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Roughly speaking... Red is for freshmen, Blue is for sophomores, and Orange is for Juniors, Seniors, and Grad students

We received word from a source on the Student Senate, after a report by Vice President for Administration, Claude Rounds, at the Senate meeting today, that the housing selection process for school year ‘09-’10 has been announced (or at least the draft form of it).  Here are the basics of the plan:

• Warren, Nugent, Davison, Sharp, part of Quad, part of BARH, Colonie, Stacwyck, RAHP, as well as the apartments in Bray, Crockett, and Cary will house almost exclusively sophomores (though some spaces in these halls will be available to upperclass students depending on a variety of factors, including the Greek Life Commons Agreement).
• Upper-class students will choose from Blitman Commons, North Hall, E Complex, and Polytech Apartments.  Students currently living in these buildings will be able to squat their rooms.
• Those upper-class students who live in the sophomore-designated housing will be allowed to enter into an Inter-Commons Lottery, allowing them to take the unsquatted rooms in Blitman, North, E, and Polytech.
• Sophomores will then participate in a lottery for the designated buildings.
• Any remaining students who wish to live on campus can then enter an all-campus lottery for any remaining spaces.

The administration does not expect that many students will be forced off of campus, since this allows beds for upper-class students in an amount equal to that of the current upperclass on-campus population.

According to our source at the Senate meeting, Tom Tarantelli, the Acting Dean of Residence Life, said that the Greeks are the “wildcard” in this process.  The Greek Life Commons Agreements (which will be signed or not by each house individually) have the potential to take a very large numbers of sophomores away from residence halls.  If several houses sign, it may be possible that there will be open rooms in some of the sophomore-designated buildings for upper-class students.  However, they will not be able to squat those rooms; they will simply be opened on a case by case basis or put into the all-campus lottery.

We’ll post more information if and when we receive it.

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