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Media Relations

IU President: New IUS residence halls an ‘advantage’

News And Tribune
June 11, 2008

By Tara Hettinger

Wearing a white construction hat with "IU" written on it, Indiana University President Michael McRobbie walked through the new residence halls Tuesday at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany with IUS Chancellor Sandra Patterson-Randles at his side.

At their first stop, the duo, along with other staff members, walked into a four-bedroom, two-bath lodge, where each student would have his or her own room.

While checking out the first of the bedrooms, Patterson-Randles laughed as she demonstrated to McRobbie how much bigger the single room is compared to the double she lived in as an undergraduate student at University of Colorado at Boulder.

McRobbie said the same was true for him, at his college in Australia.

He said there is a push among Big 10 schools to make residence halls bigger and better. He said IUS' new lodges will give the university an advantage over others.

Read the entire article at: http://www.news-tribune.net/local/local_story_163100312.html

Learn more about IU Southeast at: http://www.ius.edu

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