FAST FACTS• On-campus housing applications for fall 2011: 3,472.• Residence hall demographics : 52 percent freshmen; 48 percent upperclassmen.• Number of single-bed rooms converted to two-bed rooms: 18Source: UTC
Kareem Bushnag signed up too late for UTC on-campus housing, so he was placed in a hotel room at the Chattanooga Choo Choo.
The semester is almost over, and the 18-year-old Knoxville native is still living in a hotel.
“There are not too many pros [about living in a hotel],” he said. “It’s farther from campus; I have to take the shuttle. It’s not as convenient; most of my friends are on-campus.”
Of about 170 students placed in hotel rooms at the start of the semester, 51 still remain at the Choo Choo on Market Street, said Dee Dee Anderson, associate vice chancellor for student development at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.