住宅生活

住宿生活人员

住宅生活 is staffed with professional and paraprofessional student staff who provide supervision, guidance, and support to individual 学生 and to floor and 大厅里社区.

Interim Dean of Students/第九条 Coordinator: 格雷格Krikorian

Serves as the supervisor of 住宅生活. Direct responsibility for overseeing the off-campus exemption process.

Associate Director of 住宅生活: 艾米正弦

Responsibilities include overseeing all day-to-day 活动 of the area to include room assignments, collaboration with other 区域 of the college to include Public Safety Student Engagement, B & G and other 区域 that impact the student 经验. Amy assists in student conduct, resoling lower-level policy violations. 艾米监督 both professional and paraprofessional staff.

Assistant Director of 住宅生活: 德温是

Responsibilities include assisting with overseeing all day-to-day 活动 of the area to include room assignments, collaboration with other 区域 of the college to include Public Safety Student Engagement, B & G and other 区域 that impact the student 经验. Devin assists in student conduct, resoling low level policy violations. Additionally, this position coordinates the recruitment, selection, training, and supervision of the RA staff.

Resident Director/Covid Care Coordinators

的se staff are charged with overseeing assigned residential 区域. 这包括 supervision of RAs, support of residents, and helping to foster communities within the buildings, to include policy enforcement. 的y also support the office of residential life in assisting with administrative duties. In the area of Covid, they support 学生 in our isolation anf quarantine units. 

高级拉 are 经验d, upper-class student leaders trained to provide additional support and supervision to RAs and supervision to a portion of the RA staff. 他们协助 major departmental programs and initiatives.

居民助理 (RAs) are assigned to a floor or a residence hall. 的 RAs help build a community within the residence halls by getting to know residents, upholding policies, and planning 楼层及大厅 活动. RAs understand the College’s mission, procedures, policies, and the Honor 代码和是 instrumental in working with residents to shape community standards and respectful 行为.

桌子上的员工 are student staff who assist 住宅生活 in the RA 办公室, particular lockouts, and administrative support.

Expectations for Off Campus Behavior

a) A disorderly house nuisance is a dwelling, as defined in this chapter, where any of the following has occurred within a 365-day period.

b) Two or more calls for police service that result in criminal arrests, criminal citations, criminal indictments, criminal warrants, criminal summonses, civil citations or civil summonses arising out of separate and distinct facts and disturbances (as defined by the statutes of the state and/or the ordinances of the town or of the county) which occur at a dwelling or on property in close proximity to a dwelling:

c) Two or more violations of Chapter 45 of the Town Code relating to alcoholic beverages arising of separate and distinct facts and circumstances;

d) Two or more violations of Chapter 68 or Chapter 117 of the Town Code relating to nuisances, arising out of separate and distinct facts and circumstances;

e) Two or more violations of Chapter 54, Chapter 135 or 159 of the Town Code relating to property maintenance, arising out of separate and distinct facts and circumstances;

f) Two or more violations of Chapter 170 of the Town Code relating to zoning, arising out of separate and distinct facts and circumstances; or

g) A combination of two incidents from any of the above categories, arising out of separate and distinct facts and circumstances.

 

Policy and Expectations:

A.  General care and upkeep of the residence

Care and maintenance of a rental property is expected to be consistent with and blend in with owner-occupied homes in the neighborhood.  Since many student-rented houses are in the historic district, this is particularly important.

B.  Behaviors that may be illegal, disruptive, and/or disrespectful.  Students should be particularly aware of the following 行为s:

1.  Use and misuse of alcohol

a. Use or possession of alcohol by underage 学生

b. Providing or distributing alcohol to underage 学生 and non-学生

c. Carrying open containers of alcohol on sidewalks and streets

d. Possession or use of fake IDs

e. 过度的噪音 associated with the service of alcohol to large groups         

2.  噪音 and/or disruption while traveling in and through a neighborhood

Chestertown is a pedestrian-friendly town, and the proximity of the college to the center of town and other amenities encourages walking.  As 学生 travel through the various neighborhoods in town, they should conduct themselves in a manner that does not disrupt the area.  噪音, littering, public intoxication and urination, etc. disturb and create an unsafe environment for residents.

