Editing Duke University (section)

=== Residential life ===
Duke requires its students to live on campus for the first three years of undergraduate life, except for a small percentage of second-semester juniors who are exempted by a lottery system.<ref name="RLHSHousing">[http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/three-year-requirement RLHS: Housing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319093007/http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/three-year-requirement |date=March 19, 2012}}. Duke Residence Life and Housing Services. Retrieved May 3, 2011.</ref> This requirement is justified by the administration as an effort to help students connect more closely with one another and sustain a sense of belonging within Duke.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/about/strategic-plan RLHS: Mission] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011123730/http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/about/strategic-plan |date=October 11, 2010}}. Duke Residence Life and Housing Services. Retrieved May 3, 2011.</ref> Thus, 85% of undergraduates live on campus.<ref name="rankingsandreviews1">[http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drlife_2920_brief.php Campus Life]. ''U.S. News & World Report.'' Retrieved January 12, 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412042204/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drlife_2920_brief.php |date=April 12, 2008}}</ref> All freshmen are housed in one of 14 residences on [[Duke University East Campus|East Campus]]. These buildings range in occupancy size from 50 (Epworth—the oldest residence hall, built in 1892 as "the Inn"), which has not been used as a student dorm since the 2017–2018 school year, to 250 residents (Trinity).<ref>
[http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/epworth Epworth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319093022/http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/epworth |date=March 19, 2012}}. Duke Residence Life and Housing Services. Retrieved May 3, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/gilbert-addoms Gilbert-Addoms] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319093038/http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/gilbert-addoms |date=March 19, 2012}}. Duke Residence Life and Housing Services. Retrieved May 3, 2011.</ref> Most of these are in the Georgian style typical of the [[Duke University East Campus|East Campus]] architecture. Although the newer residence halls differ in style, they still relate to East's Georgian heritage. Learning communities connect the residential component of [[Duke University East Campus|East Campus]] with students of similar academic and social interests.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/programs-services/communities RLHS: Communities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319093053/http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/programs-services/communities |date=March 19, 2012}}. Duke Residence Life and Housing Services. Retrieved May 3, 2011.</ref> Similarly, students in [[FOCUS Program (University Study Program)|FOCUS]], a first-year program that features courses clustered around a specific theme, live together in the same residence hall as other students in their cluster.<ref>[http://trinity.duke.edu/focus-program/about-focus About FOCUS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802022638/http://trinity.duke.edu/focus-program/about-focus |date=August 2, 2012}}. Duke University. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
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Sophomores and juniors reside on [[Duke University West Campus|West Campus]], while the majority of undergraduate seniors choose to live off campus.<ref>Bishop, Eric. [http://dukechronicle.com/article/record-number-seniors-leave-campus-housing Record number of seniors to leave campus housing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013215116/http://dukechronicle.com/article/record-number-seniors-leave-campus-housing |date=October 13, 2011}}. ''The Chronicle'', July 19, 2005. Retrieved July 7, 2011.</ref> West Campus contains seven quadrangles—the four along "Main" West were built in the 1930s, while three newer ones have since been added. Central Campus provided housing for over 1,000 students in apartment buildings, until 2019.<ref>
[http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/central-campus Central Campus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319092930/http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/central-campus |date=March 19, 2012}}. Duke Residence Life and Housing Services. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
</ref> All housing on West Campus is organized into "houses"—sections of residence halls—to which students can return each year. House residents create their house identities. There are houses of unaffiliated students, as well as wellness houses and living-learning communities that adopt a theme such as the arts or foreign languages. There are also numerous "selective living groups" on campus for students wanting self-selected living arrangements. SLGs are residential groups similar to fraternities or sororities, except they are generally co-ed and unaffiliated with any national organization. Many of them also revolve around a particular interest such as entrepreneurship, civic engagement or African-American or Asian culture. Fifteen fraternities and nine sororities also are housed on campus. Most of the non-fraternity selective living groups are coeducational.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/resources/selective-living-group-list#2011-2012 Living Groups on Campus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319093803/http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/rlhs/resources/selective-living-group-list#2011-2012 |date=March 19, 2012}}. Duke Residence Life and Housing Services. Retrieved July 7, 2011.</ref>