March 3, 2011 - 5:07pm
In Other Ivory Towers: Lucky NYU students get premium housing
BY SARA BOBOLTZ
Upon arriving at New York University for their fall semester, 38 lucky students were placed in overflow housing at a luxury hotel in midtown Manhattan, according to a Sept. 7 article in the Washington Square News, NYU’s campus newspaper.
The students on the fifth floor of the Affinia Hotel have access to wireless internet, cable TV, air conditioning and exercise facilities, as well as twice-weekly cleaning service, according to the article. All the rooms include kitchenettes, and NYU has provided a shuttle for the students that runs every 50 minutes to campus.
The University placed two RAs on the third floor of the hotel to ensure that all proper NYU housing policies are enforced, according to the article.
As of last Friday, 10 of the students had been transferred to University residence halls.
Brown tries going trayless in campus cafeterias
Brown University is currently testing out a trayless system in dining halls similar to the one University of Michigan students tried last spring, according to a Sept. 7 article in The Brown Daily Herald.
The trayless system may only be temporary depending on the results, Ann Hoffman, director of administration of Dining Services, told the Daily Herald, and its environmental advantages may be overshadowed by practicality.
A completely trayless system “would be difficult because of the way the refectory is currently laid out, but we will advance the initiative as much as is operationally feasible,” Hoffman told the Daily Herald.
According to the article, many students are responding positively to the changes.
UCLA offers education aid to Haiti
As part of the University of California’s new Haiti Initiative, a group of 20 students and faculty members traveled to the earthquake-devastated nation in search of a community in particular need of assistance, according to a Sept. 7 article in the Daily Bruin.
The group was led by Dr. Ami Ben-Artzi, an assistant clinical professor of medicine, and plans to aid the country by providing educational opportunities in areas including technology, economics, law and engineering, the article stated.
By the end of the trip, which was funded by the University and individual faculty members, the group had compiled a short list of communities that would benefit most from its efforts. Cayes-Jacmel, a suburb of Jacmel about 25 miles from Port-au-Prince, will most likely be chosen for the project, a member of the initiative told the Daily Bruin.
