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Rooms tight, freshmen coping JACKIE FREESE EDITORIN CHIEF
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Rebecca Clark sits at her desk in Xavier Hall scanning the room with her eyes. To her right are two bunk beds, across the room is a lofted bed with a desk under it, and to her left are two closets. Between the closets is a large dresser for her third roommate to put clothes in, since the room was originally meant to be a double. j3ut this does not bother Clark. ~~_Ak. "It's not that bad," Clark sa~ is a sophomore transfer studerilJrt>lh ~ Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. "Three closets would be easier. but ifs not a big problem." Clark is hardly alone with having to live with three people in a double room. Almost all the rooms in Woodcrest, Xavier and New Residence Halls have one more per- Increase in residents prove to be positive experience for most students. son thafflsually should because of last. Apartment Complex or the building of "We have housed a total of 380 a brand new residence hall. Residence additional resident students. Accordin&to the Residence Life office, the college has 117 more RSidents
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said. ~The . that oflast }ears incoming class."' The surge of resident srudents has caused Residence Life to turn the common areas at the end of every wing in New Residence Hall into triple rooms. The houses, with the exception of Houses One and Three, also have upper-class students living in the common areas. • ..With all the resident students on campus, there have been rumors of a possible addition to the Cabrini
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where it will be built. which classes 1l will be for, or how many students it will house have been determined." While many students thought living with one more person than they were supposed to would be a problem, a surprising number are happy with the results. "It is really not as bad as I thought it was going to be," freshman Bill
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Campus blackout ~causes frustration ANTONIO MASO'\E
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On Monday Aug 25, at approximately IO p.m., Residential Boulevard's houses four through seven lost power due to an electrical overload. According to the assistant director of resident life Angie Hodgeman, the blackout was due to an over loaded circuit breaker that was responsible for the power of the four houses. The power was out for nearly two hours. ~ "I was in a friend's room on the opposite side of the house. I could barely make it down the hall to my room," junior marketing maj°l) Thomas Schneiders said. KEU.YFINLAN/NEWSEDITOR Immediately following the Residents of house six congregate outside during the outage on August 25. 2003. loss of power, students scurried got the attention of patrolling major Julian Smoger, the resifrom their dark houser,, and public safety officers and the dent assistant of house five, said, began to gather on the waT"kway resident assistants on duty. "Everyone handled themselves and the front lawn of house six. Senioo communications pretty well." The gathering groups of students
Two days later, on Wednesday, Aug 27, at approximately 9 p.m. the power went out again. This time the problem was fixed in close to 30 minutes. The fun and celebration expressed on the faces of the students during the first power outage turned to looks of anger and frustration the second time around. On Wednesday night an announcement was posted throughout the houses that the problem was going to be fixed on ThuRday between 1 la.m. and 2 p.mpiring this time students were asked to turn of all large appliances, so that when the power was turned back on there would not be a surge. Michelle Ward, junior psychology and social work major, who was in the dark both Monday and Wednesday night. said, " We are all glad the electrical problem has been solved. Hopefully now we can put the flashlights away."
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