1.   He lived in the dorm as a resident adviser.

2.   Amy Lipton, a junior from Shaker Heights, Ohio, is a resident adviser on the all-female third floor of Shapiro Hall at Brandeis.

3.   After the attacks, dozens of students either called military recruiters or talked to resident advisers about joining the military.

4.   But many resident advisers see unionizing as a tool to get the university to listen to their complaints and to raise their wages.

5.   Her crisis came last year when she was a resident adviser at a campus dorm and one of her charges was being beaten by a boyfriend.

6.   MIT has also moved to place a resident adviser in all Greek houses and ensure its police will patrol fraternity and sorority houses across the Charles River in Boston.

7.   MIT officials acknowledged that drinking was sometimes a problem in dorms, but said they felt resident advisers could discourage alcohol use there.

8.   That left it up to the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission to determine whether the resident advisers were workers.

9.   The university warns that if it gives resident advisers a raise it might have to increase housing fees for all students.

10.   The university chooses resident advisers based on their grades and their leadership and communications skills.