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July 15, 2004 Purdue meets student on-campus housing demandWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue has met the increased university housing demand for the upcoming fall semester by securing additional space for incoming freshman and transfer students who applied for on-campus housing after the university's March 1 deadline. Housing contracts are being sent to 270 freshmen and 96 transfer students who were on a waiting list, said Ernie Poland, executive director of University Residences. Approximately 11,500 students will be living in on-campus housing this year. "We have created supplemental housing at Purdue Village and Young Hall that will meet the needs of more than 330 of these students," Poland said. "In addition, we will be creating temporary housing in several locations, including McCutcheon, Harrison and Earhart halls and rooms at the Purdue Memorial Union Hotel." Temporary housing will be used to accommodate students for a period of up to three weeks until they can move into regular residence space created by admitted students who do not enroll at the beginning of fall classes, Poland said. Students assigned to supplemental space may stay in that space for the full school year. Young Hall has been a graduate residence hall for many years and was being taken out of service for conversion to office space. "We may need to use space in Young Hall for two years," Poland said. "Renovations in Cary Quad that will reduce bed space there will not be complete until 2006." Poland said freshmen are being allowed to select their preference of supplemental housing choices. They also will have their choice of the full range of normal meal plans, he said. "All of the parents and students we talked with on the phone were exceptionally relieved to hear that we have resolved this," Poland said. "We will staff Young and Purdue Village Apartments with the normal ratio of resident assistants to students and will work actively to operate normal student programming." Typically, 87 percent of incoming freshmen live in residence halls, although, unlike many universities, Purdue does not require freshmen to live on campus. This fall, University Residences will operate 13 residence halls and two apartment communities. Writer: Reni Winter, (765) 496-3133, rwinter@purdue.edu Source: Ernie Poland, (765) 494-1000, efpoland@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu Related Web site:
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