2008 Woodie Awards
Housing arrangement mayhem causes mass campus confusion
Jillian Smith
Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: Perspectives
As a sophomore, who is actively involved in campus activities, I choose to live on campus so that I can get to my activities at any time, day or night, when I am needed.
Housing on-campus is great for me considering the fact that it is so close to all the facilities, such as the radio station or newsroom, and I can get there fast. This may not be the case for the remaining two years I have left.
As a freshman, it was easy to decide where we wanted to live: New Res, hands down. No if, and or buts about it. my friends and I were going to live in New Res. I wish every year was as easy as freshman year.
This year, it seems like everyday I hear a new rule, or a rumor about a rule, about the housing for juniors and seniors on-campus. Juniors and seniors, who choose to live on-campus, can live in either the Cabrini apartment complex, West Residence Hall or one of the seven houses on-campus or opt to live off-campus.
Cabrini apartment complex is so perplexing. One minute I hear that CAC is usually reserved for seniors and the next I hear that juniors are living there and that most seniors move off-campus.
However, the most confusing rule I've heard is that you can only live in CAC for one year. So why waste that one year on your junior year if you aren't guaranteed to live there your senior year? Why get used to having a kitchen and being able to cook your own food for a year and then have it taken away the next?
The only way you can live in CAC for two years in a row is if you get a roommate who has not yet lived in the CAC. With that new roommate never living in CAC, it strengthens your chances of living in CAC for another year. But if you don't find someone who hasn't lived in CAC before, you have to live elsewhere?
West Residence Hall isn't as confusing, except for the fact that you can live in a room of four or in a room of six. What isn't fair is that in a room of six, there are two doubles and two singles. Why should two people get their own rooms while the other roommates are living in doubles?
Housing on-campus is great for me considering the fact that it is so close to all the facilities, such as the radio station or newsroom, and I can get there fast. This may not be the case for the remaining two years I have left.
As a freshman, it was easy to decide where we wanted to live: New Res, hands down. No if, and or buts about it. my friends and I were going to live in New Res. I wish every year was as easy as freshman year.
This year, it seems like everyday I hear a new rule, or a rumor about a rule, about the housing for juniors and seniors on-campus. Juniors and seniors, who choose to live on-campus, can live in either the Cabrini apartment complex, West Residence Hall or one of the seven houses on-campus or opt to live off-campus.
Cabrini apartment complex is so perplexing. One minute I hear that CAC is usually reserved for seniors and the next I hear that juniors are living there and that most seniors move off-campus.
However, the most confusing rule I've heard is that you can only live in CAC for one year. So why waste that one year on your junior year if you aren't guaranteed to live there your senior year? Why get used to having a kitchen and being able to cook your own food for a year and then have it taken away the next?
The only way you can live in CAC for two years in a row is if you get a roommate who has not yet lived in the CAC. With that new roommate never living in CAC, it strengthens your chances of living in CAC for another year. But if you don't find someone who hasn't lived in CAC before, you have to live elsewhere?
West Residence Hall isn't as confusing, except for the fact that you can live in a room of four or in a room of six. What isn't fair is that in a room of six, there are two doubles and two singles. Why should two people get their own rooms while the other roommates are living in doubles?
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