University of California, Los Angeles student housing
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Student housing at University of California, Los Angeles is governed by the Office of Residential Life, and provides housing for both undergraduates and graduate students, on and off-campus.
Undergraduate housing for over 9,500 residents is spread across 14 complexes on a ridge on the western side of the campus called "the Hill."[1] Current housing provides student living in traditional-style dorms, private suites, or plazas. All three configurations provide differing values of social interactivity, noise level, and privacy.[1] Student life on the Hill is under the care of the Office of Residential Life (ORL). Dining facilities include five restaurants and three boutique-style eateries. At Bruin Cafe, adjacent to Sproul Hall, students can order sandwiches, smoothies, and The Coffee Bean beverages. Newly-opened Rendezvous, in the Rieber Terrace building, provides a mix of Mexican and Asian food choices. Crossroads, which had previously served Mexican food, changed its menu in 2006 to resemble a classic American diner. Puzzles, long the Hill's primary late-night eatery, abandoned the burger and shake menu in 2006 for gourmet sandwiches, and once again in 2007 to serve ice cream, hot dogs, and most popularly, chicken nuggets. Currently, students are guaranteed three years of on-campus housing, and can apply for additional years. The Housing Master Plan aims to guarantee housing to all undergraduates for four years by 2010.[2]
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[edit] Undergraduate
Undergraduate housing is divided into three classifications: Halls, Plazas, and Suites. Halls are traditional high-rise dormitories, with students grouped by floors, sharing a gender-specific bathroom with 20-30 others. Plazas are more private, with the same general amenities as Halls, but students have private baths or share one with another room. Suites are standalone units supporting 4-6 students, with private bathroom and living space.[1] According to the Daily Bruin, 1,525 beds, 10 faculty in-residence apartments and a 750-seat dining hall will be built on the Northwest Housing Infill Project on the Hill by 2013. Lower and Upper De Neve will be built west of De Neve Commons, while Sproul South and Sproul West will use unused landscape areas near the Sproul parking lots and below Rieber Hall.[3]
[edit] Halls
There are four residence halls on campus: Dykstra, Hedrick, Rieber, and Sproul. Sproul Hall is closed for the 2007-08 school year due to renovation.[4]
- Dykstra Hall (pronounced /ˈdaɪkstrə/) is the oldest high-rise residential hall, built in 1959.[5]
- Hedrick Hall (/ˈhɛ.dʒrɪk/)
- Rieber Hall (/ˈri.bɚ/)
- Sproul Hall (/spraʊl/)
[edit] Plazas
The five plazas are De Neve (/dəˈnɛv/) Plaza, Rieber Vista, Rieber Terrace, Hedrick Summit, and Sunset Village.
[edit] Suites
The Hitch and Saxon Suites are individual complexes with separate suites for each group of students. Each suite room houses 4 or 6 students, with private bathrooms and a living space. A complex comprises several buildings sharing a laundry room and several recreational amenities. Because of the limited occupancy of the suites, they provide for a small percentage of all students who live on campus, and are a rare assignment for first-year students, whose assignments are made almost totally at random.
[edit] Graduate
In 2002, the university began building Weyburn Terrace, a new graduate housing complex, in order to recruit top graduate students from around the world; there had been no university-operated graduate housing on or near the main campus since 2001. The new complex is located a few blocks from the main UCLA campus on the western edge of Westwood. The project suffered numerous delays, but was finally completed before the Fall 2005 term. Weyburn Terrace enables UCLA to provide housing to approximately fifty percent of incoming graduate and professional students. It also served as housing for displaced Tulane University law students who visited at UCLA during the Fall semester following Hurricane Katrina.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Living on Campus. UCLA official site (2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
- ^ Ko, Amy (2002). "It's Not Your Parents' Dorm Anymore" UCLA Magazine 8.
- ^ Noble, Brett. "Project to increase housing options", Daily Bruin, 2008-06-04. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
- ^ Sproul Hall. UCLA official site (2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
- ^ Ko, Amy (2000). DeNeve Fosters Living-Learning Community. UCLA Today. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
