A mom’s perspective of Denison

weenie
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:29:30 +0000

birch45:

Good points! My son actually wanted to room next year in a triple - but I think I’ve talked him out of it. I think it’s just too many distractions. The problem is he likes his roommate and they have a good friend who has no one to room with.

I attended a meeting here at home with Pres. Knobel recently and he was talking about a few things related to housing. First off they are trying to shrink the student body by 200 to 300 kids permanently (starting with the fall 2006 class), in part to ease housing and in part because they feel Denison is getting too big to be as personal as they’d like it to be. (Maybe they are simply trying to improve their stats – who knows.)

He also was talking about the cycle of renovation for the dorms. They finished Smith two years ago (?) and are planning on moving on to Shorney and two other buildings that I can’t remember on the other quad. He said they were actually trying to create more single rooms on campus (?!).

Another couple of buildings of Sunset opened in September, and they now guarantee all seniors an apt in there. I wish they had enough for juniors too!

I’ll have to ask my son if he knows kids squished into housing. I haven’t heard him talk about that, but that doesn’t mean a thing. He does know upper classmen though, I’m sure of that.

I know bad housing can really affect kids’ grades at school. I know it did for me when I was in a bad situation way-back-when.

Thanks for your post! I’ll try to get some more scoop.