At Guelph

Kudos for Residence Life Team

This year's winner of the R.P. Gilmor Student Life Award for contributions that enhance the quality of student life on campus is the residence life management team. The nine-member group was honoured at a reception held March 30.

The team is made up of full-time professional residence life managers who provide support to students and respond in times of crisis, set policies, select and train 130 residence assistants and other student staff, plan programming, manage behaviour problems, mediate roommate conflicts and communicate with parents.

Also honoured at the reception were the recipients of the André Auger Citizenship Award (Dawn Campbell), the Brian D. Sullivan Student Leadership Award (Christian Casupanan), the Liz Honegger Student Volunteer Award (Jennifer Huffman), the Roberta Mason Rookie Involvement Award (Okimi Peters) and the U of G Alumni Association Student Volunteer Award (Sharon Chandra).

The recipients of this year's Gordon Nixon Leadership Awards are the Chroma Leadership Working Group for its conference on the interconnections among race, identity and leadership; Guelph Students for Environmental Change for a pilot project aimed at energy conservation in residence; the International Student Organization for the annual One World multicultural show; Oxfam@Guelph for a workshop on world hunger; Student Housing Services and the Aboriginal Resource Centre for a mural in the south student lounge; the Wellness Centre's Guelph International Project; and the Women's Resource Centre for programming and resources related to transgender issues.