The frustration in freshman Kara Alfonsi’s face is impossible to miss as she leaves the Office of Residential Life. She is a member of Pace women’s soccer team, has a 3.93 GPA, and 17 housing points. Still, Alfonsi is denied housing in Pace’s new resident building.

Associate Director of Housing Operations Matthew Landau said that out of the 480 students who will be living in the new Alumni Hall only about 70 of them will be upperclassmen, and that includes Resident Assistants.

“We have an emphasis on first year students and first year interest groups,” Landau said. “Basically, first year students will all go to Alumni Hall in the future, and that will be all first year students; there will be no upperclassman in Alumni Hall in future years.”

Alfonsi is only one of the students at Pace who have issued their discomfort with the fact that the new dormitory opening next semester will host mostly freshmen students.

“The fact that the new residence hall is reserved for incoming freshman only is absurd,” Alfonsi said. “It’s not fair that all focus is on the incoming freshmen, we still pay the same tuition.”

Landau said the decision was based on the fact that returning students still have the Townhouse community, which has room for 270 residents. It is more expensive to live in a townhouse, and Alfonsi thinks that Residential Life should have thought about that before making Alumni Hall into a freshman building.

Shutting down the Briarcliff campus has also caused a financial worry for some students. Going from around 600 students at Briarcliff this semester to about 80 students next semester means there will be fewer triple and quad rooms available.

Associate Director of Housing Operations Matthew Lavery believes that there will be about a dozen fewer triple and quad room options next semester. That means that for students that did not get a triple or a quad in either North Hall, Martin Hall or Dow Hall will have to get two suite doubles next to each other in Dow Hall for $615 more per semester than they would pay for a normal triple or quad room.

Erin Bigger, Meghan Haslett, Drew Ribadeneyra, and Lauren DeSousa are four of the people that are going to be suffering from the closing of Briarcliff next semester.

“Three of my friends and I are currently sharing a quad because it is so much cheaper than a suite or a double. It is already really expensive to go to school here and now when we can’t stay in a quad, it’s going to be hard for me to stay next year,” Bigger said.

Dow Hall and Howard Johnson Hall are the only buildings that will be in use next semester, which means that Briarcliff residents will no longer have a place where they can buy food on campus.

Executive Director of Auxiliary Services Mary Lieto said that the mandatory meal plan for Briarcliff students next semester will be $900, $450 out of which will be flex dollar that students can use off campus with merchants in and around Briarcliff and Pleasantville.

Lieto also said that Chartwell’s will be offering prepackaged takeout items that students can take back with them from the Pleasantville campus and that each room at the Briarcliff campus will have a micro fridge in them next semester. They also plan to install additional vending machines in the halls that will be stocked with fresh food daily.

Next academic year will be the final year that Briarcliff campus will be in use. From the fall 2016 semester on, additional buildings will be ready on the Pleasantville campus.