With housing applicants for student residences peaking this semester, the Department of Residential Life had to turn students away for the first time in the University’s history.Despite opening new residence halls and expecting an inflation in enrollment, ResLife was still unable to take every application to the residence halls, said ResLife Director Steve Waller.”Over 200 people got turned away because the demand exceeded the capacity,” Waller said. “We stopped taking applications on June 5 to honor our commitment to those people.”Though ResLife has historically housed about 60 percent of the freshman class, there has been about a 10 percent increase in the number of students on campus this year, Waller said.”We’re looking this year, without a residency requirement, between 65 and 68 percent of the freshman class,” Waller said.—-Contact Ben Bourgeois at [email protected]