In response to the Room Pix housing shortage for 58 female rising sophomores, Campus Council approved a set of recommendations to Residence Life and Housing Services based on the notion that all members of the Class of 2011 should remain on West Campus in the Fall semester if possible.

At its general body meeting Thursday night, the council proposed five incentives for RLHS to offer relocating female rising juniors and seniors who selected a single on West during Room Pix. Members said they hoped RLHS would be flexible but break as few precedents as possible.

"We set the tradition of putting sophomores on West Campus," said President Molly Bierman, a junior. "How many traditions do we want to break?"

Bierman said the council's task is to come up with a solution and to prevent the problem from ever occurring in the future. But for now, she said members will make it a priority to help the 58 rising sophomores who were unable to select a bed space during Room Pix.

The council agreed that RLHS' best option would be to allow female rising juniors and seniors who selected a triple on West for Fall 2008 to move to a quadruple-occupancy apartment on Central Campus that would be reverted to a three-person occupancy.

Members also recommended that these displaced students receive either a one-third housing cost reduction per person or a one-fourth housing cost reduction in addition to a guaranteed space at the top of the Fall 2009 Room Pix lottery.

Members recommended that these incentives also apply to rising female juniors and seniors who selected a single on West and may choose to move to a double-occupancy, one-bedroom or studio apartment on Central.

The council proposed that RLHS also allow female rising juniors and seniors who selected either a single or a triple on West to move off campus if the entire triple is willing to relocate. Splitting up triples would mean breaking the precedent of sophomores living only with other sophomores, said Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services.

"We have inventoried every vacant bed that we have," Hull said. "[Breaking the standard] is not conducive to having a consistent housing plan in upcoming years."

Additionally, the council recommended that RLHS allow any displaced female who selected a single on West to move to a single-occupancy studio apartment on Central for the same price she would have paid for the room on West. RLHS should also offer these students the one-fourth housing cost reduction per person in exchange for their relocation, members said.

Hull said, however, that the $250 incentive RLHS offered Wednesday had appealed to students.

"We have made attractive offers, and people have taken advantage of it," Hull said. He did not specify how many rising junior and senior females who chose singles on West had agreed to relocate.

Members also recommended that RLHS offer the $250 incentive per person to the block of rising sophomore males displaced from Craven Quadrangle to Edens Quadrangle to compensate them for their inconvenience.

"The root cause of the mess-up is beyond unfortunate and should never have happened... no way, no how," Hull said. "But it did."