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Where do you live when the university admini
stration loses your transcripts, pre-registratkn,
and doesn't know you are attending their school?
For freshman Gordie Mo&her of Omaha the
answer was simple-set up camp in a lounge on
1 1th floor Abel Hs3.
Gordie is a victim of the avt.Zjw in the resi
dence halls. According to Richard Armstrong,
UNL's director of housing, this overflow has
been caused by a larger than ususal number of
returning upperclassxnen. IhH improvements,
higher apartment rates, relaxed visitation hours,
arid scarcity of apartments figure into their re
turn. The makeshift bedrooms were in the Abel
basement, and Abel, Sandoz, Schramm, and
Smith lounges.
As of Tuesday night, no more men were living
in temporary housing and 61 women were still
being housed in lounges in Abel, Sandoz,
Schramm and Smith residence halls. There now
are 22 vacancies for undergraduate men and two
vacancies for graduate men.
Armstrong said this unbalance of men and
women is mainry because of men moving into
fraternities after rush week. In addition, he said
the show-up factor for women is greater than for
men.
Move complete by Oct. 1
Women will continue to be moved out of the
lounges gradually, and they should all be moved
out by Oct. I , Armstrong said.
'Two dressers and two desks for four people
well, it's better than nothing I guess," said Teresa
Briggs, freshman from Omaha. "I'm not really
angry about the situation, I knew it was my fault
for getting in my housing contract so late. Any
way, we have some real advantages in here a
clock on the wall, carpeting, and even a front
and back door.
"The girls on the floor have been real nice to
us," agreed Teresa's roommate, Brenda Johnson,
a sophomore from Fremont. "We have a lot of
visitors that come to see what we're living in.
Most of them say. t)h you poor kids!' They let
us use their phones too, since we don't have one."
- Most of the residents in temporary housing
are freshmen and have no alternative to living off
campus. Two to four students live in a lounge.
Tim MoHo, a pre-med major freshman from
Gering, said he didn't think "a whole lot" about
living in the ninth floor Abel lounge.
"We have a ping-pong table, though. That's
something, but no balls or paddles," he said.
No wizdaws
"I don't mind living here," said Cindy Secude,
freshman transfer student from Ohio State, living
on second floor Abel lounge. "The university was
real nice about it. They called me long distance
several times to explain about the situation and
assured me I'd be moving out soon."
"No, it's not bad, we have a TV, carpet,
murals on the wall, couches," agreed her room
mate, Nancy Striker, a freshman math major
from Burwefl. "But I sure miss the windows."
Photographs by Ted Kirk
Story by Mary Jo Howe
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