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Book: Sweet Communion by Arie de Reuver
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Sweet Communion by Arie de Reuver
So I was all ready to wind down a bit this weekend, and not push to get another post up. That was all disrupted Saturday when a bubble mailer arrived in my mailbox from Baker Academic. I simply could not wait until next week to announce their new release. The book is Sweet Communion: Trajectories of Spirituality from the Middle Ages through the Further Reformation by Arie de Reuver. The book was published in Dutch in 2002 and translated into English by James A. De Jong.
To explain the importance of this book, I need to give some background.
We are familiar with the English Puritans (men like John Owen, Richard Sibbes, John Bunyan, Thomas Brooks, etc.) primarily because their original works were written in English, and easily reprinted over the centuries with little editing necessary. However, in the Netherlands another "Puritan" movement was taking place. Like their English counterparts, men like Willem Teellinck, Herman Witsius and Thodorus and Wilhelmus à Brakel were producing valuable theological and spiritual works in Dutch. But until only recently has the work of Dr. Joel R. Beeke and the Dutch Reformed Translation Committee made these works more accessible. In fact, one of the great highlights of Beeke's Meet the Puritans is a section entirely devoted to the Dutchmen of the "Further Reformation" (see pages 739-824). Books of the Dutch "Further Reformation" authors (like the recently translated The Path of True Godliness by Willem Teellinck) bear all the marks of brilliance we see in the English Puritans.
One of the most noticeable strengths of these "Dutch Puritans" (as I call them) is their emphasis on Reformed spirituality and their enjoyment of sweet communion with Christ. Theirs was a deep and sincere devotion to Christ where their union with Christ was the means of experiencing vibrant communion with Christ. They defended the doctrines of grace and simultaneously enjoyed a joyful and warm spirituality.
This beautiful Reformed spirituality can be seen in the works of Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635-1711).
Wilhelmus à Brakel is most noted for his four-volume work, The Christian's Reasonable Service (Reformation Heritage Books; 1993; 4 vols.). While it looks like another Reformed systematic theology it is actually more practical in nature and intended to provide content for small group discussions as Christians gather to encourage one another in the Christian life. It is one of the beautiful works of the "Dutch Puritans."
I have noticed in the past the "sweet communion" of the believer with Christ is a theme that sparkles from this work. After emphasizing the marriage union between the Groom (Christ) and His Bride (the Church), à Brakel explains the believer's communion with Christ within this marital union. Once this union between the sinner and his Savior has taken place in conversion "Jesus Himself delights in having communion with you" (2:93). Read that incredible sentence again! This communion produces a "sweetness and overflowing delight … Here they (Christians) find balm for their sick souls, light to clear up their darkness, life for their deadness, food and drink for their hunger and thirst, peace for their troubled heart, blood to atone for their sins, the Spirit for their sanctification, counsel when they are at their wit's end, strength for their weakness, and a fullness of all for their manifold deficiencies" (2:93,94).
Of this marital union and the communion that follows, à Brakel writes,
"A temporal believer concerns himself only with the benefits and has no interest in Christ Himself. Believers, however, have communion with the Person of Jesus Christ, but many neither meditate upon nor closely heed their exercises concerning Christ Himself. They err in this, which is detrimental to the strength of their faith and impedes its growth. Therefore we wish to exhort them to be more exercised concerning the truth of belonging to each other, and the union and communion with Jesus Himself. They will then better perceive the unsearchable grace and goodness of God that such wretched and sinful men may be so intimately united with the Son of God. Such reflection will most wondrously set the heart aflame with love. It will strengthen their resolve to put their trust in Jesus without fear. It will give them strength and liberty to obtain everything from Him to fulfill the desires of their soul, causing them to grow in Him, which in turn will generate more light and joy. Therefore, faith, hope, and love are mentioned in reference to the Person of Christ. Scripture speaks of receiving Him, believing in Him, trusting in Him, living in Him, loving Him, and hoping in Him" (2:91).
This beautiful passage points the believer back to the Person of Christ to find her joy and strength in the beauty of Jesus Christ. This light and joy is the byproduct of communion with Him and this communion goes back to the believer's union with Christ in justification.
