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IRB Halts Study On Improving Name Game Effectiveness Through Electric Shock

Posted on Thursday, April 15th 2010
Tags: icebreaker, name game, orientation, residence life
IRB Halts Study On Improving Name Game Effectiveness Through Electric Shock
by Brody Truce Senior Staff Writer Name games have long been a staple of freshman orientation programs at colleges around the country. In the past few decades, these games have changed very little and no research has been done to determine their effectiveness. Misty Koran, a PhD candidate in higher education at The College of [...]

Beloved Professor Dies of Pizza Overdose

Posted on Friday, March 5th 2010
Tags: creative, innovative, pizza, programming, programs, residence life
Beloved Professor Dies of Pizza Overdose
Dr. Louis Pynne, professor of Peace Studies at Cobb College, was found dead in his office Wednesday evening. Authorities say the cause of death was most likely a pizza overdose. “It was a perfect storm,” said Chief of Campus Security Trey Reingold. “Dr. Pynne had attended two residence hall workshops, an office birthday party and [...]

Shocking New Study Finds Cookie Cake Ineffective at Improving Staff Morale

Posted on Monday, March 1st 2010
Tags: activity, conflict resolution, icebreaker, intervention, ra, residence life, staff morale, team building
Shocking New Study Finds Cookie Cake Ineffective at Improving Staff Morale
By Brody Truce Staff Writer For years, residence hall directors have relied on one simple team building activity to boost morale when tensions arise among resident assistants: the cookie cake. “To be fair, a cookie cake isn’t actually a team building activity,” explains Misty Koran, a PhD candidate in higher education at The College of [...]

Theater Student Voted Out of Arts Dorm for Not Bringing Enough Drama

Posted on Tuesday, January 5th 2010
Tags: arts, conflicts, cutting, drama, housing, major, mental illness, residence life, roommate, theater
Theater Student Voted Out of Arts Dorm for Not Bringing Enough Drama
Residents of the Tharp School of the Arts Theater House voted to eject acting major Coco DeRosa because she did not bring enough drama to the dorm community “She was so boring,” said her roommate Violet Zizzle. “I don’t think I saw her cry once the whole time we lived together.” Zizzle initially reported her [...]

Residence Life Breaks Age-Old Cliché, Selects Non-Olympics Training Theme

Posted on Wednesday, December 16th 2009
Tags: goose story, human knot, mission possible, olympics, ra, residence life, staff, student affairs, student leader, theme, training
Residence Life Breaks Age-Old Cliché, Selects Non-Olympics Training Theme
Student Affairs experts scratched their heads in befuddled amusement this week, when the Residence Life staff at Mount Jackson University announced it’s mid-year training theme. “Naturally, we assumed it would be the Olympics,” said Dr. Margaret Wexler-Manolo, author of numerous student development bibles. “These moves are as predictable as the human knot and that sappy [...]

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