TRUE commuter school? Per CJL, we have more on-campus housing than FSU. A better term would be the only perceived commuter school. I'm not sure it's the commuter school thing that gets me. I hope we keep building dorms. We need a lot more of them. A school like UC requires all first-year students to live on-campus unless they have a special exemption to stay at home with their parents. At most residential universities, that applies to sophomores too... even Ohio State. It's not the commuter nature of USF that irks me to a degree, it's how many first-year students live with friends in apartments. That's really no different than commuting. Most of them drive to campus anyway. If you drive to campus, you're a commuter student, in my mind, and if you drive to class you're not getting the college experience -- and part of that experience is being a MEMBER of the campus and thus the spirit for the university grows from within. I hope that one day the university can grow its on-campus residence hall capacity so we can get on board with a similar policy. There's a great deal lost when you don't live in a residence hall for at least a year. It defines the college experience. Remove the experience and it's just a degree, and if it's just a degree the intangibles like support for athletic teams disappear. Well, I have to disagree here. I've never lived in a dorm (5th year of college). They are over-cramped and over-priced. Also, aren't you also required to buy an over-priced meal plan that no one (that I know of) ever fully uses anyway? I went to UF for a year, but even if I lived on campus I would not have been a Gator fan. I have been at USF for 4 years and lived at 2 different places off campus and am now a major USF fan. I'm only a few minutes away from campus. I don't really care if I'm called a commuter. I buy the parking pass, I go to class, and I'm about to be a USF alum. What difference does it make that I didn't overpay for a dorm and meal plan? Maybe that's just me. Also, I know Penn State doesn't even allow underclassmen to have cars. I sure as hell wouldn't want to go there. I like to be able to go anywhere I want, including road games and to parties on other Florida campuses. Disney World is nice as well. Does a shuttle go to busch gardens? maybe it does...whatever.