page_title: List of University of Massachusetts Amherst residence halls
section_title: Southwest
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Massachusetts Amherst residence halls / Residential areas / Southwest
caption_attribution_description: English: Coolidge Hall and Kennedy Hall, UMass Amherst, Amherst Massachusetts
context_page_description: The University of Massachusetts Amherst housing system is made up of six dormitory areas, two apartment areas, and one hotel. At UMass Amherst, first year students are required to live on campus. Housing is open to all full-time undergraduate students, regardless of year. Upper-class students who have continuously lived on campus during their first and sophomore years are guaranteed housing as long as they choose to live on campus. If, however, a student is admitted after their sophomore year, or moves off campus, and wants to move back onto campus, they are not guaranteed housing, but instead must go through a housing lottery, since demand outstrips supply. Building and room selection is accomplished by a complex system that takes into account building seniority as well as class year; those choosing to move from their building are subject to a lottery system, There are around 12,700 students living on-campus. making it have the third-largest on-campus residential population in the United States.
  Students living on the UMass campus live in one of the six residential areas: North, Sylvan, Northeast, Central, Orchard Hill, and Southwest.
context_section_description: Southwest is the largest residential area on the UMass campus. It consists of five 22-story towers—named after four U.S. Presidents born in or associated with Massachusetts (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, and John F. Kennedy), and George Washington – (Coolidge and the all-freshman Kennedy are side-by-side in the north and John Quincy Adams, John Adams and Washington are arranged in a cluster in the south, the latter two facing the same direction) and eleven smaller residence halls, also known as low-rises (the height of which varies from building to building), holding a total of around 5,500 students. The low-rises are arranged as such: two freshman-only clusters in the north (James-Emerson and Thoreau-Melville), a freshman-only cluster in the south (Cance, Moore, and Pierpont), and located along Sunset Avenue to the east are two clusters (Prince-Crampton in the north and MacKimmie-Patterson in the south) offering nine-month housing. Cluster offices are located in James, Melville, Cance, Prince, MacKimmie, Pierpont, and in each of the five towers. Additionally, Thoreau and Cance are home to the area office for the north and south portions of Southwest, respectively. Moore is home to the Residence Life Resource Center. Meanwhile, JQA and Washington are the homes to two of the Residential Wellness Center facilities offered on campus.
  Southwest houses three of the five campus dining commons, including the inactive Hampden Dining Common which houses Southwest's only convenience store. Hampshire is in the north and the newly renovated Berkshire is in the south, both offering traditional food. Berkshire also offers Late Night, a popular snack-oriented option open until midnight 7 days a week. Hampden was initially planned to be a tower for graduate students and stories as to why it instead became a dining common vary, although the rumor of a construction collapse is not true.  The Connecticut River is a fault line and there may have been problems driving the pilings deep enough to reach bedrock but most reports are that the yield on the bonds was less than anticipated and they simply ran out of money.  Hampden is host to the Hampden Art Gallery, Convenience Store (C-Store), Southwest Area Government (SWAG) Office, Latin American Cultural Center (LACC) and the Southwest Cafe & Pita Pit.
  Also found in Crampton in Southwest is the Stonewall Center, a resource for LGBT students and allies.
  Southwest houses approximately 50% of the students living on campus. Southwest is known for its lively, festive, and active community spirit, often stereotyped (both positively and negatively) as a center for "party" activity. After both victories and losses by the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox in 2002, 2003 and 2004, as well as after the December 2006 UMass defeat in the NCAA Division I-AA football championship game, students held large impromptu festive gatherings (also referred to as riots) in the Southwest Mall which led to injuries, incidents of property destruction, and significant police involvement.  
  Throughout the past few years, UMass administration has tried to control such “riots” from occurring by planning school run events in the southwest residential area. Throughout the 2013 World Series, the dining halls and residence halls planned viewing parties for the game between Massachusetts’ own Boston Red Sox while they were trying to take down the St. Louis Cardinals for the championship. For the clinching game of the World Series Umass student affairs put on an event outside of the residence buildings so fans could enjoy the game peacefully but with excitement. An email was sent to all students stating “As you watch the games – on or off campus – please remember to represent the campus well” (Enku Gelaye - Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life) along with a link to a Responsible Fan website that gives rules and regulations for such events. Although the effort was there, the Student Affairs were not entirely successful in keeping the students in check. There were15 arrests on the night of Octob
caption: Coolidge Hall and Kennedy Hall
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