Faculty members make home at Campus Village Building A
Angelo Lanham
Issue date: 3/18/08 Section: News
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"It's really quiet, I can say that much," said Neil Torrefiel, the university Web master who lives in Building A. "It's pretty cool. I like how quiet it is."
Torrefiel, 25, has worked on campus since August and said he also likes the convenience of being able to walk to work, although he thinks he probably enjoys living where he works more than longtime faculty who are more familiar with the campus.
Building A has housed faculty and staff since the building opened in 2005 with the rest of Campus Village, said Kevina Brown, community relations coordinator for university housing.
"It started out transitional, where it was two years maximum," Brown said, "but what was happening is the space. We weren't completely full, so there was no reason to drive people out."
Brown wrote in an e-mail that occupancy in Building A is at 65 percent of capacity.
"They haven't turned anyone down yet," said David Patino, the senior planner, scheduler, estimator and TMA systems administrator.
Patino, 28, who lives in Building A, said that originally, after a two-year period, residents were to be asked to appeal for their next year of residency.
Brown said that while there is still space now, the demand of the space is increasing, so campus housing is going to "play it by ear" as to whether they will begin enforcing the policy.
The latest word, Brown said, is that housing will not be returning to the two-year maximum.
With 35 percent of the building available, there should be plenty of room for graduate students, who Brown said have begun to live in Building A.
"For the 2008-2009 academic year, we will be expanding our marketing efforts to attract more grads to CVA," Brown wrote in an e-mail.
Although the marketing efforts have not begun, graduate student Bill Beaumont already lives in the building.
"It's certainly to my benefit, I was afraid I was going to get stuck in some four-bedroom apartment with four rambunctious kids," Beaumont said.
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