "connect to Loyola on a deeper level" and want to be challenged "to live out their college experiences fully and authentically," Janniello said.
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