Purdue starts year with fewer in temporary rooms

WEST LAFAYETTE - Purdue University officials are working to find residence hall rooms for the 43 male students who are starting the school year in temporary quarters.

Housing administrator Bob Heitert said that’s the fewest number of students in several years to start without a permanent room. All female students are in regular rooms.

Sophomore Steve Thornton told the Journal & Courier his temporary room with a countertop sink and no closets was fine with him for now.

He was sharing the room with one other person after missing the housing deadline for his transfer from the Purdue Calumet campus in Hammond.

Heitert expects that by the fall break in mid-October all students will be placed in regular rooms.

Although IU’s freshmen class is smaller than last year’s, Residential Programs and Services is expecting about 100 students living in temporary housing this fall.

This will be the third consecutive year students will have to sleep in lounges instead of rooms until permanent housing is found for them.