Does your university have a significant Asian population?
Three (homonym with "alive") is a lucky number in Chinese culture. Four (homonym with "death") is an unlucky number. Apartment buildings built for Chinese persons often skip all floor numbers with "4" in them as well as all apartment numbers with "4" in them.
Don't know about 3, but if a price includes lots of 8s, the seller is definitely aiming at Chinese buyers. Seeing this left and right here in Vancouver, and it looks corny at best. Like trying to lure Russians with a picture of vodka, or Americans with that of a cowboy hat.
"I’m staying at a hotel right now, there’s no 13th floor because of superstition. But come on man, the people on the 14th floor, you know what floor you’re really on. If you jump out of the 14th floor hoping to kill yourself, you will die earlier." ~Mitch Hedberg
He makes a fair point though--if you're so superstitious that you're uncomfortable with the thirteenth floor, shouldn't you be uncomfortable about it regardless of its nomenclature?
Three (homonym with "alive") is a lucky number in Chinese culture. Four (homonym with "death") is an unlucky number. Apartment buildings built for Chinese persons often skip all floor numbers with "4" in them as well as all apartment numbers with "4" in them.