Beginning this fall, the Department of Resident Life will spread community peers from one building to other buildings in the complex.

The number of community peers — four — will not change, said Paul Goldblatt, director of MSU Residence Life.

“What’s going to happen next year is that some will stay in the building they’re currently in. The others are going to move into two different buildings in University Village,” Goldblatt said.

Community peers can issue write-ups to students for what Goldblatt terms “inappropriate behavior,” but also give residents access to someone when they need assistance, have an issue with the apartments or have trouble with fellow tenants.

The move to spread peers to several buildings is intended to make things more convenient for residents, Goldblatt said.

“By spreading them out, you won’t know all four peers, but you’ll know some,” he said.

Some student residents, however, take exception to the idea.

“They should have had the community peers assigned before sign-up, because if I didn’t want to live next to them, I wouldn’t have to,” said Kyle Dysarz, a political theory and constitutional democracy and economics sophomore living in University Village.

Chela Sproles, resident director of Residence Life, said spreading the community peers throughout the complex will be beneficial.

“We’ll get to know and interact with more residents,” Sproles said. “It will get people more involved in activities we have going on.”

Goldblatt said despite early student sentiments, the community peers program has been a success.

“What people feared was that the community peer was going to be really intrusive and in-your-face,” he said. “I don’t think that happened.”