Talk:Residence hall association

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[edit] 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)
RSA's primary misison at La Salle University is also to deal with resident issues/ concerns. I sit on committees, and appoint others to committees that I can't attend, and we also facilitate surveys to guide our discussions/ agendas. Baiettis1 19:28, 3 December 2007

Many RHA's do deal with residence hall issues. At MS&T we have an entire commitee which recieves a large amount of funding to find out what student's need and how to improve security and comfort in the residence halls. We do programming as well but even that is greatly geared towards what the student's need and want. L337wm2007 (talk) 15:16, 31 March 2008 (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)

[edit] Better pic, dump the logo

The logo adds nothing to the article. A better image would be of an RHA meeting. I'm sure someone out there currently in an RHA has a camera and could donate a photo of RHAs doing their things -- meetings, programs, whatever. - Keith D. Tyler (AMA) 17:58, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statistics?

Anyone have good sources on some RHA stats? For example, how many schools have RHAs, etc. - Keith D. Tyler (AMA) 18:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I want to know what school has $700,000 for their budget? Is there is source to cite for that information?? Baiettis1 19:34, 3 December 2007

Agreed - tagged for a citation. SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:50, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

I deleted "*Developing Your Residence Hall Association from University of Missouri–Rolla" because it is now a broken link.Jameson L. Tai 09:40, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Works for me (removing it, that is). SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

I don't see what the photos currently in the article do to add something to the article. A photo of an RHA meeting or something would be far more appropriate. The two RHA-sponsored parties shown on the article now leave me very nonplussed. SchuminWeb (Talk) 19:59, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

The casino can stay as an example of a uniquely RHA program IMO, though the caption needs to be way toned down. The formal dance is blah and focuses too much on a few random people. I agree, more photos of regular RHA business are much needed. (Unfortunately lots of RHAs are little more than campus programming groups.) What people need to quit doing is using Wikipedia as an excuse to tell the world just how f--king cool their school is. Save it for nationals, please. - Keith D. Tyler (AMA) 17:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC)