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Thursday . Sept. 2$, 1983
Dorms too crowded at many universities
i CPS i — Barb Zicari, a history major at
Marquette University, found herself stuck into a
rented hotel room this fall, instead of moving
into a university dorm as she'd expected
To Zicari, it's great In fact, "I d never go
back to the dorms if I didn't have to Here, you
don't have to worry about doing your towels or
linens, and a maid comes in every day and
cleans the place up "
But to Marquette officials, it’s a terrible
situation Besides placing Zicari and 29 other
women students in the Continental Hotel,
they've had lo rent additional floors of a nearby
YMCA and convert dorm lobbies into tern
poi ary living quarters for their new students
The cost is significant. The damage to a
school's reputation as a desirable, comfortable
place to study can be bigger
But a number of schools across the country
are sustaining such damage, as dorm officials
are being surprised by the number of students
who have shown up asking to move into dorms
in recent weeks
Besides Marquette. Middle Tennessee State.
Western Michigan. Iowa State, Connecticut,
West Liberty State, Notre Dame and Oklahoma,
among others, unexpectedly have run out of
dorm space
"Most of the Big Ten schools are pretty much
at capacity or in need of special housing for
their overflow," said Gary North, housing
director at the University of Illinois and past
president of the Association of College and
University Housing Officers
And most of the larger state universities are
in similar circumstances." he added "Little
and private schools may be experiencing a
surplus of dorm space, but even some of them
are having overflows this year ”
It wasn't supposed to be like this Virtually all
long term predictions of enrollments in the
19H0s showed the college population dropping off
precipitously Many campus officials shied
away from building new dorms, fearful they'd
be left vacant after the decline scheduled to
start in fall, 1981, and to accelerate after that
Some schools even closed existing dorms over
the last several years at the first hints of
enrollment decline
But the decline, despite a decrease in the
number of 18-to-24year-olds in the general
population, is on hold The college population,
which peaked at 12 4 million last year, is ex
pected to stay at or near that level throughout
the decade, the National Center for Education
Statistics now predicts
Moreover, the continually-rising price of off-
campus housing around the country has con
vinced more students to choose dorms over
apartments The result: an unanticipated in
crease in the number of dorm residents this fall
"We keep waiting for things to level off like
they're supposed to. but it's not happening."
said Marquette spokesman Dave Foran
Western Michigan closed three dorms over
the last few years, but has had to re-open two of
its Valley II projects to absorb this fall's in
crease in dorm requests
Oklahoma, despite an overall enrollment
decline of 400. also has re-opened a dorm it shut
down last year, and has made some double
rooms in existing rooms into triples
West Liberty State College in West Virginia is
stuffing three students in rooms designed for
two, and moving people into resident adviser's
rooms, normally reserved as singles for RAs
Iowa State currently has 300 students tern
porarily living in offices, recreation halls and
meeting rooms at the Student Union At one
facility, 19 men have to share two showers
Over 100 ISU students couldn’t even get
temporary housing
Dorms are more crowded where rates are
low "At schools were the rates have gone up.
the increases (in occupancy) have been much
more modest this year," said Illinois' North.
“Nationally, I'd say (dorm) rates are up
about 3 to 7 percent," said Annette Smith,
current ACUHO director and housing official at
West Virginia Last year’s housing costs went
up 11 tol2percent
"I think many schools have finally caught up"
with skyrocketing energy costs suffered in the
seventies, she said "We re hoping to hold our
rates steady for at least the next year ”
Consequently, "it's definitely a better bargain
to live on campus again." North said "And it's
also much more convenient That's why your
schools are seeing such good occupancy rates ''
Not all schools have them “It’s a very mixed,
mixed-up picture this year.” Smith said
"Things are very quiet" in West Virginia's
dorms, she said, though, "that's only becauewe :
changed our entrance requirements from
(admitting) all high school graduates to
requiring them to have a C average "
Kansas State, which had an overflow last
year, has 260 extra dorm spaces this fall
Western Illinois is closing two dorms because of
rising costs and declining numbers of housing
applications
Housing officials, fooled more than once by
long-term predictions, are unwilling to say if
and when dorm space at most schools will open
"It all depends on what happens to the inflation
rate, and what the electric and gas companies
do," Smith said."If we have to raise rates, or if
enrollments begin to drop, it could all turn
around "
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Campus inflation continues to rise
ICPS) — "People pay the tuition
because they feel it’s worth it,” said
Suzanne Horrne, an engineering
major at the Massachusetts In
slitute ol Technology
"People pay because they're
slightly weird.” said Barry Surman.
