I know at Sam Houston State, the students have to check out at the end of the semester, but they are able to leave things in their room for the month that they're gone. They can leave their tv's, refrigerators, and other bigs things so that they only have to bring a few things home with them.
I lived on campus at UL for five and it was a real pain emptying out my room and stuffing everything in my 89 Nissan Sentra and driving to Lake Charles every three months. UL Housing did a lot of things that I didn't and still don't understand. After the seeing the way other universities run their residence halls, I believe that UL needs some change.