The Residents’ Interhall Congress (RIC), also sometimes known as Resident’s Interhall Congress and Residence Interhall Congress, is a student organization of the University of Arkansas created to act as a representative group of students that choose to live on campus in the dormitories. One of the RIC’s goals is to address problems that are common across all of the on-campus living quarters in order to provide better quality to students living on campus. The group also hosts a number of social events throughout the school year in the hopes of building a sense of community on campus and for relationships to form between students of different residence halls. The first iteration of the Residents’ Interhall Congress was established in 1950 as the Interhall Council. This was a group that was created to handle problems common to the three women’s dorms. The group started the tradition of hosting social events that would include members of all residence halls by holding exchange dinners between halls and an annual Harvest Moon Ball. Two years later, the men followed suit with the creation of the Men’s Interhall Congress, and the Interhall Council became the Women’s Interhall Council. The goals of the Men’s Interhall Congress included addressing issues common to the men’s dorms as well as attempting to improve the scholarship, fellowship, and well-being of their inhabitants. These two groups began coordinating heavily in 1964 with the inauguration of Residence Hall Week and “Hallabaloo,” the Casino Carnival, and all residence hall dances. These events became popular affairs for many on-campus residents. In 1970, the two groups merged to create the Residence Hall Association. This group continued to host these social events and continued to seek an easier dialogue between students and administrators about residence halls. In 1985 the group’s name was changed to the Resident’s Interhall Congress. The various iterations of the Residents’ Interhall Congress have all sent representatives to the annual meetings of the National Association of College and University Residence Halls, or NACURH for short. This group was founded in 1954 to bring together representatives from campuses across the United States to discuss the problems that the various colleges and universities face with regards to on-campus housing. The Residents’ Interhall Congress and its precursors also sent representatives to regional groups such as the Midwest Affiliates of College and University Residence Halls and later the Southwest Affiliates of College and University Residence Halls (SWACURH).