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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1973)
page 8b pay your money, take your c lance You pc'y your money and you take your chances when you play the apaitment hunting game in Lincoln. Why not take a chance on "One-room efficiency, share bath. S60." Depending who you're sharing the apaitment with, you might want to move up to a "One bedroom, available April 1, S145, deposit required." And once you've become accustomed to keeping yourself in that high style, it might be time to move again. So i each for a rainbow, pal: & elegant. Three bedrooms, formal dining room, living room, screened-in poich, appliances. Cential air. Garage available. $190." Sooner or later you'll have a place where you can entertain in comfort and elegance. Or at least a place where the cockroaches are mannerly enough to stay in the kitchen when you have company. Mole than a quaiter of UNL's 16,859 single students are living in apartments or off campus rooms, according to statistics from the UNL Housing Office. The percentage of students who hang their hat in an apartment and call it home inci eases each year. Only 162 freshmen, 3.8 per cent (excluding those who's home is Lincoln), live in an off campus loom or apartment. The freshman class keeps its slim figuie because of at least two factors. First, University policy states that all unman led freshmen aie requiied to live on campus. Although some', obviously, get aiound the stipulation, most fieshmen have no alter native but to adheie to the rule. Second, unless they an; Lincoln lesidents fieshmen piobably have few peets living off campus anyway. Five per cent of all male fieshmen live off campus. Only 2.2 per cent of women do. Nineteen per cent of the sophomores exercise their freedom to live off campus. Four hundred twenty of the 643 apartment dwelling sophomores are men. Juniors ieally begin to make the move. More than 1,000 of the 3,467 single juniois currently list their dwelling as an apaitment. And 50.5 per cent of the seniors have holed up in apaitments second semester. Out of 2,667 graduate and professional students, 1,046 or 39.12 per cent live in an apartment. The UNL Ombudsman's Office reported no requests from students for help in finding an apartment. Some students, however, have griped to the ombudsman about tenantlandlord disputes. Although it is effectively impossible to determine the total number of units available in Lincoln, the City Planning Office statistics show 2,163 muhtiple units built during 192. When duplex and family dwellings are included the number of units built doling 1972 swells to 3,331. No statistics aie available on how many of the units aie occupied. However, a housing locater set vice called Rental Housing tepotts that it has 150 200 apartments available at any time. The number pnrnarily fluctuates with the lime of yeai . "Spacious (over 1,G00 sq. ft fpw frmnsDooftt hp tfjt f f 1 Peo, ?uithctaj Jt j H) JST0MEBS f ijj ....... .. r B r h I a) 0Ll S S Mt&k N " i'l c