Students and advisers from Penn College's four Living-Learning Communities, academically themed Residence Life arrangements in Rose Street Commons, held a first-week "meet and greet" in the Thompson Professional Development Center late Thursday afternoon. Among the organizers was Jonathan D. Wescott, Penn College's new director of residence life and judicial affairs, who told the group they are "elite, but not exclusive," and shouldn't hesitate to engage other students in campus involvement. He was joined by a number of administrators, faculty and staff – including Elliott Strickland, chief student affairs officer, who said students in academically themed housing traditionally attain better grades and graduate at a higher rate than classmates in more traditional living arrangements. "And as your level of participation goes up," he said, "so does your level of success."