They’re still there.

With the semester more than halfway over, about 100 of the record 370 students who were placed in temporary housing at the beginning of the year have yet to find a home.

Adrienne Jones, freshman in pre-professional heath programs, started the year with four roommates in the den of Henderson House in Friley Hall.

“I was kind of wary at first, but it’s been good,” she said. “It was fun when all my roommates were here.”

Jones lost one roommate about a month into the semester, and the three other girls moved out just last week.

One of them is Kelly Kauten, freshman in elementary education, who moved into her current room down the hall when the previous residents moved off campus on Homecoming Weekend. She was not happy with life in the den.

“We don’t have closets, there’s no regular TV, no Internet access and no space,” Kauten said. “Plus, it’s really difficult having one phone with five girls.”

Natalie Busch, freshman in apparel merchandising, design and production, is another roommate.

She said the worst thing about temp housing was paying the same fees as students in “regular” rooms and not receiving cable or ethernet service.

“I think its ridiculous they even think of charging us the same,” Busch said.

Paul Dosch, business operations manager for the Department of Residence, said separate billing for students in temporary housing is almost impossible.

“With all the students moving in and out every day, it would be a nightmare to keep track of the individual number of days for which someone needs to be billed or not billed,” he said.

Dosch said there is an additional cost to have cable television and ethernet service switched on in the dens.

Kate Bruns, communication specialist for the Department of Residence, said students who are assigned temporary housing are given the option of canceling their contracts.

“We would love to be able to provide all the same services to the students in temp, but it is a choice they make and a gamble they take when they accept a temporary assignment,” she said.

“You do feel bad though,” Bruns said. “We move students out, and into permanent assignments as quickly as possible. We aren’t leaving someone in a den a second longer than they have to be there.”

But Jones may have to stay in her big, empty den for a few more weeks.

“They said if I do move out, it’ll probably be at semester,” she said.