Residence Life and Student Housing has a big problem on its hands this fall: There are more campus residents than there are spaces for them in the residence halls.

This is due to the fact that there are 40 to 50 more first-years this year than RLSH planned for and there are up to 600 upperclassmen wanting to live on campus this semester as well.

Upperclassmen are bearing the brunt of the discomfort in this sticky situation. The resident assistants are dealing with their fair share too, however. RAs typically have gotten rooms to themselves, but until this dilemma is resolved, many of the displaced residents will be sharing rooms with them.

RLSH is depending on no-shows to be able to house the unfortunate people who have been relegated to temporary housing. Any people who haven’t claimed their spaces by 5 p.m. on Wednesday will forfeit their rooms and the people in temporary housing will get to move in.

The question is, though, what will RLSH do if there are less no-shows than there are students in temporary housing? What will happen to them then? It seems that there was some poor planning on RLSH’s part.

Maybe the university should consider changing its policy on scholarship athletes. As it stands, they are required to live on campus for 3 years. If this were changed, that would at least decrease the number of upperclassmen needing on-campus housing, thus freeing up more beds.