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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1976)
Housing Dormitories have more ^ students than living space By VANESSA WALLACE Of the Emerald Three hundred students who were guaranteed housing by the University Housing Office, went homeless at the beginning of this term. With a little time and a few arrange ments, the housing office was able to house ail 300 students. The housing office accepted applica tions and guaranteed rooms to the full amount the housing could hold plus an extra 300 students. Dick Romm, assis tant director of University Housing Of fice, said “each year there are approxi mately 300 student no-shows,” (stu dents who register for dorm rooms and don't show and don’t notify the housing office.) ^ Trying to cut down on no-show stu dents, the University sent out letters on Sept. 8 asking for room reservation ver _ ifications. Some verifications were sent back to the University. “This helped us some,” said Dick Romm, “But we still anticipated 300 no-shows. " A room shortage developed when the no-shows showed up. Temporary or “emergency” rooms were filled, offices were renovated into bedrooms and male dorms converted to co-ed floors. There are usually more male students living in the dorms than female. But a greater need for female housing oc cured this year—another surprise to the housing office. Dorms for men were changed to women residence. Where Douglas Hail in Walton Complex was formerly a dorm for men, it is now totally female dominated. Even students who were given rooms had complaints. Romm explained that “shortage of help and too many students wanting to live in Carson Hall” ac counted for the slow moving lines during room assignment. Kathy Akiyama, a sophomore trans fering from Antioch College in Ohio, stood in line "at least three hours. All of my luggage was outside in my car with my mother, who had to wait three hours too!” explained Akiyama. Julie Ford and Julie Pierce, both trans fers from Lewis and Clark College also stood in line for rooms at Carson Hall. Their chief complaint was being placed in a triple room. Three beds line the wall, a night light hanging over each bed. Is this the home of the three bears? No, this is a triple room at Carson Hall. Payment for a triple is that of a double because the housing office feels a triple offers the same as a double occupant room. Each student has a bed, closet, lamp and share a water basin. Some students though are not satisfied with the triple bedroom. “It doesn’t seem fair to pay for a room with three people in it when you pay the same price for two people,” says Ford. Pierce added that “It’s so much harder trying to get three personalities compat ible than two.” Though the housing office has most of the students housed, some students haven’t gotten what they planned on get ting. Triple room residents have priority in being first in line for an opening in a multiple room. Two students still live in temporary housing — in a portion of the housing office on the first floor of Carson Hall. Women's co-ops plagued by shortage of members By KEVIN RASMUSEN Of the Emerald With a few women still in temporary living quarters at the University, women's co-op group housing in Eugene is still suffering from a dismal absence of patronage. A forlorn sign drawn on a sheet of newsprint paper hangs inside the front window of a big olive-green house at the comer of 15th Avenue and Alder Street. The sign reads, "Co-op housing availa ble for women;" the big house is Univer sity House, a women's co-op with capa city for 44 persons, where currently there are 21 vacancies. Parr Tower, the corporate sister of University House, is located at 1648 Alder St. There the limit is 36 women, and one vacancy is available. Bill Lemons, membership chairman of Philadelphia House, indicated that no vacancies exist at that men's coop. The membership problem this year has therefore only affected the women's co-op. “Membership in the co-op has never been this low,” said B. Jo Ashwill, head resident at University House. She ex plained that the girls who are in the co-op are totally responsible for pubhazing it and advertising vacancies. Often this is accomplished merely by word of mouth. But last year the word just didn’t get out soon enough. So now the women’s co-op is short on residents. Because the houses are es sentially unaffiliated with the University, and therefore not subsidized, the price for living in a co-op Is bound to go up unless some additional members are recruited to help share the cost. At $925 for the school year, the price tag is nearly $400 less than multiple room dormitory housing and $725 less than a multiple room at University Inn. But this amount is based on a fully occupied house. The cost covers food, repairs, and mortgage payments. Although it is a unique experience, co op living parallels apartment living more than living in a dormitory or sorority. But Rosalie Me Mena min, who now lives at Parr Tower, said she felt "apprehen sive" about moving into a co-op last year. She had been living in an apart ment, and she realized the co-op would involved a somewhat different lifestyle. Nevertheless, the women at the co-op generally enjoy the lifestyle. Ashwill de scribed life in a co-op as “A learning experience besides being a living ex perience." Diana Rodgers lives at Uni versity House, and she enjoys the home-type environment which a dormit ory cannot duplicate. They only wish that more women knew about it. Now the members of the women's co-op are slowly beginning to publicize their form of housing. Residents of Uni versity House had an open house Saturday. They are planning a bake sale, not only for publicity purposes, but for raising some much-needed cash if additional members are not found. 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