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RESIDENTIAL LIFE Dormitory living requires concern for the rights of others and tolerance for other people’s habits and attitudes. Living in close proximity with other students is an important part of the academic and social experience of boarding life. Accordingly, the following guidelines are intended to help ensure a safe and healthy living environment for everyone. Housing Placement: Each year, the Dean of Students Office releases a survey in the spring trimester for all current students. The survey asks for the housing preferences, including roommate preferences, in what building they would like to reside, and which students they would like to live near. While the Dean of Students Office tries to honor many requests, we cannot guarantee that all student requests will be met. The placement of new students is completed in consultation with the admissions office and using the survey accessible to newly enrolled families. Housing Changes: In an effort to educate our boarding students to work through a process of conflict resolution and compromise within the dormitory setting, Pomfret School will not grant housing changes without first working through a system of mediation. This will involve prefects, dorm parents/affiliates, and the Dean of Students office. Through a restorative process, we will work with roommates to create a living arrangement that works for all parties while recognizing the needs of each student. If Pomfret School exhausts all forms of mediation, the Dean of Students will review available housing options to determine when and if a change may be necessary. It should be noted that Pomfret School will not consider the identity of a student as a reason for moving another student, particularly when considering protected classes such as race, sexual orientation, gender expression/identity, religion, and/or disability. Study Hours: 8:00 p.m. marks the beginning of study hours. The campus and all buildings will remain quiet until 7:00 a.m. the next morning. Quiet must be maintained in all places, including to and from designated study hall areas, during study hours in the evenings as well as during morning class hours. No music may be played so that it can be heard in the hall or in an adjoining room. This rule must be strictly observed for everyone’s benefit. The School may extend study hours and/or require the observance of “quiet hours” in dorm spaces during academically intense periods of the school year or on the eve of programming/ standardized testing. Quiet Hours require that all in the dorm work to create a respectful and quiet atmosphere that is conducive to sleep and/or study for those who are preparing for the demands of the next day. Quiet Hours are always in place following lights out (underformers) or following the in-room requirement for upperform students. Every boarding student must check-in at their dormitory by 8:00 p.m. To leave one’s dormitory, a Form III or IV student may sign out with the approval of the faculty member on duty. Form V and VI students may simply sign out on Orah to an appropriate study space. A student on Academic Concern may sign out to another study area only when he or she presents a note signed by the faculty member for whom the work is required. Until fall midterm grades, each new student must study in their dorm room unless the student has received permission for group