The First Year Experience (FYE) Program set to be fully implemented next semester has hit some problems with the original plan.

At its inception, the goal was to have FYE place all freshmen in the Griesedieck Complex and Marguerite Hall, allowing for a consolidation of services such as tutoring, career planning and educational programming.

Now after partial implementation this year, which allowed sophomores to remain in the buildings with the new rules, the problem for next year is that sophomores might have to be tripled in Reinert Hall if the plan proceeds as originated.

‘The intention was no triples in Reinert, but with a growing freshman class, that”s become a necessity,’ explained Argyle Wade, director of Housing. He added that for sophomores to move from doubles in Marguerite or Griesedieck into triples in Reinert would be a step backward. ‘They should be moving to a better space,’ he said.

For now, all options are on the table to maintain FYE while preventing sophomores from having to triple in Reinert.

One option includes designating specific floors in Marguerite and Reinert as all-freshman floors, but another option suggests mixing freshmen and sophomores but programming towards the freshmen in those buildings. Griesedieck is still intended to be all-freshmen housing next year.

In this process, the Department of Housing and Residence Life has had to continue to evaluate the program. Director of Residence Life Shawn Swinigan said the potential has not yet been reached but the pieces are starting to come together, such as tutoring now available in Griesedieck.

Both Swinigan and Wade admit that SLU does not have ideal buildings for implementation of a first year experience program, but they cite this as a challenge that they can overcome.

Swinigan and Wade are in discussion with resident advisors, hall councils and the Student Government Association about the many options under consideration regarding FYE.