Eating House Member Movement (EHMM)
Each semester, upper-class women may drop their eating house, rejoin their former house, or join a different eating house through a process called Eating House Member Movement (EHMM). Please note you do not need to drop your house if you plan to go abroad or take a leave of absence. You can simply become an inactive member of your organization for the time you are away from campus. Please notify your organization president if you wish to become inactive.
EHMM takes place the second week of class in the fall and in the spring. Please note that anyone joining an eating house for the first time must participate in the Self-Selection process in the spring semester. Also, women can only switch houses one time during their tenure at Davidson.
How does the process work?
Process for determining the number of spaces available in a house:
– At the beginning of each semester, the Eating Houses will submit an updated roster to the Student Activities Office indicating active and inactive (i.e. abroad/on leave) members for the following semester. If you have members who dropped previously, they cannot rejoin an organization without going through the official EHMM process.
– Those who want to drop from an eating house and do not wish to switch into another eating house at this time will fill out an online drop survey. Members of each house have until the Friday at noon of the first week of classes to drop their eating house.
– The Student Activities Office will find the average number of women in Eating Houses based on these updated rosters and drops. That will be the “magic number” for placements. The maximum number of spaces in a house is the magic number. However, houses will be given a minimum of 5 spaces for new members for each EHMM process.
Members wishing to switch organizations as well as those who were formerly members of an eating house and wish to rejoin an organization may sign up and put in their preferences via an online survey. Those individuals have until the second Wednesday of classes at noon to complete at the survey at their leisure.
After the EHMM survey closes, each participant will be assigned a random lottery number. Available places in houses will be filled by category level in order of priority below and then lottery number within those priority levels.
– Category I- Switching
– Category II- Reaffiliating
How do I sign up to drop my organization or participate in Eating House Member Movement?
To switch organizations or reaffiliate with your former eating house or a new eating house, fill out the EHMM Form online at https://orgsync.com/127390/forms/232423 by Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 5pm.
To drop your organization, please fill out the Drop Form online at https://orgsync.com/127390/forms/232408 by Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 5pm.
Please note that if anyone drops mid-semester, they need to complete this online survey and as well as meet with the Patterson Court Council Advisor or Assistant Director of the Union for Programs.
All EHMM participants will be notified of the results of EHMM and their placements by 5:00 pm on Friday, January 17, 2017.
What if I have questions?
Please reach out to any of the contacts below if you have questions about Eating House Member Movement.
Tara O'Herlihy
Eating House Ambassador, Patterson Court Council
Ashley Owen
Assistant Director for Programs, Student Activities
Erica Urban
Patterson Court Council Advisor
If you are a first-year student, transfer student, or are an upper-classman who has never been a member of an eating house before and want to join an eating house, please click here to read about the Self-Selection process that takes place each spring semester.
EHMM takes place the second week of class in the fall and in the spring. Please note that anyone joining an eating house for the first time must participate in the Self-Selection process in the spring semester. Also, women can only switch houses one time during their tenure at Davidson.
How does the process work?
Process for determining the number of spaces available in a house:
– At the beginning of each semester, the Eating Houses will submit an updated roster to the Student Activities Office indicating active and inactive (i.e. abroad/on leave) members for the following semester. If you have members who dropped previously, they cannot rejoin an organization without going through the official EHMM process.
– Those who want to drop from an eating house and do not wish to switch into another eating house at this time will fill out an online drop survey. Members of each house have until the Friday at noon of the first week of classes to drop their eating house.
– The Student Activities Office will find the average number of women in Eating Houses based on these updated rosters and drops. That will be the “magic number” for placements. The maximum number of spaces in a house is the magic number. However, houses will be given a minimum of 5 spaces for new members for each EHMM process.
Members wishing to switch organizations as well as those who were formerly members of an eating house and wish to rejoin an organization may sign up and put in their preferences via an online survey. Those individuals have until the second Wednesday of classes at noon to complete at the survey at their leisure.
After the EHMM survey closes, each participant will be assigned a random lottery number. Available places in houses will be filled by category level in order of priority below and then lottery number within those priority levels.
– Category I- Switching
- Priority 1: Sophomore women requesting to switch into an eating house from another eating house
- Priority 2: Junior women requesting to switch into an eating house from another eating house
- Priority 3: Senior women requesting to switch into an eating house from another eating house
– Category II- Reaffiliating
- Priority 1: Upper-class women reaffiliating with their former eating house
- Priority 2: Upper-class women reaffiliating with a new eating house
How do I sign up to drop my organization or participate in Eating House Member Movement?
To switch organizations or reaffiliate with your former eating house or a new eating house, fill out the EHMM Form online at https://orgsync.com/127390/forms/232423 by Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 5pm.
To drop your organization, please fill out the Drop Form online at https://orgsync.com/127390/forms/232408 by Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 5pm.
Please note that if anyone drops mid-semester, they need to complete this online survey and as well as meet with the Patterson Court Council Advisor or Assistant Director of the Union for Programs.
All EHMM participants will be notified of the results of EHMM and their placements by 5:00 pm on Friday, January 17, 2017.
What if I have questions?
Please reach out to any of the contacts below if you have questions about Eating House Member Movement.
Tara O'Herlihy
Eating House Ambassador, Patterson Court Council
Ashley Owen
Assistant Director for Programs, Student Activities
Erica Urban
Patterson Court Council Advisor
If you are a first-year student, transfer student, or are an upper-classman who has never been a member of an eating house before and want to join an eating house, please click here to read about the Self-Selection process that takes place each spring semester.
