Room Draw 2011 Petitions


Please type your petition on a separate sheet of paper with your name at the top. Petitions for an exception to room draw must be complete and submitted to Madeleine Ong and Scott Almond, the DAC chairs, or Michael Edwards, the Campus Life Coordinator (CLC), by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 18, 2011. If you prefer to keep the details of your situation confidential, your petition should be submitted to the CLC. All medical petitions should be turned in to the Dean of Students office. The Dean of Students office will decide on medical petitions and inform DAC of decisions and recommendations for placements.

Petitions are name-blinded and summarized or read by the DAC Chairs to the DAC. In general, names of petitioners are not known or used by DAC during deliberations. Each petitioner does, however, have the option of personally presenting his or her petition to the DAC. You must inform the DAC chairs or the CLC of your intention to present your petition at the time you submit it.

Petitions should be accompanied by documentation from independent sources, if possible. DAC decides exceptions to room draw on a case-by-case basis. All decisions regarding petitions to DAC will be made by Friday, March 4, 2011. The DAC is the final decision-making body for room draw.

Based on the information supplied in your petition, DAC may offer you a room or choice of rooms that meets your requirements. That room will be set aside (marked as frosh rooms are) in room draw. If the room is a double, you are entitled to pull your roommate. However, you may not pull suitemates. If you feel that you would like a better or different room, you are free to decline the DAC offer and enter room draw on par with everyone else.

Medical Petitions


All medical petitions must be accompanied by a report from a physician at Baxter or a family physician (unless, given time restraints, this is not possible to obtain). These reports must contain a statement from the physician that you have the medical condition you describe and the physician's opinion of what housing conditions will alleviate that condition. Only very serious medical conditions will be considered for singles that also allow you to be off the meal plan (in Sontag).

Medical petitions should address these questions:

• Please describe your medical condition.
• In what way will your housing situation affect your medical condition?
• What particular needs (single, low noise, air conditioning, off the meal plan) do you have in mind, and why?
• All else being equal, list your dorm preference (top three) and briefly state why that dorm.
• Are there any dorms you would strongly prefer to avoid?
• Where have you lived previously?

Pre-Fall 2008 (5th year/9th semester) Petitions

5^th year and 9^th semester students will be defaulted to live off-campus in the CGU apartments. Previously, students on the waitlist and/or 5^th year and 9^th semester students have been placed in off-campus housing over the summer after room draw has finished. This year, they will get first pick of the CGU apartments before Spring Break, and therefore before priority numbers come out. If there are more students than can fit in the CGU apartments, a lottery will be held to see who will be moved to Brighton Park.


If you entered Mudd prior to fall 2008 and want to live on campus next year, you must submit a petition to enter draw.

Please give an account of:

• the number and year of room draws you participated in,
• the class (sophomore, junior, senior) in which you drew in each and
• where you actually lived and the semester and year you lived there.

Please describe what class you believe you should draw with, why you should draw with that class and how long you plan to live on campus.

Single-sex Petitions


Students wishing to have a single-sex suite in Linde, Atwood, Sontag, a Case corridor or a Quad dorm must submit a petition.

A petition should state the reasons for desiring a single-sex suite and should be signed by no more than the number of people who could conceivably live in the desired suite or corridor. Signing a petition does not guarantee that you will live in that specific suite or corridor. Nobody may sign more than one single-sex petition, and DAC reserves the right to deny any petition.

Once one person who has signed that petition pulls into a suite, that suite becomes single-sex and the petition is then considered "used," meaning that nobody else who signed that petition may request a separate suite to be same-gender.

When a petition is "used," all signers of that petition must pull into the designated space, unless the petition becomes "disrupted."

A petition will be "disrupted" if a student who has not signed the petition pulls into the suite. The suite will remain single-sex, but signers will no longer be required to pull into the suite.

Gender-neutral Petitions


Students wishing to have a gender-neutral suite in Linde, Atwood, Sontag, a Case corridor or a Quad dorm must submit a petition.

A petition should state the reasons for desiring a gender-neutral suite and should be signed by no more than the number of people who could conceivably live in the desired suite or corridor. Signing a petition does not guarantee that you will live in that specific suite or corridor. Nobody may sign more than one gender-neutral petition, and DAC reserves the right to deny any petition.

Once one person who has signed that petition pulls into a suite, that suite becomes gender-neutral and the petition is then considered "used," meaning that nobody else who signed that petition may request a separate suite to be gender-neutral.

When a petition is "used," all signers of that petition must pull into the designated space, unless the petition becomes "disrupted."

A petition will be "disrupted" if a student who has not signed the petition pulls into the suite. The suite will remain gender-neutral, but signers will no longer be required to pull into the suite.