University overbooks beds, improvises dorm space

The University of Kentucky in the United States has overbooked its dorms by hundreds of students and is now scrambling to create makeshift dorms and double up private rooms usually reserved for resident advisers, reports the Associated Press.

News outlets report about 2,400 returning students want to stay on campus, along with a majority of the university’s 5,450 incoming students. University spokeswoman Sarah Geegan says all students will be assigned a room for the upcoming school year, just some of those rooms will have been converted from multipurpose rooms.

Affected students will pay a two-person housing rate of about US$3,750 per semester, a reduction of nearly US$800 from the normal rate.
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