With the completion of two new Uptown residence halls this past summer, Tulane University announced that students would henceforth be required to live on campus through their junior year. The updated campus housing policy is backgrounded by a surrounding local community that has long campaigned against Tulane students moving into the neighborhood and turning “doubles to dorms.” Among students, however, the prevailing understanding of the rationale for the policy change was as a money grab by the university, which also began to require first and second-year students to purchase the most expensive, unlimited-tier meal plan.
An analysis of The Hullabaloo’s student survey confirms this sentiment as the dominant one. The survey, collected in Fall 2025, comprised a…..