Gilbert-Addoms

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**Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory**
*Bigger is better... Down Under.*

Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory, facing East Campus
Built	1957
Type	Dormitory
Style	Unique
Namesake	Katherine Everett Gilbert, Ruth Margery Addoms
Size	190 Students
Air-Conditioning	Only for Special Cases.
Room Description	Approx. 160-180 sqft for Doubles
Location	East Campus
Hours	Never open to Upperclassmen No Access for Freshman from Other Dorms after 2 AM Always open to current residents.
Affiliations	East Campus, Freshman Dorms

Gilbert-Addoms or GA residence hall is the largest dormitory on East Campus and home to approximately 190 First Year students. Like all other halls on campus, Gilbert-Addoms is co-ed, with male and female students living on the same floor. Gilbert-Addoms is staffed by one Graduate Assistant and eight Resident Assistants under the supervision of Residence Coordinator Katie Yates.

1 Inside the Dorm
2 Faculty in Residence
3 History
4 Neighborhood

[edit] Inside the Dorm

Gilbert-Addoms boasts some of the more fun and functional spaces on East Campus. The G.A. deck offers picnic tables to spend a sunny afternoon sitting outside to talk with fellow residents. (There used to be swinging benches, but they were taken down during the fall semester of 2008.) Inside, there are two large commons rooms, one of which allow students a quiet space to study or a modestly-sized TV to watch/play games on. The other houses the Media Room, which comprises of a large flat-screen TV, a foosball table, a ping pong table, a pool table, an assortment of boardgames, and a piano. At any time of day, one can find residents relaxing here.

Gilbert-Addoms is also is home to the GA Down Under, a large multi-functional basement area for residents from across East Campus. Unfortunately for Gilbert-Addoms residents on rainy or cold days, it can only be accessed by leaving the dorm and walking to one of the entrances either in the truck loading dock area or on the other side of the building--both of which are relatively far from GA's entrance.

Regardless, it provides an excellent on-campus venue for performances, student groups and is also a great place to study, play pool, or attend Devils After Dark, a programming series every week on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night from 10PM - 2PM. The Down Under also contains the only computer lab on East Campus which runs Linux. As a result, the night before a major engineering assignment is due, it is not unusual to see half a dozen engineering students hard at work there.

Do you know anything about the inside of Gilbert-Addoms? Please see the Southgate article for a good example of what to write.

[edit] Faculty in Residence

The Faculty-in-Residence Program is one of the ways in which Duke University seeks to facilitate, strengthen, and expand interaction between faculty members and undergraduates beyond the classroom. The Gilbert-Addoms Faculty-in-Residence is Michele Rasmussen, Assistant Dean for Trinity College.

[edit] History

Opening in 1957, the building was named in honor of Katherine Everett Gilbert, Professor and first chair of the Department of Aesthetics, Art, and Music and for Ruth Margery Addoms, Professor of Botany.