的 following 行为s may be disruptive and/or illegal:

a. When people travel in large groups, they typically become louder. 过度的噪音 associated with travel in large groups adds to the nuisance level.  交谈与 raised voices, yelling, and screaming at any time of day or night is disruptive.

b. 随地小便

c. 乱扔垃圾

3. Parties at student owned or rented houses

Students hosting parties at off-campus houses are responsible for the size of the 聚会，派对, the 活动 occurring at and associated with the location, and the impact on the neighborhood, particularly in regard to noise, trash and vandalism.

Parties at student houses can generate disturbances in the neighborhood and surrounding 区域.  In particular, excessive noise is often generated by people on the porch and/or an outside area of the house, and by large groups traveling to and leaving from the 聚会，派对.

“Progressive” or “around the world”-type parties involving alcohol can, by their nature, be especially disruptive to neighborhoods.  Any housing location participating as a host “stop” can be held accountable for planned excessive disruption to the neighborhood 以及周边地区.

4.  噪音

Students who reside off campus, as well as those who reside on campus but are traveling through a neighborhood, must abide by all Chestertown ordinances regarding noise. 具体地说: 

117-5:  噪音 generated from sources used for entertainment purposes or group noise 目的……

a. 禁止噪音: 

的 noise created by groups or individuals in a building or other structure or outside a building or other structure on public or private property and the sound can be heard more than 50 feet away from the building or structure beyond the boundaries of the property surrounding 这样的 building or structure, whichever is greater or measuring above 65 decibels in the daytime or 55 decibels at night.  噪音 generated by altercations, parties, social events, rallies, meetings or other celebrations are included in this section to the disturbance of the citizens residing in the area.

b.  假设:

Where the source of the prohibited noise, as set forth in division (4-A) of this section, is located in a building or other structure, the owner, occupant, resident, manager or other person in possession of the premises shall, if present, be presumed to have permitted the noise in violation of this section in the absence of evidence to the 相反.

5. 垃圾/垃圾

Students, either living off campus or passing through residential neighborhoods, are expected to follow town ordinances regarding garbage and litter.  校外学生 rental or student-owned properties, it is expected that residents will collect and dispose of garbage as required by the town and maintain a property free of loose garbage, 可回收物或垃圾.  这包括 storage of items on porches, yards or driveways.

Ordinance 85-1, Trash:  Waste material or objects, including bulk trash and garbage, that has been discarded or apparently discarded by its owner and its existence on public and private property is subject to penalties prescribed in this and other town 条例”.

a. Cans, bottles, cups, food containers and food should be disposed of in trashcans or recycled as appropriate. Improper disposal of food waste, including pizza, wings and their containers, invites pest animals to infest that home, yard and surrounding 区域.

b. Residents should not store trash on porches, including household trash and indoor furniture 这样的 as couches and recliners.

6.  其他

a. Vandalism to public and private property: Students who engage in vandalism of public or private property off campus will be held accountable.

b. Vehicles: Students living in or visiting need to follow all parking restrictions.  Students should be aware that parking in some neighborhood streets is for residents 只有. Even on streets without 这样的 restrictions, 学生 should be aware that the vehicles of their guests regularly parked on the street may be problematic for their 邻居.  Also, at no time can one or multiple vehicles impede traffic or be parked in 这样的 a manner as to block the passage of another vehicle, including emergency vehicles.

Ordinance 160-5 (A) All vehicles within the town shall be driven and parked on the right-hand side of the street, unless a street or avenue is designated by a sign to 支持单向交通.  At any time that it shall become necessary, the Mayor and Council may mark and designate 区域 which may become congested for parking restrictions, banning parking altogether if necessary.  No automobile or other vehicle shall stop in any street, avenue, or highway in a manner so as to hinder or delay traffic or passage, and the Police Department is empowered to enforce this provision by impounding 车辆.