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1,000 Denied Housing
Kala Kachmar
Issue date: 3/29/07 Section: News
The UConn housing lottery displaced more than 1,000 upperclassmen and transfer students next year, sending these students scrambling to find off-campus housing.
Amy Jancewicz, a 6th-semester sociology major, will not be able to live on-campus her last year at UConn next year. Jancewicz, who has lived on campus since coming to UConn, had a number higher than the cutoff for those who will still get housing.
"I don't think it's fair that UConn doesn't have adequate housing to meet everyone's needs," Jancewicz said. "We're a state school. We have land, funding and resources at our disposal and it doesn't make sense that we don't have enough housing."
Lottery numbers 1 to 3,500 were randmly assigned to students last fall for the 2007-2008 year, according to Pam Schipani, associate director of Housing Services.
Students were notified in January that any students with a lottery number below about 2,500 would get housing, Schipani said. Those with the remaining numbers would be put on a waiting list and would be given housing in lottery number order if it became available because of students withdrawing from housing.
"Even if you don't get housing in January, you are put on a waiting list and still have a small chance of getting [housing]," Jancewicz said. "But you can rely on the fact that you could get housing again and not look off campus, or you could get off-campus housing and then get back on, so it's a lose-lose situation."
Since the lottery process began in 2001, between 800 and 2,900 students have been given a lottery number each year, Schipani said.
Schipani would not comment on why so many more students were on the waiting list.
The number of freshmen expected to attend the Storrs campus has only increased by 50 students in the past five years, Schipani said. Schipani would not say how many of those students lived on campus and how many commuted, but she did say 3,141 freshmen lived on campus last year, compared to 3,148 this year.
Amy Jancewicz, a 6th-semester sociology major, will not be able to live on-campus her last year at UConn next year. Jancewicz, who has lived on campus since coming to UConn, had a number higher than the cutoff for those who will still get housing.
"I don't think it's fair that UConn doesn't have adequate housing to meet everyone's needs," Jancewicz said. "We're a state school. We have land, funding and resources at our disposal and it doesn't make sense that we don't have enough housing."
Lottery numbers 1 to 3,500 were randmly assigned to students last fall for the 2007-2008 year, according to Pam Schipani, associate director of Housing Services.
Students were notified in January that any students with a lottery number below about 2,500 would get housing, Schipani said. Those with the remaining numbers would be put on a waiting list and would be given housing in lottery number order if it became available because of students withdrawing from housing.
"Even if you don't get housing in January, you are put on a waiting list and still have a small chance of getting [housing]," Jancewicz said. "But you can rely on the fact that you could get housing again and not look off campus, or you could get off-campus housing and then get back on, so it's a lose-lose situation."
Since the lottery process began in 2001, between 800 and 2,900 students have been given a lottery number each year, Schipani said.
Schipani would not comment on why so many more students were on the waiting list.
The number of freshmen expected to attend the Storrs campus has only increased by 50 students in the past five years, Schipani said. Schipani would not say how many of those students lived on campus and how many commuted, but she did say 3,141 freshmen lived on campus last year, compared to 3,148 this year.
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Rachel
posted 3/30/07 @ 7:18 AM EST
Ok, as a UConn Alumnus, let me tell everyone reading this article and who plans to write future articles about this same topic...this is nothing new and you should just expect it. (Continued…)
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