Talk:Residence Hall Association

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RHA does NOT deal with Resident Issues. I was an RHA President and spoke with RHAs around the Nation at National Conferences like NACURH —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Keith588503 (talk • contribs) .

Well, considering the discussion about it as of late, I just straight up deleted the troublesome paragraph, and also removed the redundant heading that it caused. SchuminWeb (Talk) 22:12, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm re-adding the paragraph about resident issues. Many RHAs do deal with these things, as noted in many of their mission statements. --Noetic Sage 13:37, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. I don't know what kinds of people you spoke to at NACURH. In any case, there are two types of RHAs and they attract two types of people. (There are also two types of NRHH's, but that's offtopic.) One is the type of RHA that just collects money and spends it on hall programs. The other type, which is rarer, does this too, but it's a side project of the larger mission of representing resident students to the university, maintaining close relations with university officials especially those in ResLife (or whatever) and also to other organizations (like student government) and sometimes vice versa. RSA at NU has always done this. [1] Who else (and who better) to represent the interests of residence halls than the Residence Hall Association? So maybe the campus student government has some committee which has residence hall issues as a minor responsibility. In some schools, without a strong and vocal RHA, resident students don't get a strong voice. Moreover, I would think at some schools, an RHA that just taxed the students and held parties ahem, programs would meet a lot of student resistance. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 17:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links section

The "External links" section is quickly taking on the look of a link farm, with so many little campus RHA's being listed on here. Let's see if we can come up with something else... SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

I was just thinking the exact same thing. It's hard to determine which RHA's, if any, are worthy of inclusion. There has to be a standard, otherwise we'll have hundreds of possible RHAs to link. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 00:56, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I pulled all the school RHA links. Without any criteria for inclusion, we'd have no good reason to keep some schools over others. I replaced them with some links to documents explaining more about RHAs. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 21:31, 7 November 2006 (UTC)