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Summer Housing Opens Options for Stern Students
Aliza Vishniavsky
Issue date: 5/13/08 Section: Features
The end of May at Stern College for Women (SCW) means that it is time to pack up a year's worth of books, papers, and clothing in preparation for a summer away from the Midtown campus. However, some women who are pursuing summer plans in the New York City environs have the opportunity to delay their packing for a month, as they have the option of extending their stay in Beren campus housing.
Residence life provides housing free of charge for SCW and Sy Syms School of Business (SSSB) students who attend classes in the first SCW summer school session or in the joint program at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
Additionally, women who are doing internships for credit or are conducting research alongside university professors are eligible for free housing. In the past, the dorms have also been open to women participating in the summer learning program, which will not take place this year. Students doing research live in apartments in the Lexington Plaza building, located on Lexington Avenue between East 31st Street and East 32nd Street, while all other students live in Schottenstein Residence Hall.
According to Shana Glasser, associate director of Residence Life, about 120 students take advantage of the summer housing arrangements in a typical year. The department expects the same amount this year.
Students move into their assigned room during the end of finals week and are expected to vacate their room on July 1st. Glasser explained that a lot of maintenance needs to be performed at Schottenstein, so it is easier for everyone if the work gets done when no one is living in the building. The research students, however, are allowed to remain in their apartments through the end of July, since many of them continue their projects after the July 1st move-out date.
In addition to current SCW and SSSB students, the dorms are used by Summer@YU, a co-ed summer program for high school students directed by the Office of Admissions. The program houses its participants, advisors, and the couple who runs its programming in the SCW dorms. This year, the high school women will live in the 35th Street dorm and the men will live in the 36th Street dorm.
Residence life provides housing free of charge for SCW and Sy Syms School of Business (SSSB) students who attend classes in the first SCW summer school session or in the joint program at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
Additionally, women who are doing internships for credit or are conducting research alongside university professors are eligible for free housing. In the past, the dorms have also been open to women participating in the summer learning program, which will not take place this year. Students doing research live in apartments in the Lexington Plaza building, located on Lexington Avenue between East 31st Street and East 32nd Street, while all other students live in Schottenstein Residence Hall.
According to Shana Glasser, associate director of Residence Life, about 120 students take advantage of the summer housing arrangements in a typical year. The department expects the same amount this year.
Students move into their assigned room during the end of finals week and are expected to vacate their room on July 1st. Glasser explained that a lot of maintenance needs to be performed at Schottenstein, so it is easier for everyone if the work gets done when no one is living in the building. The research students, however, are allowed to remain in their apartments through the end of July, since many of them continue their projects after the July 1st move-out date.
In addition to current SCW and SSSB students, the dorms are used by Summer@YU, a co-ed summer program for high school students directed by the Office of Admissions. The program houses its participants, advisors, and the couple who runs its programming in the SCW dorms. This year, the high school women will live in the 35th Street dorm and the men will live in the 36th Street dorm.
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