Letter to the editor

Construction on Hill will help students

In response to Katharine Jensen’s column,
“Construction a necessary evil” (Jan. 20), I’d
first like to correct that construction on campus is limited to the
hours of 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., consistent with the City of Los
Angeles’s construction noise ordinance from 1973. If on any
day housing construction activities start before 7:00 a.m., I
highly encourage residents and staff to call the UCLA housing
construction hotline at (310) 206-7800 or to write me an e-mail at
[email protected].

Building three new residence halls for undergraduates on campus,
new housing for graduate students off campus, renovating program
and service areas (first-floor renovations), and building a new
parking structure is a response to the need for more local housing,
and will maintain the services UCLA Housing can provide for
students.

Thank you for providing readers the brighter side to all the
chaos. Something pretty cool will come out of this.

I lived in Rieber Hall for four years and now am a staff member
living in Hedrick Hall. I knew well before I applied for my job
that construction was going to be a huge challenge for many people
living on the Hill.

I know when I leave UCLA, Hedrick North, Rieber North or Rieber
West may not be fully completed. But just being here and watching
these projects progress so quickly and realizing the buildings will
be around for quite some time for future Bruins is amazing to
me.

Anybody who has ever lived in on- campus housing knows about all
the buildings, knows about Puzzles Eatery that’s open until
2:00 a.m. and that the Hilltop Shop is open until midnight Sundays
through Thursdays. With all this construction, we’re seeing
three buildings that will be part of a Bruin’s memory as he
or she looks back to the first years at UCLA.

But this year, we can say we saw them in the making. I know it
will be an experience for me when I come back to UCLA five years
from now and see so many changes.

Amp U. del Rosario

2003-2004 construction mitigator

Office of Residential Life