Just went to the NUSSU/OSA dialogue session. At the start, OSA released some numbers. It turns out that the increase in number of applicants wasn't a lot... maybe 200 more, as I can recall from memory. But apparently, that was enough to drive the CCA cutoff points from 38 to 45. And until University Town is up and running in 2010, there's very little OSA can do.
In any case, the questioners can mainly be divided into two classes: those who point out flaws in the hostel system, and those who accuse OSA of doing a poor job. A couple of suggestions were made, some reminiscent of the recent NTU threesome episode, but most comments and questions fall largely into the two category, including one person who kept hogging the microphone and debating with the OSA people (and interrupting another person asking a question as well).
Well, judging from the kind of responses of the audience and the questioners, I think most people did not get what they want, which is probably one of the following two things. One, for OSA to pull some new hostel rooms out of their pockets; two, for OSA to say that they've screwed up so bad it's worse than letting Mas Selamat escape.
However, it appears to me as if these people have pretty much ruled out the possibility of renting an apartment outside. I don't really know why, to be honest...
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