OUR VIEW: Housing contract underlap is ridiculous

Nearing the end of the school year with summer quickly approaching, students are getting ready to pack up their rooms and move to a new location. Some will be returning to their homes with their parents, whether in or out of state, while others will be relocating to just a different location in the valley where they will remain on their own.

For people living on campus, students are to be out of their rooms on May 3, the last day of finals. With that installed move-out date, students are forced to pack up all of their belongings and clean their room and apartments in the midst of studying for the ever-looming finals, creating additional stress.

For those staying in the valley over summer vacation, some places are not allowing people to move in until May 7, creating a four-day period where the individual is left with nowhere to go, with all of their belongings in tow.

It is a known fact that senior citizens will be coming to move into some of the campus housing and other camps will be arriving to inhibit some of the area, and the housing agencies help and cooperation to work with all of the rearranging is appreciated.

However, it seems as though there could be some slight improvement as to the communication held between the on and off campus housing agencies.

Campus housing should provide students an extra day or two to pack up and move out after finals, rather than interfering with this testing week.

Off-campus housing should allow new inhabitants to move in a couple days sooner. If both housing agencies changed their move out and move in dates by two days, placing them on the same day, students would be benefit greatly as they would be able to move their belongings straight from one location to the next.

Doing this would eliminate some of the finals week pressure, as well as an inconvenient four days where students have to find some place to stay.