Later, à Brakel explains that since our union with Christ is absolute, our communion with Christ does not shift with circumstances or emotions. "By faith, hold fast to the fact that you are reconciled to and are a partaker of Him and His benefits, even if you do not perceive and feel this. This belonging to Him is not based on feeling. If the souls may truly believe this and be exercised therewith, this will lead the soul toward communion with Him" (2:96). Communion can never be separated from our union and our union is described by our justification by faith alone and in our election in the Son. So à Brakel and the "Dutch Puritans" remind us that our sweet communion with Christ is inseparably bound to our understanding of our union with Christ in the gospel!
In his conclusion on the teachings of Wilhelmus à Brakel, de Reuver writes that his "spirituality is one that is rooted in Christ through the word believed, even in its most intimate and mystical moments. This foundation protects his mysticism from spiritualism" (258).
Many today are drawn towards Roman Catholic mysticism or a non-theological spirituality by thinking a deep spiritual experience of Christ can be separated from a genuine understanding of the gospel. This, as à Brakel displays, is not the case. Neither does Reformed theology favor a cold orthodoxy. Following the best intentions of the Medieval theologians, the Reformed "Dutch Puritans" always believed that rich biblical doctrine is the vein for the warm blood of spiritual experience of the Son in communion.
So here is the importance of Sweet Communion by de Reuver: The rich spirituality we have received from the "Dutch Puritans" is a spiritual legacy following the spiritual traditions of Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) and Thomas à Kempis (1379-1471) but is firmly rooted in the precious theology of the Reformation. The final conclusion of de Reuver is that the all-controlling center of the Dutch Further Reformation spirituality rested in the Reformed theology. This is a beautiful and timely book to further dismantle the idea that Reformed theology is cold and stiff intellectualism. Our rich theology actually leads us deeper into true "mysticism" of direct communion with Christ.
Title: Sweet Communion: Trajectories of Spirituality from the Middle Ages through the Further Reformation.
Series: Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought
Author: Arie de Reuver (Dutch)
Translator: James A. De Jong (English)
Reading level: 4.5/5.0 > academic and some untranslated Dutch quotations
Boards: paper
Pages: 303
Volumes: 1
Dust jacket: no
Binding: glue
Paper: normal
Topical index: no
Scriptural index: no
Text: perfect type
Publisher: Baker Academic
Year: 2007
Price USD: $29.99/23.99 from Baker
ISBNs: 0801031222, 9780801031229
Related: Communion with God by Kelly Kapic. Another gem from Baker this year on communion with God. Kapic studies English Puritan John Owen's understanding that communion with God takes place within a balanced Triunity of the Father, Son and Spirit. Highly recommended.
English Puritans on Meditation
My friend Amy Gant has a published new website devoted to the topic of English Puritan Meditation. The website complements her excellent MA thesis, "'Beating a Path to Heaven': Nathanael Ranew and the Puritan Art of Divine Meditation in the Seventeenth Century." The thesis focused on Ranew' book Solitude improved by divine meditation.
From the website:
"To the Puritans, divine meditation involved personal devotion and edification in the sense of thinking godly thoughts – thinking the type of thoughts that Jesus Christ Himself might think. Or, as Richard Baxter put it, "…meditation is but the reading over and repeating God's reasons to our hearts, and so disputing with ourselves in his arguments and terms." As scholar Richard Douglas Jordan has said, Baxter also "took a stand against enthusiasm in devotion and saw meditation as involved with reason and the written word. In his Christian Directory, Baxter spoke of the Christian's delight in God as a 'solid rational' experience." These understandings stemmed both from Scriptural examples such as those in the Psalms and from biblically-based doctrines of salvation, sanctification, and more, which provide motivation for many of the Christian disciplines.
It required a great amount of personal self-control to focus one's mind upon unseen realities such as God and Heaven. The motivation for such intellectual pursuits was based, again, in Puritan doctrine: they were committed to meditation because they understood the Scriptures to teach that it was God's will for them to practice it. Yet the great emphasis, earnestness and time commitment which they gave to this task is best understood in light of the Puritan sense of urgency in performing all the spiritual disciplines, and in living a godly life in general. Because of their focus on the shortness of life, Puritans tended to abhor unnecessary wasting of the time that God had given them, as servants, to perform their duties on earth. For this reason, mental discipline came to be very important for the Puritans – and meditation was a large part of that process."
