Preventative maintenance helps keep rats away from dorms, suites

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]