Alspaugh

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**Alspaugh Dormitory**
*Full of Substance*

Front of Alspaugh Dormitory
Built	1927
Type	Dormitory
Style	Federal
Namesake	John W. Alspaugh
Size	125 Students
Air-Conditioning	Only for Special Cases.
Room Description	Does anyone know the average room size in Alspaugh?
Location	East Campus
Hours	Never open to Upperclassmen No Access for Freshman from Other Dorms after (midnight?) Always open to current residents.
Affiliations	East Campus, Freshman Dorms

Alspaugh residence hall is home to approximately 125 First Year students on Duke University's East Campus. Like all other halls on campus, Alspaugh is co-ed, with male and female students living on the same floor. Alspaugh is staffed by one Graduate Assistant and five Resident Assistants under the supervision of Residence Coordinator Allison Burzio.

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

[edit] Inside the Dorm

Alspaugh dorm shares a number of features with its identical sister dorms on the main quad of East Campus. The dorm has three floors, with the first and second being coed (with separate male and female wings) and the third floor being female only. The third floor has a small study room which faces the main quad. Although the dorm does not have air conditioning, individual AC units can be requested by students. However, fans are only essential during the first and last few months of the year. Additionally, the heating system for the dorm works quite well during the winter. The first floor also has a common room and an adjacent study room, which mirrors that of Alspaugh's sister dorms. As of the 2008-2009 school year, the common room has been renovated and now has a flat-screen plasma TV, table tennis table, and fussball table.

The dorm was home to the Genome Revolution FOCUS cluster during the Fall of 2008.

[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 Alspaugh Faculty-in-Residence is Robert Cook-Deegan, Director IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law, & Policy, Research Professor of Public Policy Studies, and Research Professor of Medicine.

[edit] History

Opening in 1927, the building was named for John W. Alspaugh (Normal College, 1855), a member of the committee of management that steered the Normal College (predecessor to Duke University) through financial troubles in the 1880s.