Miami University struggled to find enough space for on-campus student housing this fall, but another complication is finding office space for the hundreds of student organizations.

To deal with the lack of available office space, the Office of Student Affairs is working with the 39 organizations that currently have office space on campus, hoping they will donate any excess space to organizations on the wait-list.

"Miami currently has more than 300 student organizations and there is office space for, of course, a very small number of those organizations," said J.S. Bragg, assistant director for Student Affairs. "Occasionally, the Office of Student Affairs will look at the allocation of offices and see what the distribution of office space is, and make any changes to that."

Junior Gina Mueller of UP Magazine, a fashion magazine on campus, said her two editors had contacted the Office of Student Affairs to request office space, but have not yet received further information regarding the space.

Recensio, the Miami yearbook, is one of the student organizations asked to reduce its office space to make room for another organization.

"I was hanging out in the office during the summer, getting stuff done, and then all of the sudden, they contact us and want us out by the end of the summer," said Jessie Webster, business director of Recensio.

Webster said Bragg and Student Affairs contacted her and gave her a deadline of the end of the summer to move her belongings out of her current office residence in MacMillan Hall. IT changes and the difficulties of moving heavy objects within the office prevented her from meeting the deadline, so Webster received various other deadlines in September.

Recensio condensed its three offices down to two.

"For instance, I keep my account status in there, and my cash and stuff in there," Webster said. "Also, we have the whole archives of the yearbook that were split up between the two offices, the editor's office and the business director's office. Now we have to find storage for those."

According to Bragg, in Recensio's specific situation, a student organization expressed interest to the student activities office via Dean of Students Susan Mosley-Howard for a place to have office space.

According to Susan Vaughn, director of ethics and student conflict resolution, the proposed Bicentennial Student Center could provide more office space for the numerous student organizations in need of office space.

"With a new Bicentennial Student Center, it will accommodate more groups," Vaughn said. "Someday it will be very nice to have more space for student orgs but there's nothing that I'm aware of in regards to moving."