There’s nothing sweet about getting screwed out of a super suite.
The students who camped out to be first to sign up for the Morrison Residence Hall super suites should have been awarded first-come, first-served status despite the recent decision by the Department of Housing and Residential Education to distribute super suites based on a lottery system, which was administered Tuesday.
For the past several years, students have been camping out in order to secure their place at the head of the line to sign up. Though there has been no official policy for camping out, the housing department has condoned it in the past.
The housing department notified students of the change in policy a day after many had already set up tents outside of the residence hall, saying that the decision had only been put in place that week.
It’s reasonable for the housing department to decide that it no longer wants students camping outside the Morrison community office for a week.
There have been reports of bullying in the past, and the increasing number of campers does create a level of hindrance for the residents and workers of Morrison.
But it’s hard to believe the housing department couldn’t have notified students sooner.
In 2012 students began camping out six days prior to the selection date of Feb. 28, 2012. The housing department has had nearly a year to change its policy.
Students were willing to camp out the full six days necessary to secure a super suite and were operating under a system that the housing department had tacitly accepted for the past several years.
