University of Virginia Library

Housing Moves Third
Student From Triples

By CHIP LAND

First-year students housed in
triple rooms are being given the
opportunity to move into
double rooms as they become
available.

According to the University
Housing Division about
one-third of the students given
the opportunity to move,
however, have decided to
remain in triples.

As of last week double
accommodations have been
offered to 50 students of
whom 16 have decided to
remain in triples. When asked
why he didn't move, one of
them, first-year Engineering
student, Bob Hood, said, "The
main reason was I didn't want
to have to resettle and make
new friends; also I heard that
there was a possibility of my
being moved to the old dorms
and I didn't want that!"

Another student who did not
move, first-year woman Terry
Canfield, said that she
remained in a triple because, "I
like it, we have plenty of room
and I like my roommates."

Students were placed in
upperclass dormitories and
triples due to the admissions
overrun this fall. The Housing
Division, which had planned
for 2,000 first-year students,
then converted 84 double
rooms to triples and placed 71
first-year students in upperclass
dorms.

The Housing Division first
offered alternate space to the
first-year students in upperclass
dorms in order to accommodate
an upperclass waiting list. Of
the 71 first-year students in the
upperclass dorms 34 elected to
move.

Students in the remaining 34
triples will be offered double
accommodations as they become
available but there is no
indication that it will be
possible to provide double
rooms for all first-year
students.