Why has the University decided to go down the more large scale hotel-ish dorms route with South, North, and soon Woodlawn? When I look at other Universities' expansion of undergraduate housing they seem to try and put more charm into each place. Specifically I think of Yale's new Franklin College and Murray College where they went to a lot of pain to keep it for the most part in line with Yale's other architecture. Vanderbilt and Princeton are doing/has done similar things with their residential colleges as well. UChicago is clearly interested in keeping more undergrads living on campus. If Zimmer and Boyer want to do this in order to emulate other schools like Harvard and Yale is it really the right call build massive modern complexes that other schools seem to think won't be as attractive to prospective undergrads? Is this more of a financial play and the mega dorms are cheaper ways trying to keep undergrads on campus than the more ornate and/or traditional collegiate residents halls?
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