The streets aren’t paved with cheese up on the Hill this year. The number of Fievel’s fury friends getting free lunches from residence halls has decreased from last year. From September 2001 until February 2002 there were 25 rat sightings, whereas this year the number has dropped to 17. Over the past eight months Housing […]
Author Archives: Jessica Chung
Dorm occupants to face tight squeeze
Though the total impact of Tidal Wave II, an influx of 60,000 students to the Universities of California, won’t be felt until 2010, it appears the tsunami will hit UCLA housing sooner than that. The admissions increase occurred two years ahead of what UCLA Housing had been preparing for, and living conditions on the Hill […]
Covel renovation awaits bid
Pizzas hot from a state-of-the-art brick oven and dishes served fresh from a new pasta machine are just some of the new features the renovated Covel will offer students living in the residential halls next year. Covel Commons dining hall will begin renovations on Feb. 27 if UCLA receives a favorable bid by Feb. 25. […]
Vandalism, theft in De Neve an ongoing problem
The recent spotlight on the assault in De Neve last December has overshadowed smaller, more obscure instances of crimes in the area. Letters from signs over De Neve plaza rooms and the De Neve auditorium have been taken by various students throughout the year. Approximately 150 letters have been stolen since September, said Resident Halls […]
U.S. Consulate gives details of RD’s death
Gerald Lamb, a former Hedrick Hall resident director, was strangled to death with a T-shirt before his body was found in a Tijuana street dump, according a U.S. Consulate official. Lamb, who was reported missing to UCPD after he failed to attend an Office of Residential Life meeting at the beginning of the quarter, was […]
Road to RA
They are counselors, mentors, advisers, programmers, friends and emergency personnel ““ not to mention students. “They” are the campus housing resident assistants. The new RAs for the 2003-2004 school year will be selected by Feb. 21, and those applying are in the latter stages of a long and competitive application process. “It’s really hard to […]
The Village Market
At 9 a.m. this morning a bread-breaking ceremony for Whole Foods Market will officially introduce the healthy addition to Westwood Village, welcomed by some and viewed skeptically by others. The debate over what the organic health food store will bring to the Village has many sides to it. Some worry about high prices, others about […]