OSC Faces Serious Housing Shortage
(Editor’s note: This is the
second and last of the housing sur
veys held by Anne Craven, 1944-45
editor of the Emerald, now work
ing' for the United Press in Port
land.)
By ANNE CRAVEN
United Press Staff Correspondent
PORTLAND, Oct. 19—(UP) —
Oregon State college’s housing
problem, enhanced by the unex
pected end of the Pacific war, has
sent college officials hunting for
such temporary buildings as quon
set huts or units from Camp
Adair.
So far it has been impossible to
procur any such temporary hous
ing.
Registration at Oregon State
now stands at 3029. Besides the
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regular dormitories, 93 girls are
bunking in the memorial union!
building, occupying quarters for-1
merly used as a dining hall and
office space and seriously hamper
ing the necessary activity program
of the students, according to A. L.
Strand, president.
Frats in Use
In addition, 12 men’s fraternity
houses have been leased as college
dormitory annexes for women and
five fraternities are being operated
by the college as boarding houses
for men. It is not anticipated that
any of these houses will be avail
able for women after this year.
Conservative estimates set the
1946-47 enrollment at 5000, with
another 1000 or more the follow
ing year. In addition, from 300 to
500 veterans are expected to apply
for enrollment winter term this
year, to add to the already grow
ing number of veterans on the
campus.
To meet the need of married
veterans, state system officials are
trying to get 50 units from Rich
land, Wash., but negotiations have j
not been completed yet because of i
federal red tape involved.
* New Dorm
And a dormitory costing $810,
000 to house 300 women has been
planned “as soon as possible” for
the Oregon State campus.
As in Eugene, city living space
is now impossible to obtain. In
1940 more than 2000 students
found living accommodations in
boarding houses and private homes
in Corvallis. This year only 758
Oregon State students have been
able to find such accommodations.
At LaGrande, home of the
Eastern Oregon College of Educa
tion, fall term registration was 289
students. The girls were assigned
three to a room instead of the
normal two because 114 women
students instead of the dorm quota
of 76 needed living quarters.
Using Hotel
And 65 girls of the U.S. cadet
nurse program have been put in
two floors of the Sacajawea hotel.
Although so far all men have
been able to find private boarding
houses, an increase in veterans is
expected. Here, too, the state
system hopes to acquire federal
housing units temporarily to take
care of married veterans. They are
negotiating for 24 units from a
war workers, housing project, dis
continued at the end of the war,
but now revived. The buildings
have been promised to the college.
. The college hopes to have an
addition to the girls’ dormitory,
housing about 60. ready for use by
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the beginning of fall term, 1946,
and it is hoped that a men's dorm
itory can be built within a year or
two from that time. These, as well
as the dormitories at the Univer
sity of Oregon and Oregon State
college, will be built under a self
financed plan on bond issues paid
back over a large number of years
by dormitory profits.
Bright Spot
Only bright spot in the pictures
is at the Oregon College of Edu
cation in Monmouth where there
is room for 30 additional students
in the women's dormitory and 20
in the men's.
Although university and college
personnel officials are doing all
they can to return the students to
normal living quarters, the prob
lem cannot be met fully by indi
vicfual colleges or even the state,
they said,
Only quick action on the part of
the federal government was be
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lieved to be the answer, possibly
in the form of a bill making acqui
sition of temporary housing such
as former federal housing projects
easier and quicker to obtain.
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