You will find a great deal of biblical and historical information on the art of divine meditation. I would encourage you to take some time this weekend to look around.


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Doherty, who is an Australian by birth and by his laconic spirit, divides his time between the University of Melbourne and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, USA. He recently published a book, The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize, in which he offers forthright commentary on the Nobels in general, along with a charmingly homely account of his own unlikely path toward this pinnacle.
He insisted that there was nothing about his background that might have suggested he was destined for scientific greatness. "Winning a Nobel Prize wasn't what I set out to do," he said.
Doherty began his career as a veterinary scientist researching animal diseases. "I was wrestling pigs," he said. Before pig wrestling, things looked even less promising. Doherty grew up in Brisbane, a place he describes in his book as "an isolated and parochial town in a country barely noticed by the rest of the world." (Brisbane has since morphed into a beautiful, cosmopolitan city.)
His parents both left school at 15. His father worked as a telephone technician, and his mother taught piano. Their lives had given them "no experience with higher education and no understanding of it." Yet, rather than seeing that as an obstacle, Doherty insists that, in many respects, his parents' lack of academic acumen assisted his intellectual development.
"If you look at the lives of Nobel winners," he told me, "what you find is that many of them came from these unlikely backgrounds — one-room schoolhouses and concentration camps." They do not necessarily hail from privileged backgrounds. What matters, he said, "is that you have fire in the belly."
Doherty believes that less fortunate kids may indeed be more fortunate: "You don't have parents who are so prescriptive in what they expect you to do and be. The individual is in a sense freer."
Critical to his own intellectual development were good teachers. Doherty attended a newly opened public school, Indooroopilly State High. It had no library, no books, no sporting equipment — "parents were expected to provide those things." What it did have were "teachers really committed to public education".
At Indooroopilly, and later in the veterinary department at the University of Queensland, Doherty was exposed to scientific ideas put forth by people who were passionate about conveying them.
If we want to create more truly innovative scientists, he said, above all what we need is a great public school system. Doherty noted that the New York City public school system has produced 25 Nobelists, five from the Bronx High School of Science. He believes such specialised programs are important to allow kids who are drawn to science to maximise their potential.
That does not mean hothousing. Doherty deplores the current trend of parents to try to create genius children: "It's no use hothousing kids so they just reproduce a lot of acceptable stuff. Kids need time to think and to learn for themselves."
Doherty's comments mesh with a number of studies that have been done on genius. No accepted measure of intelligence, such as IQ, has been shown to predict reliably who will achieve extraordinary things. What does correlate is persistent work on the part of the student and excellent teaching and support from the surrounding community.
Benjamin Bloom of the University of Chicago studied the lives of elite athletes, performers, artists and scientists. Every person in his study had taken at least a decade, if not longer, of intense hard work to achieve international recognition. Equally, they had good teachers and mentors and plenty of support in their formative years. "We were looking for exceptional kids," Bloom has said, "and what we found were exceptional conditions."
Like other categories of genius, Nobelists are not so much born to greatness as they are made. To get to Stockholm, it does indeed take a village.


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The Canadiens Get: LW Alex Tanguay and a fifth-round pick
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You and a friend hit backstage passes at an FOB concert in Madison WI, and you knock a guy out, literally. this one's kinda weird, abstract, but what's not to like? it's about FOB.
"WILL YOU GET IT ON, BRENT?" I screamed. He knew that I hated waiting. His voice chuckled.
"Okay, okay, I got tickets to a concert here, you and I can both go." He got me tickets. He got the tickets. I think I love him.
"Brent." I paused. "I LOVE YOU, YOU FREAKING DESERTER!!!" I am now hyperventilating. He laughed again.
"Okay, this is what we're going to do. I'm going to pick you up at..."
"Well, here we are. This dorm is about seventy-five years old..." Brent started to drone, but I cut him off.
"Can we keep the tour to a minimum? I really don't care because I'll never be good enough to get a scholarship to UW Madison, Brent." He gave me a head shake and smiled.
"Okeee then. Let's just drop off your stuff and get to the center."
