Some of the current sophomore class was "overbooked" in the housing lottery last Sunday, according to Residence Life. Fifteen women are presently slotted to live in doubles in North Quad, but Assistant Director of Residence Life Rob Andrews said Wednesday that those sophomores would not be living in North next year and that they would be moved from their current location once housing becomes available. "We designated spaces for sophomores based on the percentage of students who usually stay at Brandeis, on campus, for their second year," Andrews said. "We didn't bank on Rosenthal being as male-heavy as it was."

According to Andrews, more men elected to live in coed spaces and thus fewer total spaces were available for women, causing the overflow into North.

Zoe Pollock '06 is one of the students currently assigned to live in a double in North Quad.

"I'm trying to laugh about this, but it seems like I've got the absolute worst housing out of all my friends," she said.

Pollock was told she might be living in a double in Cable Hall (which traditionally houses only first-year in doubles), across from the resident advisor and "with some girl I don't know."

"I'm really frustrated with housing ... there seems like so much red tape," she said.

Some upperclassmen wait for housing

Uncertainty was the theme of the housing lottery for upperclassmen last Monday and Tuesday, as some current sophomores and juniors wondered where they would be living next year.

According to Andrews, there are essentially two waiting lists this year: one to get housing, the other to get into The Village.

The Village is the temporary label Residence Life is using to refer to the new quad being built adjacent to Ziv Quad. While the University has not announced the name of any of the residence halls, the Palm Beach Daily News reported that one of the halls would be named Lorraine and Jack N. Friedman Hall after a Palm Beach couple who donated $6 million to Brandeis as part of the "Campaign for Brandeis," a University fund-raising effort.

Rising juniors and seniors who took part in the housing lottery had the option to sign up for The Village.

Andrews said he anticipates hearing word by as early as April that The Village will be ready to house students next semester. Then, he said, Residence Life can fill the new residence halls with suites from Ziv and other quads.

"We'll just take that entire suite from Ziv (or anywhere else) and move them in the new dorm," Andrews said.

With the advent of The Village, residence life hopes to house all students currently waiting to receive any kind of housing.