April 27, 2004
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Homeless student lived in library for seven months
A homeless New York student says he slept for seven months in a university library without being caught.
Steve Stanzak, 20, says he set up home in New York University's main library because he couldn't afford housing costs on top of his tuition.
He was finally discovered by administrators last week They found his website, www.homelessatnyu.com, in which he chronicled his undercover life in the Bobst Library on New York's Washington Square.
Stanzak said he washed himself in the library's toilets, had an occasional shower at friends' dorms and kept his clothes and books in lockers.
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LOL, i went to this guy's website before
I had a friend who lived in the "pressing room," this closet sort of thing on my dorm floor at Michigan State, for six months. It all makes sense.
Oh how nice of the administration that they're going to give him "free housing" for the rest of the semester...all 2 weeks of it. NYU sucks because they do nothing for their students. They've had 3 suicides this year (ironically 2 of them at Bobst library) and now this poor kid has been working 4 jobs just to pay his $31,000/year tuition. They give almost no financial aid. Crazy.
hah, that's another interesting one...
Washing in Toilets... this guys gonna succeed for sure.
NYU comes off as a real toilet when you look at its cost to academics ratio; it's one of the most expensive American colleges (if not the most expensive).
there are many tales of people living at the architecture studios at my university too. it's a global phenomenon and i think universities could take this as a sound income-generating opportunity.
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