"Why so early?" we had just arrived about ten minutes ago.
"Yeah, but we want to use our backstage passes before and after the concert, right? Or maybe you just don't want to go backstage..." his grin widened. I just stood there like a gaping idiot until I slapped him. Hard. Across the face. Then he stared at me in fascination, not wanting to believe that he got bitch-slapped.
"D-did, you, just-"
"Yes, yes I did, and you'd better not be keeping any more crap from me that's important like that. Do we have an understanding?" He nodded and failed to suppress a grin. He hailed a taxi that took us to the arena, and flashed our passes at the security guard, who then stepped aside, but gave us a weird look for being about four hours early.
"We just want to get a look around. You're looking at the next Celtic Rock band," Brent told him, which made the guard, whom his ID tag identified as 'Carl', frown at us. Like we were crazy or something.
"The only Celtic Rock band, actually," I corrected. 'Carl' shook his head at us and turned around to fend off the other early feeders. "Fall Out Boy, Fall Out Boy..." I had started chanting, and Brent placed his large hand on my head to silence me-he had about two feet on my five-foot-three average frame. Then up ahead I caught a glimpse of a trucker's cap and red hair poking out from under it. No, no, no, I am now DEFINITELY hyperventilating. Brent gave me a funny look and caught me around my waist before I caught up with THE Patrick Stump.
"NONONONONO BRENT! LET ME GO!!!!!!!!! I NEED TO MEET PATRICK STUMP!! YOU'RE HIS LOOK-ALIKE, YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND!!!" I was in hysterics and drawing weird looks from Motion City Soundtrack, who I like but had no interest in at the moment.
"Lindsay, I'll bring you back there, but only if you calm down," he spoke to me like I was three or something.
"No, Brent. You are not my brother, and you WILL take me to their room or I WILL bite you." He knew that I weren't kidding; he's seen me draw blood. Brent threw up his hands in defeat, then shoved them in his pockets and led me to the room Patrick disappeared into. I followed, not sure of whether or not we could do this, but Brent had been to more concerts than me (this was my first, actually), and walked through the semi-open door.
In the small room there was the one door I walked through, no windows, and a few beat-up chairs and couch that looked like someone got them from their dead grandmother's basement. In the corner was a cooler full of water and soda, and a few various members of bands scattered among the furniture. All that I picked up on a bit later on, the thing that got my immediate attention was Pete Wentz and Brandon Flower going at it in the middle of the room, shouting and punching each other. While Pete's band mates stared on, no one else from The Killers was in the room, and it didn't seem like anyone was going to stop this fight.
"This is bad," I heard Andy mutter to Joe. Joe nodded and Andy kept on, "I mean, they don't like each other, but I'm not about to get involved in this."
I stare at them and say (rather stupidly), "Then I will." Their faces shot toward me, but I was already making my way through the mess of furniture and people to get to the two. Pete now has a bloody lip, and Brandon has a black eye, but they're kind of in a dead standstill, just circling each other and pulling fakes.
"Oh, come on, this is about as real as wrestling," I comment loudly, and jump Pete to pull his head down so I can drag him away. "You have a show in a few hours, mister, and I won't let you go on stage looking like shit," I scold. Brandon doesn't know what to do, so he tries to swing at me. Not a good idea. "WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM?! DO YOU WANT YOUR ASS DROPKICKED, 'CAUSE I CAN MANAGE THAT!" I drop Pete's head and spring onto the back of the (now vacant) couch, then leap off and give Brandon a flying kick to the chest, knocking him into the wall behind a metal kitchen chair, which he falls over. While he's still lying on the ground, just barely managing to breathe, I straddle him and stand over his chest, giving him my 'scary face', as Brent so aptly calls it. I lean forward and very carefully put my face very close to his. "Get out," I whispered fiercely. He choked and nodded frantically, just wanting to get out of there. I painfully pushed my foot on his crotch when I stepped over him and moved back slightly, giving him just barely enough space to pass with and scramble out of the room.
"Ah, Lindsay, what did I say?" Brent pulled his 'brotherly' face. "No picking on guys weaker than you." Everyone laughs.
"Don't start," I huffed. Then I heard quite the familiar voice.
