2008 Woodie Awards
Housing decisions fragmenting student body
Allison Johnson, Staff Writer
Issue date: 5/17/06 Section: Editorial
As if you don't have enough problems already, now you have to find housing. Yes, if the stress of finals isn't enough, now you have to start thinking of possible living situations. Early this month the housing department dropped the bomb: it will not be able to offer housing to all returning residents. Well, that is just marvelous and that is exactly what students do not want to hear. How can a school that promotes living on campus change all of a sudden? It's because they're also changing their motto on the size of SSU. Although I had been lectured on the benefits of the university's small class sizes and close, personal relationships that I would form, there has been a change in plans. It seems that SSU has changed its tune. Now the university will be doubling in enrollment and creating a bigger, more diverse campus.
Isn't it wonderful how you can enroll here under the false pretense of a small tight-knit community and then realize how it's isolated? Well, get out the crayon box and color me sour. If the misconception about socializing isn't bad enough, the administration is now going to change their policy about enrollment, class sizes, and housing.
Most residents in Beaujolais Village are able to boast of their third year of on-campus living. It enrages them to think that they will have to find off-campus housing for their last year, or even worse, their last semester. If the upperclassmen think they are angry, wait until they hear the cries of sophomores and other young students in a similar situation. How unfair is it that they have to wait until the third or fourth round before being offered housing? Even that offer is tentative and not guaranteed. If your friends have different draft rounds than you, then your chances of living together are slim to none.
Which situation is better: waiting until June to find out if you have received housing with complete strangers or finding off-campus housing with your friends? Between these two options I would be safe to say living with your friends. For some fortunate students, they lucked out and secured at least one friend in the fight for on-campus living.
Isn't it wonderful how you can enroll here under the false pretense of a small tight-knit community and then realize how it's isolated? Well, get out the crayon box and color me sour. If the misconception about socializing isn't bad enough, the administration is now going to change their policy about enrollment, class sizes, and housing.
Most residents in Beaujolais Village are able to boast of their third year of on-campus living. It enrages them to think that they will have to find off-campus housing for their last year, or even worse, their last semester. If the upperclassmen think they are angry, wait until they hear the cries of sophomores and other young students in a similar situation. How unfair is it that they have to wait until the third or fourth round before being offered housing? Even that offer is tentative and not guaranteed. If your friends have different draft rounds than you, then your chances of living together are slim to none.
Which situation is better: waiting until June to find out if you have received housing with complete strangers or finding off-campus housing with your friends? Between these two options I would be safe to say living with your friends. For some fortunate students, they lucked out and secured at least one friend in the fight for on-campus living.