Spring Break
ResLife may require $300 housing deposit
Lidia Ryan
Issue date: 11/20/08 Section: News
Students entered in the lottery will find out if they got housing on Feb. 15. The lottery's cut-off number will be determined by how many students apply for housing, Schipani said. This year, 1,731 seniors lived on campus.
Lisa Spirito, a 5th-semester psychology major, received number one in the housing lottery. She is guaranteed housing anyway because she is studying abroad next semester, and she plans on taking advantage of it. Spirito hopes to live in Hilltop or Charter Oak Apartments.
"I thought it was funny when I got number one," she said. "I didn't even realize it was a good thing until my friends told me they were in the thousands. Things like that never happen to me."
For students who lose out in the lottery, the office of Off-Campus Student Services, which opened two years ago, is available to help students transitioning to living off campus.
Jim Hintz, the director of off-campus student services, said the department opened because the university felt there was not enough support for students who were moving off campus.
The department creates resources for students to get information on off-campus housing. Hintz said the biggest resources are the office's Web site and the housing fair, where property managers set up information tables.
"We try to point students in the right direction," Hintz said.
Lisa Spirito, a 5th-semester psychology major, received number one in the housing lottery. She is guaranteed housing anyway because she is studying abroad next semester, and she plans on taking advantage of it. Spirito hopes to live in Hilltop or Charter Oak Apartments.
"I thought it was funny when I got number one," she said. "I didn't even realize it was a good thing until my friends told me they were in the thousands. Things like that never happen to me."
For students who lose out in the lottery, the office of Off-Campus Student Services, which opened two years ago, is available to help students transitioning to living off campus.
Jim Hintz, the director of off-campus student services, said the department opened because the university felt there was not enough support for students who were moving off campus.
The department creates resources for students to get information on off-campus housing. Hintz said the biggest resources are the office's Web site and the housing fair, where property managers set up information tables.
"We try to point students in the right direction," Hintz said.
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