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Brachman’s
first floor to be cleared Brachman Hall’s coeducational first floor will be vacated fall 2002 to make space for a potential overflow of students, said Karen Baker, assistant director of Residential Services. Baker said the move is an attempt to avoid situations like last fall’s housing crunch when forty male students were temporarily housed in local hotels and 35 undergraduates were moved to graduate apartments. Despite the administration’s reassurance that enrollment will go down, Baker said the decision concerning Brachman is a proactive approach. “It’s very uncertain to know where we will need the space, and if it will be for males or females in the fall,” Baker said. “Even if the enrollment goes down, we’re doing everything we can to avoid the situation we had last year.”Residents of Brachman were informed of the situation in a notice delivered last week. Residents were told they would be given first choice of rooms in Brachman, said Katy Eckhardt, the first floor resident assistant. Baker said Brachman was chosen because either sex could be housed there. Eckhardt said the residents in her wing have not expressed any concerns about the notice to her. “There are lots of non-freshmen on my floor, and most were planning to move out (at the end of the semester) anyway,” she said. Miranda Goodsheller, a first floor resident, said the entire floor had become closer this semester than any other floor. “This wing has become a community in a very real way, it’s our ‘home’ in a literal sense,” said Goodsheller, a sophomore advertising/public relations major. Goodsheller said that while she had made plans to move off campus this fall, the decision to move the residents was still difficult to take. “It makes sense, but it’s not making people happy,” she said. “Because we’re all so close in such a small wing, and because it’s coed, it’s tough to know we won’t be able to come back to this.” Baker said the move to clear out the residents will probably be a one time occasion, and that Residential Services does not intend to vacate Brachman every year. Kami
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