As a current resident of Wallace Hall, I found the special report on the Master Plan quite interesting. As I was making my plans for next fall in Knapp, I got onto AccessPlus to find a room, only to find that I could only select rooms in Wallace and Wilson. I thought I had just read the priority-moving calendar incorrectly, but then I called the Department of Residence, and I was told that the system was designed to lock W-W people in.

The article touted that the Department of Residence was giving the students what they wanted, so it seems odd they are stopping students in Wallace and Wilson halls from moving where they want. The people at the Department of Residence helped me get into the room I wanted when I called them, but my question is: Why is there a policy designed to lock upperclassmen into certain halls?

It does not make sense to me. After all, isn’t the point of the Master Plan to give students what we want? It feels more like the Department of Residence is trying to force upperclassmen to go into off-campus housing. After all, many apartments are cheaper and have more freedoms than the fine accommodations provided by the university.

I am sure that the apartment owners in town will be pleased to take the upperclassmen’s money, while the university loses out.

Jon Quandt

Junior

History and Religious Studies