Offices Resident Assistants
As the College's representative in the residence halls, the Resident Assistant (RA) assumes many roles. The RA's responsibilities largely center on establishing and maintaining an atmosphere in the residence halls that is conducive to residents overall education and development. This involves assisting students on both an individual and group basis.
The Resident Assistant job can generally be described in six areas:
- General RA Skills: The RA provides leadership, initiative and support to students. RAs are expected to actively demonstrate positive personal, academic, and job-related behaviors.
- Helping Skills: The RA is expected to be available to discuss student concerns and problems, both individually and in groups. The RA is also initiates referrals to the various specialized services available on campus and in the community.
- Community Development: The RA provides leadership and support for educational and social activities in the residence halls. RAs promote an atmosphere where students are able to grow both academically and personally.
- Community Constitution and By-Laws: The RA is expected to actively promote and support policies outlined in the Marlboro College community constitution and by-laws. This necessitates that the RA be thoroughly familiar with the constitution and by-laws, as well as the procedures for mediating disputes, understanding policy and reporting incidents.
- Preparation and Planning: RAs are responsible for establishing dorm charters, as well as preparing and maintaining their residence halls. RAs are expected complete all required paperwork in a timely and accurate manner.
- Teambuilding: RAs must be able to work with other staff members in a professional manner. They should also be able to provide leadership in their dorms with enthusiasm and spirit.
- RA Applications for the 2013-2014 School Year: RA Application for 2013-2014
Resident Assistants (RAs) for 2012-2013
(Click on a dorm below to jump to the RA for that dorm)
| All the Way | Half Way | Happy Valley | Hendricks |
| Howland East | Howland West | Marlboro Gardens | Out of the Way and Semi Independent |
| Random North | Random South | Schrader |
Liana Nuse
Dorm: All the Way
Hometown: Johnson, VT
High School: Lake Champlain Waldorf School and Freie Waldorfschule Berlin-Mitte
Academic Area(s) of Interest: Something with music including cello performance and musicology with a sprinkle of dance and anthropology…I think?
What is one thing every Marlboro student needs to do before they graduate?
Go to the Chelsea Diner for brunch and explore the beautiful trails around campus. You can even combine the two - eat out and digest while taking a walk afterwards. Yeah!!
What is your favorite method of procrastination?
Searching for French movies, music and books on Google, or thinking about yummy recipes I want to try out.
Favorite Quotation:
"You are not your thoughts or your emotions."
Molly Booth
Senior 1
Dorm: Half Way
Hometown:Marblehead, MA
Academic Area(s) of Focus:Literature/Shakespeare Writing/Fiction
What advice can you offer the incoming class?
Take care of yourself – whatever that means for you. Sleep a lot if you need to; drink water; meditate; take some time to be alone. You're really on your own here, and that means you have to be more aware of what your needs are. Figure them out and be good to yourself : ) Also, attend Town Meeting every single time you physically can. I swear the universe will give you bonus points for going.
What is one thing every Marlboro student needs to do before they graduate?
Maybe I'm biased, but as a transfer student I'd say it's important to spend time away from Marlboro at some point. Study abroad; spend a semester somewhere else, etc. Perspective is an important element in my Marlboro experience.
Favorite Quotation:
"I will not grieve that others do not know me. I will grieve that I do not know others."
-Confucius
Reily Mumpton
Sophomore 2
Dorm: Marlboro Gardens
Hometown: Altmar, NY
High School: Homeschooled
Academic Area(s) of Interest: Film Studies and History
ever asks to see 'em?" - Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
easy to just sign up for classes, and then disappear into your cave
(room) or only ever hang out with a small group of people, however your
experience at Marlboro will be infinitely more fulfilling if you join
committees, attend town meeting, go on trips with the OP and really
submerse yourself in everything that Marlboro has to offer, both as a
college and community.
Two things. 1. Go Contra Dancing. There's a huge community of Contra
events local and it's such a wonderful way to meet people and enjoy an
evening of social dance. 2. Take a night hike to South Pond. It's such a
beautiful, wonderful experience, just to be out in the woods on a quiet
night beneath the stars hiking with friends... Just to take some time
to get away from campus.
Alex Bobella
Sophopmore 2
Dorm: Hendricks
Academic Area(s) of Focus: Dance
Who is your role model?
Joseph Campbell and Sara Teasdale
Favorite Quotation:
"I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but was still
fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd then choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to
preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?" -The old woman, Candide
What advice can you offer to the incoming class?
