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School spirit, academic success and a healthy lifestyle combine for students to name Foster Harper their favorite dorm wing on campus.\nFoster Harper was this year's winner of the "Best Dorm Wing" award. This dorm wing provides nine floors of housing and a basement featuring a library.\n"People are really involved and very interactive at Harper," said freshman Callie Kaminski. \nHarper's resident assistants have organized a number of events the students look forward to, Kaminski said. The men on floors two and three had massage-therapy lessons from a specialist, while resident assistants on the women's floors organized sex-toy parties to keep them sexually informed.\n"The R.A.s at Harper have done a fabulous job building communities on their floors," said Holly Griffitt, an R.A. in Foster Shea, another wing of the residence hall.\nThe Harper community is home to the majority of student athletes and creates an atmosphere of school spirit, Kaminski said.\nFreshman business-management major and Harper resident Craig Horton takes advantage of the proximity to the Kelley School of Business and Assembly Hall. He said he is looking forward to walking to every basketball game this seasonto watch fellow Harper resident freshman Eric Gordon play. \nHarper is close to facilities where athletes work out and practice. The building is also within walking distance from the Student Recreational Sports Center and the tailgating fields.\nOn game days, students leave Harper and head to Memorial Stadium and Assembly Hall, sporting their cream and crimson gear. Freshman field-hockey player Lena Grote finds it easy to stay involved in school events while living at Harper as well as stay focused on her studies. She explained that living in another dorm such as Briscoe or McNutt might be too crazy for her.\nThere are stairwells between the floors that students use when going between floors to visit friends. But unlike most other dorm wings, Harper offers the convenience of an elevator.\n"I enjoy putting the key in the elevator to my floor number, having small talk and then saying goodbye when it is time to get my work done," Grote said.\nAmong other conveniences, Harper is close to Gresham Food Court. Other students in the Northwest neighborhood have to make the trek to Gresham if they want food outside the McNutt cafe or C-store.\nHarper is home to the Foster Quad center desk, mailboxes and the University Division advisers. The University Division advising center is located on the main floor of Harper beyond the large-sized lounge with foosball tables, couches and work tables for studying.\nKaminski takes advantage of this convenience that is only an elevator ride away from where she sleeps. She said she uses the comforts of the clean lounge to study.\n"I couldn't picture living anywhere else," Kaminski said.