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...year. Scared by the imminent end of the baby boom, cost-conscious colleges, like airlines overbooking, vastly overaccepted students last spring in an effort to insure enough. When fewer freshmen than usual decided to switch schools at the last minute-coupled with an unexpected back-to-campus movement by upperclassmen newly eager for the convenience of dorms-colleges wound up with too many bodies and too few bunks. Some results: barracks-style living, in which students are forced to double up or bed down in hastily converted storerooms or noisy antechambers...
Even as the dust settles from the controversy surrounding the implementation of Dean Fox's plan to house all freshmen in the Yard, student CHUL representatives said last week they foresee student access to Faculty budgetary data, the closing of the Freshman Union to upperclassmen, the new breakfast plan and pre-freshman year assignment of Houses as the major issues of this afternoon's and future meetings...
...offset economic pressure by over-enrollment." Although B.C. this fall had to temporarily house 94 freshmen in a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge. Maguire said the college was not over-enrolled. He said the students were placed in the hotel because of an unexpectedly low attrition rate among upperclassmen left a shortage of empty rooms on-campus to house all the freshmen...
...longer are some freshmen squeezed into small Quad doubles--those rooms are now singles for upperclassmen. Overflow sophomores from River Houses are no longer placed in Canaday Hall, which now only houses freshmen and is less crowded than in previous years, according to Ann B. Spence, assistant dean of the College...
College-wide, there has been no significant change in the number of students living on-campus, and in terms of overall numbers the College is no more crowded than last year, Spence said. In fact, Spence added, there are slightly fewer upperclassmen in the Houses this year than last year...