<p>The University of Chicago is hardly “reminiscent” of Swarthmore College. There is no university with 5000 undergrads that bears any resemblence to the educational or residential experience at Swarthmore. Don’t kid yourself.</p>
<p>For example, at Swarthmore you won’t need a map to “Find Your TA” as you do at UChicago:</p>
<p>[PhySci</a> 122: Where’s my TA?](<a href=“http://astro.uchicago.edu/classes/physci/122/spring-1999/ta.html]PhySci ”>http://astro.uchicago.edu/classes/physci/122/spring-1999/ta.html )</p>
<p>At Swarthmore, you don’t have to worry about whether you can get a room on campus as this report suggests at Chicago:</p>
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The University of Chicago now ranks as the lowest among top private universities in the United States in its rate of housing undergraduate students in our own residential system, having relied for many decades on the ability of (and willingness of) our students to garner cheap flats or rooms in the neighborhood. Over the years this process (and practice) of exporting our students off campus came to be naturalized and habitual in terms of expected behavior. Yet, at the same time, we have strong evidence that our students love the College’s housing system and that they warmly remember it after they have left the College as young alumni. If the faculty believes that our housing system affords our students strong social and cultural support for their academic development and their growth as intelligent and socially responsible adults, why should we not provide more opportunities for more of our students to live in our Houses? Our academic peers offer a much denser and more engaging residential experience than we do. We house only 56 percent of our students on campus, including students housed in what are clearly sub-standard buildings, and this number will not change when the new building south of Burton-Judson Courts opens; that facility will do no more than replace the loss of Shoreland Hall.
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<p><a href=“Page Not Found | University of Chicago ”>http://www.uchicago.edu/pdfs/boyer_report.pdf</a></p> ;
<p>Can you say “fend for yourself”?</p>