Why some Tommies are finding strangers in their dorm rooms
Some dorm-dwellers at the University of St. Thomas have been complaining of some snags in the notification process telling student's they've got a new roommate moving in.
They walk into their rooms and -- surprise! -- they find a stranger unpacking.
Sophomore Kelsey Hansen told TommieMedia student news service:
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“I wasn’t really sure what was going on. had got a notification e-mail the day after she moved in.”
It's a frustrating process for some newcomers, too, freshman Brittney Schubert told the service:
“I asked a couple different times in e-mails for the contact information for my roommates and never got them. The day after I moved in, I got an e-mail from the hall director with the contact information.”