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UI looking to build new dorm By Jim Jacobson Gazette staff writer IOWA CITY -- If the state Board of Regents approves, the University of Iowa could have its first new residence hall in nearly 40 years. UI officials will ask for permission to proceed with planning for a 300- to 500-bed residence hall when the regents meet next Wednesday and Thursday in Ames. The new building will help address the need for suite-style living that students want, said Maggie Van Oel, residence services director. The UI has 672 semi-private rooms with a bathroom, and this year had 2,442 requests for those rooms. The requests have been increasing 5 percent a year, according to statistics provided to the regents office by UI. About 5,500 out of more than 28,000 students live in university housing. "If we want to attract students to this university and give them what they want, then building a new building is necessary," Van Oel said. The new residence hall, which should be done within five years at a cost of $20 million to $30 million, would be built on the west side of campus. The UI is considering three locations: the parking lot behind Hillcrest and Quadrangle residence halls; area between Grand and Melrose avenues, west of Byington(?) Road; and the Turn to 3B: Dorm X = Possible sites for new residence trail Gazette map Dorm: 3 possible locations From page 1B current location of Quadrangle. Quadrangle was build in 1920 and has become too expensive to maintain, according to the information the university provided to the regents. It would be razed for the new building. Although UI enrollment is expected to decline slightly through 2010, demand for rooms, particularly for freshman, still exceeds supply, said Phillip Jones, vice president for student services and dean of students. A 300- to 500-bed residence hall would result in a net of only 100 beds because the new residence hall would permit the university to close Slater Residence Hall for a time and convert it to suite-style accommodations. That upgrade would result in Slater having fewer rooms. One recommendation Stoll had for UI officials: Let the Costs for living in the new dorm be borne by those who live there and not all students living in university housing. Typically, costs of improvements have been shared across the residence hall system, Van Oel said. "That doesn't mean we wouldn't consider doing it in a different way," she said. The newest residence halls on the UI campus are Rienow and Slater, which were built in the mid-1960s. The Gazette Cedar Rapids, Iowa February 15, 2001
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UI looking to build new dorm By Jim Jacobson Gazette staff writer IOWA CITY -- If the state Board of Regents approves, the University of Iowa could have its first new residence hall in nearly 40 years. UI officials will ask for permission to proceed with planning for a 300- to 500-bed residence hall when the regents meet next Wednesday and Thursday in Ames. The new building will help address the need for suite-style living that students want, said Maggie Van Oel, residence services director. The UI has 672 semi-private rooms with a bathroom, and this year had 2,442 requests for those rooms. The requests have been increasing 5 percent a year, according to statistics provided to the regents office by UI. About 5,500 out of more than 28,000 students live in university housing. "If we want to attract students to this university and give them what they want, then building a new building is necessary," Van Oel said. The new residence hall, which should be done within five years at a cost of $20 million to $30 million, would be built on the west side of campus. The UI is considering three locations: the parking lot behind Hillcrest and Quadrangle residence halls; area between Grand and Melrose avenues, west of Byington(?) Road; and the Turn to 3B: Dorm X = Possible sites for new residence trail Gazette map Dorm: 3 possible locations From page 1B current location of Quadrangle. Quadrangle was build in 1920 and has become too expensive to maintain, according to the information the university provided to the regents. It would be razed for the new building. Although UI enrollment is expected to decline slightly through 2010, demand for rooms, particularly for freshman, still exceeds supply, said Phillip Jones, vice president for student services and dean of students. A 300- to 500-bed residence hall would result in a net of only 100 beds because the new residence hall would permit the university to close Slater Residence Hall for a time and convert it to suite-style accommodations. That upgrade would result in Slater having fewer rooms. One recommendation Stoll had for UI officials: Let the Costs for living in the new dorm be borne by those who live there and not all students living in university housing. Typically, costs of improvements have been shared across the residence hall system, Van Oel said. "That doesn't mean we wouldn't consider doing it in a different way," she said. The newest residence halls on the UI campus are Rienow and Slater, which were built in the mid-1960s. The Gazette Cedar Rapids, Iowa February 15, 2001
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