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Verbal plans for future • reconstruction on campus

JANA FAGOTII STAFF WRITER

While enrollment continues to skyrocket, many speculations have been made concerning possible additions to the Cabrini Apartment Complex. Howard Holden, director of facilities, says no 'plans or drawings have been made for additional housing anywhere on campus at this time.

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This year's freshman class tipped the charts at 41 l. This is good news for the college budget but it causes much conflict when considering housing for all Cabrini residents, especially upperclassmen. Though the college needs to expand housing as a whole, "freshman housing is the concern as opposed to upperclas~men housing," Holden said.

Senior Kit Dewey, resident of apartment 201, was one of the many students who heard the rumors of construction. "We were going to expand it on the side that is still the woods, add another cor- • ridor and possibly something out over the parking lot," Dewey said. She was reluctant to believe anything but sees the idea of expansion as a "positive thing. I believe upper classmen housing to be an especially smart idea. As we accept larger classes, they will grow into larger junior and senior classes, so they will need more space. Also this will free up more space in old housing for the new freshmen."

Current sophomore Maggie Kurtz sees how the change of the apartments may better benefit the campus and her class, as she will be able to live in the CAC as a senior. "If they add now everyone would be happy with housing. It would decrease the overflow of underclassmen donns."

Further speculations have been made concerning underclassmen dorms in which singles would be doubles, doubled would be tripled and, in some cases, triples would be quadrupled.

Woodcrest, which currently houses female freshmen, was made into a completely tripled

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