In Our View: Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: To Vancouver’s university. Officials at Washington State University Vancouver are taking a step toward on-campus housing for students, requesting a county code change that would allow for dorms holding up to 700 students. WSUV — which moved to its Salmon Creek site in 1996 — has been a commuter campus throughout its existence, and student housing is the next logical step in the school’s continued development. On-campus housing remains in the distant future; administrators say they have no immediate plans for dorms and that the request is simply the first move in the process.