"Landlords Fear Loss Of Thousands Of Potential Renters In Campus Area" WOSU News

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Steve Brown
WOSU News
March 28, 2008

For more than 50 years incoming students at Ohio State have been required to spend their first year in a dorm. OSU president Gordon Gee has proposed requiring sophomores to do the same. University officials cite research that shows living on campus leads to higher student grade point averages and graduation rates. But some university-area residents fear removing a big chunk of renters will have an impact on the urban flavor of the neighborhood. WOSU's Steve Brown reports

Of the 6,000 or so OSU sophomores, about half live in the University District just east of High Street. With more than 10,000 residents per square mile, it's by far the most densely-populated zip code in the city...

...Moore is among the many residents and civic leaders who've raised concerns about how president Gee's proposal to move sophomores into residence halls could affect the neighborhood. Gee defended the proposal in a recent appearance on WOSU's Open Line, giving a host of ways he says student benefit from living on campus...