editor ol MIT's student paper
Weird or not, MIT students will
pay $900 more in tuition than last
year's $8700. a 10 3 percent hike
When books, fees and other costs are
added, Horrne and the others will
spend a total of $14,500, making MIT
the most expensive school in
America, according to the College
Scholarship Service's annual sur
vey.
But all the colleges are more
expensive this year, as campus
inflation remains frighteningly high
despite the taming of inflation
elsewhere in the economy
For example, while the nation's
inflation rate over the last year has
varied from 2 6 percent to 4 8 per
cent (depending on which federal
agency is counting), four year
public college costs have soared 12
percent (to an average $47211. the
CSS said
Four year college costs are up It
percent, to an average $8440
Community and junior college
students will spend an average $34<X)
in 1983-84, an 8 percent increase
The increases, moreover, follow
even larger hikes last year In all,
1982-83 college costs were SO percent
higher on public campuses and 13
percent higher on private campuses
than 1981 82 costs, the CSS reported
last year
At the same time, the Consumer
Price Index rose by 7.7 percent The
1983 inflation rate is 3 2 percent so
far, according to U S Department of
Labor statistics released this month
It's worse at some schools than at
others Students at the University of
North Dakota, for example, are
suffering through a 27-percent in
crease this year While GM car
prices went up 2 percent, tuition at
the General Motors Institute in
Detroit went up 32 percent The hike
hit 53 percent at Mankato State
University in Minnesota
Because of deep budget cuts,
California community college
students will have to pay tuition for
the first time ever
Worse yet, many expect tuition
and fees will continue to rise faster
than the inflation rate
"Analysts see average college
costs outpacing inflation rates
through 1984," said Cathy Hen
derson, author of the American
Council on Education's “College
Costs: Recent Trends, Likely
Future "
She said colleges are just now
getting around to tuition hikes
needed from 1977-82, when inflation
pushed costs of running campuses
up almost 44 percent while tuition
increased by "only " 51 percent
Henderson theorizes that many
schools kept hikes low by stalling
maintenance and freezing faculty
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They can’t stall any longer, she
said "Now many colleges are
playing catch-up ball, adjusting
salaries and renovating buildings,
forcing a boost in the cost of higher
education "
Yet budget cuts and unem
ployment mean schools can't turn to
the other two traditional sources of
fundraising governments and
alumni
"We re still trying to catch up,"
said Jack Currie, MIT's finance
director
Alumni "gifts and endowment
revenues (the money earned on the
school's investments! have not kept
up" enough to help MIT pay for its
operating expenses, which rose 8
percent last year, he said
To avoid selling some of those
investments. MIT turned to its third
traditional source of money:
students.
MIT students, at least, seem to
have accepted the hike, which
follows a 17.4 percent increase last
year
Each spring, the students —
notorious for pranks like placing a
cow on a building rooftop and
making a huge balloon saying
"MIT" inflate miraculously from
the turf during last year's Harvard-
Yale game — organize an "annual
spontaneous tuition riot "
Fewer than 100 stdents showed up
at last spring’s "riot," however
"People complain about the
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justify the costs ”
"When I went here during the
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Currie added "The same is true
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Almost 75 percent of the student
body receives some form of finan
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