To find themselves where they are, and take stock of what can be found around them. To embrace adages and platitudes because, someday, although we may insist that we understand them fully upon their premature
utterance, the wisdom in them will be clear. Changes at Marlboro are quick and often hard to understand, but it’s important to remember realize who we are without trying to shape or seek that person.
Theresa Chockbengboun
Sophomore 2
Dorm: Howland East
Hometown: Columbus, OH
High School: Columbus Alternative High School
Academic Area(s) of Interest: Molecular Biology
What advice can you offer to the incoming class?
Take advantage of all the fun opportunities available on campus and all the resources that are available to you.
What is the ideal way to spend a Saturday on campus?
The best way to spend a Saturday on campus would be to relax and socialize! If you work hard during the week, it's nice to treat yourselves to a fun day!
What is your favorite method of procrastination?
My favorite method of procrastination would be playing video games, watching movies, and goofing off on the Internet.
Marty Henzy
Sophomore 1
Dorm: Howland West
Academic Area(s) of Interest: Literature & Writing
Home Town: Middletown, CT
High School: Mercy High School
Do you have any bad habits?
I sleep way more than any person aiming to be productive should.
If you were making a movie about yourself, who would play you?
Stephen Colbert
What advice can you offer to the incoming class?
Bring lights, get the coffee shop meal plan.
Patrick Magee
Junior 1
Dorm: Happy Valley
Academic Areas of Focus: Political Science, Writing, Classic Liberalism, Ron Paul
Hometown: Honeoye Falls, NY
High School: Honeoye Falls–Lima
Favorite Quotation:
He not busy being born is busy dying - Dylan (not Dylan Thomas – whoever he was – as a less hip person might confuse).
Favorite Method of Procrastination:
I rather like to think listening to Harry Potter audiobooks and playing Age of Mythology as inspirational, and not strictly procrastinating. I am sort of reading, and sort of learning about mythology!
My Role Model:
Harry Chapin: an unfortunately unsung singer/songwriter who devoted his life, or “brief flicker of light in this world,” to feeding the hungry, making bright the bleakest outlook – particularly America's – and strengthening what he saw as severely weakened human connections. By singing a taxi cab driver's story, or a waitresses', or a folk singer's he sought to “heal the cracks that split apart America gone plastic.”
Dane Fredericks
Senior 1
Dorm(s): Out of the Way and all Semi-Independent Housing
Academic Area(s) of Focus: Themes of Escape in 20th Century American Literature
Hometown: Ithaca, NY
What is the ideal way to spend a Saturday night?
A couple hours hanging out on the climbing wall followed by a couple hours of dancing!
What advice can you offer the incoming class?
Get out and do things. Go on OP trips, Have late night conversations in the dining hall with people you normally wouldn’t talk to. Take a dance class! Ask people for help when you need it. And if you can’t be pretentious in college, when can you be?
Favorite thing about Marlboro College:
Disco Brunch. Definitely Disco Brunch.
Chester Harper
Junior 2
Dorm: Random North
Nickname: His Grace, the Duke of Orford
Academic Area(s) of Focus: History, focusing on military science between 1701 and 1866.
Hometown: Gouldsboro, Maine
High school: Homeschooled
Favorite Quotation:
To not know what occurred before your birth is to always be a child.
~Cicero
What is the ideal what the spend a Saturday on campus?
Brunch
If you were making a movie about yourself, you would play you?
Michael Gambon
Claire Trail
Dorm: Random South
Class of 2015
Hometown: West Glover, VT
Academic Area(s) of Interest: Environmental Studies
High School: Homeschooled
Favorite Quotation:
"What's comin' will come an' we'll meet it when it does." Rubeus Hagrid (J.K. Rowling)
If you were making a movie about yourself, who would play you?
A slightly less adorably awkward Felicia Day
What is one thing every Marlboro student needs to do before they graduate?
Walk to the Stone Circle at night, preferable alone, and listen.
Maya Rohr
Sophomore 1
Dorm: Schrader
Hometown: Homer, Alaska
Academic Area(s) of Interest: Ceramics, Ecology, Creative Writing
High School: Homer High School
Favorite Quotation:
"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony." - Lou Reed
What inspires you?
My mom, kindness, and the sea.
Advice to incoming students:
Come to class fully prepared and awake (bringing coffee or tea is good). Bring lamps and socks. Get to know people outside of your social sphere, like those in administration and maintenance, as well as professors, even if you don't study under them. Marlboro is home to an incredible assortment of personalities. Take the time to plumb those depths, because it's those unlikely friendships that make Marlboro so unique.
