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The Lawrence Committee is a group of Lawrence residents, including graduate students and spouses or partners, elected to organize the community life of the Lawrence Apartments and represent the interests of Lawrence residents to the housing office.

All residents are always invited to all committee meetings, typically on the third Wednesday of each month at 8:30 PM in the community room in Building 1. There are no summer meetings. The next meeting is scheduled for September 23, 2009, in the 1 Lawrence Drive community room.

Minutes from the committee meetings are located here. (NOTE: we are still in the process of importing the old meeting notes into the new website. If you wish to see notes dating back to 2003, please go to the old website.)

To contact the committee regarding any problems, or if you have comments or questions, email lawrapts@princeton.edu. The email will go to all the committee members, and whichever member the question is targeted at will respond as soon as possible. Please contact the Housing Office, not the Lawrence Committee, with any questions about Lawrence housing availability.

The committee's aims and procedures are outlined in its Constitution. Generally, elections are held in December, and residents desiring to serve on the committee must have attended several meetings previously. Historically, the University has provided committee members with priority in the Spring housing draw, although this is by no means guaranteed in the future.

(Community Associates also organize social and service events for graduate students.)

We recommend that all residents subscribe to the Lawrence Apartments email list. Subscription should happen automatically for students who are new residents. Others who would like to be on the list can follow the posted instructions.

The Lawrence committee uses the email list to send news and announcements, inform residents of upcoming events, and broadcast the minutes of the monthly committee meetings. All members of the Lawrence community are encouraged to join the list.

The committee strives to keep email traffic on the list to a minimum and sends emails only a few times per month. To receive more frequent updates, you can subscribe via RSS to this website. If you have notices or announcements such as lost and found information that you would like to broadcast to the community, please email the committee.

Note that the committee does not generally publish notices for events not sponsored by the committee. You can broadcast information about such events through the weekly GSEvents emails by contacting Lisa Schreyer. If you have items, such as furniture, for sale, you can use Craigslist or Princeton's TigerTrade system.

You can manage your subscription (ie subscribe, unsubscribe, change preferences) at the Princeton University Listserv. You need to go to "Subscribers Corner" and then log in, select "Email Lists," and scroll to the search box at the bottom of the page. The name of the list is lawrence-res.

It is very important that you log in before attempting to subscribe. Unless you log in, you won't see the lists. If you experience problems, please call the OIT helpdesk.

You might be interested in some other lists, available using the same interface:

• The lawrence-sl list, managed by the Community Programs Coordinator, with weekly mailings containing information on meetings, events, and activities within the campus and the community.

• The childcare list, for exchanging babysitting time within our grad school community.

The Lawrence Committee's Constitution was revised in November, 2008. You can download the constitution in Word and PDF formats.