
Ely soon again to be the place to “b-ely”
In an all-campus email sent Feb. 1, William Jewell College President Dr. Elizabeth MacLeod Walls announced that the school would be launching “Phase One of a comprehensive effort to renovate and redesign our first-year residence halls.” The email explains that through a gift from Mark and Karen Mathes, Liberty residents…
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The Ely Project
Supplementing changing policies and personnel on campus, Ely, a first-year residence building, will undergo significant remodels and renovations. This is the fourth installment in a series of articles highlighting recent changes and additions at William Jewell College. The basement of Ely houses the Wellness Center and the Nurse Practitioner’s, Campus…
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Ely Hall to close for renovations
As of this summer, Ely Hall will close for renovations, leaving the First-Year Triangle without one of its cornerstones. While the exact date of Ely’s reopening has not yet been solidified with Student Life, it is expected to last the entire 2017-18 school year. However, this is only the latest…
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AFE: Moaning Myrtle has invaded the Ely boys bathroom
There has been a recent spotting this past week of Moaning Myrtle in the boys’ bathrooms in Ely. The hallway on the boys’ floor of Ely emits the lovely smells of mold and dampness due to persistent flooding of the toilets that flow to the outer threshold of the hallway carpeting. Don’t…
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AFE: Students sue Residence Life for injuries from Ely’s burlap walls
Ely—once called the only place to BE-ly—has now been deemed unBElievably dangerous and unfit for housing students for the 2017-18 school year. This decision came after two students sued Residence Life last month for third-degree rugburns sustained by the burlap walls in their Ely dorm room. The two unsuspecting first-years…
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