Page 4 The Behrend Beacon Large freshman classes force colleges to crowd dorm rooms by Scott Williams Milwaukee Journal Sentinel t'hree's company in many college dor- initolies this year. A housing shortage at some Milwaukee area colleges has forced students to accept ire UKnnmates than usual, breaking from tradition and introducing a new lifestyle rangement on campus. Rs an VanDeLoo, a freshman at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wis., is sharing his dorm room with two roommates this fall. What's more, all three are stocky college football players. "It's pretty crowded," VanDeLoo said of the 12-foot-wide room typically assigned to just two students. "We're hoping that our parents stop bringing stuff." Marquette University in Milwaukee has rented an entire hotel to manage its largest I esh man class in 14 years. While housing crunches are nothing new at colleges and universities, some officials the problem seems to be worsening. "We haven't had to do anything like this in a long time," Marquette spokesman Ben 1 racy said. Marquette has rented the entire 40-room Executive Inn to handle overflow tempo rarily until rooms open up in campus hous Wisconsin is not the only state where (()lieges arc in a pinch. Gary Schwarzmueller, executive direc tor of the Ohio-based Association of Col lege and University Housing Officers-In EI=nECIE:I TIME IS MONEY, HOW CO I HAVE SO MUCH OF ONE AND NOT THE OTHER? KRT PHOTO BY WILLIAM MEYER/MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL Ryan VanDeLoo, left, Mike Behl, top, and Joe Jarosz relax in their dorm room at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin ternational, said housing is scarce in several parts of the country. Not only are high school graduates flock ing to colleges and universities, displaced workers and other non-traditional students are driving enrollment higher during these tough economic times increasing the de mand for housing even more. "Some places are having enormous, ex plosive growth," Schwarzmueller said. Carroll College officials considered rent ing hotel rooms when they realized that the I:=M=3 r,;., ~ 141 6 - 's''' 4AT •iis. 1 ~, N ,c., , iti,----L• Friday, September 6, 2002 Waukesha campus this fall would welcome 700 new students a record high for the 156- year-old school. But administrators decided that packing students into campus dorms was more in keeping with student expectations than load ing them onto a bus and shipping them to a hotel, "That's not the kind of experience that we feel is a positive one, especially for fresh men," said Dean Rein, Carroll's senior vice president. 9 3 6 This is not the first time Can - 01l has been forced into triple-occupancy. and officials hope real estate acquisitions around cam pus will allow them to convert other build ings into new dorms. For now, however. most freshmen are in dorm rooms adapted for three people. Bunk beds have been installed, and a third loft-style bed leaves room underneath for dressers or desks. Students also are being urged to consider economies of scale, so their rooms are not cluttered with three TV sets, three computers or three mini-refrig erators. In exchange for any inconvenience, Carroll is offering each triple-occupancy student a $7OO rebate on the usual $2,4(X) annual housing bill. One or two students opted to enroll else where when told of the housing crunch, officials said, but most are hiking it in stride. VanDeLoo and his roommates Mike Behl and Joe Jaros/ said the arrange ment is working out well so far. "Fhe tact that all three play football means they keep the same hours and do not disturb one another with different wake-up tunes. "It's pretty nice," Behl said. "We all have to be at the same place at the same time." Jarosz said he is finding no significant in convenience. And he looks forward to the $7OO rebate. "I basically got some tree money," he said. Names in the news by Gayle Ronan Sims Knight Ridder Newspapers The covered wooden bridge made famous by the movie "The Bridges of Madison County" has been severely damaged in a fire, and authorities are investigating whether it was Only a charred shell of the 119-year-old Cedar Bridge remained after the Tuesday night tire in Winterset, lowa. The decking collapsed into the creek below. Madison County has just five covered bridges remaining, all on the National Regis ter of Historic Places. Cedar Bridge was the last of them open to traffic, and thousands of people have visited it since Robert Waller's book, "The Bridges of Madison County," was published in 1992. The 1995 film based on that novel featured Cedar Bridge. I)AMON, AFFLECK HELP FRIEND Mau Damon and Ben Affleck have landed bit pails in Massachusetts politics. The two actors are helping high school friend Marjorie Decker, a Democratic city councilor from Cambridge, with her campaign for state rep resentative. Damon has taped a phone message that urges voters to support her. Affleck is featured in Decker's campaign literature, talking about the Little League team they'd played on to- gether. Decker and Affleck, both 30, were class mates at Cambridge's Rindge and Latin School. Damon, 31, attended the school a year ahead of them. JOURNALIST TO TROT ON STAGE What'S it like to walk the Miss America runway? Perform a talent routine? Wave to fans from the Boardwalk Hall stage? Only former contestants know for sure. But this year, a journalist will find out. Olivia Barker, a reporter for USA Today, will take part in two nights of preliminary competition lead ing up to the pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. Het talent: a dramatic monologue. She'll appeal in the talent and eveningwear competition, in troduced as a representative of the newspa per. hut not in the swimsuit competition. Barker, who is in her 20s, will be inter viewed by judges, 'like the other 'l"cOntes tants, hut will not appear onstage or compete for the title in the nationally televised Miss America Pageant, which airs Sept. 21 on ABC. NO CLINTON TALK SHOW Former President Bill Clinton said he no plans to start a career as a TV talk-sh host _ at least not soon. Asked on CN s "Larry King Live" program Tuesday if e wanted such a gig, Clinton said: "I don't thi so." But he did not rule out such a career mo • . FORD'S A LUCKY GUY When actor Harrison Ford was a young in Wisconsin, he flipped a coin to deci whether to try his luck in New York or Angeles. "It came up New York, so I mad. two out of three," said Ford, when asked a • his choice. "My luck has held since then." Ford was in France at the Deauville fi festival to accept an award for his roles as H Solo in "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones" and "Fugitive." His new film," K-19: T Widowmaker," was screened before t crowd. A few moments earlier, Ford had emerg from his limousine with actress Cali• Flockhart, and the two signed autographs ' fans who lined up along the red carpet o side the theater. Ford and Flockhart, 37, w starred in "Ally Mcßeal," walked into the ater hand in hand. WHO IS PRINCE IFS MOM? Michael Jackson's former wife, Deb , Rowe, insists she is not the mother of his est child, Prince Michael 11. Rowe told New York Post she is going crazy with press hanging outside her place in Frank! Canyon in Beverly Hills. PAINTINGS VANISH About $7(X),000 worth of artwork, inclu ing paintings by Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picas and Henri Matisse, were apparently stolk from the home of a San Antonio doctor. P lice said the 15 works were taken while Ric and Garcia slept in an upstairs bedroom tier this week. Garcia, who said the paintings were n insured, is known in San Antonio as an • patron who frequently gives parties at h home for artists and musical stars. A BABY BACKSTREET Get ready for the newest Backstreet Bo The wife of singer Brian Littrell, actre• Leighanne Wallace, is expecting a boy at end of the year. The couple has been marri , for two years. (Philadelphia Inquirer wire services contri uted to this report.)
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