University of Iowa housing crisis

from the Press-Citizen (8/25):

UI trying to find rooms for all of its students
by Emily Schettler

"The fourth-floor lounge of Slater Residence Hall wasn't what 18-year-old Kathryn Propstein had in mind when she imagined her first dorm room at the University of Iowa, but that's where she's spent her first week, along with six other roommates.

The women are among 120 students living in temporary housing while UI officials work to identify open beds. For now, Propstein and her roommates are waiting; waiting for other students to transfer or move off campus and the rooms those students occupied to open up." ...

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