More housing rumors dispelled…
One residential rumor that has recently been circulating amid the student body claims that William Greenleaf Eliot and Brookings Residential Colleges were only built to last ten years, and because of that, they are to be torn down fairly soon.
“WGE, Brookings, and all the new Residential Colleges on the South 40 are intended to be with us for much longer than 10 years,” said Dean Justin Carroll.
Carroll cited other construction plans as a reason for confusion.
“Perhaps someone is confusing our intention to replace nearly all the remaining older facilities on the South 40 over the next several years (could be 10 years, could be shorter or longer). It is highly unlikely that the university would replace one of our newer facilities before all the older halls are replaced or renovated,” said Carroll.
Yet another rumor that Dean Carroll dispelled is that, in time, the South 40 is going to become completely graduate housing. This story also says that undergraduate housing would move to a school-owned plot of 16 acres near the Forest Park Metrolink station.
“I have been at WU for over 22 years and we have never, in that time, housed graduate students on campus,” said Carroll.
He doubted that graduate students would want to live in the traditional residence hall setup that is on the South 40 and said that, to his knowledge, there are no current construction plans for the 16 acres near the Metrolink station.