NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Oct. 20 -- The high enrollment at Rutgers University has created distress among the student body due to the lack of space and comfort in hot spots like Brower Commons Dining Hall, the bus system, and lecture halls.

Brower Commons is the dining hall on the main campus, College Avenue. Every day students stand in lines that sometimes go all the way up the entrance ramps, explains sophomore Jackie Slotkin. “I went to get some coffee at the Midnight Breakfast before finals last year and I couldn’t even get in because there was a line that went all the way outside the dining hall!” she said.

Slotkin is not the only student who expresses these negative feelings towards Brower and other hot spots on campus. Lauren Rosenzweig, a sophomore at the university, also complains about Brower’s shortcomings. “I stand on line for a good night like stir fry, and by the time I get to the front, 45 minutes has passed,” she said. Rosenzweig further explains that because it takes forever to get food, many students pass up the hot food and head straight for the salad bar and ‘left overs’ from the deli line.

Certain students only have a specific amount of time allotted for food breaks between classes. “If I have to wait on line, but have class in 20 minutes, you can be sure all I am going to grab is an apple and head to class,” said Adam Rave, a senior at the university.

Rave admits that he is lucky. All of his classes take place on College Avenue campus, which gives him one less problem to worry about.

The bus system at the university operates at all four of the university’s campuses: Busch, Cook/Douglass, College Avenue, and Livingston.

However, the bus has become a major source of frustration for many students at the university. Amanda Brown, a freshman, says that every time she gets on a bus she has to yell at other students to make room. “Whenever I take the H bus to Busch I have to push and shove to make my way on,” said Brown. She continued to say that once you miss one bus, you will be late to your class.

Being late to class is a huge burden on students like Emily Schwartz, a sophomore at Rutgers. Her 10:20 a.m. on Busch Campus has a very strict professor, she explains. “His number one rule is that if you are a minute late to lecture, you are not allowed in!” Schwartz said. This means that she has to get the A bus to Busch at approximately 9:30 a.m. to ensure entry into her lecture hall.

“If Rutgers staff thinks that students are going to keep quiet about these problem much longer, they are wrong and need to take another look at the situation before things really become chaotic,” says Schwartz.