Many lottery and housing speculations have been floating around campus, especially those involving next year's living situation for upperclassmen.

Recently, word has been spread that upperclassmen may be placed back in underclassmen housing, such as VWK, Campus South or Marycrest. Associate director for assignments in residential services Constance Robertson said that in her 14 years with UD that has never occurred.

"It would be a very unusual event," Robertson said. "Campus South and VWK will be full of sophomores. We have to deny sophomore groups housing in those spots."

If upperclassmen don't receive a lottery number in order to guarantee a UD house, that group will be placed on a waiting list. The wait list lottery works on first come, first serve basis.

Robertson said there will be plenty of Garden Apartments available to upperclassmen and anticipates many of the upcoming juniors to be placed there. If Gardens is not filled with upperclassmen, housing will then offer apartments to sophomores.

"In my 14 years here, we've always been able to offer housing to any junior or senior student that wanted to live with us," Robertson said. "However, that [location] is not always what they want."

Housing will be available to all upperclassmen, because not all students choose to live in UD housing, she said. Typically, 10 to 12 percent of seniors choose to live elsewhere, either off-campus or through landlord housing, and 65 to 70 percent of juniors choose to live in UD housing.

"If every junior and senior wanted to live with us, we would be hard pressed to have enough beds," Robertson said. "Historically, every junior and senior doesn't want to live with us because there are a least 300 to 400 landlord beds in the preferred locations around UD."

Robertson said they have 15 lotteries starting at the same time on March 14 with the different sizes of male and female groups. Housing applications opened Thursday, Feb. 11 Group members have until 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 25 to complete the housing contract for the lottery on March 14.

For more information, contact Residence Life at 937-229-3317 or at http://housing.udayton.edu.