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The Dillard Experience

First-year students assigned to Dillard residence hall make the best of its location

"The trash cans are too small," first-year College student Greg King said.

"Yeah, all of these guys have the unlimited meal plan," first-year Virginia Landers said, playfully gesturing to King and fellow first-year College student Daniel Eustace, "so their trash cans are always overflowing with take-out boxes."

Insufficient space for garbage seems to be one of the only complaints these first-year students have about living in the University's

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