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Snyder and Stark discuss future of campus housing at RHA meeting

Julia Bianco, Director of Web & Multimedia February 12, 2016

University President Barbara R. Snyder and Vice President of Student Affairs Lou Stark recently spoke at a meeting of the Residence Hall Association (RHA), discussing the future of campus housing. On-campus...

Megabus eliminates some services in Cleveland

Anne Nickoloff, Director of Print February 5, 2016

Megabus eliminates some services in Cleveland As a result of low gas prices, Megabus has cut services which offered rides from Cleveland to Columbus and Cincinnati. In an interview with cleveland.com,...

Housing Task Force examines housing costs

Jeniece Montellano, Social Media Editor January 29, 2016

In an effort to further include student voices in discussions concerning campus housing, a task force has taken action to involve as much of the student body as possible in an informative survey. Vice...

Kimmel: Service with a smile, but only if you earn it

Aquene Kimmel, News Editor January 22, 2016

Wade Commons and Fribley Commons can be mysterious places. (What’s going on behind those shelves of packages? Murder? Probably.) Before I started working as a Customer Service Assistant (CSA) in the...

Students have various complaints about the new residence hall, including lack of vents over the stoves, poorly sound-proofed rooms and absense of trash cans.

Fire alarms among complaints of Apartments at 1576 residents

Anastazia Vanisko, Copy Editor October 2, 2015

On Sept. 21, fire alarms in the Apartments at 1576, the new residence hall, went off five different times. According to Case Western Reserve University Police Sergeant Jeffrey Daberko, four of the alarms...

Students who have spent the beginning of the school year in hotels or other temporary accomodations will be able to move into their rooms in the new residence hall on September 12.

Delayed residence hall to open on Sept. 12

Jeniece Montellano, Copy Editor September 11, 2015

Case Western Reserve University’s new residential hall is finally opening for move-in this weekend. Originally intended to open at the beginning of the school year, the building was put on hold last...

Wade Manors owner donated it to CWRU on the condition that he could live in it until his death.

Student in temporary housing in Wade Manor mistaken for intruder

Anastazia Vanisko, Staff Writer September 4, 2015

Josh Lehrer was sleeping in his new temporary housing in Wade Manor for the first time when, at 2:30 a.m., he was awoken by two police officers coming into his room. Lehrer was initially shocked by...

Week one for a New Residential Hall resident in the Marriott

Maria Fazal, A&E Editor August 28, 2015

Captain’s log is a regular feature detailing students’ journeys through CWRU’s temporary housing as they await their rooms in the New Residence Hall. When my suitemates and I found out we would...

The Office of Housing and Residence Life released updated photos of the construction on June 29.

New residence hall still heading for Sept. 12 move-in date

Julia Bianco, Director of Web and Multimedia July 13, 2015
Curious about what's going on with the upperclassmen living in hotels? Here is the story on the new residence hall, and why it's not done yet.
The new residence hall will not open until Sept. 12, displacing its 290 occupants for the first two weeks of the fall semester.

Housing announces hotels for students displaced from new residence hall

Julia Bianco, News Editor April 9, 2015

Following the announcement that the new residence hall will not be finished until Sept. 12, the university has secured rooms in the Courtyard by Marriott-Cleveland University Circle, The DoubleTree Tudor...

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