Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Handbook of Student Housing (1950) [PAGE 25]

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Ordinarily, students are assigned to the cooperatives during July for the Fall Semester, and during December for the Spring Semester. All assignments are made by the Assistant Dean of Women, who refers assignment lists to the Housing Division. The Manager of University Residence Halls then mails you the room contract. If you plan to take part in sorority rushing, you should not apply for membership in a cooperative home. For men, the Housing Division (with the advice of the Dean of Men) has to approve your application for membership in the Cooperative housing group. You have to show need, character, and scholastic attainment to get in, so if you happen to be on probation, or under any disciplinary penalties, there would be no point in applying for membership. Any group of students trying to get approval to be a cooperative housing group has to submit several items to the Housing Division for approval before it can start entering into contracts or before it can get a charter. These are: (1) a statement signed by the sponsor saying that he agrees to take responsibility for the group's having a sound financial policy, keeping closely in touch with University officers, and paying attention to the University housing regulations; (2) a list of prospective members; (3) a detailed operating budget for the year to come; (4) a description of the proposed residence and the conditions of occupancy. If this report is acceptable, the group will be granted a charter which can be renewed each year, so long as it shows evidence of operating satisfactorily. Also a cooperative house has to file monthly financial reports with its sponsor and with the Housing Division. And at the end of each semester, the group has to submit a complete report covering expenditures, a budget for the coming semester, and a record of any changes in membership.

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