"Lindsay? Like, oh. My. God, girl, is that yoouu!!" It was Justin, bisexual for all of Wisconsin.
"Like, oh my god, it soo is!" I fling my hands and play along. Justin was an awesome guy, and we have this über-gay thing going, where when one of us sees the other, we act like stereotypical gay guys. It's really funny.
"Don't think that I didn't see what you just did, nuh-uh! You so did not just kick Brandon Flower's ass, like, totally hardcore." He said it in the tone of scandalous gossip. I nodded, quite proud of myself. "So, what are you doing here?" he handed me his tall Vanilla Latte and I took a sip.
"I'm seeing a Fall Out Boy concert, thanks to my friend Brent, whom I told you could pass for Patrick Stump," I nod at Brent then at Patrick himself. "But, the only difference is that Patrick is a Sex God and Brent is a single virgin." I stick my tongue out at Brent, who sarcastically gives me a noogie. Pete, Joe, and Andy laugh while Patrick turns several shades of violent red. I thought of something suddenly.
"Justin? Because I love you?" and he knew that that was my way of giving warning of an odd favor. He looked at you and nodded slowly. I dug into my pockets and drew out a crumpled 10 dollar bill, and threw it at him. "Would you run to the 24 hour mall next door and get me a tall iced mocha with the works from Starbucks and a giant box of Ego's chocolate chip waffles?"


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I'm Tim Battershell. William is my Great,Great, Great Grandfather. I live in Champaign, il just south east of the burial site.
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These pictures are wonderful, even if the site is in poor condition. My wife is the great great great granddaughter of William and Elizabeth. Thank for you sharing your time and efforts.
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Thank you so much for taking these pictures and the video. I am William and Elizabeth's great great great granddaughter. It makes me sad to see what poor condition the gravesites are in. I know very little about them (I just stumbled upon find a grave and found your link), but these pictures and video are a wonderful surprise. Thank you again!
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Clarence Rubin said...
As a member of a hardcore raiding guild, I would expect the reverse situation to result in a gkick. Casual player, content with poor performance because it's just a game and that's how you have your fun? Sure, but go have your fun elsewhere, where you won't get in the way of our style of fun.
It's really no different when you put the hardcore player in a casual guild rather than a casual player in a hardcore guild. Simply put, they don't belong there, they're not having fun, they're not contributing to other people having fun, and they're causing drama that is hurting the guild. If this player can't realize on their own that they're in the wrong place, then they need some help in the form of a gkick. In the end they'll benefit as much as you will, because nobody is benefiting from the status quo.
I would have to beg to differ, actually.
If Mr Casual is OK with not going on the raids, I fail to see the harm with letting him remain in the guild for social reasons.
While I've seen problems of the "we don't have enough warm bodies to field two raid teams, even if we have enough *characters* to do so", as long as you make sure the guild knows that the Hardcore raid gets priority, you might even get a 'casual' raid group going.


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What is the evolutionary benefit conferred by religion?
As an anti-religious, pro-scientific younger guy, I always characterised religion as simply a mass delusion - something that was parasitical upon society.
Religious people that I know tended to argue with me about how their religion helped in some or other way, which doesn't answer the question of whether their particular beliefs were correct. But it does lead to an interesting question.
If religion is bad for you, why does most of history revolve around groups of people who shared a religion? Where are the great atheistic states that thrived and prospered without the chains of superstition holding them back? If being religious is in any way a disadvantage, doesn't evolutionary theory say that people and civilisations without religion should have an advantage?
Without arguing that there is or isn't a god, surely we can agree that the behavioural strategy that is most beneficial should become the dominant one? Non-religious people OUGHT TO out-compete the religious ones, atheistic civilisations should have more resources than those burdened by priests.
I'm still not religious, but having a hard time explaining why I'm right. Would I be better off, as an average human being, if I embraced Jesus or Islam or danced around naked at Stonehenge on midsummers?
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Apr 21 2011: I think it (religion) may have helped the small hunter/gatherer groups in our earlier days. Later it has become a habit and a social excuse for others to separate groups. Belief that a 'being' created us and is acting as a "middle-manager" for our daily lives is a bit of a concern to me - mostly because we work so hard to make certain our lives go on as need be. Throwing our hands up to the sky and asking for the strength to go on really does seem misplaced.
