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Over the last month or so, the Housing administration has come up with a couple of scenarios to find out if and how they can fulfill the looming On-Campus housing term limits.
They don't like to discuss the fact that the term limits are a bad idea in the first place, because they are detrimental to attracting new students to UCI. Essentially, the housing administration sees itself more as the messenger squeezed in the middle, and they have a point. The university administration is pushing for guaranteed housing because large admission numbers look good...
That people would have to drop out a couple years later because they can't afford to live off-campus doesn't show up in the ranking numbers.
Anyway, the housing administration basically got tasked by the UCI administration to come up with a plan to implement the term limits, not to discuss them.
And that's where their scenarios come in. They try to figure out the best (for whatever definition of 'best') way to make this term limit plan work.
I've scanned in the scenario pages I received at the Open Forum meetings with the Housing administration. I haven't been to all of these meetings, so there may be more (please let me know.)
So, without further ado, here are the scenarios:
These first two pages contain the very first scenarios the housing office gave out:
The following pages were handed out at the Housing Open Forum on July 8:
Scanning the pages in higher resolution would make them readable.
Use the vault.php script on palo-verde.org. The limit is 1GB/file :-).