http://www.statenews.com Michael Baumgarten knew he wanted to live off campus, but he struggled to find roommates in time to sign a lease for renting an East Lansing house. en-us Foundry4 Tue, 13 May 2008 08:10:05 -0400 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:05:52 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/13307/view How about RHA also investigates why this year Housing and Food Services forced residents that have single rooms to renew their housing contracts in November? Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:03:26 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/13307/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/13374/view That issue has been discussed with U.H. Without having the exact minutes in front of me, I’m going to try to answer as best I can. THe primary reason is competition with apartments. The primary reason they moved the date earlier is so that they can better compete with the apartments. If E.L. City Council can get the apartment date moved back, I believe U.H. will also move theirs to later in the year. Additionally, using a new web-based program this year threw in a twist. Since it was a new program, they didn’t want to overload it all at once,until it had been proven to work well, so they decided to spread the sign-up dates over a longer period of time, so some dates went earlier and some went longer. Hope that works for you! Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:05:52 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/13374/view