Students like apartments, but not so keen on dorms
By RICH LOVETT
A total of 1,141 new apartments to house another 6,003 students will be needed in Lawrence by 1985, according to a 1966 study by Don Venhaus, Lawrence city planner.
University-owned housing for another 6,502 students also will be needed by 1985, the study predicts.
While the city planner's study views housing from an economic standpoint, the UDK took its own survey last month to scan residence hall and private apartment housing from another angle: what KU students think about apartments versus dorms.
LAST OF A TWO-PART SERIES
A hundred student renters in Ridgelea, Avalon, Southridge, Redbud, and Crescent Heights apartments were questioned. To get the viewpoint of hall residents, these results were compared with answers to a questionnaire circulated by the human rights committee of the All Student Council (ASC).
The UDK study shows that 82 out of the 100 student apartment renters were satisfied with apartment life. This contrasts with the ASC's 100 - student sample of hall residents, in which only 57 per cent say they are satisfied in a residence hall.
Over 67 per cent of the women respondents reported approval of present closing hours.
cent said they were able to study in the dorm, and over half said they had enough space.
About 75 per cent of the dorm residents said they would prefer to live elsewhere. A total of 64 per cent of the men and 17 per cent of the women questioned said they were not returning to a hall next fall.
MANY OF THE WOMEN respondents said they would have moved out already if not for the All Women Students ruling that only senior women or women over 21 may live in unapproved housing.
When asked, "What type of living arrangement would you prefer," 54 per cent of the dorm residents answered "apartment." Fourteen out of 62 women preferred sororities and six out of 36 men picked fraternities. Six per cent of the respondents said they preferred private homes while three per cent picked scholarship halls.
One of the main questions in the UDK survey was "What factors caused you to move into an apartment?" Fifty per cent of the 79 male and 21 female respondents said apartments offer better study conditions. About 26 per cent said they gained more freedom. 26 per cent said apartments are less crowded and 24 per cent said cost was a factor.
OTHER FACTORS named were more privacy (20 per cent), marriage (18 per cent), better food (15 per cent) and age (six per cent).
Though cost was named a factor in moving to an apartment, it apparently is not the most important factor, since 55 per cent of the UDK's interviewees estimated they spend from $75-100 apiece per month in an apartment including rent, food, phone and utilities. About 28 per cent said they spend $100-125 a month, and 10 per cent said they spend over $125. Only eight per cent reported paying less than $75.
16 for three semesters, and 17 for four semesters. About 14 per cent said they had been apartment dwellers five semesters or more.
The average living time in an apartment varied considerably. Twenty-six students said they had been in apartments one semester, 25 for two semesters,
WHAT DO KU STUDENTS find acceptable in residence hall living? Cost appears acceptable because 74 per cent of the ASC survey respondents did not consider hall rent too expensive. About 35 per cent said they were satisfied with the meals, 69 per
Not all the interviewees answered the question, "Are you generally satisfied with the job your counselor is doing," but of those who did. 72 per cent said the counselors were okay.
Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 17, 1967
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