Now that a few weeks have passed since students moved into the residence halls, resident assistants are applying what they have learned in training to confront various situations and challenges that arise. Assistant Director of the Office of Residential Life Susan Swarts said RAs were confronted with the annual challenge of helping their residents adjust […]
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New dorms stress dining halls
It’s just after 6 p.m. and the line at the De Neve dining hall quickly grows from just a few people to dozens of residents. The line begins to creep up the stairs in De Neve, but students continue to patiently wait for their turn to eat. With the opening of the two new residential […]
Westwood hit by two more robberies
Two robberies that occurred last week on the west side of campus appear to be similar to a string of armed robberies that occurred over the summer, police said. In the early morning of Oct. 4, two UCLA students were robbed on the west side of campus in two separate confrontations. No injuries were reported […]
Plazas house unexpected number of freshmen
Although the new residential plazas ““ Rieber Vista and Hedrick Summit ““ were designed for upper division students, UCLA Housing has had to adjust to an unexpected number of first-year students living in the plazas. In an effort to help build community in the plazas, all first-years have been clustered into groups on several floors […]
Subsidized bus program halves Metro fares
With the fall quarter about to begin and gas prices at all-time highs, Transportation Services is offering a pilot program with the city’s Metro bus line in an effort to promote the use of alternative modes of transportation. Go Metro, like UCLA’s BruinGo! program for the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, is a subsidized program […]
Dining services expects to meet needs
With the two new residential plazas ““ Rieber Vista and Hedrick Summit ““ completed and ready for residents to move in for the fall quarter, more students will be living on campus. Still, UCLA Dining Services expects to be able to meet the increased demand from housing residents. The opening of the two new dormitories […]
Weyburn Terrace housing complex completed for fall
After numerous delays and nearly a year after the original expected date of completion, all seven buildings of Weyburn Terrace, a graduate student housing complex in Westwood, were finished in August in time for graduate students to move in. Material and labor shortages, as well as other unspecified reasons, delayed completion of the project, which […]