This month’s housing lottery will be random and will not give rising seniors higher priority, according to Housing and Dining Programs’ Room Selection Guide, released Monday.

Chris Moody, executive director of Housing and Dining, said the decision was made as a result of last year’s Brailsford & Dunlavey, which urged AU to “rethink campus housing priorities.”

“Shifting priorities to first-year students would put us in a place where rising juniors were next,” Moody said. “Rather than completely alienating the senior class, which is what happened at the University of Maryland – College Park, we didn’t feel like [flipping the priorities] based on our numbers.”

Currently, 84 percent of seniors live off-campus, Moody said.

Courtney Klamar, the president of the Residence Hall Association, said that she considers it logical for upperclassmen to be given a lower priority, since they’re more likely to live off-campus.

“Under that logic, if you are going to say that seniors have preference over juniors, it goes against the logic,” she said. “I understand how [rising] seniors feel that they’ve paid their dues and now should have priority in the system, because it’s how this system has worked for a long time.”

Read more in Thursday’s edition of The Eagle