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Cornell has two conflicting visions with respect to first-year housing, and really no vision with respect to upperclass housing. It wants to create "community" in the ranks of first-year students. Currently, there are two distinct areas of campus housing, called North Campus, which is more spread out and is composed of about half first-years, and West Campus, which is newer, more densely populated, and composed almost entirely of first-years. Each has its own facilities and its own culture, North as studious and West as social. Most students know what they're getting into when they choose...
...choice of where to live. Third, North Campus is less accessible to many attractions--including shops, bars, restaurants and most fraternities--that West Campus residents liked being near. The principal reasons behind opposition to the plan, though, is that it will have a devastating effect on housing for upperclass students. Displaced from North Campus, upperclass students will be forced to move off campus (imagine the effect on apartment prices) or to West Campus. But West Campus, with its paucity of study and kitchen facilities and predominantly double-occupancy rooms, does not appeal to upperclass students. West was constructed, in fact...
...Cornell University last week unveiled a $200 million initiative to "enhance the living and learning environment for undergraduates." Central to the plan are changes to make Cornell's residential system more like Harvard's. Under the new system, first-years would live together on one section of campus and upperclass students would live in residential houses...
Unlike Harvard, Cornell does not guaranteeon-campus housing for its upperclass students...
...committee is exploring different housingplans for the upperclass students on West campus...