As students prepared to move into campus residence halls, the department that manages campus housing did some moving of its own.
Residential Life moved dorm check-in from individual halls to Wells Fargo Arena this year. On-campus residents picked up room and mailbox keys, parking permits and other items from the air-conditioned arena.
In the past, students checked in at their dorms, and last year on-campus residents also picked up mailbox keys from one of two on-campus UPS Store locations.
"We've taken 13 stops and moved them into one air-conditioned building," Cassandra Aska, assistant director of Residential Life, told The State Press in July.
Accounting junior Alicia Edwards, a first-year Sahuaro Hall resident, said checking into her dorm went more quickly than she expected.
"I was able to go straight to [a table for] my hall and get my key, get some info, and I was out," she said.
Edwards added that she was also able to pick up her Valley Metro bus pass at the arena.
"It was very convenient," she said.
Computer animation senior Eric Ruberson, a returning Hayden East resident, said he also encountered a "really smooth process."
"For me it was straight in, straight out," he said, adding that not many people were in line to check into his hall.
He said check-in was "just as fast" as when he checked in at the Barrett Honors College complex last year, where his dorm is located.
Reach the reporter brian.indrelunas@asu.edu.
