Wired Campus: Tulane Signs Onto Online Roommate Self-Selection Service - Chronicle.com

students can always fall back on Facebook for background checks on potential and assigned roommates—which is exactly the reason why Tulane opted to use RoommateClick. “Over the last few years we have seen such an increase in calls in July and August with requests to change rooms because of what students have seen on MySpace or Facebook,” said Marty Brantley, Tulane’s director of housing services. “So we’ve been trying to find a product or service that can do a better job matching students on more criteria and do so in a Web environment familiar to students of this generation. We know students are still going to look at Facebook and MySpace and make comparisons to information there, but that’s really how the conversation started for us.”