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Well, there's "off campus," as in "She preferred to live off campus for the privacy it afforded her." This is another case where i question why there would be a blank there at all. Leave the blank blank, and you have a coherent sentence.

Other than the two examples of on campus and off campus, i agree that one woul most likely see campus preceded by the definite article.

"Back" is superfluous. I'd say "return to campus" if i'd recenly left it. I gather Setanta woud ut a the in there. That's okay too. Therer's uaually not just one way to say something.

Excellent answers. Thank you.

Off piste, off message, it's quite a common construct.

Um...what do you mean by 'it'?

This subject which we are discussing.

We are discussing the lack of 'the' before 'campus'; do you mean you disagree with Setanta and you think that 'return to __ campus' without 'the' is a common construct in UK English?

You don't seem to be paying attention. I certainly did not say "the" is required to make the original sentence coherent. In fact, i said just the opposite. I said that the blank was superfluous and that the sentence was fine as written.

Thank you.