All first-year students who reapplied for University housing were winners yesterday when they received lottery numbers that guaranteed each of them a spot in a traditional University residence hall.
"Every (current) freshman who applied will be able to go to traditional housing," said Alan Levy, director of Housing public affairs.
Elevating incoming class enrollment rates prevented the University from guaranteeing traditional housing - meal-serving residence halls generally located on campus - to all current first-year students for the 1998-99 school year. But the University did guarantee all perspective students traditional housing.
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| Mallory S.E. Floyd/Daily LSA first-year student Peter Bruno looks for his name yesterday on the Housing lottery list. Every first-year student who
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Regarding crowding, Levy said Housing is working to cut the number of overflow triples in half, taking the total from more than 300 to 150.
A pool of 1,110 female and 1,075 male first-year and categorical exception applicants applied for housing in the University's traditional residence halls.
Categorical exception applicants are students with special housing needs.
The University had previously set a "ceiling" number of how many students from this pool the residence halls could house, which was set at 1,375 female and 1,370 male applicants.
If the number of students interested in traditional housing had exceeded the ceiling number, then some students would have had to look into non-traditional University or off-campus housing.
LSA sophomore Stacey Williamson, who received the last lottery number in the female pool, said she is not discouraged by her low number.
"I'm not even sure if I want to have it or not," Williamson said, adding that she must decide by today if she will opt for off-campus housing.
Levy said that this week begins the first of three phases in the housing re-application process for this pool of students. Applicants who choose to live in their current room can renew their leases - regardless of the number they received in the Housing lottery.
"Their lottery number doesn't matter (regarding) whether they're allowed to stay in their current room," Levy said.
LSA first-year student Dan Propson said that although he was initially concerned about getting housing, his worries have dissipated since the lottery drawing.
"Originally, it was a bit of a concern because (we) weren't sure if sophomores were guaranteed housing," Propson said.
Because his roommate is a Shipman Scholar, Propson said he received the fourth lottery pick and his roommate received the third spot.
"It guaranteed us high spots in the lottery, or something like that," Propson said, adding that he and his roommate will try to find a larger room in West Quad Residence Hall.
According to the reapplication material, Shipman Scholars and Bentley Scholars can choose a room in any hall, just as the residents in that hall can.
The second priority selection is scheduled to begin a few days after students will return from spring break. During this period, applicants who want to live in their current residence halls can select a room in their hall.
Housing applicants who want to live in traditional residence halls other than their current hall can select a room during the third priority selection, which is scheduled for the middle of March.
"They will all be able to return to a traditional hall," Levy said.
re-applied for housing was guaranteed a spot in a traditional residence hall next year.
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