Nearly 60 students were relocated from Point on Lane to new dorms after renovations were incomplete among the fall semester move-in. Credit: Grace Puhalj | Lantern Reporter
A group of students who were relocated from the Point on Lane residence hall are adjusting to living accommodations at new dorms scattered across campus.
In July a group of 58 students were surprised to learn that they would be relocated to other dorms due to renovations that were still ongoing at the Point on Lane. The students were offered alternative housing in other apartment-style dorm units, university spokesperson Dave Isaacs said in an email.?
“When it became clear that the work was not going to be completed prior to the start of fall semester, we proactively offered similar accommodations,” Isaacs said. “Notifications were emailed to students the week of July 20.”
The Point on Lane had been undergoing renovations over the summer that included updating room configurations, repurposing spaces to add more rooms and renovating the lower level into a front lobby, Isaacs said?
Ariana Wolfe, a second-year in marketing, said she and her roommates had spent the summer preparing to live in the apartment building? and bought items based on the expected layout of their apartment.
“There was no communication that the renovation maybe wouldn’t be finished,” Wolfe said. “A little bit of confusion and also a little bit of anxiety, I guess, because this is a very sudden change that came out of nowhere, so it was kind of worrisome because I hadn’t planned for it.”
Melody Rueda, a second-year in pre-nursing, said the change was frustrating because she had planned to live on north campus and was moved to a different university housing facility on south campus.?
“It’s more the experience I thought I was going to have wasn’t what I have because I’m on south, and it’s pretty far from where we were supposed to be,” Rueda said.
Wolfe said she had also planned to live on north campus.
“I have to wake up a lot earlier for classes to make it to my north classes,” Wolfe said.?
Rueda said she and her roommates were not given much information about why they were being moved.
“I literally didn’t even have any idea why we were switched,” Rueda said. “They didn’t say anything about it.”
Isaacs said the university notified students of the relocation approximately a month before move-in.
The other rooms in Point on Lane, housing a combined 160 students, were not affected by the construction, Isaacs said.
Wolfe said the relocation was initially stressful, but she has since adjusted to her new housing arrangement.
“I’m accustomed to living here now,” Wolfe said.
