<p>Just a quick thank you to the student posters here who encouraged me as a parent not to give up complaining about being overcharged by UVA for Malone(in my opinion, a failed housing experiment that combined the worst of Hereford residential college and first year programs at Alderman).<br>
UVA is now sending out at much as $230 checks to the first year students at Malone representing the $60 activity fee and up to the $55 surcharge dining fee for unllimited each semester that Hereford tacked on to bills to Malone students (even though they did not get the banquets and their Malone dorm cards could not open up Hereford doors for activities. )
Just so there is no mistake, I did NOT accomplish this but am pleasantly surprised. I can only surmise that more Deans than Dean J read this forum and one or more of them decided to right this wrong. I only found out about this when Dining messed up my son's meal plan due to all the computer changes involved in getting Hereford unlimited cancelled and regular unlimited billed</p>
<p>maybe it will be better next year when there's another half hereford half new dorms building, if they even keep the association. the housing website isn't updated accordingly yet.</p>