Record number of dorm residents at UWS
10/2/2009
By Lucy Roberts
Staff Writer
If you live in the dorms, you’ve helped break a record: UW-Superior’s dorms are filled to the maximum this semester, which also makes them the fullest they have ever been in the history of the university.
According to Residence Life, there are approximately 100 more students living in the dorms than were living there last year. The growth can be attributed not only to an influx of freshmen students, but also the amount of returning residents as well.
“This year we’re doing a new deal…if you’ve gone to UWS for 4 or more semesters you get 20% off your housing expenses. I think that’s lured a couple people into staying on campus,” says Mike White, an office assistant in the ResLife office. Many of you may also know White as the assistant hall manager for Curran McNiell Ostrander.
White says that they had to put people into overflow housing at beginning of September, but after ResLife determined how many people did not show up they were able to place students in their own rooms or with roommates. There are no empty rooms at all, which White says is definitely a good thing.
“It’s a great experience living on campus; learning cooperative living and living in a community full of your own peers,” he comments. “There are definitely a lot of life skills that are taught living in the residence halls.”
According to Residence Life, there are approximately 100 more students living in the dorms than were living there last year. The growth can be attributed not only to an influx of freshmen students, but also the amount of returning residents as well.
“This year we’re doing a new deal…if you’ve gone to UWS for 4 or more semesters you get 20% off your housing expenses. I think that’s lured a couple people into staying on campus,” says Mike White, an office assistant in the ResLife office. Many of you may also know White as the assistant hall manager for Curran McNiell Ostrander.
White says that they had to put people into overflow housing at beginning of September, but after ResLife determined how many people did not show up they were able to place students in their own rooms or with roommates. There are no empty rooms at all, which White says is definitely a good thing.
“It’s a great experience living on campus; learning cooperative living and living in a community full of your own peers,” he comments. “There are definitely a lot of life skills that are taught living in the residence halls.”