Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Handbook of Student Housing (1950) [PAGE 15]

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In general, if your student home does not serve meals, it will be better for you to arrange for board during or after the registration period.

In University-operated emergency housing units, rates range from $67 to $90 a semester. These rates do not include meals. If you expect to eat your meals out, you should arrange your budget so as to allow from $12 to $15 a week for board. There are approximately 17 weeks in each semester to be planned for when figuring the food costs for one semester. In privately-operated houses where meals are served, you can expect to pay between $290 and $330 for room and board for a semester. In privately-operated housing without board, rates will range from $60 to $140, depending on the number of students you live with, how good the accommodations and equipment are, how far the house is from the campus. In fraternities and sororities, your charges include room and board, chapter dues, and, sometimes, social dues and building fund assessments. Altogether, the average semester cost will be approximately $335, to be paid in installments by the month.

Dining Room in a Cooperative Home

ABOUT H O W M U C H WILL 1 HAVE TO PAY FOR A SEMESTER'S R O O M A N D BOARD?

These figures are estimates only, because they are subject to change from one semester to the next, and because the services included in these quotations vary from one housing unit to another. For example, some of the rates include the cost of bed linen, laundry and maid service, while others do not, and some include 18 meals per week, some 19, and some 20. You should always find out what the rate includes when you compare prices. In University-owned residence halls, semester rates range from about $290 to $340. This amount includes room rent, and maid service daily except Sundays, and 20 meals a week. Your bed linen is furnished and laundered by the University.

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Study Room—Women's Residence Hall

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