What a dorm room looks like as Purdue squeezes in record freshman class
Angry calls by the hundreds coming in from parents as Purdue adds beds to dorm rooms, finds off-campus housing for a freshman class numbering more than 10,000
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Purdue has to squeeze in a record 10,000-plus freshmen somehow.
And judging from the call volume on campus, not everyone’s ha…
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