Rally Committee will relocate to former office in Kerckhoff Hall
By Daily Bruin Staff
Oct. 29, 1997 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 30, 1997
Rally Committee will relocate
to former office
in Kerckhoff Hall
FACILITIES: Organization moves out of trailers back into
original home
By Teresa Jun
Daily Bruin Contributor
UCLA’s Rally Committee will be moving back into its original
office space in Kerckhoff Hall much sooner than anyone
anticipated.
Due to staff cutbacks and changes in management in the Food
Services department, the office space that Food Services now
occupies can be relinquished to the 75-year-old spirit
organization.
Friday, a representative from UCLA’s Student Support Services
called leaders of the Rally Committee and proposed the premature
move back into their offices in Kerckhoff.
"When we found out, we were ecstatic," said Melissa Brown,
chairperson of the Rally Committee. "It will be nice to be
back."
The move is planned for next week, although the exact date is
not set.
Since June, the Rally Committee has been working out of two
make-shift "rooms" in trailers behind Kerckhoff. One of the
trailers is currently used to store their stunt cards and
equipment.
Although the Daily Bruin recently published an article on the
Rally Committee’s situation in the trailer, officials say that the
change has been worked on over the past month.
When Food Services was reorganizing their staff a few weeks ago,
ASUCLA officials thought this might be a fortunate opportunity to
accommodate the Rally Committee within the limited space in
Kerckhoff Hall.
"As soon as we saw the opportunity to address this, we wanted to
act on it," said Roy Champawat, project financial coordinator for
UCLA Restaurants.
"We certainly weren’t happy to be in anybody’s way," he added,
referring to their room, which was originally reserved for the
Rally Committee and their activities.
"We expected to be in this trailer for at least this whole
year," said Renzo Salerno, the second vice chair of the Rally
Committee.
The Rally Committee was one of the first student groups to have
an office in Kerckhoff when the building was first established.
