When the college was slowly completed floor by floor, a practical decision was made to make the building available to "people who walked in right off the street."[1] As the small group of founders later stated: "[w]e were sealing the fate of the Rochdale that most of us had wanted to experiment with. And since there were very few rules about how the place would be run, we were in effect handing the building over to people very unlike ourselves."[12] "If the new residents were a problem to the resource people, non-residents were a problem to everyone," says Sharpe. "As Rochdalians claimed floor by floor in the fall of 1968, transients discovered wide open areas on the upper floors and moved in – and out and in and out.