Ice rink proposal is a bad idea

OK, I'll admit that the idea of making an off-campus helping office ("University creates office to help with off-campus housing," 2/7) is not a bad one. What bothers me is that the university is basically saying that the chances of Tufts ever building a DORM, which is the ONLY solution to the current housing crunch, is nil. What Tufts is unwilling to admit is that it is just going to shift all the unlucky juniors who get stuck with a crappy lottery number to the luck-of-the-draw chances of off-campus living. You must wonder, if Tufts increases the number of incoming students each year and doesn't build any new housing, how long it will take before the best chance for housing junior year will be to transfer to another school.