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To serve the housing needs of our students, Buckingham College should build a number of new dormitories. Buckinghams enrollment is growing and, based on current trends, will double over the next 50 years, thus making existing dormitory space inadequate. Moreover, the average rent for an apartment in our town has risen in recent years. Consequently, students will find it increasingly difficult to afford off-campus housing. Finally, attractive new dormitories would make prospective students more likely to enroll at Buckingham. Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument. Response 1: The author argues that Buckingham College should build a number of dormitories. The author cites the fact that the enrollment of Buckingham is growing and maintains that it will double over the next 50 years. The author also claims that the difficulty of off-campus renting, resulting from the increase of average rent for an apartment, contributes to the need to build more dormitories. But, this argument is rife with loopholes and unsubstantiated assumptions, and therefore, is unpersuasive as it stands. First, the author incorrectly assumes the growing of the dormitory gives rise to the inadequacy of the dorm. Although enrollment is now growing, the enrollment is more influenced by the amount of student applied every year, which would be hard to anticipate, it can not guarantee that it will double over the next 50 years. Even the enrollment will double, the existing dormitory space can be still adequate to fulfill the need of students. For example, students would be more likely to live outside the campus. Building new dormitories could only make surplus supply. Secondly, the author claims that the difficulty of off-campus renting, resulting from the increase of average rent for an apartment, contributes to the need to build more dormitories. Yet, the increase of the ave