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Olga Straight ilett) and Steve Traylor voiced their opinions about a rent Increase at a hearing last week In the EMU.
School housing rent to go up soon
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Students hx mg in t University housing will Iw paving more
for rent beginning Sept 1 The ini reased runts are because
of routine maintenance i oats, supporting a new family hous
ing site at JHth Avenue and Agate Street, and a controver
sial $.'100,1100 administrative fee lieing assessed hy the Uni
versity
Rents at the Westmoreland housing txjmplex will increase
$25 per month, rents at the Amazon i omplex will rise $20
per month and Knst Campus rents will increase as much as
$40 per month
Rents for resident halls will increase for multiple rooms
from S I t30 |>er year to $3,530. and single room rates will
go from $4.10t to $4.435
1 lowever, the ini reaxe is no! silling well yx ith many ten
ants particularly those in family housing
Nam x Forrest. a member of the Amazon Tenant’s Coun
i il and com tiairwoman of the Family Housing Board, said
she believes students lix ing in 1 fniversity housing an* lieing
unfairly singled out to generate additional revenue lor the
University
We re (wing taxed twice because xxe live in housing,"
she said. "Our fees an* already going up because we're sin
dents. and our tuition is already going up Noxx. simply
by the far t we live in housing, we're Iwing asked to subsi
dize the University
Mn hard Fvster. I 'mversity Housing dirts lor. said. "I don't
like to charge mv residents more than I have to." but said
he understands xs its tile l Iniversity is assessing his depart
ment the $300,000 fee
Although the housing is entirely self-supporting and
ret eives no money from either tuition or taxes, il does rely
on tin* University to provide i ertain administrative serx ices
such as human resources administration, budgeting and
bookkeeping.
And as the l diversity fat es the groxx mg budget short
fall caused hy 1 Odd's Ballot Measure 5. it most look lo oth
er sources for revenue. Fvster said
"The tbs ision makers are faced xx ith a terrible dilemma."
he said "I have to assume that this xvas the least unpalat
able option of several unpalatable options "
Forrest doesn’t buy that argument
"If that's the limited scope of their thinking, then they
not'd to think harder." she said
"This would he well and good if we were some of the
richest students on tampus." she saitl. "As a matter of fatrt.
it's like a reverse sliding scale. Most of us are among the
poorest students on campus."
Todd Newman-Barnhart of the Westmoreland Tenant’s
Council and co-chairman of the Family Housing Board, said
the decision to charge the $300,000 fee "isn't made on any
sort of sound study."
"I don't know what tiasis it's made on." he said. "Nonethe
less. they're assessing it. and the more I think about it, the
more unfair it seems to me."
Newman-Barnhart said the University Budget Office t»uld
not provide him with specific costs for the support the Uni
versity provides, and he said he believes tin* $300,000 fig
ure is merely on "educated guess."
Forrest, a graduate student in International studies, echoed
that sentiment.
"When xve have actually pressed them for specifics (and
asked). 'How much do we cost?,’ they don't know," she said
"Most of their rationale so far has not been something they
tan show us on paper They’re asking us to totally trust them
on this, and I’m sorry. I don’t."
However. Dan Williams. University vice-president for
‘It's really distressful. Most of us
do not get help from home. We
live on student loans and are
supporting dependants.’
— Nancy Forrest,
Amazon Tenant's Council
administration, said the $300,000 "is a vurv legitimate
expense."
Williams said that, in the past, tin* University has not
charged the full < os! of serv ices it provides.
"Now that the University < onlinues to have this finan
cial crisis, it s been decided that we ought to recover some
ol the indiret t costs the University incurs" in providing
administrative support, Williams said.
Williams at knowledged that the $300,000 figure is not
based upon any clearly documented costs, but said. "I'm
sure the housing department enjoys more than $300,000
worth of benefits from the indirect services the institution
provides."
Williams said the University plans to study the actual
costs during the 1093-94 school year
"When we get a (dearer definition." he said, "my guess
is the amounts will lie larger. It doesn't necessarily mean
that we'll collect those"
Forrest said some housing administrators have told her
that several departments are being asked to do their share
in the wake of Measure 5 cutbacks and that accepting the
assessment is the housing department's "duty."
"It's like this patriotic thing,” she said. "They're saying
because we live in housing it’s our patriotic duty Hut it's
not our duty We're already paving more — we're students
"It would lx- like only taxing athletes, or only taxing peo
ple who take Spanish," she said.
Williams said he understands why some people are
unhappy with the increase.
"It lends itself to a lot of misunderstanding." Williams
said "When you have never done it before, and you start
doing it and it s reflected in people’s (rental ) rates, the
response is VVhat the hell is going on?' "
Kystur said he fears the increase will force some students
to leave the University.
"Many of these people are. in fact, living in poverty and
have come to the University as a means of pulling them
selves and their families out of poverty through education.”
he said
"At one point. they thought an education was within their
grasp, and they had a possible means of pulling themselves
out of poverty. Now. for at least some of our residents, they
don't see a way they an- going to he able to continue," Evster
said
Forrest said many students in family housing do not have
similar financial means as other students.
"It's really distressful." she said. "Most of us do not get
help from home. We live on student loans and are supporting
dependants."
Forrest also criticized the University for "(lacking away
from its mandate to provide low-income housing for stu
dent families."
Forrest said she's aware of one Amazon tenant who sub
lets her apartment and. with her five children, lives in a tent
during the summer. Forrest said the woman receives no
financial aid during the summer and cannot afford to pay
her rent.