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Current Housing & Residential Life News
New gender-inclusive housing among the themed communities UNLV offers students in its residence halls.
The themed residence hall floor, named for the county's first black landholder, offers students a place to explore African American identity.
UNLV students and staff share their heartache and hope as the Oct. 1 shooting anniversary approaches.
A spirited week on campus as sororities welcomed new members and students ran together during the sixth annual Undie Run.
Simple tips to avoid the crowds during the busy start of the spring 2018 semester at UNLV.
Longtime employee Minnie Epps named to Aramark's prestigious 2017 Ring of Stars.
Housing & Residential Life In The News
Angelyn Tabalba has a long list of titles after her name. She’s a radio host who gives listeners lessons about Hawaiian history on her show “The Little Grass Shack.” She works with the Asian Community Development Council, doing outreach on UNLV’s campus. She’s an officer for the Residence Hall Association, a rising senior at UNLV studying journalism and criminal justice, and an aspiring graduate student. All commitments that have been made easier because she has lived on campus.
UNLV is trying something new this semester in the name of inclusion, and it's working better than anyone had hoped. School officials say an LGBTQ-friendly residence hall on campus has been so popular it has a waiting list.
For the first time in UNLV’s history, students living in the residence halls for the 2017-2018 fall semester had the option to sign up for a LGBTQ-themed floor. Named Stonewall Suites after the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the hall was the brainchild of resident assistant Sawyer Spackman, who spent last semester working up a proposal, with help from Residential Life Coordinator Andrew Lignelli. The floor is UNLV’s first gender-inclusive living environment, meaning those residents “may have roommates of a different gender than themselves,” Lignelli says. All 36 residencies are currently filled—another first for UNLV’s special-interest housing halls—and there’s currently a waiting list in case rooms become available. Lignelli says having Stonewall as an option has been especially positive for non-binary and trans students. “Housing placements can cause a lot of stress, so for these students it’s a positive place where they can be their authentic selves.”