Now the university is 280 beds short of housing all its freshmen. This is unacceptable. The first quarter for freshman is extremely crucial for social development. Studies show that students who live on campus have more success in school and get more involved in activities the reason Northeastern pushed for more students to live on campus in the first place. Any student s first quarter at college is more than just excelling in classes.
All students can remember the first quarter of their freshman year.
And all students have stories good and bad about their friends and roommates during that time. Placing an upperclassman into a room in the middle of the year is harmless because that student has already made friends and adjusted to campus. But that won t happen for freshmen who don t have housing. When Joe Freshman arrives in his room winter quarter, his roommate will already have his own social circle. Everyone knows how valuable friends are to succeed in college and, more importantly, in life.