For students, ASU dorm is caviar in an instant-noodle world

TEMPE — Some lucky Arizona State University students living in Tempe will get an experience unlike anyone before them.

Vista Del Sol, a new student housing development for freshmen, sophomores, and upperclassmen alike is set to open its doors for the fall semester of 2008. The new development, which is located at South Campus on Apache Boulevard, has been in construction for just over a year, and is set just across the street from campus in between Ocotillo Hall and Adelphi Commons.

It will set the new standard in student living with its own theater, tanning salon, and game rooms featuring flat-screen TVs, billiards, foosball and other amenities.

For students who plan on living on or near campus, the new student housing offer top-tier living arrangements just a few minutes walk from campus.

“I waited in line for over an hour just to get an application,” says Anthony Robinette, an ASU marketing major entering his fourth year. “It would be perfect for me because it’s so close to campus, and I don’t have a car.”

Robinette and his roommate hope to move into a two-bedroom apartment at Vista Del Sol this fall. The complex offers apartments ranging in size from one bedroom and one bath up to four-bedroom, four-bathroom units. The prices are roughly $50 more per room than those at the Gateway at Tempe, the current student housing in place on University Drive.

This makes Vista Del Sol pretty competitive. And many of the students like Robinette who applied for housing in the spring have been wait-listed while the complex checks the availability of apartments.

“I was going to try to move into the complex as an R.A., but they don’t have them”, says Dominique Gandy, an ASU senior who has worked in Residential Life since 2006.

While the new apartments are made specifically for students and they referred to as “student housing” on the website, it is not a dormitory in the typical sense. Many of the dorms on campus, such as Manzanita, Sonora, and Palo Verde residence halls, require that residents be first-time freshman and subject to live-in Residential Assistants.

Vista Del Sol, however, offers housing for students of all ages and grade levels, and does not have any live-in RAs.

“We will have Community Assistants living with the students,” says Nick Hulsey, a leasing assistant who works at Vista Del Sol. “They will be there to help the residents, rather than patrol and punish them.”

The complex will also have its own basketball court, volleyball court and outdoor amphitheater. Each unit will come complete with a full kitchen, a washer and dryer, and its own furnishings. Cable television, Internet access and full-size beds will be included.

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