[GK3]

I am a bit confused. The undergraduate population in 1970 was 6,221. The undergraduate population in 2023 was 7,841. Stanford has built quite a bit of undergraduate housing since I left in 1972. Did they not build enough to house the additional 1,620 students? It would appear they did not, based on this Daily article. Given the MASSIVE building extravaganza over the last 50 years this is hard to credit. I am guessing there is more than a bit of chicanery going on here. I would like to see what the Housing Office numbers are regarding available housing vs number of students.

Other than the infamous trailers of Manzanita Park in fall of 1970, what new housing has been built for undergrads?  I know the trailers were meant to be “temporary” and ended up being an eyesore for more than a decade IIRC.

Some of the old Row houses were repurposed when the Greek system dried up in the 70s but I don’t think that increased capacity.

Governor's Corner dorms were all built after my time, nephew-in-law lived in one in the early 2000s and it was much nicer than Stern or Wilbur

Planning for Governor’s Corner began in 1978 as an answer to a housing need for 800 new students. Sterling Quadrangle was the final structure completed in a phase from 1982-1983 after the opening of the Independent Houses, Suites and Dining societies and the Elliott Program Center.

https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/...rling-quad

I guess I am too old to underestand how we got ourselves into this mess. I am one of a very few graduates who spent all four years in the same room in the same dorm at Stanford. My Freshman year, the University had too many acceptances to fit into Wilbur, so a few of us got sent to Stern. I spent the next four years in the same room with the same guys.  It had its good and bad parts, but I made a lot of life long friends, most of whom have sadly passed on. 
So how can an organization that has a plan, at least I hope we have a plan, as to how much the undergrad student body will grow.  That plan I would think would take into account the need for housing.  So if it is as bad as the Daily claims, one has to question "who is in charge here".

[GK3]

I am a bit confused. The undergraduate population in 1970 was 6,221. The undergraduate population in 2023 was 7,841. Stanford has built quite a bit of undergraduate housing since I left in 1972. Did they not build enough to house the additional 1,620 students? It would appear they did not, based on this Daily article. Given the MASSIVE building extravaganza over the last 50 years this is hard to credit. I am guessing there is more than a bit of chicanery going on here. I would like to see what the Housing Office numbers are regarding available housing vs number of students.

Other than the infamous trailers of Manzanita Park in fall of 1970, what new housing has been built for undergrads?  I know the trailers were meant to be “temporary” and ended up being an eyesore for more than a decade IIRC.

Some of the old Row houses were repurposed when the Greek system dried up in the 70s but I don’t think that increased capacity.

Governor's Corner dorms were all built after my time, nephew-in-law lived in one in the early 2000s and it was much nicer than Stern or Wilbur

Planning for Governor’s Corner began in 1978 as an answer to a housing need for 800 new students. Sterling Quadrangle was the final structure completed in a phase from 1982-1983 after the opening of the Independent Houses, Suites and Dining societies and the Elliott Program Center.

https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/...rling-quad

I guess I am too old to underestand how we got ourselves into this mess. I am one of a very few graduates who spent all four years in the same room in the same dorm at Stanford. My Freshman year, the University had too many acceptances to fit into Wilbur, so a few of us got sent to Stern. I spent the next four years in the same room with the same guys.  It had its good and bad parts, but I made a lot of life long friends, most of whom have sadly passed on. 
So how can an organization that has a plan, at least I hope we have a plan, as to how much the undergrad student body will grow.  That plan I would think would take into account the need for housing.  So if it is as bad as the Daily claims, one has to question "who is in charge here".