Word: ymca
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Northeastern University has an overenrollment problem this fall, and to accommodate 150 transfer students the school has leased the top two floors of the Boston YMCA, adjacent to the school's campus. The floors have effectively been turned into Northeastern dormitories. A new metal grate across the building's stairways shuts off the sixth and seventh floors from the rest of the building, so that the only access is an elevator which a security guard watches. And while the rest of the YMCA has 11 p.m. parietals, the top floors stay open for traffic all night...
...live at the Y? That's the pits." Pantano added that the atmosphere where he lives is not quite what he had expected at Northeastern. He said when he asked the desk clerk if there was a cigarette machine, the clerk said in shock, "Son, this is the YMCA...
Many major Boston-area colleges have more freshmen this fall than their housing facilities can handle, and to accomodate the surplus schools are placing their students in off-campus apartments, hotels, and in one case the Boston YMCA...
When freshmen at Northeastern University arrive on Monday, some 140 will find themselves living in rooms at the nearby YMCA...
Most of the 38,000 students in Northeastern University's various schools live off campus, but more students wanted on-campus housing this year than the usual 3000, so Northeastern leased the sixth and seventh floors of the Boston YMCA to accomodate about 140 of the extras, and the school is leasing apartment space to take in another 40, Ruth Zung, staff assistant to the university's housing office, said yesterday...