Roos Rohde Housekeepers

Mission Statement
This group is a student run coalition dedicated to managing and maintaining the Roos-Rohde House as a thriving space for the needs and interests of the student body, in addition to representing stakeholder groups. This group will maintain this space as a comfortable and welcoming student union to all through editability and defining space norms. As stated in the founding documents: “[The Roos-Rohde House] needs a separate identity, or specific branding, that keeps it from being overtaken by the other programs in the space. We want this space to be: Social, collaborative, connective, comfortable and not institutional.”

Roos-Rohde House Space Norms

 * Be kind and considerate to all others in the space
 * Clean up after yourself
 * Respect the beautiful architecture–Don’t hang from the rafters or stand on the furniture
 * Take care of the furniture as if it was your most prized possession.
 * No alcohol or other drugs in the space (except with scheduled offical Hampshire Bartender)
 * No animals allowed. (Service animals are welcome, but not emotional support animals)
 * Maximum occupancy 75
 * Wear shoes into Mixed Nuts Space
 * No private events permitted (no admissions fees, no exclusive events)
 * Keep volume reasonable–low music or headphones
 * If you are being rowdy, find another space to be in
 * Respect the role of the monitors and mixed nuts members who are caring for the space
 * Respect the ART (Don’t touch or lean against it)
 * Hold each other accountable for the ways the space is being used. If something makes you uncomfortable, feel free to speak up or mention it to whoever is working (Mixed Nuts or Roos-Rohde HouseKeeper)

Group Structure
This group is a consensus based group that strives to take into account all feelings, ideas and suggestions of each group member. We do not proceed as a group on any motion until every group member feels confident in our decision making.

The Roos-Rohde Houskeepers are one group made up of several factions of committees that deal with specific tasks outside of group meeting time. Our current committees are as followed:


 * Outreach: Social media management, both internal and external internet- Posters, banners, tabling- Logo stuff, branding and propaganda- making everyone knows of our existence- creating new media content for the site- get more members, and letting ppl know they can get involved!


 * Internal Communication: Group emails, meeting reminders, CLA stuff, intercom, keeping on top of stuff; sending out “do shit” reminders; meeting agenda skeletons (or is that weekly facilitators job (no)), doodle polls; space norm management


 * Interior Design/Form & Function : Paying a lot of attention to the way the space is used, and what needs to change; active steps to making furniture meet the space’s needs; fixing and replacing furniture with more vigor than others, changing layout as needed.


 * Art Management: Talking to artists; coordination; keeping them on schedule; protecting walls; supervising installation; creating art installation norms/contract/requirement; involve art outreach; ensuring timely art removal


 * Events Management: Coordinating events as they are being requested through the RRHevents email. Scheduling the events on the master calendar and making sure all forms, and contracts are in place through the RRHK and CLA.


 * Hiring Committee: In charge of organizing applications for Work Study positions as well as convening interviews and actual hiring of Monitors for the RRH. Hiring committee also organizes Monitor training and hour scheduling for the whole semester.

Events at Roos Rohde-House
If you would like to plan an event, such as a concert, DivIII, poetry reading, or swap share, at the Roos-Rohde House, please contact our Events Coordinator at rrhevents@gmail.com. It is also good to begin the CLA process for event planning by filling out an ERF and the Roos-Rohde HouseKeepers will work in collaboration with the CLA to approve your event.

The Roos-Rohde House is an inclusive student space that strives to create an environment in which the widest range of people feels comfortable. Because the Hampshire Community is highly diverse, the Roos-Rohde HouseKeepers have determined a set of guidelines to help in scheduling events in the space and to attempt to ensure that a range of events occur here without permitting any one type of event or group of people to dominate the space. We also know that many students utilize the space to do homework and relax and we do not want events to occur so often that we prohibit the space from being utilized in this way. To this end, one small part of the RRH must remain unused during all events in order to allow people to continue studying if they so choose. It is also expected that any event being held in the RRH during regular Mixed Nuts Hours will not prevent Mixed Nuts from running its business. This includes acknowledging that the RRH is a living space and that there may be disturbances associated with Mixed Nut's Business during any event. This is not the space for events which require absolute silence.

The Roos-Rohde HouseKeepers Events Committee utilizes these guidelines when determining which events to schedule in the space each week:
 * There will be no more than 15 hours of events per week
 * There will be nor more than 5 regular student group meetings per week
 * A single group or person may not use the space for more than 5 hours per week
 * There will be no more than 1 amplified musical event per week

Art Space in the Roos Rohde-House
The Roos-Rohde House has beautiful space in which to display student artwork. To request or apply for a show in the space, solo or multi-artist, please email roosrohdehousekeepers@gmail.com. The Arts Contract is available to download here.