Ball State has started classes and students are moved in, but some students from the Honors College aren't living where Housing and Residence Life had once expected them to.
The newly renovated DeHority Complex, which first opened in 1960 as four all-women's halls, was expected to house 600 men and women in the Honors College.
Instead, about 550 Ball State students are living in DeHority, and the Honors College's overflow students were placed in other residence halls, such as Studebaker East Complex.
Rumors started during the summer said that the complex wouldn't be large enough to house all of the students in the Honors College because it accepted more students than usual this year.
Alan Hargrave, director of Housing and Residence Life, said the placement of students was the same as usual. Hargrave said similar situations had happened in the past when Honors College students lived in the Johnson residence halls.
"Overflow students [were] placed in Studebaker East, but this isn't a new phenomena," he said. "In the past, overflow students used to be placed in places like LaFollette."
Honors College students who had roommates that weren't in the Honors College were more likely to be relocated to alternative halls, Hargrave said.
But sophomore DeHority resident Britni Leister said that shouldn't matter.
"I've heard that a lot of freshmen are living in DeHority," Leister said. "My roommate isn't in the Honors College, but if there's one Honors student, then it shouldn't matter. It should be reserved for upperclassmen."
However, some students said it doesn't matter who should have first dibs on DeHority rooms and are just upset that there is an overflow in general. Hargrave said he rests assured that students who aren't living in DeHority will still feel like they are part of the Honors College. DeHority Residence Hall Director Kari Ceo said she agrees.
"[The Honors students in the other halls] have access to the building in terms of the exhibition room and seminar area," Ceo said.
Students are finding ways to communicate with the students in the Honors College who aren't living in DeHority when different opportunities come up in the program, she said.
"We're trying to get everyone on the same page as to what's going on," she said.
It may not be a horrible thing that not everyone in the Honors College can live in DeHority, Ceo said.
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