It's 10:30 on a Friday night, loud music, screaming and laughing are coming from a Woods Apartment, and you are the only resident assistant (RA) on duty.
The University of La Verne's Stu-Han (women's) dormitory was illegally entered last weekend when a male was able to walk into two rooms in what the residents involved believe were rape attempts.
After waiting a year for the Santa Fe Railroad to release property on the southwest corner of First and E Streets (where the train station was once located), the University of La Verne has purchased the one-acre parcel of land for $200,000. The land will provide parking space for the newly-proposed dormitory to be built across the street from the recently-bought property.
The proposed Richard M. Nixon Institute of World Affairs will not be coming to the University of La Verne, following its rejection by the University's Board of Trustees.
Away from home ... for many a stark realization. It means a separation from family, home and mother. Mother ... that ever toiling servant... picking up clothes strewn over the floor, cooking over a hot stove, washing dishes with Palmolive, washing clothes with Fab and trying to remove the ring around the collar.
Problems that have plagued the student housing program at the University of La Verne in the past have resurfaced once again to force students to raise questions on just what is the future of University housing.