Wednesday, December 18, 1975
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Students face tight housing market
By LIZ LEECH
University Daily Kansan
Staff Writer
Students at the University of Kansas have a variety of reasons for changing their residences at semester breaks. The main reason, however, seems to be money, and students may have difficulty finding a bargain.
Pat Bailley, manager of Lawrence Rentals Exchange, said yesterday that she had noticed an increase in the number of rooms being added new places to live for next semester.
Lawrence Rentals Exchange assists in finding houses and apartments for its clients, and Bailey said that the market for housing was "tight."
"Low prices are what students are looking for in apartments and houses and right now that's pretty scarce," Bailey said. Bailey said that students gave a variety of reasons for wanting to move, and that more rooms in homes because they were cheaper.
"Most students want something that runs about $100 to $150," said Bailow.
Connie Martin, owner of Martin Real Estate and the Rental Mart, said that many of her clients said they wanted more privacy but still wanted low prices.
"A lot of them are in apartment complexes, and they want a bigger place, which is larger."
Most of what is available now in both apartments and houses is expensive and out of most students' price range, according to Martin.
Many students who move often have difficulty getting out of residence hall on campus.
Jim Fisher, director of Naismith Hall, said that 80 or 80 students usually tried to get into the program.
The investigation into the disruption of William Shockley's Nov. 13 visit here has been completed, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor said yesterday.
Inquiry report to be released
Shankel said that an investigation report would be released after the protesters identified in the disruption had been notified of the actions taken against them.
"I think we can be relatively sure of identifying somewhere between three and five miles."
The report, which will probably be released today or tomorrow, will include the facts of the investigation and the nature of the actions taken against the protesters, Shankel said. The names of the protesters are privileged, however, he said.
He was invited to speak here Nov. 13 by the history of science program and was scheduled to speak to a group of about 20 professors and graduate students.
His talk was aborted, however, by a group of about 36 students, most of them black. His reaction was one of alarm.
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"If we can find someone to fill the vacant room, we will cancel the former occupant's lease, but if no one else will take it, the occupant is held responsible." Fischer said.
J. J. Wilson, director of KU housing, said he didn't know how many students were moving out of KU residence halls but he saw the halls to be full for the spring semester.
Wilson said that the residence halls offer special contracts for spring or fall only but that students who signed contracts for the entire school year must make special arrangements if they want to move out at the end of one semester.
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"We try to respond to exceptional cases like if a student finds out in November that he'll be student teaching in the spring or will graduate early." Wilson said.
Wilson said that the residence halls didn't subtlet rooms but that they did have a vacating schedule through which arrangements could be made.
The schedule is set up on a monthly basis as part of the original contract and designates how much students must pay before they move out. If the student paid the rent, he will receive the year and moves, then he will receive a retard, according to Wilson.
McColum Hall has 44 empty spaces, and Deborah Bowman, McColum Hall residence director, said many students went to schooling schools or dropping out of school.
"Some are moving to apartments, and there are some who had different hall preferences at the beginning of the year and would move to different halles." Bowman said.
Also responsible for the high rate of turnover in McColum was that most students there are upperclassmen, according to Bowman.
"Upperclassmen don't feel like they're bound to stay here for the whole year like college students."
Jayhawk Towers apartments is also experiencing a slight increase in the number of people moving in or out, according to Linda Turner, manager.
"It it happens every year; there are more now than at any other time of year," Turner
She said that contracts for the apartments were for the school year but that Jawhawk had to pay a different fee.
"We help them sublet their apartments, but they can't get out of their contracts," Turun said.
Sally Davis, assistant manager at Meadowbrook Apartments, said that meet of Meadowbrook's tenants were successful but nothing but that the lease was strictly enforced.
"We don't have as much turnover as other apartments because we have more stable students. They're older or married," Davis said.
Jodie Brown, Wichita junior, said that she had experienced difficulty last year when her teacher was on leave.
"It was a real expensive apartment, but I put an ad in the paper and ended up paying a girl $100 just to move into my apartment," Brown said.
She said that rent had been $180 and the girl who wanted to move in could only afford $160 and that the $100 made up the difference.
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"But I was really glad to get rid of it even at that price." Brown said.
"There were alot of things I just wasn't happy with at the hall," said Heck.
He said that he paid all of his residence hall fees at once and wouldn't get a refund for the months that he wouldn't live in the hall.
"If guess they didn't think my complaints were legitimate," Heck said.
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