Squatters Rights
This early opportunity is offered prior to other housing sign-up opportunities for the Fall semester. It allows a current resident in college housing (i.e. Armington, Clark, Emerson, Van Kampen and the Ocean View Apartments) to reserve a complete room/apartment in their same hall. In many cases, current residents reserve their same room or apartment for the following Fall semester.**
Requirement: An early group applcation for a Squatters Rights request "must fill" a room or apartment to full occupancy in order to be considered.
Deadline: 8:00 AM (PST) on Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Application: Early Group Application for Fall Semester
A current resident must be included in a completed "Early Group Application for Fall Semester." Off-campus commuters, or residents in other halls, may be included in the group app with a current resident. However, each student must go to the online application to ACCEPT the grouping. You don't need to be a resident to originate a Squatters group, but at least one current resident in that hall must be in your grouping.
Squatters Rights Night will be at 10:00 PM on March 22 in each residence hall. Each Resident Director (RD) will confirm who will remain in their same rooms. If two roommates wish to squat the same room with different groups, the RD will determine which group may remain in the same room. Then, squatters' requests to remain in the same hall (but not the same room) may request a room elsewhere in that hall.
**IMPORTANT RESTRICTION: Students who reserve a room or apartment by Squatters Rights will not be allowed to cancel their reservation (in order to request different on-campus housing or off-campus commuting)
until April 23 , the week following the conclusion of the Housing Selection event.
This prohibition is enforced to preserve the integrity of housing sign-ups for all involved, and to prevent confusion which could be caused by changing assignments.