To answer your question: IT DOESN'T GIVE ANY BENEFIT ANY LONGER! The so-called holy books we use. (The BIBLE, The Koran) are all old bronze age texts. We've lost large parts of the Bible and priests and monks decided which books should or shouldn't be included in the Bible. How can they be divinely inspired if some guy decided whether they fit or not? Frankly, it's embarrassing that any of our modern societies give them any credence at all.
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For all of you who read my stuff faithfully, thanks so much! I love you guys to death because you make me smile everytime I read a review.
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Happy new year to you too :)
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Haha, sure. I'll put it in your ask :D
I don't post pictures of myself on here. :) But I guess if we're close enough (and you come off anon~) I'll send you my fb.
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Hola. Um, the initial follow was because you had followed me, I suppose. But I always look through people's blogs after I follow them, and i liked yours. So I guess I KEPT and will KEEP following you because I like your blog. :)
I am good! Happy new years eve~
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Um, all I said was that I wanted a belly button piercing like yours? Did I ever once fucking say you were an "inspiration" to me? No.
This made me cry. Ok, not in a bad way so please don't think that. I'm crying because I think you just made me the happiest I've been in months. Thank you. I doubt that was even your intention, but still.
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Yeah but there's like, nothing on it ;-; I'll send you the link & pw though.
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You're welcome!~ Ah, I love ATL. They're like, right up in my top 5.
I change it a lot so I didn't remember what it was at first, haha.
I used to be like that after I moved, because we moved to the country and had well water. I was like, terrified of it ;-; No idea why. So for a LOOONG time I could only drink like, a glass a day. Then I overcame it by cutting out ALL other liquids. I basically forced myself to drink water. I ate salty foods, and eventually drinking water just got easier.
I suggest drinking one when you wake up, one every time you eat (no matter what you're eating, drink water), one before you go to bed and one after exercising. That should add up to, or be close to, 8 glasses a day. :) Also, you could try drinking from smaller glasses at first!
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Who even knows, I never measure myself ;-;
Fifteen, but I turn sixteen soon.
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Storing things ~ Mostly my lip glosses since I've got a MILLION of them, haha.
That's probably my biggest dream as well. <3 Oooh, my room is teal! I love it so much! I just got the whole first season of True Blood for Christmas, I have to watch it when my friend gives it back. :) HHSKJHSFJKSD JAKE GYLLENHAAL. Okay sorry, I love him.
I love crappy horror movies too. They're so bad they're funny.
Oh boy, I typed a whole paragraph and tumblr deleted it. ;-;
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Important notes:
- Please be aware that Dutchess Community College is committed to maintaining an environment that promotes health, well-being and student academic success. DCC is a "dry" campus, which means alcohol is not permitted in the residence hall or elsewhere on College property, even if a student is of legal drinking age. Please also remember that this is on-campus housing, not an apartment. If you wish to engage in activities and/or behavior prohibited by law or by DCC housing regulations, and wish to live in an unmonitored environment, you should not apply to live in the residence hall.
- Students who live outside Dutchess or Putnam County must have a final high school average of at least 70 (or a GED score of at least 2400) in order to be eligible to live in the residence hall, and those who have stronger academic records may have an advantage in the housing award process. As a result, part of the housing award process for students with a cumulative high school average between 70 - 74.9 is a required interview with an Admissions Counselor. Students who have been selected for an interview will NOT be granted campus housing until this requirement is complete. Please contact the Admissions Office at (845) 431-8010 if you have any questions about the interview portion of the housing process. If you do not live in Dutchess or Putnam, and you do not meet this standard, please do not apply for housing. We suggest you either commute to DCC -- or enroll at your local community college for a semester -- do well, and then apply to live on our campus.
- Students transferring from another college to DCC with a GPA of below 2.0 will be individually considered for housing eligibility.
- Students living in the residence hall in the fall must be 18 years of age by December 31; those entering the residence hall for the first time in the spring must be 18 by March 1.
- You may not live in the residence hall if you have been dismissed from another college or withdrawn from another college under threat of dismissal.
- You may not live in the residence hall if you have been convicted of a felony.