At the University of Minnesota, you never know what kind of roommate you’ll have during Move-In Week. The Star Tribune reports that mold made its way into Frontier Hall when freshmen set up their digs at the beginning of the term. Someone found it Sept. 23, at which point: The department tested 35 rooms, found Read more →
Students may still be sweating it out in their hot dorm rooms, but from what I’ve heard from MSU-Moorhead and some private colleges, the short-lived benefits of air conditioning usually aren’t worth the high cost. And it’s students — not taxpayers — who apparently pay the bill.
In January 2011 I posted a mother’s research into which two-year colleges in Minnesota (and elsewhere in the Midwest) that have dormitories. It was an attempt to get college experience for her son that was similar to that of a four-year campus. It sounded like dorms were pretty rare at two-year institutions. But this map Read more →
I’ve been trying to find out how students are comping at Minnesota State University – Moorhead ever since professor Elizabeth Kirchoff told me how her students have been suffering in dorm rooms that lack air-conditioning. So I contacted one of her students, senior education major Matthias Valan, and asked him to take a look around Read more →
I knew it was too early for school. I’ve just spoken with Elizabeth Kirchoff, an English professor at Minnesota State University – Moorhead. Students in a couple of her classes have been complaining “relentlessly” that their dorm rooms have no air conditioning, and that sleeping conditions are just unbearable. They told her that fans Read more →
The Reporter describes a number of experiences that have led some students at Minnesota State University – Mankato to think some dorm rooms (especially those in the Crawford Residence Community) are haunted: Immediately after getting into the car, he told Vang that she saw a girl in a black velvet dress with reddish textile patterns Read more →
University ReUse coordinator Chris Hruza tells the Minnesota Daily what he has seen in the University’s effort to recycle items left over from student dorms: “We used to see a lot more [furniture], but there has definitely been a change as the economy has changed.” Read the whole article here.
Now this ranking may be causing a bit of bemusement at Winona State University. The campus placed third in CampusSplash.com’s first Dormy Awards for best residence halls, as covered by USA Today. It made the top three in the country in three divisions: #3 school for dorms #2 among best dorms in the country (Lucas Read more →
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: “I wasn’t really sure what was Read more →
Dr. Elizabeth Chiao of the Baylor College of Medicine, says living with her University of Houston professor husband and sons in the university dorms has brought out the homesickness of some students — especially when the husband and wife walk their pets: “They say, I miss my dogs. They want to walk the dogs, or Read more →
Alex Friedrich