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Stadium Park greets wait-listed frosh
by Jessie Higgins | News reporter
Freshman Charlie Taylor is beginning his education at the University a little differently than he expected when he was deciding what college to attend last winter.
"I came here because I wanted the big-school atmosphere," Taylor said.
But Taylor, with more than 400 other freshmen who did not receive rooms in the University residence halls this fall, will not be living on-campus this year.
On Thursday and Friday, hundreds of freshmen who were turned away from the residence halls because of a surge in enrollment arrived at their new apartments - on the other side of the river.
University officials prepped students and parents with the new off-campus living situation during IntroDUCKtion sessions this summer; many students and parents were concerned about commuting to and from campus.
"I wish (my son) could step out his door and be on campus and be meeting his friends," Ellen Taylor, Charlie Taylor's mother, said. "This is really nice, but I wish he were a junior and not a freshman."
Stadium Park Apartments complex director Michael Smith agreed that most students were mainly concerned with transportation to campus.
"Mostly students have been asking about how they are going to get to campus - the bus schedule," said Sam Burke, a Stadium Park community assistant, which is the equivalent to a resident assistant in the University residence halls.
Smith said that although many parents raised concerns with the Stadium Park living situation last spring, he feels many of those concerns have been relieved now that their students are settled in.
"I came here because I wanted the big-school atmosphere," Taylor said.
The housing back-log
| Roughly 800 students were wait-listed for space in the University residence halls last spring, after record-high freshman enrollment overwhelmed University housing. To help accommodate some of the freshmen, the University contracted with Stadium Park Apartments and reserved 400 rooms for the wait-listed students. To read past stories on the increased freshman enrollment, go to www.dailyemerald.com and search "freshman enrollment." |
On Thursday and Friday, hundreds of freshmen who were turned away from the residence halls because of a surge in enrollment arrived at their new apartments - on the other side of the river.
University officials prepped students and parents with the new off-campus living situation during IntroDUCKtion sessions this summer; many students and parents were concerned about commuting to and from campus.
"I wish (my son) could step out his door and be on campus and be meeting his friends," Ellen Taylor, Charlie Taylor's mother, said. "This is really nice, but I wish he were a junior and not a freshman."
Stadium Park Apartments complex director Michael Smith agreed that most students were mainly concerned with transportation to campus.
"Mostly students have been asking about how they are going to get to campus - the bus schedule," said Sam Burke, a Stadium Park community assistant, which is the equivalent to a resident assistant in the University residence halls.
Smith said that although many parents raised concerns with the Stadium Park living situation last spring, he feels many of those concerns have been relieved now that their students are settled in.
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tim
posted 9/29/08 @ 9:16 AM PST
It's good to see it talked up in the campus paper like this so that those freshman in stadium park feel more included.
Annoyed
posted 9/29/08 @ 7:14 PM PST
I'm appalled by the parent who's appalled her son Charlie got denied dorm space. He applied after March 31st...what responsible high school senior applies for his college AFTER MARCH 31ST?! It should be a first come, first served basis. (Continued…)
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