The following appeared in a memo from the director of student housing at Buckingham college:
“To serve the housing needs of our students, Buckingham College should build a number of new dormitories. Buckingham’s enrollment is growing and, based on current trends, will double over the next 50 years, thus making the existing dormitory space inadequate. Moreover, the average rent for an apartment in our town has risen in recent years. Consequently, students will find it difficult to afford off-campus housing. Finally, attractive new dormitories would make prospective students more likely to enroll at Buckingham.”
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The director of student housing at Buckingham College has proposed building a number of new dormitories to cater to the housing needs of their students. This proposal has been corroborated by assaying the existing trends and predicting that the enrollment would double in the next fifty years, and the current dormitory space would then be inadequate to serve the space requirements of the students. The director has also reported that due to the increase in the average rents in the recent years, students will find it difficult to afford the off campus housing and hence concluded that attractive n...
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