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CABRINI COLLEGE'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Radnor, Pa.
www.theLoquitur.com
Vol. XLVII Issue 15
Harcum to house Cabrini residents Larger class size and resident population has caused Cabrini to have to find housing elsewhere and turned to Harcum College to house some of the overflow. KELLY FINLAN NEWS EDITOR KAF722@CABRINI.EDU
An increase in demand for oncampus student housing has prompted Residence Life to lease 40 beds from Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, Pa., leading upperclassmen to question their chances ofliving on campus next year. Resident students have increased more than six percent in the last five years, according to the Cabrini College 2003 factbook. This is an increase of 289 students since 1999. "Cabrini doesn't guarantee housing for four years to anyone," Angie Hodgeman, the assistant director of Residence Life, said. "We offer housing on a space available basis." As of the Friday, Jan. 30 deadline, Residence Life had collected approximately 650 intent-toreturn housing forms. This does not including the incoming freshman class, according to Hodgeman. This is I 00 more prospective upperclassman residents than last year, and it does not include those students not currently living on campus who have requested housing. Approximately I 00 people, currently living on campus, failed to turn in intent-to-return forms. There were 940 beds on campus at the beginning of the 2003-2004 academic school year. This number will not change for the 20042005 academic year, according to Hodgeman. Juniors and seniors who do not receive on-campus housing will have the opportunity to live in one of the 20 rooms leased from Harcum College's Pennswood Hall, a building shared by students of Harcum College, Villanova University, and Eastern University, as well as
a children's school. These rooms are on a first come first serve basis, and will be offered to juniors and seniors exclusively. Students living at Harcum will be considered Cabrini residents, and they will pay housing tuition to Cabrini as if they were living on campus. They will, however, have the opportunity to eat in Cabrini's and/or Harcum's dining halls. The question of transportation is still up in the air, according to Hodgeman. The Cabrini shuttle service, the R5 line from Bryn Mawr station on Harcum's campus, and discounted rail passes are being discussed as options. Villanova houses 36 transfer students and seniors in Pennswood Hall. Villanova has no designated senior on-campus housing, according to Karen Develin, a student representative for the Residence Life office at Villanova. Eastern University currently houses 50 students at Pennswood Hall. This is their second year at Harcum, and they're anticipating the need for a third, according to John Romanski, the housing coordinator at Eastern. Students housed there are considered "Eastern residents," and they are given the option of having a car and commuting or rail passes provided by the university. Pennswood Hall residents have Harcum amenities, like Harcum College Library and the gym, but, "in practice, they'll stay here for most of the day," Romanski said. The housing lottery process will mirror that of last year's. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors who have submitted an intent-to-return form will pick a number out of class bins in the Residence Life office on Tuesday, Feb. 10, and Wednesday, Feb. 11. They will then fill out a prefer-
KELLYFtNIANfNEWS EDITOR
Above:A hallway in Harcum College's Pennswood Hall is empty this year. Next year it will house 40 Cabrini students as well as students from Villanova and Eastern. Below: This sign, outside Pennswood Hall, will be a familiar sight for select Cabrini students next year.
ence sheet, listing their top seven housing choices. This is due back no later than Monday, Feb. 9.
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