Editing University of Waterloo (section)

=== Housing and student facilities ===
[[File:Minota Hagey Residence at uwaterloo.jpg|alt=|thumb|Minota Hagey Residence, one of eight residences at the university's main campus]]
The university has eight student residences: the Minota Hagey Residence, UW Place, Village 1 (the university's first residence), Ron Eydt Village, Mackenzie King Village, Columbia Lake North and South, and Claudette Millar Hall. In addition to the eight main campus residences, students may also apply to live at any of the university's affiliated college residences. The first residence built was Village 1, completed in 1966.<ref name="Campus Life">{{cite web |last1=Turriff |first1=Katie |title=Campus Life and Times |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/exhibits/campus-life-and-times-university-waterloo-student |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108000612/https://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/exhibits/campus-life-and-times-university-waterloo-student |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 November 2020 |website=Digital Exhibits |publisher=University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives |access-date=2 June 2020 |date=2018 }}</ref> Ron Eydt Village was still known as Village 2 in 1995 but had been renamed by 2000.<ref name="Campus Life" /> The largest residential village at the university is UW Place, which houses 1,300 first-year students and 350 upper-year students, while the smallest residence is the Minota Hagey Residence, which houses 70 students and is almost exclusively for upper-year students.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/residences/uwp|title=UW Place|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=9 July 2012|date=10 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/residences/velocity|title=VeloCity – Minota Hagey|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=9 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705202200/https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/residences/velocity|archive-date=5 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In September 2010, 24.9 percent of the undergraduate population lived on campus, including 71.1 percent of first-year students.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://analysis.uwaterloo.ca/statistics/cudo/SectionE.php?year=2011#sectione4|title=E2 – Percentage of Full-Time Undergraduate Students Who Live on Campus|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=9 July 2012}}</ref> Residents are represented by two residential councils at the university, South Council which represents the students at UW Place, and North Council which represents the remaining residential villages. Each council organizes their own events and has their own executive, budget, and meetings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/jobs-leadership/opportunities/residence-council/council-structure|title=Council structure|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=9 July 2012|date=21 November 2011|archive-date=6 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706001311/https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/jobs-leadership/opportunities/residence-council/council-structure|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, the overall mission of both councils is to act as the official representatives for all residents living at the university's residences.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/jobs-leadership/opportunities/residence-council|title=Residence Council|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=9 July 2012|date=21 November 2011|archive-date=5 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705202446/https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/jobs-leadership/opportunities/residence-council|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Uw slc.png|alt=|thumb|Exterior of the Student Life Centre with the [[Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre]] in the background]]
The Student Life Centre is the centre of student governance and student directed social, cultural, entertainment and recreational activities, open seven days a week, year-round. The Student Life Centre contains the offices of a number of student organizations, including the [[Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association]] (WUSA), Student Housing Office, a number of retail and food services, and a variety of club space and study rooms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/student-life-centre/inside-student-life-centre|title=Inside the Student Life Centre (SLC)|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=9 July 2012|date=4 June 2012}}</ref> In 2017 ground broke on a joint 63,000 square foot expansion of the Student Life Centre and Physical Activities Complex. Built to the west of Burt Matthews Hall Green the expansion will connect all three floors with the Red North corner of the PAC providing social, fitness, study, multi-faith, dining, and bookable spaces for students. The project was initially projected to complete in Fall 2018;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/associate-provost-students/slcpac-expansion-project|title=SLC/PAC Expansion Project {{!}} Associate Provost, Students|date=14 December 2015|work=Associate Provost, Students|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref> although has not been completed as of 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/associate-provost-students/slcpac-expansion-project/project-updates-and-progress|title=Project updates and progress|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=10 April 2021|date=January 2021}}</ref>

The WUSA also operates an information desk in the Student Life Centre called the Turnkey Desk. It is open 24/7 365, and it is where students go to book out study spaces within the SLC, as well as where they go for information on campus events, directions, and any questions students have. The Turnkey Desk also sells a variety of tickets including [[GO Transit]] tickets and various local transit tickets and movie theatre tickets. It is staffed almost entirely by university students or recent graduates, and is a salaried job on the campus.

The idea for a [[student activity center|student centre]] emerged during the 1960s, and to raise the necessary funds for the building students began to levy a $10 fee. Construction began in July 1966 and was completed in 1968. Tensions between the university and the student community surfaced over the management and ownership of the Student Life Centre. The conflict was not resolved until 1969, when Professor Johnson resigned his position as chairman of the Campus Centre Board, along with his colleague Pim Fitzgerald.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/student-life-centre/about-student-life-centre/history-student-life-centre|title=A history of the Student Life Centre|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=9 July 2012|date=4 June 2012|archive-date=6 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706035336/https://uwaterloo.ca/student-life-centre/about-student-life-centre/history-student-life-centre|url-status=dead}}</ref>