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University Daily Kansan
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Only McCollum open for break
University of Kansas housed offices decided not to keep all residence halls open during Christmas break as hard as possible.
McColumb Hall, which had 200 students sign up for the program, remained open, Fred McElhenee, director of the program, said.
About 40 members of the seven other residence halls signed up to live in their hotel over the holiday, but were not allowed to do so.
"WE DECIDED there was no way we could justify keeping all the bait open 24 hours a day, including deck service and security, for only 60 or so students," he said. "The cost would be tremendous and wasteful."
No food service was available during the break, but security monitors and desk assistants were on duty. The rest of the hall was open for the break residents, who filled McCollum to about one-fourth of its capacity.
The decision to keep all the residence halls open during university holidays this year was an experiment by
According to J.J. Wilson, housing director, the experiment resulted from student complaints that all holidays should be kept open free of charge during the holidays.
Students who had signed contracts for the spring semester were not charged for the housing in McCollam. However, new residence hall members or students living on campus were charged for other living arrangements were charged $8 a night.
DURING THANKSGIVING break, all halles except Gertrude Sellars Pearson and Corbins halles were kept open free of charge. About 545 residence hall members took advantage of the program.
McEllenie said the length of the Christmas break accounted for the lack of student interest in living in the halls.
tored for the lack of interest in living in the town. He said many students who live far away did not travel home during the Thanksgiving holiday because of its short duration, and he encouraged them, however, encouraged those students to leave the campus.
Currently, university hall officials are making plans for the third official university holiday, spring break. Mar. 10
"We're going to get a definitive number of students who
are interested, then we'll determine once again whether to keep the halls open," McEhene said.
HE SAID the length of spring break made it difficult to know what the student interest would be.
The prospects for keeping the hall open next year free or charge during vacations appear bleak. MeiFhiono is
"I have to think that next year we will not be able to afford this luxury," he said. "There are too many things to do."
One of those things is a lack of funds, he said.
"Originally, we had included the expense of keeping the halls open during breaks in our proposed rate increase for residence hall rooms for next year," he said. "But because it was a new room, we had to cut something, and that was the first to go."
McElhenie he thought the policy used in previous years concerning vacation housing would be followed in
In that policy, a minimum number of students must sign up to stay in a hall in order for it to remain open. If the hall is kept open, the student is charged on a per night basis. In many years, that charge has ranged from $6 to $8 a night.
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