Associated Students University of Oregon
Record
May 1989
VOTE CLARK/WYCKOFF
paid for by students to elect Clark Wyckott
Upclose with Andy and Scott,
The Interview
On your marks...Get
set...Look for housing
By Sally Mathieson
It’s that time of the year again. Just when your
dorm room has become a home away form home or your
apartment is just the way you like it—time to pack up
all your earthly possessions and move. It’s a fact of life
that you move around a lot in college. Finding housing
that you can afford and lx? happy with is a process that
needs to start early.
Returning students have multiple options
Dorms attract some people because of their conven
ience and proximity to campus. Others choose to
venture into the real world of rent, grocery shopping
and bills. Between these two extremes are the many
cooperatives, Greek houses and quads that dot the
university campus neighborhood.
Christy Cutting of OfT-Campus Housing, lo
cated in Suite 5 of the EMU, has some tips for students
beginning their search for the ultimate in student
living. Cruising the various neighborhoods, reading
the Register Guard and The Oregon Daily Emerald,
and talking to friends, especially graduation seniors,
are all ways to get your foot in the door of a good place.
The off-campus bulletin board in the EMU has listings
of places that are available Christy recommends start
ing the search now. “It will probably be worse than last
year,” she says about the housing shortage that had
students combing the streets for any type of shelter
they could get. Waiting until the beginning of fall term
to look for a place is like studying for a final the hour
before you take it—it just doesn’t work.
Returning dorm residents must choose between
living in the same dorm or venturing into another hall
Returning sign-up is the time for students to stake
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