This spring semester, Bowdoin Residential Life will have to consolidate about 16 rooms to make space for students returning from abroad.
On November 19, Lisa Rendall, associate director of housing operations, sent an email to 39 Bowdoin students with vacancies requesting that they attempt to consolidate in order to make room for returning students. This will require several current students to move into new rooms next semester.
“Housing numbers are different every semester and we do our best to accommodate all students who request to live in on-campus housing,” wrote Lisa Rendall in an email to the Orient.
Rendall says that the availability of housing for students returning in the spring semester varies from year to year.
“We’ve always had enough beds for students who want to live on-campus,” Rendall said.
Returning students will likely live in Osher, West and Chamberlain Halls, though official assignments will be released today.
Trevor McDonald ’15 lives in Brunswick Apartments, and one of his roommates will go abroad this spring. He expects to fill this vacancy with another student who was abroad this semester.
“Ideally, we wouldn’t have to be shuffled around,” McDonald said.