UO runs out of dorm rooms

8/8/2010: From Greg Bolt in the RG. If I understand it right more students than expected are coming and fewer than expected are dropping their dorm room contracts. Seems like housing is handling it much better than in 2008, when they shuffled the overflow across the river. This time they get rooms in privately owned apartment buildings near campus – very expensive rooms, however. The new dorm under construction behind Law will house 450 more students, I guess not until 2011 though. Next question, where will we teach them? I’ve had several classes with more students than desks recently. If the university can’t provide the necessary classrooms and office space either, maybe we should rent these from the private sector as well?