<p>The situation is unusual which is why it made the news. Most parents of a small child do not have the luxury of going to a full board college, and if they do, they tend to live off campus, and this sort of thing is avoided. But with the locaton of NYU and cost of housing NYC, I could see this situation occurred. Apparently the mother of the child wanted a single too. Don’t know if it was an oversight on NYU’s part not to take this situation into consideration in giving her a shared room, don’t know if it is a shared room or apartment that is at issue, and don’t know if the mother just didn’t tell NYU the sitaution, and asked for that category of room due to cost issues. A single studio is going to cost more than a shared suite or apartment there. </p>
<p>But though I agree with the young woman who was not happy, that having a child there for the maximum visitation allowed creates a crimp in everyone else’s life in the apartment, unless there is some stipulation that can be cited in the dorm contract, the mother was within her rights. As I said before, I can think of some charactors I’d much less have as my roommate’s guest than a little boy.</p>