Shepard Residential College is a multi-thematic residential college, so it attracts a diverse group of students with many different majors and interests. Shepard has a dining room within the larger Allison Dining hall. It is located on the South side of campus and is near downtown Evanston. It is also known as South Mid Quad, or affectionately, SMQ. Home to 74 students every year, SMQ is a residential community that focuses on bonding between residents, affectionately referred to as “sheep.” Every term, the sheep participate in numerous bonding activities including coffeehouse performance sessions, dorm yoga, weekly munchies, and “olympic” games against rival residential community Willard. Even if you’re not super involved with the activities, living in SMQ still presents clean and updated facilities. The bathrooms were recently renovated, the rooms are fairly spacious and the lounges include televisions, computers and ping pong tables for homework sessions and study breaks alike.
Reporting by Rachel Oh, Justin Curto, Trevor Lystad, Meg Pisarczyk, Robert Bell, Claire Toomey, Alena Prcela, Mia Zanzucchi, Victoria Alfred-Levow, Kate Salvidio, Elly Rivera, Rachel Epstein, Jakob Lazzaro, Yoonjie Park, David Gleisner
Photos by Rachel Oh, Justin Curto, Emma Kumer, Meg Pisarczyk, Virginia Nowakowski, Claire Toomey, Alena Prcela, Victoria Alfred-Levow, Kate Salvidio, Mia Zanzucchi, Elly Rivera, Rachel Epstein, Jakob Lazzaro, Brian Quistberg, Yoonjie Park, David Gleisner
Videos by Mia Zanzucchi, Emma Kumer, Meg Pisarczyk, Virginia Nowakowski, Helen Lee, David Gordon, Jesus Campos, Helen Lee, Elissa Gray, Gabrielle Bienasz, Andy Brown, Elizabeth Guthrie, David Gleisner, Poppy Shen
Editing by Libby Berry, Lila Reynolds, Maxine Whitely, Helen Lee, Virginia Nowakowski, Mia Zanzucchi, Jesus Campos, Isabella Jiao and Rachel Frazin
Design and development by Alex Duner, Tyler Fisher, Hilary Fung, Dan Hill, KK Rebecca Lai, Maxine Whitely, Sheng Wu and Katie Zhu
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