Single, Double, Suite or Camp Site?

cheap_thrillsA University of Buffalo student, feeling he couldn’t afford both tuition and housing, spent the summer sleeping in stairwells and in hammocks (likely thanks to the milder summers in western New York state), and started building a small cabin on his university’s Amherst campus in May. Two initial construction attempts were thwarted by university police until he moved the site further into a wooded area. Brian Borncamp reached 80% completion before the university found his cabin and ordered him to leave the site by Monday August 31. He has already left voluntarily. The university will remove the cabin. Officials offered him several options to afford housing, but Borncamp, a computer science and philosophy major who compared himself to a modern Thoreau, turned them down.

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