Reporter Volume 26, No.1 September 1,1994

Available: high-style living for upper class students. Two bedrooms,
kitchen, living room, wall-to-wall carpeting, free parking, 24-hour
security, easy access to campus, reasonable rent. Contact Residence
Halls Director Joseph Krakowiak.
	These signs haven't been plastered on billboards around campus
yet, but they could be coming soon. Residence Halls administrators are
actively seeking ways to make on-campus living more attractive to
upper class students, who traditionally migrate to apartments.
	For starters, six-people-per-room sleeping quarters may now
exist only at the Erie County Correctional Facility, since they have
been eliminated from the dorms. In their place, explains Clifford B.
Wilson, associate vice president for student affairs, are
apartment-like suites and single rooms which could entice juniors and
seniors to stay on campus.
	Wilson calls the concept "upper class floors." Suites with
such amenities as modern kitchens, furnished common living areas  and
rugs or new carpeting are designed to make the dormitories more
competitive with off-campus housing areas.
	Krakowiak explained that the new "penthouse" suites in
Ellicott Towers and Goodyear Hall could be, if successful, a preview
of the future of dormitory design. In the Red Jacket Towers,
six-person rooms have been utilized to create suites with two roomy
double bedrooms, for two students each, and a shared living room. The
floor is serviced by a common kitchen, featuring instant hot water, a
microwave, new countertops, stoves and sinks.
	In Goodyear Hall, doors were added to connect three doubles;
the closet area of the middle room was replaced with a kitchenette,
and that room was carpeted and furnished as a living room.
"Consumer demand," explains Krakowiak. "We are looking for ways to
keep more students in on-campus settings."  Convenience and safety are
also important criteria for students who choose to live on campus, he
adds.
	In related news, the architectural firm Hamilton Houston
Lownie of Buffalo has been selected to design apartment-style campus
housing for graduate, professional and married students, according to
Associate Vice President for University Facilities Ronald Nayler. The
state budget appropriated more than $13 million for the project this
year. To be built on the northwest corner of the campus, near Sweet
Home High School, the project is expected to create a self-contained
residential community with one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom
apartments available.