Student housing questions

JonoBN41 · #1 04-03-2007, 09:24 PM

A dorm is not like a hotel. Paying for the double room doesn't pay for the lost tuition of another student who could be living there and attending school.

In effect, this kid is kicking another kid out of college. What gives him the right to do that?

john1082 · #2 04-03-2007, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by JonoBN41

A dorm is not like a hotel. Paying for the double room doesn't pay for the lost tuition of another student who could be living there and attending school.

In effect, this kid is kicking another kid out of college. What gives him the right to do that?

It is called a reasonable accomodation and for the past two years it has been acceptable with the university. Now there is a new housing administrator who wants butts in rooms.

He isn't depriving a kid from attending the university, just from a bed in a dorm. If the kid who doesn't get into the dorm can handle living downtown and this kid can't then should the non-disabled kid oust the disabled kid from the school? That is the flip side of your argument.

School for the fittest?

GammaZeta · #3 04-03-2007, 09:46 PM

Jono, John is right about mental disabilities. I personally suffer from ADHD and OCD, but thankfully I have them pretty much under control. Don't tell me it doesn't affect people's lives. Don't tell me it doesn't affect my life when I have to check to make sure I locked the door 5 times and that I unplugged the iron 7 times, for reasons I don't even know or understand, before heading to class or leaving my apartment. I used to HAVE to do it.

If it was in Mass., I could help you out more John. If you need some research done, let me know (lexisnexis and westlaw here I come!).

Personally, I just think the admin. needs a kick in the pants. I really do think that kick needs to be filing with the AG as well as whoever enforces the ADA standards on a state level.

I think I read while quickly looking over the law briefly that there are some free counsel available in Az. for filing such a complaint.

I don't have the time tonight to look any further unfortunately.

Trey_P-I_47 · #4 04-03-2007, 09:47 PM

Yeah I was gonna suggest an apartment myself, but if he is incapable of handling that then there is no reason why he shouldnt be allowed to stay in a double by himself as long as he is paying.

I can also personally attest to the fact that living off campus is somewhat cheaper, most Colleges make you purchase a meal plan if you live on campus, which at my school was a waste of $3000, more than enough to cover rent, and then I dont have to pay room and board either so I was sitting on $6000 owed to the school to be cramped up in a dorm and eat crappy caf food at most twice a day (when I ate there), especially when I was paying for 3. So based on my math it was more economical to rent an apartment, buy my own food, and travel, than it was for me to live on campus, eat the worst food imaginable, and have to live by their rules.....NO THANK YOU

GammaZeta · #5 04-03-2007, 09:48 PM

Yeah, Trey's situation was the same at my school. It was cheaper, and easier to live off capus. Look into it!

EM1843 · #6 04-04-2007, 07:20 AM

John I don't think that you have to involve the AG to enforce it, you can file a civil suit for an injunction, or so it would seem to me in my reading of the codes. There has to be an AZ attorney who does this sort of thing.

GammaZeta · #7 04-04-2007, 08:26 AM

Yes, EM may be right. Here in Massachusetts, discrimination cases must originate with MCAD, Mass. Commission Against Discrimination.

lambdaindenver · #8 04-04-2007, 10:11 AM

John - is there a reason why the student has to live in the dormitories. It would seem to be a reasonable accomodation for him to live in an apartment off campus - thus providing the privacy which he needs for his medical condition. I don't believe that NAU has a requirement that juniors live in the dormitories.

If he is wanting to live in the dormitories because he does not want to have to worry about meals, then the reasonable accomodation is to pay for the meal plan and live off campus. Money does not appear to be the issue.

If his condition is such that he can live off campus, then I don't think that NAU has to provide him with a single room.

Why aren't the student and his parents engaged in a discussion with the University? That is their obligation.