By Rikki George, Associate Editor
Officials will host the university’s first Housing Lottery on April 15.
Students will have the chance to choose their rooms on large floor charts. Once they have selected their room, the room is marked and removed from the lottery.
Students have voiced concerns about the lottery.
“I think it’s an interesting idea,” said Emma Mansfield, nursing freshman. “I’m just concerned that I won’t end up with a room I want.”
There is no first-come first-served process, with rooms being selected one-by-one. Students who enter the lottery on the day of the deadline are given the same chance as those who entered early on.
This year will be Mansfield’s first to declare Cokesbury Court on her housing application.
With the possibility of getting a room she won’t like, she fears that she will have to enter the lottery next spring as well.
Jane Imfeld, French senior, said she’s happy that she won’t have to participate in the lottery.
“I think it’s cool that you get to pick your own room, but the lottery seems like more trouble than it’s worth,” she said.
Housing officials said they are making the process as simple as they can, and they want to use the lottery as an incentive to keep students living on campus.
Students already living on campus can opt to keep their room assignments and their rooms will not enter the lottery.
“I want this to work, and I hope it does,” Mansfield said. “I hope it gets explained more when it’s closer to the lottery time.”
With reservations about the lottery, Mansfield wants to know more about what April 15 will hold for her.
Officials will host the Housing Lottery at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall in Tom and Brenda McDaniel University Center.
Students will select a lottery number and then hand a pre-made slip with their name and photo ID to an official who will verify that the student’s eligibility to take part in the lottery.
“I’ve been looking forward to living in Cokesbury all year,” Mansfield said. “I have started looking off campus just in case I don’t get the room I want.
“Nevertheless, my fingers are crossed for a good number.”
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