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[QUOTE="cuseinchina, post: 1540945, member: 3079"]
People think south campus is some kind of selling point.  I guess relative to some schools it would be, but really those apartments are about the quality level of a bad subsidized housing project.    I was a poor kid so I would have hated the idea that I am going to float when I was at SU...but our peer institutions doing this (BU comes to mind first) and it just makes sense on multiple levels...You can redevelop part of south campus into luxury apartments, put the athletes in half of them and fill the other half with kids willing and able to pay more for better housing.   Build in some retail amenities (juice bars, spa/hair salon - sorry garbos, and health club that caters to these rich kids. There are a bunch of kids who will be able to pay and will want to pay...right now those kids are just moving to certain developments off campus.  Better to capture the revenue by keeping them on campus and as an ancillary benefit we have a new 'hook' for recruiting athletes.     I don't know how this would work with the cost of attendance calculations etc - but there must be some 'fuzzy math' to get around that.
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