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This fall, FGCU welcomed an increase of approximately 6 percent more students and accommodated this increase with the opening of Palmetto Hall in South Village. FGCU now houses 3,700 students on-campus – and isn’t planning on capping that number anytime soon. The university will open Osprey Hall in South Village for fall 2012. Osprey Hall will house 533 beds, raising the number of on-campus beds to 4,200. The Hall will be six stories with three-bedroom single suites that will include a kitchenette, a common living room and a shared bathroom, as opposed to the current three halls that are five stories with two single suites and a split-style bathroom. The Hall will be the first six-story building and the first to have all threebedroom single suites. Palmetto Hall is the only other building to host threebedroom single suites and there are only a select few in each wing. Palmetto’s layout also doesn’t include a kitchenette or common living room – the foyer is simply extended and includes the bathroom sinks. While three-bedroom single suites may sound strange to those who are used to North Lake’s fourbedroom and South Village’s two-bedroom suites, freshman Cody Wenger, who currently lives in a Palmetto “triple,” says he’s happier with the layout. “I love it; I’m usually never alone and always have someone to talk to,” said the nursing major. South Village has grown tremendously, adding one
building per year since the opening of Everglades Hall. While this is very impressive, some students are wondering if adding another building will just cause crowding. “It seems like the university is growing too quickly – do we really need another 600 students [living on-campus] right now?” said Wes Kirk, a senior majoring in accounting and a resident who lived in South Village for two years. However, University Spokeswoman Susan Evans assures FGCU isn’t jumping ahead of itself. “Before [FGCU] decides to build a new student housing building, we analyze our projected enrollment and determine whether additional beds are needed,” she said. “So far, the demand has been there, with waiting lists for the beds.” Students also shouldn’t be concerned with the new building being affected by budget cuts like AB8 was because state law prohibits the use of state funds for student housing construction. “Student housing is financed through issuing bonds and the debt from the bonds is paid [for] from the revenue generated by student housing rental fees. The bond issue for Osprey Hall has already been completed so it’s a certainty that it will be built,” Evans said. Construction has already started in South Village for Osprey Hall. The building will be located right next to SoVi Dining and the new SoVi parking garage.
Last year at the Rutgers University chapter of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, six sisters were arrested for felony aggravated hazing after the three pledges were brutally beaten, one to the point of hospitalization. In February, at Cornell University, a fraternity hazing ritual involving coerced drinking led to the death of a sophomore. Just last month, an 18-year-old UCF student died after drinking heavily at a fraternity party. Across the nation, tragedies like these are leading universities to focus on curtailing some of the more d e s t r u c t i v e 8cZf_fc practices of Zfejldgk`fe# fraternities and _ld`c`Xk`fe# sororities. In light `jfcXk`fe# jc\\g$ of National Hazing [\gi`mXk`fe# Prevention Week, Xe[ j\olXc spanning from XZkj Xi\ Sept. 19 to Sept. _Xq`e^ 23, this awareness giXZk`Z\j is particularly Zfddfe XZifjj Xcc heightened. But is kpg\j f] the Greek system jkl[\ek a purely negative ^iflgj facet of university life? K_\i\ Xi\ At FGCU, the XYflk ()-+ Greek atmosphere jkl[\ekj `e is different from =>:L >i\\b that which you C`]\ may find at other major universities. @e 0, g\iZ\ek There are no f] ZXj\j Greek houses, and n_\i\ there seem to be jkl[\ekj minimal problems `[\ek`Ô\[ associated with k_\`i \og\i`\eZ\ Xj hazing and similar _Xq`e^# k_\p practices. “To my [`[ efk i\gfik knowledge, there k_\ \m\ekj have not been any kf ZXdglj cases of hazing f]ÔZ`Xcj# XZZfi[`e^ kf with any of our [XkX kXb\e chapters,” said ]ifd k_\ Julie Gleason, eXk`feXc director of campus jkl[p ?Xq`e^ `e M`\n1 involvement. Jkl[\ekj Xk Additionally, I`jb whereas some parents fear that a sorority or fraternity may distract new college students from their studies, Greek organization members are some of the most involved and academically committed students at FGCU.
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