The Inter-Residence Hall Association set out at the start of the semester with high goals for its Fall 2001 agenda – and the student representatives said many of the goals were met.

IRHA exists to represent the interests of the students living in residence halls in Richardson Court Association, Union Drive Association and Towers Residence Association.

According to the organization’s Web site, http://irha.

stuorg.iastate.edu, IRHA uses the $13 it receives from every residence hall student to fund organizations such as Free Friday Flicks, the Order of Rose and Chessman and the USA Today readership program in order to serve residence hall students’ needs and interests.

Paul Duncan, IRHA president, and Dave Boike, IRHA vice president, said they feel they have accomplished the campaign goals they set out for themselves at the start of the semester.

“The three tiers of our campaign were to see food service issues addressed, parking to be put under a microscope and ResHelp started to provide a valuable Web-based tool to our residents,” Duncan said.

All these issues have been addressed, he said, and it’s now a matter of implementing the suggestions made by IRHA members.

“A number of goals have been accomplished this year,” Duncan said. “We have become the effective government that I have tried to build for a year and a half.”

The organization has made many advances, he said.

“I can honestly say we are at the point we need to be,” Duncan said. “Iowa State is recognizing our accomplishments and effectiveness.”

Boike said he feels IRHA has succeeded despite some restraints.

“We’ve had some minor setbacks, but in the long run, I think that we’re well on our way to accomplishing everything we set out to do,” he said.

IRHA Adviser John Shertzer said IRHA has done a “great job of keeping constituent interests in mind.”

“I think most people in the Department of Residence would agree that this is the most forward-thinking and effective IRHA we’ve had in a long time,” he said.

“I’ve been very impressed with how IRHA has observed and noticed resident needs and acted upon them.”

Duncan credited the advances to the professionalism of the IRHA members.

“We are light years ahead of where I ever thought we could be when I first joined,” he said.

Next semester, IRHA will try to make condoms more accessible to residence hall students, work with the ACLU about door decorations and posters displayed on dorm doors in the residence halls and making Res Hall Week a success, Duncan said.

“I would like to get word out to students in the residence halls that we are there for them, and that we are an effective way of representing their concerns,” he said.

Boike said he would like to see the election code reviewed next semester.

“We had some glitches and other problems with last year’s election, and I would like to make sure that those problems are all ironed out before the next election rolls around,” he said.