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here’s no
place like home! There’s
no place like home!...
Dorothy was a smart
chic. She knew a good
thing when she saw it.
There IS no place like
home. But the question is:
Where is home?
For students here at
Texas A&M, home can
range from a shoe-box
size dorm room to a
Victorian-style fraternity
house, from a 12 feet by
50 feet mobile home to a
two-bedroom apartment.
£
large
percentage of the student
body lives right in the
heart of Texas A&M: on
campus. With room for
close to 10,000 students,
the on-campus housing
system offers residents a
variety of options.
However, with the
closing of the three civilian
women’s dorms in the
Corps area, 600 fewer
spaces will be available for
the Fall 1987 semester.
Also, the Housing Office
has, at this time, received
more freshman housing
applications than ever
before, according to John
White of the Housing
Office. These two facts
could result in housing
problems.
But White says he
thinks more positions will
be open for the Fall 1987
semester as a result of the
Housing Office’s new
policy requiring students
to sign a nine-month, two-
semester lease. In the
past, students were only
required to apply for
housing for one semester
at a time.
There are 37 residence
halls on campus, 28 of
which are filled with
civilian students and nine
dorms for members of the
Corps of Cadets. All
cadets are guaranteed
housing as long as they
remain in the Corps.
Any student who has
already lived in a
residence hall for one
semester is also
guaranteed housing as
long as he wishes.
Newcomers to the
University do not all
receive on-campus
housing assignments.
They must send in a $200
housing deposit and an
application for on-campus
housing.
Freshman housing
applications are then
placed in a lottery, where
each is assigned a
number. Based on this
randomized system,
freshmen are offered on-
campus housing.
Returning and transfer
students apply at the
same time as freshmen,
but their applications are
handled separately from
the lottery. Instead, such
on waiting lists according
to the date their housing
application and $200
deposit are received in the
Housing Office.
White says that each
fall approximately 4800
people apply for on-
campus housing, 3800 of
whom are freshmen.
Based on past semesters,
he said that only 3200 •
places open up after
spring housing signups.
Available housing
space is assigned
according to the
following: 80 percent to
freshmen, 10 percent to
returning students and 10
percent to transfer
students.
Prices for dorms range
from $332 a semester for
ramp-style halls to $825 a
semester for the
Commons and the
modular-style halls.
^-Cvlthough
A&M boasts such a large
on-campus housing
system, nearly two-thirds
of the student body
commutes to school each
day from their home-
ThreeA&M students and one West Texas State University graduate
share the spacious home pictured above. Upper left: Lisa Jones, a third
year vet student, and Lisa Guide, the WTSU graduate, play with their
new puppies on their front porch swing. Bottom left: The four-bedroom
house, which the women rent, is located about 20 miles out of town on
30 acres of wooded land.