between 2002 and 2008, the university has been criticized for overbooking its housing for the fall semester as a result of its large student population and its guarantee of on-campus housing for four years. as a result, many freshmen were shunted to nearby hotels to accommodate the overflow. bu's "daily free press" often published articles relating to the university's inability to provide acceptable housing for its students. with the opening of stuvi-ii in fall 2009, the school's 960-bed 19 and 26 story towers, bu says it will be able to house the nearly 80 percent of its 16,000 undergraduates who want to live on campus without using hotels.