The Pool Is Nice, and So Are the Bigger Beds. But Hotel Living Is ‘Ludicrous’ for College Students.

While the number of unanticipated students is unusually high, Virginia Tech’s solution is no anomaly. In the last few decades, dozens of colleges have had to place students in hotel rooms, including James Madison, New York, Northeastern, and San Jose State Universities, and the Universities of Pittsburgh and Southern California, to name a few.