This story was originally published on LincolnChronicle.org and is used with permission.

Makenzie Morales carefully moves boxes out of the trunk of her car as light rain falls in the parking lot. She pushes a cart full of her things through the new apartment building and up the elevator, through the hallway to her room with the other unpacked boxes.

It’s a series of steps Morales has repeated every day the past 1½ weeks as she slowly moved out of Hatfield Marine Science Center’s old housing complex along Yaquina Bay to the new $16.5 million apartment building next to the Wilder neighborhood in South Beach.

In just three years, the number of students at Oregon State University’s center quintupled from 100 to 500 students. When OSU asked to expand its Hatfield campus, it vowed to

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