Nice find Miz! Do you remember the article that discussed how he was arrested 2+times for living in the campus center while he wasn't a student? His friend was quoted as there being housing problems on the campus. That quote has showed up in 2 articles now...and both were used in a different context.
The housing shortage quotes make zero sense. We had less students at OU then and only housing that has been built is the Honors College. Two of my daughter's friends had no roommates in four-person suites this past fall.
My son was inundated with letters to move in the dorms. At that time they were recruiting Norman kids to live in the dorms to fill them up.
We had a ton of apartments back then that advertised all year around looking for people to live in an apartment not to mention the OU Daily runs a roommate wanted and so does the Norman Transcript.
My oldest daughter lived in the dorm at the time and she was the only person in a two-person room. In fact, her whole floor -- girls on one end and guys on the other had only one person per room which were meant for two. Cross was basically vacant at the time.