News Article: Missouri to rent empty dorm rooms to fans

ALA2262 · Jun 24, 2017

Missouri set to rent empty dorm rooms to fans for football weekends

"Homecoming could be taken to another level at Missouri this fall with a chance for Tigers fans to actually spend a weekend in their old dorm rooms.

As part of an effort to make up several budget shortfalls and adjust to dwindling freshman enrollment, Mizzou revealed plans this week to rent out unused dorm rooms in residence halls for football games and other campus events. The St. Louis Post Dispatch adds that the concept has been in the works for some time and a mind-boggling seven residence halls have been taken offline in the wake of a huge drop in the number of students following a number of serious issues at the Columbia campus."

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...pty-dorm-rooms-to-fans-for-football-weekends/

TIDE-HSV · Jun 24, 2017

Wow! a 7%+ drop in freshmen! I guess we get so used to the rapid growth at Bama, it's hard to grasp that kind of trouble. Must be more going wrong in addition to relations with football team. Back in the '70s, I stayed with my family in a dorm of the University of Bergen, Norway. It shuts down for the month of July. The Fantoft dorm was brand new and in severe Scandinavian style - all wood and concrete. It was super cheap, compared to the usual sky-high Norwegian lodging prices...

RTR91 · Jun 24, 2017

TIDE-HSV said:
Wow! a 7%+ drop in freshmen! I guess we get so used to the rapid growth at Bama, it's hard to grasp that kind of trouble. Must be more going wrong in addition to relations with football team. Back in the '70s, I stayed with my family in a dorm of the University of Bergen, Norway. It shuts down for the month of July. The Fantoft dorm was brand new and in severe Scandinavian style - all wood and concrete. It was super cheap, compared to the usual sky-high Norwegian lodging prices...

I posted the story in the thread about the issues from two years ago earlier this week. Might not be related, but the overall enrollment has taken a nosedive since that took place.

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Intl.Aperture · Jun 24, 2017

RTR91 said:
I posted the story in the thread about the issues from two years ago earlier this week. Might not be related, but the overall enrollment has taken a nosedive since that took place.

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Not sure what conclusion was reached in that thread but I would take it to show that, right or wrong, students don't want to attend a campus with drama or tension. For me at least I wanted to go to a normal school that was a little low-key and treated students more like adults. If I had been considering Mizzou at the time all this went down the general ruckus and unsettled nature would have been enough to keep me away.

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Bamabuzzard · Jun 25, 2017

My guess is it came down to a safety issue and the decision was made by the parents of these potential students that chose to go elsewhere. No way I'm allowing my son or daughter go to a college where I feel it is unsafe. Granted, you have your normal risks that come with any college campus. But the climate at Missouri could have easily been perceived as volatile and unsafe. How the college handled it probably didn't help either.

Intl.Aperture said:
Not sure what conclusion was reached in that thread but I would take it to show that, right or wrong, students don't want to attend a campus with drama or tension. For me at least I wanted to go to a normal school that was a little low-key and treated students more like adults. If I had been considering Mizzou at the time all this went down the general ruckus and unsettled nature would have been enough to keep me away.

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