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Wolfe Street Apartments to Shut Down Indefinitely

By KEDRIN HERRON on 02/20/2012 1:23 am / no comments

Graduate student occupants of Wolfe Street Apartments will soon have to relocate.

Friday, Feb. 16, members of the Graduate Student Senate met with administrators from residence housing at Ohio University. With Wolfe Street Apartments being formerly owned by Residence Life, GSS members gathered in Chubb Hall to discuss a housing assessment with figureheads for graduate students.

Recently, the student body has been informed that Wolfe Street Apartments will no longer be available for residency. The $950 per month complex is currently under a lease that will expire this year. That decision poses a problem for residential graduates pursuing further education on the university campus.

As the only on-campus housing facility, the apartments are not only made available to graduate students. Married couples with children, single parents with children, faculty and staff are also eligible for residency.

The university has publicly released the announcement that the apartment complex will be closed down indefinitely. Official closing is scheduled to take effect at the end of the current academic school year on June 15, 2012. Currently home to 72 occupants, the building will be demolished for renovation. Those individuals who chose to live there will be forced to search for a new place to call home.

GSS President and current Wolfe Street Apartments resident, Tracy Kelly, was among those included in Friday’s meeting. “Wolfe Street Apartments was owned by the university … that’s why we were meeting with Residence Life, to see what we could do in terms of promoting greater awareness of graduate student housing needs,” she said.

It seems as if members of the GSS successfully found a way to make ends meet with Residence Life administrators. “The end result is that we are going to do a graduate student housing assessment,” Kelly said.

GSS not only confirmed a housing assessment, but also addressed what could be done to establish additional plans for graduate housing in the future. Members of the GSS are making moves now to ensure residential stability for non-undergrads in the future.