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FacilitiesUniversity HousingUniversity HousingResidence HallsUniversity students currently may live in one of the six large residence halls or nine small livingunits. In addition, the chapter houses of seven national fraternities provide housing.The residence halls have professionally trained, full-time, Residential Life Coordinators (RLC)and a student staff of Resident Assistants (RA). The RLCs have had graduate training as well asexperience in counseling, residence hall work, and the general area of student development. Allfraternity houses have adult, non-student, House Advisers.Ohio Wesleyan University is a residential university and all of its students are expected to livein University housing during their entire academic career at OWU. Only those students whocommute from their parents’ homes or who have been released due to special circumstances by theResidential Life Office may live off campus.Lucy Webb Hayes Hall (1963) provides living spaces for 198 women. A lounge/study room islocated on each floor and a computer lab can be found on the ground floor. The hall is named inmemory of Lucy Webb Hayes, the University’s first coed and later the wife of Rutherford B. Hayes,19th President of the United States.Smith Hall (1968) houses 366 men and women in two five-story units separated by a two-storyservice unit. Included among the building’s facilities are study rooms on each floor, meeting rooms,and a game room. The building is named in honor of Betty and Elden T. Smith. Dr. Smith was theUniversity’s 11th President.Stuyvesant Hall (1930) is the gift of the late Frank E. Stuyvesant and accommodates 254 menand women. The building facilities include a large television lounge, study rooms on each floor,and a multipurpose room with a stage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.Stuyvesant Hall will be undergoing renovation during the 2011-2012 academic year.Thomson Hall (1954) houses 117 men and women and is named for Bishop Edward Thomson,first President of Ohio Wesleyan.Welch Honor Hall (1963), renovated in 1990, is a unit for 195 men and women. Students mustachieve a 3.0 GPA and complete a separate application for acceptance. Welch Hall is a 24-hourquiet building and has an exercise room, meeting rooms, and computer lab. This building is namedin honor of Bishop Herbert Welch.Bashford Hall, named in honor of Bishop James Bashford, fourth President of Ohio Wesleyan,provides living space for 136 men and women.Small Living Units Small Living Units (SLU): This program consists of nine houses with individual capacities for 10-15students. Each house is a former private residence, which focuses on an interest in and commitmentto some thematic program. Currently these are the House of Thought, the Tree House, the Houseof Black Culture, the International House, the Women’s House, the Peace and Justice House, Inter-Faith House, and the Modern Foreign Languages House.290