<p>Moreover and gadad - just to clarify some things, obviously people often make a situation sound worse than it is. You know students, just looking for a cause to protest! LOL. Not that there isn’t a legitimacy to some of it. Anyway, just to set the record straight, about 65% or more of the full time undergrads live on campus. The reason the stats are misleading is Tulane has a School of Continuing Studies, i.e. their night and weekend school. The 7200 number of undergrads includes this. Of course the 1500-2,000 people in this program do not reside on campus. The number of “normal” college students, meaning the ones that are not permanent residents of New Orleans and attend full time, less the few percent that are full time that happen to be from New Orleans, is about 5,000-5,200. There are about 3,300-3,500 beds in the dorms, I believe, so in fact well more than half live on campus. Just to make that clear. And as that thread says, there is a brand new dorm being constructed that will have a professor and family living there (the Residential College style, as they call it) that will be available for fall 2011. There are plans for another new dorm right after that one (also residential college style) and the plans are for all dorms to be residential college style within 10 or so years.</p>
<p>As far as meals, one can purchase an unlimited meal plan and it is quite reasonable. It is some of the other plans, along with the fact that sophomores are required to be on a meal plan, that are the focus of the discussions.</p>