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year, said Shaun Shaikh, Hotard
hall council president.
“What we’ve been told is
(that the University) needs room
for all the faculty they are hir
ing,” Main said. “They just
passed out letters and didn’t tell
us anything except that we had
to find other housing.”
This news comes just a week
after the University announced
that Cain Hall would be turned
into offices 14 days before on-
campus residents have to make
their next housing decision for
next year. Main said.
March 1 is “Decision 2004,”
the day on-campus residents
decide whether they will be
staying on campus or moving
off campus and where they
would like to reside, said sopho
more journalism major Emily
Allen, director of public rela
tions for the Residence Hall
Association.
“I’m an electrical engineer
ing major and my dorm (Hotard)
is right by Blocker and Zachry,”
Shaikh said. “1 don’t really want
to move.”
Hotard residents are put in a
bad place by not having much
time to decide where to live.
Main said.
“We are not very happy,” said
Main, who has lived in Hotard for
two years. “There were a lot of us
planning on living here next year.”
If the Hotard residents would
like to stay on campus, they are
being given priority in picking
their residence halls, Sasse said.
“We are giving them a dis
count for corridor halls,” Sasse
said. "They will pay the Hotard
rate, which will save them about
$300. We are trying to help them
out a little bit.”
Marshall said he sees the cam
pus as becoming more sterile
with the closing of Hotard, a
dorm deeply rooted in tradition.
“I do truly believe it’s impor
tant to preserve long standing
traditions on campus,” Marshall
said. “1 am afraid that with
newer donns this doesn’t exist.
This sense of pride is gone.”
Not many answers have been
given to the residents and no one
asked them what they thought.
Main said.
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Hotard Hall is known for pro
grams such as Hotard from Hell,
an annual haunted house used to
collect canned goods for local
food pantries, Marshall said.
“Hotard Hall is active in giv
ing back,” Marshall said. “If that
kind of thing leaves campus,
what will be the reason to live
on campus?”
Gates is holding
Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in
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