Written by: Hannah Field | News Editor<\/p>\n
On Sept. 17, approximately six-hundred Western students brought with them their belongings and stood with their families outside of the dorm buildings \u2014 waiting to officially move in for the Fall term.<\/span><\/p>\n The move-in process was smoothly regulated by Public Safety \u2014 an integral part to Western\u2019s systems of operation. Western staff and student workers kept busy cheering on and directing new students, assisting with move-in and renting out big red bins for students to fill with their belongings and lug upstairs.<\/span><\/p>\n First-year Resident Assistant Arianna Gsell participated in the productive day as a member of the set-up crew and pop-up helper for students, otherwise known as a \u2018floater\u2019, meaning she had no particular task to fulfill. \u201cWe started set-up for move-in day at 8 A.M. We had tables out front where a rotation of five RAs sat all day for check-in.\u201d Gsell said.<\/span><\/p>\n From there, incoming students were divided into lanes directed toward the floor of their new residence. They signed room condition reports, were given their room keys and eventually shepherded toward their respective dorms.<\/span><\/p>\n Inside the dorm rooms, students got to work setting up their decorations, dividing up their belongings and meeting their roommates as well as their resident assistants and neighbors. Many roommates met for the first time on move-in day \u2014 the beginning of a long nine months of close contact.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe only thing I saw go \u2018wrong\u2019 on my end of the day was we had a set of pegs for the bunk beds that got stuck in the beds and we had to have multiple RAs work at it with pliers,\u201d Gsell said jokingly. \u201cBut we got it out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Each resident assistant took the residents of their hall to Valsetz Dining Hall for food and proper introductions in the evening at 5 p.m. After that, the groups attended their first community meeting with the Resident Directors of Heritage Hall and Ackerman.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n