Student opposition to the newly implemented housing cap will likely not alter the policy, UA President Peter Likins said Friday.

Likins said that because students, including Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Ray Quintero, were involved in making the new two-year limit, it is unlikely that it will be struck down.

But Quintero said he was not involved in creating the two-year limit, only in discussions that involved giving freshmen priority in getting into the residence halls over returning students.

Quintero spoke before the Board of Regents Friday, asking Likins to scrap the new policy. That move followed a unanimous vote by the ASUA senate asking the administration to delay the two-year cap until next year.

UA administrators oversee the new residence life policy, not the regents.

Quintero said that although the decision has been made, he was at least looking for more flexibility.

"We would have liked to see some give and take on the part of the administrators," Quintero said. "But their decision is final."

ASUA passed its resolution opposing the two-year limit speculating that next year's incoming freshmen will arrive at the university knowing they can only spend two years in the dorms.

However, to restrict the stay of current sophomores - who enrolled at UA under the assumption that they could spend all of their undergraduate years in the dorms - is unfair, said ASUA Sens. Doug Hartz and Jered Mansell.

The Department of Residence Life notified students of the new policy during winter break, giving groups like the Residence Hall Association little time to react, RHA president Ben Bush said.

RHA also passed a resolution last week stating that the two-year limit is unfair to returning students.

Saundra Taylor, vice president of campus life, has the final decision to overturn or keep the new policy.

Quintero said both residence life and ASUA will do everything they can to help students who are displaced as a result of the cap.